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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1883
Page
5
A reflective poem by George W. Butterfield from the Boston Transcript recalls carefree childhood seasons. The speaker during spring, summer, autumn, and winter cherishes home, a mother’s care, and memories that endure beyond years and time. The verse laments lost days while blessing enduring gratitude to a mother in heavenly rest.
A granddaughters crowd hears Lochrey’s tale of Mary Courla and James Dunlap wedding disrupted by an Indian raid. The attack seizes Hanna's Town, Brownlee and infant die, mother slain, girl survives in woods then returns to a burned settlement. Father later becomes frontier legend Lochrey’s Daughter is the narrator’s known name.
A nineteenth century critique argues against delicate femininity and extreme nail and foot care. It denounces long pointed nails and tiny feet as degrading to human capability, praising proportion, fitness, and natural beauty over artificial refinement. It cites Chinese and Greek contrasts and warns of resulting deformities from constrictive footwear.
A New York correspondent paints a scene at Madison Square Theatre of a pretty widow and a foolish young escort. The tale includes a glass eye confession and a costly Boston saleswomen anecdote. Also notes a Teuton price rule, cash discount for creditors, and Hartford Cathedral’s structural cracks with $200,000 spent.
In a Boston printing office a deaf and dumb compositor reacts to sneezes from two other workers who emit enormously forceful sneezes. One is a short round man with a red face whose sneeze is called a wrong font sneeze. The other is a tan Yankee who sneezes in the old New England style. The deaf man cannot see them and they are in different alleys, yet he always jumps as if a cannon fired in his ear. Scientists wonder how he knows when to jump.
In a small Texas town, Tommy retreats to the gallery after a heated family discussion with his father. He buries his face in his hands and ignores calls to come to supper. The scene captures a quiet domestic moment of silent sullenness.
In Switzerland the Alpine horn signals dusk and the herdmen cry Praise the Lord God. As darkness falls the highest herdsman intones Good night and the chorus echoes across huts and cliffs from the valleys to the peaks.
In a Brooklyn home, O Donovan Rossa notes Mrs Rossa recovered from neuralgia after using St Jacob's Oil, inviting friends to visit 879 Bushwick Ave. He references gifts of mind, reflecting a personal endorsement in a New York public notice style. The item also mentions Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a women’s health remedy and a Buffalo medical association pamphlet offer, alongside a social contrast about male behavior.
A Lancaster Pa note recalls James Buchanan's residence there and Mishler's Herb Bitters as a long advertised remedy praised by a local letter writer John Kantz. It also mentions Dr. Pierce's Pills, Kidney-Wort and a quip about an inaugural address bore, plus a quip about a fat men's ball banner.
J W Graham of Austin Texas praises Hall's Balsam For the Lungs as highly saleable for coughs colds and even consumption after a year’s experience. He requests one gross by the coming Saturday’s steamer while noting ships and crews are as traitorous as people.
Dr R V Pierce of Buffalo reports a family letter praising the Golden Medical Discovery for curing a fever sore two years standing. A Boston letter thanks the remedy while noting multiple physicians and medicines provided no relief. The item also mentions Dr Benson's Skin Cure and Mrs Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for various ailments.
The Voltaic Bet Co of Marshall Michigan offers Dr Dye’s Electro-Voltaic Belts and appliances on a thirty day trial to men with nervous debility and low vitality. No risk is involved as a full health restoration is guaranteed.
A fragmentary item notes a drunken man promoting so called real estate and urging action to stop him. It mentions Wise's Axle Grease and Gastrine as products claimed to aid digestion. Sold by druggists.
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