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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1885
Page
4
In Detroit a budding Daily Mercury editor recounts hiring a London trained journalist McCarley who fabricates a sensational elopement scoop at Welby mansion. The fake tale drives huge sales for weeks then collapses when McCarley admits the ruse and flees Vermont, leaving the paper insolvent and abandoned by rivals.
A Detroit Free Press vignette portrays a sewing machine girl revered by passersby but unseen. A widower pursues her with a dream of a grand house, only to be rebuffed as she exposes flaws and curses his meddling. The tale ends with her warning him away and a harsh quip about next spring’s dandelions.
The Union Theological Seminary in New York reports a paid up capital and property worth 2 million dollars. Progress in Ireland in studying Irish and new Irish slate writing models appear. Prof J C Cram of Deerfield NH marks his 340th singing school and fifty five years in church singing. Baptist churches in Boston favor unfermented wine for sacramental use. The Pope creates the American College in Rome as an independent clerical college to avoid confiscation by Italy. A Missouri Sunday school union missionary starts a school with fifty scholars in a church absent Sunday programs for children. Yale warns Wednesday half holiday abolition will hurt athletic practice. Yale Captain Richards walks on crutches after injury. Princeton President McCosh argues for essential core studies and foundational languages and sciences in a broad curriculum.
Article explains gas tar from coal gas production as a wood preservative for fences and posts, detailing English and American methods, including heating, lime, and benzine additions. It notes variability by coal type and cites anecdotes and jokes from periodicals.
The Troy Times predicts many new ice-boats will grace the Hudson River this winter, signaling lively sports and competition ahead.
In a stage whisper Effie consoles Richard facing financial ruin with a plan to issue wedding cards and invitations to six hundred friends promising gifts. The pair scheme to sell the business after the next day to a grocer and survive on pork and pots and rolling pins through a tight ten day window.
A mixed taste of advertisements and quips appears with medical cures and clever remarks. Dr Pierce’s elixirs, pills, tonics, and household products are pitched beside jokes, dog guides, and brandy mentions. Local quips poke fun at doctors, burglars, and cashiers amid product blurbs and notices.
A farmer recounts using Hop Bitters for a child and then his wife, noting her rapid improvement. He praises the tonic for restoring health and beauty, urging others to try it and promising its efficacy, warning to avoid imitators without a green hop bunch on the label.
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