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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1883
Page
4
A goat chews a yard from bright bill posters as an unsuspecting boy gazes at the ads and dreams of entering the upper gallery, unaware of the animal on the oak keg. Springtide beer is mentioned as part of the setting.
A Kentucky lawyer narrator recalls a moonlit night in a snowbound village where a man with a knife murders another man before vanishing. The next day a dog and a mysterious stranger named Randolph surface, linking the events to a Cleveland banker’s crime and a deadly chase. The murderer is Randolph’s wife’s brother, later convicted, with the narrator as prosecutor.
A novel electrical transmission setup by Pyramid Electric under A Le Neve Foster uses an electric motor to drive a drainage pump in Trafalgar colleries Forest of Dean. A surface dynamo supplies current via five hundred yards of down shaft wiring to raise water one hundred fifteen feet through five hundred yards of pipe. Brain proprietors praise the experiment and plan further electrification. A New Jersey man patents a stove that explodes at ten o'clock at night and has four daughters.
The House passed Naval Appropriation provisions converting Midshipmen to Ensign and Masters to Lieutenant, creating junior grades, ending original appointments in the Pay Corps, and tying promotions to a set ratio. Commodore is abolished, with Rear Admirals promoted from Commodore and Captain, and time served counted for pay and rank purposes. The bill authorizes a board to study ordnance foundry sites, limits repairs to wooden ships, and outlines building and contracting rules for double turreted monitors. Naval cadet appointments proceed by merit after a six year course, and shore duties are limited to essential posts. Penalties for gifts include dismissal, imprisonment, and fines.
A Chicago Tribune column from January 24 recounts a string of disasters across the world and in America. It lists shipwrecks in North Carolina and Liverpool, fires at Newhall House and a Berdstehet circus, mine and factory explosions in Holland and Milwaukee, a Tehichipa Pacific line crash, the Cimbria sinking with hundreds of victims, and a Point Clement powder explosion. The piece notes the pattern of calamities, some avoidable by care, others not, and comments on civilization’s increased risks amid progress.
In 1859 a daguerreotype for Miss Fannie Hubbard was mailed to Ebenezer Hubbard of Chicago. The Dead Letter Office reported the package reached its recipient decades later after a clerk misread the name. Mr Hubbard confirmed his daughter had married and agreed to forward the item, and the photograph was sent on.
A San Francisco Chronicle note praises the oyster as a popular nutritious food while mocking its indolence and unkemed home, and a related Gallant County report notes seven large tomes of deeds and mortgages stolen from the County Court House vaults. Other brief items mention a Jersey man with a mysterious skin shedding affliction, a tiny gold pig scarf pin with diamond eyes for society men, and South Carolina raising the money interest cap from seven to ten percent.
A Salt Lake Tribune item describes J G Tyler of the Union Depot Hotel Ogden recovering from chest and shoulder rheumatism after using the Great German Remedy three days praising St Jacobs Oil for pain. It includes a spoof table of musical values joking about composers and a hypothetical concert loss in fractions of a sonata.
A collage of short notices and product pitches touts Mishler's Herb Bitters Wise's Axle Grease Buc hapatra and other tonics cures and gadgets. It blends humorous quips with medical claims and vendor promotions aimed at general readers seeking fast relief and cheap fixes.
An old editorial blurb suggests seeking pure health in Kidney-Wort to aid those out of health both young and old, married or single. It includes an odd line about YaLe Conear and an appeal for a diagram of something particularly horrible.
Dr Wright of Cincinnati endorses Balsam for the Ungs and Balsam for the Lungs as valuable remedies after successful use in difficult cases. A country cousin at a hotel table misreports his steak preference saying he likes it fust-rate.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt recounts Deacon Wilder praising Ho Bitters as a preventive and savings aid during illness, suggesting $3 worth kept families well and billed doctors less. It contrasts with loan exhibitions and pawn-shop pawns. It also notes Dr Benson's Skin Cure and a question about hack versus coupe stables.
A 19th century notice cluster warns of venomous snakes and tuberculosis likened to a deadly serpent. It touts Dr. R V Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for scrofulous diseases and consumption, with testimonials and booster ads for the Electro-Voltaic Belts offering trial use and promised restoration of vigor.
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