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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1888
Page
2
A historical notice lists Messrs WN W WW AYERG SON RN as authorized agents for the Philadelphia HIS PAPER advertising agency. The item appears in a Cambridge post office entry dated Thursday January 12 1888 with office address Main St East Court Square.
A report cites Jay Gould earning about 1,000 dollars per hour. The eastern wool trade shows no improvement. Effort aims to close Dayton saloons. Hon. W. E. Boden named to the County Affairs Committee of the Republican Legislature.
The Monday inauguration of Governor Foraker in Columbus was described as one of Ohio’s greatest and grandest events, highlighting the ceremony and its significance.
The land grant question for old soldiers returns to Congress but risks ending up in the waste basket. Veterans are urged to press the measure and make a solid charge for passage.
Ohio now is only seventh among the States in railroad mileage. Four western States Illinois Iowa Kansas and Texas and two eastern New York and Pennsylvania lead her.
Miss Laura Webster of San Francisco has slept for ten weeks with no explained cause. Physicians are puzzled, and the case draws widespread attention and comment from the public.
The bolting Republican Senators draw sharp criticism across the state. The branch of the Legislature appears increasingly notorious with each passing year as public opinion cools on their actions.
The Ohio River's high water freed cities along the waterway from a coal shortage. Millions of bushels of coal moved downstream in the past week, easing supply pressures for many towns and industries dependent on the fuel.
Two men at Walborough Maine shipped over 300000 ferns to Boston this fall and winter. The harvest of ferns for decorations promises to become an established industry in the region.
A Russian tower rising on the Mount of Olives is already several stories tall with one more level to complete. The design aims to reach a height from which both the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea will be visible.
The passage notes earlier harsh condemnation by Ohio Senate Republicans, referencing Senator Davis of Washington County. It comments that selfishness may drive political shifts over time.
A chaplain prays for reporters blessing their nimble pens and omnipresent reach. He asks for divine protection of their light and wisdom as they chase words from distant jungles to the poles, ensuring no reporter is excluded in heaven.
The Chicago Journal notes most travelers do not understand air brake use. It explains past practice used air to push brakes against wheels, now springs hold brakes on. air releases to start or move, and releasing air allows springs to apply brakes. The modern method is safer than the original.
A winter law requires avoirdupois weights for a long list of commodities. The statute fixes bushel weights for crops and seeds such as wheat 60 pounds, corn shelled 56, oats 32, beans 60, peas 60, flax seed 56, and seeds like clover 60, timothy 45, millet 50, Hungarian grass 50. It also sets weights for produce including Irish potatoes 60, sweet potatoes 50, onions 50, apples 48, peaches 48, tomatoes 56, and turnips 60, among others such as lime 70, coke 40, and coal varieties 80 and 70.
The Commercial Gazette describes a dawn sky viewing at five o'clock with Venus as the brightest eastern star followed by Jupiter Mars and Saturn within 90 degrees. It notes Mare and Regulus nearby, with Venus outshining other planets and the evening sky largely barren of planetary display.
Washington buzzes about railroads with talk of the Calico Railroad needing three million dollars to finish to Pittsburgh. Local items note cattle losses, hog sales at five cents per pound, a hay accident injuring Wilson Fairchild, a revival at Middlebourne, and plans for a butter and eggs market by Richey & Son in Senecaville. Rewards offered for found money.
Mrs. Phebe Chesley of Peterson Iowa aged 73 says kidney trouble and lameness left her unable to dress without help. After using Electric Bitters she is free from pain and can do her own housework. She recommends trying a bottle at Wall & Co's drug store for 50cc and $1.
Local items report visits by Rev A Vestal and Rev Pringle, a Columbus inauguration, a band festival planned, and guests including Miss Madilla Yarnell. Notes cover wool purchases at 28c, relocated residents, typhoid recoveries, a literary society cancellation, a debate question on independence versus emancipation, a turkey feast for a Sunday school class, a fatal lung fever death, a heavy gunpowder incident, and the death of Lissa Adair wife of a Fi church member.
A Winter preview celebrates Vicks Floral Guide as a premier horticulture volume with new engravings and three colored plates of flowers vegetables and grain. Lavender cover and 10 cent price including a seed certificate highlight the 1888 edition from James Vick Seedsman Roehbester NY.
