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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1884
Page
4
A poem in which a narrator climbs from a green valley to a stark barren peak seeking glory and color. He finds the summit cold and empty, while the valley below remains rich with crops, orchards, and home. Harper's Weekly.
A moonlit 1865 Colorado coasting event from Nevada to Black Hawk ended when a twelve foot pung crashed into a drug store on Central City main street. Ten riders died or were fatally injured, with four more deaths by morning. The brutal accident halted risky winter sledding and left a lasting caution in the mining towns.
A Popular Science Monthly discussion debunks the cold-air fallacy as frostbite and exposure prove unrelated to catarrh. Observations from Northern hospitals show severe cold injuries without colds, while cold storms and heat transitions do not trigger respiratory infections. Dr Felix L Oswald cites Franklin and Goethe in support of independent cold versus cold-caused illnesses.
In a humorous exchange on City Derrick, Whurline demands George vow not to be a candidate. He frets that all men are candidates, clinging to his right to seek office. She condemns politics in married life, and he exits, a martyr to his ideals.
When William B. Astor died in 1875 his rent roll held 720 houses. The estate later surpassed 1,200 houses with a total valuation around 50 million dollars and an annual income of about 3.6 million dollars.
A compilation of rural kernels from various papers notes cow rents, corn cooking, and farming maxims. It includes advice on livestock, fruit trees, and building frame before fat, plus recipes for apple pie and beet fritters and remedies for shilblains and horse care between idle spells.
The article argues against indiscriminate use of farming principles and intertwines warnings about green manuring. It notes wheat needs well rotted manures, decay time for clover sod, and cautions that heavy clay soils slow decay. It emphasizes careful judgment, proper timing, and lime use, with practical guidance for rotating crops and manure applications.
Irregular rations for horses cause poor condition, fatigue, and frequent colic. Changing to consistent, smaller, well-timed feedings under a careful feeder can restore energy, flesh, and daily performance. The article notes many stock respond similarly to proper feeding adjustments.
A Patagonian cannibal who had strayed from a dime museum and was starving applied at a Syracuse police station for food and shelter the other day. The incident was reported by the Syracuse Journal.
J H Goldsmith of Wal nut Grove stock farm New York commends St Jacobs Oil after twenty years of use for human rheumatism and livestock ailments. He calls it the best pain cure he has ever used. A newspaper note adds a remark about marking floods with a Croptora needle.
A reader compliments a penny cook book from the G T P A Chicago office, praising its plain recipes and sturdy 128 page laminated format. The note, signed by Mrs M R Karsters, thanks the author and offers ten cents or cash to obtain the book via the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway offices.
A fragmentary item from Chicago Tribune notes a man who did not know a gun was loaded faces life risk and death in a recurring cautionary theme. The piece reads like a stark caution on firearm safety and fate.
An advertisement touts Rev Dr Samuel Covel's Rheumatic Pills as a universal cure for rheumatism. Promises speedy, permanent relief and a forty year track record. Price 59 cents per box with mail order from C H Coven New York. Also notes a society trend about soft dishes from Chicago Herald.
In Shenandoah Iowa Justice of the Peace W C Mathews reports two years of catarrh confinement, trying many remedies without relief until an old friend suggested Ely's Cream Balm. After one application he found relief and calls it the best remedy yet. Wet weather will influenza man when nothing else will.
A reader reports remarkable results from Swift Specific on a five year cancer case with five bottles yielding significant improvement. Another note claims Da Wa Hall's Balsam for the Lungs cured a pneumonia patient. The snippet includes ad like quips about lovers and Pownear.
An old advertisement page extols Wells Richardson & Co.'s improved Butter Color as essential for premium butter. It claims dairy success hinges on color and quality and notes the product is widely used by leading creameries. Also mentions various remedies and tonics for health and ailments.
A Rochester flood tale contrasts dangers from ice jams with a publisher’s interview about Warner’s Safe Cure. The piece recounts the building boom, then shifts to claims that the remedy, blended with Safe Cure, produces powerful rheumatic and neuralgia cures and is surpassing others in popularity. Public opinion about Samaritan Nervine and Piso’s Cure is noted.
A sequence of testimonial quotes claims Hop Bitters cures ague biliousness nervousness neuralgia stomach issues and paralysis headaches. Several residents from Oswego Ludington Monroe Grats Your and Chicago assert relief from kidney bladder liver and typhoid related debility after using the tonic.
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