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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1890
Page
2
J P Mahaffey, business manager and editor, office on Main Street East Court Square, registered at Cambridge post office as second class mail matter.
The Ohio Farmer announces a delegate convention of farmers in Columbus on August 13 to foster unity among agrarian groups. Only credentialed delegates from regular farm organizations may vote. participation is limited to actual farmers or those with farmer-backed interests. The meeting aims to support a low income industry without backing any hobby or political party.
Kemmler the murderer has been sentenced to death for the third time and will be executed under New York's electrical chair law at Auburn during the week of August 4. A Fargo cyclone caused extensive damage and killed seven McCarthy children and injured their mother as they hid in a cellar.
Washington dispatches report the Conference Committee on the silver question agreeing to buy four and a half million ounces monthly with redeemable certificates and no bullion redemption. Efforts to unite Farmers Alliance and Labor in Minnesota could defeat the Republican party there. Governor Hill received a warm reception at Indianapolis during Hendricks monument events and gave speeches seen as a 1892 campaign keynote.
The President signed the bill Thursday admitting Idaho as a state. An extra star will appear on the flag on the Fourth of July, moving Idaho onto the banner and saving a year of delay. The current flag has forty three stars and Wyoming awaits a future addition.
A recent Iowa Court decision interprets a law from the seventeenth general assembly forbidding non residents from acquiring real estate by descent or otherwise. An alien may own up to 230 acres and property worth 10000 dollars in cities if placed in a relative’s possession within five years and the occupant becomes naturalized within ten years.
After fifteen days rescuers reached the Dunbar Pennsylvania mine interior but were forced back by toxic gas and smoke. They found clothing and dinner pails from entombed miners and a partially decomposed body, with no trace of the others. The exact cause of death remains unknown, underscoring mining dangers and urging full wages for workers.
The article notes July 1 elections in Japan and argues the United States, with the oldest constitution, has inspired the world. It claims many governments from Mexico to Argentina model their systems on America's charter and predicts global influence lasting a century.
Kimbolton reports a busy week with visits from Elza De Hart and family, pension grants for Josiah Shaw and Robert C. Angus, and multiple travel notes. Local incidents include Bert Wagstaff’s fall, school plans for Miss Blanche Hare, and a fish burial by trustees after decay. A Martins Ferry group camps on Frame’s land for hunting and fishing, while church events and social gatherings color the town scene.
Miss May Scott visits her brother here. Robert Fairley returns from Scio College. Miss Mary Lee comes home from Caldwell. Mrs. Effie Dixon visits friends here and at Trail Run. Mr. and Mrs. James Nicholson spend a few days with friends last week. G. Lewis of Salinesville becomes pit boss at Farmers Mines. M. E. Sabbath School reports continued prosperity with 200 in attendance last Sabbath. Eva Freeman closes her term at Oak Grove School with notable pupil progress. Red Prince Lodge No 250 installs officers led by P. ., John Sigman and others. Hunters led by Capt. George Conner attempt to reach an alligator from here to the B&O Railroad but fail after finding no animal.
Hay harvest starts as market prices list butter at 60 eggs 10 cents flour 1.30. Wool sale strong last week while several have bought road carts. Mrs Win Knouff Sr is ill and Mrs Beggs has house repairs. John Harding buys a new Fim pire binder. Mrs Ona Allison of Zanesville visits friends. Robert Lindsey moves to town this fall. Children Day exercises at M E church on the 27th. Alice Anderson and her children visit New Philadelphia father Thomas Boyd. W F Padgett tours Winchester on business. Clark Sleeth of New Philadelphia is home briefly. A social at S Stockdale's last Wednesday.
The piece notes crops and prices with weather impact on oats and wheat. It mentions drilling on John Milligan’s lands, Mrs. Kirkwood visiting her mother, M. V. McKim visiting Winchester, J. A. Larrison starting as mail carrier from North Salem to Kimbolton on July 1, and a Muskingum Conference visit to Guernsey Circuit. It reports Burris Moore losing five cattle to lightning, including a fine cow bought for 106 dollars. Abraham R. Beal filed a warrant against Frank Fowler for assault and battery. McKim arrested and he was bound over to court in a 100 dollar bond.
Clarence M. Weed summarizes a Farmers' Review study showing 56 percent of Ohio cattle infested with the Ox Warble fly or Bot fly, with average losses to hides about one third of value and $4 per animal for beef. He details life cycle and control remedies including squeezing maggots, applying oil or grease, and kerosene treatments.
