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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1884
Page
4
The Cambridge Herald is published every Thursday in Cambridge Ohio. The note lists the newspaper’s title and publication cadence.
Carlotta Perry writes in Christian Union about enduring service and humble usefulness. The poem contemplates aging, work, and helping others as life’s deeper purpose, urging readers to surpass mere sustenance and seek spiritual growth through service.
A South Carolina to New York voyage on the Swallow ends in a perilous gale off the Carolinas. Captain and mate steer through towering breakers toward Hatteras Inlet while a rescue ship Ella battles for its life. The mate later commands the Ella. a dramatic Civil War tie lands Anthony James and an engineer in a fateful clash.
The San Francisco Chronicle discusses attitudes toward baby girls in China, noting the social stigma and uneven practice of infanticide. It cites cases where poverty drives killings, yet acknowledges some districts ban the practice. A Canton nurse recalls eleven sisters with only two surviving.
Major Hugh T. Brooks urges lovers of fruit to favor raspberries found in shade of trees or fences. He notes they grow well with minimal care and benefit from liberal mulch to boost productivity, even after fatiguing tramps.
The report lists 1883 data on government staff in the Printing Office and wages, vast sugar and meat expenditures, and transportation costs. It notes maple sugar output near 40 million pounds, state tobacco output value, France river and canal growth costs, and California trade with Russian Asia including a steamboat export.
A collage of quips and anecdotes from 19th century newspapers. Brief lines on politics, time, nature, and social mores mix with jokes about manners, a pie order, and a pug dog, illustrating light reading and city humor in period press.
An observed dialogue questions a pole and wires in streets, noting the wires block fire routes and threaten pedestrians. It alleges private corporations own streets, built by seizure, and warns about legal actions like injunctions and habeas corpus, with a stockholder voice claiming nothing can be done.
A London Lancet note discusses cough as a reflex and not purely a pulmonary disease, stressing nerve excitability and misuses in practice. A Boston barber then astonishes customers by using a ten dollar bill as shaving paper without harming its value.
Patients from Oyster Bay and New York describe rapid relief from chest pain fever and breathing difficulties attributed to Allcock's Porous Plasters. They claim pneumonia was averted and subsequent recovery followed with continued family use and note imitation warnings.
A collage of testimonials and snippets tout cures for throat, lung and skin diseases including Dr Warner's White Wine of Tar Syrup and Dr Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla. Witty quips from small papers reference journalism and the Keely motor, with notices about Lydia E Pinkham and Swift's Specific.
A dated advertisement extols Kidney-Wort as a cure for rheumatism claiming it clears poisonous matter from blood. It also cites letters and testimonials about various tonics and nostrums and ends with a sensational remark about a Boston crematory.
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