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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1883
Page
4
A Welsh preacher in a rural town uses Welsh and Greek passages to impress a church gathering that craves classics. The sermon turns comical when a Welshman near the door misreads his lines, prompting a final plea to spare the minister from exposure and jokes about translation.
An excerpt depicts a former enslaved man and his former master in a cluttered store, trading banter about a partnership and a distant partner named Sandy Brooks. The scene highlights stagey dialogue and caricature of race, class, and commerce in a strained Reconstruction era setting.
A Mississippi town tale recounts Waggintire and McIntire partners clashing over a cotton and corn venture. Sandy, Ritter and Suse wheel conflicts, a crop division dispute, and a legal showdown with lawyer King end with the store on one side or the other as New Year approaches. Marie Jimmie notes the quarrel while Mr. Humphrey eyes the outcome.
Bill Nye argues against rag carpets in a humorous yet pointed critique. He laments health harms, odors, and dyes while praising old heirlooms. The piece ties rag carpets to family memory, poverty, and social change, invoking Oscar Wilde to underscore reform.
A compilation of curiosities and statistics from diverse sources. It notes iron work history, large food and banana imports to New York, a long Chinese encyclopedia, Manhattan land use, bakery industry investments, bridge and transit capacity, Vermont prison data, paper production, Irish linen paper import decline, various Chinese market prices, heart blood circulation estimates, Puget Sound log prices and lumber mills.
A Youth's Companion excerpt recounts Simple Simon failing to read social signals. He loses work at a grocery, endures dismissal and insult, and finds his own pride hurt as he learns to accept teasing and rejection. The tale contrasts dull insight with wiser restraint in social dealings.
A collage of wry sayings and anecdotes from various papers. Jests about friendship procrastination and wisdom parade through voices from Tribune Boston Transcript Burlington Free Press New York Hammerer The Household New York Graphic Marathon Independent London Echo and others.
In Waco Texas Fred Schenick attempted to place a pistol cartridge cap on a small pen cap. The cap exploded injuring his thumb and fingers. The box revealed the caps were dynamite filled. No one at the hardware store suspected the danger. Detroit post.
A young aspiring editor should first serve in a boiler shop to endure continuous noise. The advice emphasizes practical, hands on experience as foundational for newspaper work.
A historical account discusses testing death scenes by hanging using charcoal deposits beneath the surface, contrasts drowning observations as Chinese generalizations, and notes meticulous details on death by fire such as ash traces in the mouth and nose as test criteria.
A Maine newspaper notes Sebec in Piscataquis County hosts a thriving tooth-pick mill powering with over a thousand cords of poplar and birch annually. It manufactures a two-horse cart of toothpicks daily, employing twelve to fifteen girls and ten men. A private letter adds the mill hires many girls to pack boxes for twenty-five cents, with cheaper local board. The Sebec waterpower has long supported mills from fulling to woolen cloth, the latter failing recently with creditors offered fifteen percent.
The estate of the late Andrew Cutter of Parma Michigan sold the famous trotting stallion Black Cloud to M W Wagner Mayor of Marshall Michigan. Black Cloud records a 2174 percent and goes to a Chicago driver for the upcoming season.
Advertisement notes a free hand book on invention fortunes with instructions to order by postal card. Mentions tariff info urged as public duty per N C Picayune and solicitor N W Fitzgerald of Washington DC.
An advertisement claims Walnut Leaf Hair Restorer cleans hair without damaging health unlike sulfur and nitrate products. It promises removal of dandruff, restoration of natural hair color, new growth where hair has fallen, and a glossy brown result in days. Brenton, Myers & Co. Cleveland and C N Crittenton New York are listed as agents. A separate humorous note from Chicago Tribune mentions a man marrying for carving skill.
An ad-like passage promotes remedies for nervous debility memory loss and low will power blaming pernicious practices. It markets a three letter postage stamp illustrated treatise from Worth's Dispensary Medical Association Buffalo NY and urges products like Dr Isaac Thompson Eye Water Wells' Rough on Corns St Patrick's Salve Rough on Rats and Lyon's Patent Metallic Heel Stiffeners.
A testimonial extols Hop Bitters as healing neuralgia and female troubles after doctors failed. Mrs E D Slack credits the tonic with curing her and her husband, and cites others saved by the product. The ad urges overwork and poor habits as causes, promising relief by taking Hop Bitters.
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