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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1885
Page
4
A poem contrasts a girl and boy dreaming of quests and glory with reality. The girl seeks enchanted solving of riddles and queenship, while the boy longs for battles and knights. Knowledge awaits the maiden, as the hidden clue lies in a book’s leaves. The tale hints Sloth conquering the boy and idle longing fading from the scene.
John Parsons travels with his son Johnny to Gravel Hill to inspect the mining operations after rumors of trouble. At the boarding house he learns of the large scale washing and sluicing set up by several companies, with immense water pipes and quicksilver flumes set to uncover gold. He witnesses the heavy blasting and mining activity that signals a high-stakes gamble over the family’s estate and livelihood.
Jennie and Lucy recount a day of travel and flirtation as Ensien asks to call later. Lucy senses Ensien may be in love with Lucy, while Jennie guards her own happy thoughts and teases about his attentions. The room scene ends with Jennie humming, clearly entertained by day’s events.
A New York justice praised his own re-election by fining a defiant man who had caused a poor woman to be arrested after she allegedly knocked him down with a ham while he insulted her as she returned home from the market.
The Navy sent to Attorney General Garland the board’s April report on the dispatch boat Dolphin. It cites speed shortfalls, structural weakness, and workmanship concerns, asking whether the government has a bad or broken contract and what remedies exist under supervision by officials and prior approvals.
In Clifton Hall Colliery near Manchester England a fire damp explosion trapped 180 miners after 350 were at work. About 120 were rescued while 230 were believed suffocated or burned to death as cages failed to reach the imprisoned men. Relatives gathered near the shaft in distress awaiting word.
A New York correspondence piece critiques a anonymously published book lampooning doctors and malaria as a cover for ignorance. It cites patients succumbing to tropes of overwork and rheumatism, praises Warner's Safe Cure, and notes ex President Arthur as a supposed victim while urging readers to rely on remedies beyond physicians.
The piece describes morning dress skirts for housewives and misses, noting a plain front with massed back and simple hems for light prints. It also includes quirky clippings on a Northern Denmark bicycle rider near dark roads, and assorted humorous quotes about daily life, manners, and misused remedies.
A moral on valuing health follows an advertisement for Dr. R W Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery claiming cures for consumption and blood diseases when other remedies fail. The World's Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo, New York offers a pamphlet on consumption for two stamps. A brief, unrelated line notes a country seat that always rents and a barbed wire fence.
A vintage advertisement parodies David’s cynicism and extols Dr Sage’s Remedy for catarrh. The copy claims one trial proves efficacy, pitched as a inexpensive patent medicine available from druggists for fifty cents.
An advertisement for the World's Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo New York promises speedy permanent cures for delicate diseases of either sex with free consultation and requests three stamps for a set of remedies. A young lady with an autograph album calls it a thim book in a playful note.
Tug Vourah Bear Co of Marshall Michigan offers ELECTRO- VOLTAIC Bear and other ELECTRIC APPLIANCES on 30 day trial for nervous debility loss of vitality rheumatism neuralgia paralysis and related ailments with 40 day risk free option. Free illustrated pamphlet on request. Also promotes Pike’s Toothache Drops Glenn’s Sulphur Soap and German Corn Remover.
Central Standard Time timetable for the Wheeling wake Erie Cleveland and Marietta Railroads notes time changes and westward schedule in effect June 7 1885.
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