Miss Katie Bell spent a week visiting friends here while T W Rose and wife are in Pennsylvania. George McFee's family suffers from diphtheria. The dry time ends as cisterns fill. A series of meetings starts Thursday at UP church in Lebanon aiming for an ingathering to the fold. Literary society meets next Friday with debates and readings. The Indian Camp reporter thanks editors for a steel engraving. Quarterly meeting at MEF church next Saturday and Sabbath with Presiding Elder Domer visiting. A wedding is chronicled for Charles Wagstaff and Martha J Jones.
From the handsome girl's head lithographed in colors to the last pad slip Hood's Household Calendar for 1884 is thoroughly artistic Each month is engraved and each torn slip shows a new pleasing color combination Hood's Calendar leads the procession It is suitable for parlor and offers many excellent points in arrangement and convenience Copies are available at drug stores or by sending 6 cents in stamps to C L Hood & Co Lowell Mass
Martin Johnson rises at log yard. Mrs Clay Phipps remains ill. Frank Erskine returns near Cambridge. Denison Tedrick sells a four year old horse for 165 dollars. The band buys new instruments. Jerry Coen to sell fruit trees for an eastern purveyor. HM Pulley and Ella English wed January 4 at the bride’s mother’s home. Band entertainment December 20 and 30 raises 38 dollars 50 cents.
Symptoms of biliousness include poor morning appetite, white furred tongue, irregular digestion with diarrhea or constipation, possible hemorrhoids or blood loss, dizziness headaches acidity and stomach tenderness. The text suggests trying Greens to correct these issues.
A collage of comic tidbits and quotations from various papers including the Detroit Journal Harper's Bazar and Boston Globe. Jokes about teachers and parents from familiar scenes mix with satirical verse and childlike misunderstandings. The piece preserves a playful, newspaper‑style snapshot of light humor.
A collage of domestic wit and urban gossip spans breakfast talk on Leap Year romance, Mrs Vanity’s retail restraint, a liar’s chat with a Dame, a furniture quarrel over a 175 bed set, and a swooning suitor praising Irene before Absalom interrupts with a jab at cheap bay rum.
An American in Paris discovers a wine bath enterprise priced at four and three francs through a chain of rooms. A former Virginia slave explains the low costs, joking they bottle extra and ship to America for champagne. The tale appears in St. Louis Sunday Sayings.
Dutch Hines and family of Tippecanoe visit friends. Dunlap and Wendell families spend time in Middlebourne. Oyster suppers fade while Leap Year festivities grow. Rey Bowers hosts meetings at Allen's with church members joining. T E Linn returns from Pennsylvania for winter with parents. February flood arrives early amid Leap Year fret. UP church Pleasant Hill hosts a box social Tuesday to benefit the church with Miss Dora Martin at the organ and violin music.
An advertisement promises the best salve in the world for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions and piles with a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
A wartime style ad promotes Dr Bull's Baby Syrup as the best remedy for early childhood troubles priced at 25 cents. It also touts Laxador as a household cure with equal 25 cent value and widespread praise.
W B Gulick is on the sick list. Miss Elma St Clair of Spratts Station visited friends in town last week. Mr and Mrs Auburn of Philadelphia are guests of H B Zoller and wife. Mrs Ezra Finley died Monday morning at her father's residence in Zanesville. Will Faulk left Saturday for Marietta to take a brake man position on a railroad. CN Warren passed through town last week en route to Columbus for Starling Medical College.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announces a popular excursion to Washington for Thursday January 19. Round trip fare is $8.00 from Wheeling and Benwood with ten day validity. Trains depart Wheeling 5:40 and 5:45 p m and Benwood 6:05 and 6:10 p m. Through Parlor Cars on day train and Sleeping Cars on night train. Tickets valid to Baltimore but must be used for continuous passage both directions. Congress in session and galleries open. Excursion allows visits to Alexandria Mt Vernon Richmond Old Point Comfort and other nearby sites. For tickets contact B and O agents. 2t
A collection of endorsements for Swift's Specific from patients across the United States. Keiser of Opelika Alabama reports long relief after using the remedy. Langhill of Savannah Georgia, Woehl of Chicago, and Welman of Salem Massachusetts describe cures after trying other treatments. The letters urge readers to obtain the treatise on blood and skin diseases from the Swift Specific Company in Atlanta.
The notice lists three marriages with dates in 1887 and 1888. Rey J W Martin officiated Camp BeLl Smith marriage of W C Campbell of Wayne Nebraska and Miss Alice W Smith of North Salem. A Thrapp tied Garis Bell on January 9 1888 at the Allen residence West Main Don E Garis and Ada M Bell of Cambridge. Rev W V Milligan united Andrew Shegog and Lillie Johnston at the Presbyterian parsonage January 9 1888 in this county.
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