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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1884
Page
4
Old Farmer Ray returns home with groceries and accuses grocer Barton of short selling sugar. After a tense exchange, Ray tests the scales with butter and sugar, admits error, and leaves, vowing to weigh properly in the future. Barton's good humor ends the scene.
Three sisters faced with debt and a ill mother after their father’s ship and a bank collapse chart a bold plan. Christie starts a washing and mending service at Brown Cottage, securing local orders and funding, then the venture expands and gains social acceptance as the family prospers.
The Philadelphia Times notes conceits in capes and sersfs with gold or silver thread outlines, white brocade velvet clasps, and lace ratties. It highlights pale blue pink or cream nun's veiling wraps for young girls, Moorish embroidery on black lace mantles, and capes with tunics in cream foulard adorned by crimson roses and moss leaves. Pretty chenille scarfs feature colored roses. Newport scarfs vary from soft silk to pale hues. Lace scarfs for full dress show seed pearls and crystal beads, with silver or gold beads framing flowers and leaves. The overall effect is enhanced by artificial light.
The Arkansas Traveler recounts Colonel Clockwell showing off his young son George at a social gathering. The child answers President Arthur instead of Cleveland and declares he wants a bird to ride on, claiming he is light enough because his mother says the father went out on a lark. The anecdote ends with a rapid, comic close.
A collage of quips and light humor from Edward Lear to a Boston newspaper collage. Jests about vanity alibis and everyday mischief fill a breezy column of witty observations and cartoonish anecdotes.
The editor thanks Emma Lou Loftin for bringing first ripe strawberries, noting a sweet young girl and contrasting her act with delinquent subscribers and those who do not support their country papers. The remark frames a gentle critique of readers who fail to pay dues or support newspapers.
A Boston club of pretty girls pledges not to wear eye-glasses or spectacles until marriage. They note many Boston girls study hard and become near sighted, making glasses popular yet supposedly unkissable, a tongue in cheek remark reported by the Chicago Times.
At the New Orleans World's Fair next winter Mexico will exhibit a tropical plant garden covering 220 000 square feet, presenting a lush display as part of the national pavilion.
A compilation of facts and figures from across the United States and abroad. It cites farm shifts in Louisiana, long fence rings in Indiana, a Connecticut licorice powerhouse, coal prices in Boston versus Philadelphia, and vast U.S. rail and population growth. It notes Mexico's census debate, Japan to England silk exports, and Americans spending on jeweled accessories in New York.
The article notes minimal daytime jewelry with breastpins cuff-buttons and simple outfits while antique silver pins coin bracelets and bangles gain favor. Rhinestone brooches and enameled flower pins with diamond dew drops appear. evening wear favors jewels rare stones fancy hoops and filigree gold. Bracelets feature coin pendants and bead bracelets with luminous gemstones.
Advice for housekeepers to prevent and destroy wardrobe moths and eggs. Keep carpets and woolens clean with borax, salt, ammonia, and tobacco. seal treated items in bags, wrap in newspapers, and store away with camphor bundles. Open windows to dry and air before storing for summer.
A Cincinnati Enquirer excerpt advises farmers to provide a side-table of sweet milk when possible and to use a mixed ration of grain, middlings, and oil-cake meal for growing young pigs. It recommends five feedings daily, grass access for three months and under, and careful grain rations to avoid fat hogs, stressing health as paramount.
Across Derby day the pickpockets lingering on the Downs showed meager gains as many wandered all day without success. A London Standard note recounts a arrested man’s letter implying more blanks than prizes and that even on favorable days many thieves earned nothing. A Coquille River sea lion and a local oil claim also appear in brief items.
The Burlington Free Press notes Wells Richardson & Co.’s Improved Butter Color as the top butter color free of sediment and impurity. It claims the product yields a rich dandelion yellow, never red, and is ready for instant use.
A collection of quotations praising Kidney-Wort for kidney liver and bowel issues. Includes Dr. Ballou of Monkton VT calling it highly successful, and endorsements from a Gainesville GA merchant and others. Also notes on salt-water baths Lydia Pinkham’s Compound and various patent medicines with ad copy style claims.
Central Standard Time is in effect for the Wheeling and Lake Erie timetable issued in May 1884. This notice outlines how schedules align with standard time across routes and stations for that period.
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