A letter from N Dricas secretary Galigher Ohio announces a new farmers alliance in Westland township named The Unity Hall Subordinate Alliance with 52 members and charter No 217 led by John H White deputy organizer of Guernsey County. The group aims to grow and advocates fair representation and equal taxation statewide and nationally.
A 100 dollar reward claim asserts Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh in all stages. The notice explains internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and discusses constitutional treatment. Address F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio and mentions druggists sell at 75 cents.
The speaker jokes that different trades cause things to fly from the cyclone to the saw and the butter, mocking interest in studying how flies originate. The quip suggests pursuing entomology to understand the insects, using playful contrasts among house, crafts, and commerce.
A Florida reader touts Swift’s Specific 8.8.8 as the best blood medicine with miraculous cures for skin and blood diseases. The letter notes the company is a large patent medicine firm supported by leading Atlanta and Georgia figures and offers a free treatise by mail.
A Sunday school scene features a young girl crediting Ayer's Sarsaparilla for restoring her sick mother. The exchange highlights the medicine's perceived curative power in the community.
Court dispositions include overruled motion for new trial in Union Central Life Insurance Co. v Dwelling House Ins. Co. Freeman L Harford awarded $700 funding and sale order in suit against Hiram Moore et al. Jacob Fisher granted divorce at plaintiff costs. Sions defaulted for $175 and costs. Naylor divorce granted with plaintiff custody and $509 alimony at defendant costs. Shores clerk to certify sale legality. St. Clair vs B&O Ry settled with costs paid.
To Mountain Lake Park Association meeting in Mountain Lake Park Maryland the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company will sell tickets on all days to August 1 for return passage August 15 at one unlimited fare for the round trip.
Gieske and Nieman report June activity in Ohio tobacco for the French Regie. Old crop and mixed lots, greenish and brown unsold grades prevail, with 1 227 Hhds inspected to date, including about 250 Hhds of old stock. Buyers from Louis & Co and an Italian contractor may enter, aiming to clear old Maryland and Kentucky exchanges.
Idaville Indiana residents including Postmaster William Timmons farmer John Leslin and hardware merchant J W Gardner tout Electric Bitters for kidney liver and general weakness. They report renewed strength appetite and livelier health after using the remedy at D M Hawthorne's Drug Store.
Local harvests and prices: wheat harvested, wool at thirty cents, hog shipment at Creighton priced per hundred. Health notes on 76 year old Charles Ratliff Sr and a lightning strike near Indian Camp. Social rounds include visits to residents in Adams township and Kimbolton. Promotions and obituaries feature Mrs. WP Ross of Creighton and a promotion for Frank Sharon, now with MK & T. Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral pitched as a cure for colds and coughs.
The post office will redeem stamped envelopes spoiled by superscribing mistakes at stamp value. Damaged stamps stuck together in warm or damp weather may be returned for repayment or exchange for ten stamps. Redeemed items are recorded by postmasters and sent to the department.
Demand for warm weather garments has been great. Hundreds of customers bought flannel Alpaca silk serge and seersucker from M. Wolff & Co. Reduction in summer hats and straw hats offered. Men boys and children can find low prices on underwear neckwear and hosiery.
In this city a large line of coats vests and light weight suits and pants in fancy worsteds and cutaways are heavily discounted. Shoppers can stretch a dollar further at this showroom offering astonishingly low prices on all walking apparel.
Active demand for wash dress goods across ginghams and new colors. Prices are 10c, 12c, and 15c per yard. Pine Apple Tissue displays broad varieties and teens and Carpeting offers a full range of new styles in the carpet room.
Mrs. Michael Curtain of Plainfield Alabama credits Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption with curing her after a month of treatment failed. She used ten bottles and regained health able to do her housework. Free trials at D M Hawthorne s Drug Store. Also tips on avoiding poison ivy and sumac during outdoor trips focusing on leaf counts and berry colors for safety.
An advertises a salve promising relief for bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or money back and sells at 25 cents per box through IDM Hawthorne with a date of Dec 5 80.
A gentleman asks the minister when Deacon 8 will return. The reverend replies solemnly that the deacon is in heaven.
An advertisement claims Dr Haines Golden Specific can cure alcoholism by mixing with tea or coffee without the drinker’s knowledge. It asserts many have been cured, guarantees no harmful side effects, and directs readers to send for full particulars from Golden Specific Co Cincinnati Ohio. The Dickinson Dakota Press notes a birth notice: a daughter born July 8, 1890 to Uncle Sam and hail Columbia, a girl named Ida.
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