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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1883
Page
4
A narrator ventriloquizes a father recounting how his children cause noise and mischief at home. He laments the burden of poverty while imagining gifts and the hollow cheer of a legendary figure, contrasting harsh reality with imagined abundance. The text concludes with a reflective note by Charles F. Adams in Harper's Magazine.
Artist Carradine, haunted by a childhood vision of a rose-crowned girl, paints a portrait that reawakens the memory. Years later the sitter Leilia Auvernay reveals herself, and after her engagement dissolves, she seeks Carradine as a student and lover, finding happiness at last in his arms.
Harper's Bazar advises the delicate and invalid to shield from cold and wet winds, especially north and east breezes. It urges balanced exercise, careful eating, ample sleep, and thorough nightly bed protection to prevent colds, fever, and lung ailments.
Practical tips on soil freshness from green crops and moisture retention, stove polish with vinegar, quick cookies recipe with sour milk, pasture quality after wet weather, citron pudding method, cabbage transplanting advice, sweet potato nutrition compared to corn, steamed corn bread with buttermilk, and horse dental care including tooth filing and annual checkups.
A tale from the Omaha Bee recounts Mr Nolan who saved a lady rider from a runaway horse in Colorado seven years ago. He later learned the rescued woman and her party recognized him by chance at Boyd Opera-house. A grateful matron presented him with a token of thanks, praising his courage.
A Wakefield New Hampshire man who had never seen a railroad train died recently at age one hundred. The obituary notes his ignorance of railway travel as a factor in long life.
A Massachusetts Ploughman authoritatively urges every family head with ten rods of land to grow strawberries for home use. He extols ripe fruit eaten fresh and warns against buying transported berries. The piece covers soil, plant spacing, root handling, pruning, and May planting tips to maximize yield from small plots.
A cor in Country Gou lden advises boys to value diligence over bargaining skill. A careless worker quits on time yet neglects duties, while an attentive orphan makes himself indispensable, starting as a helper and rising to partner. The speaker stresses extra effort, reliability, and long term growth over chasing wages.
A shark off the Florida coast swallows an alarm clock that fell overboard. About two hours later the alarm rings inside the shark causing terror and an exaggerated leap of twenty feet, while deckhands on the boat laugh. A Chicago contractor praised for lifting a large dry goods building six feet without damage, and a rival paper mocks Chicago shoplifting prowess.
A playful verse recounts a boy’s spill cured by St Jacobs Oil, and a red-haired clerk who slips on banana peel and finds relief. The narrator muses on a Europe trip in June, envy from peers, and a summer spent in Michigan before returning home with fanciful memories of Ravenna and Athens.
An 19th century medical ad urges readers to send stamps to the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo for a large illustrated treatise on remedies for premature decay and related maladies. It praises Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets for those leading sedentary lives or with chronic stomach or bowel disorders. Includes a quip about Sydney Sydney Surin and a quote on evil speech versus action.
A collage of ad copy and health claims appears, including GastRiNe for stomach pain, a Yazoo County hydrophobia note from a mad dog hay, Dr. Benson's Skin Cure, Dr. Pierce’s treatise offer for consumptives, a Vanished “impossible” quote, Dr. Dye’s Electro-Voltaic Belts trial for nervous debility, Brown’s Teething Cordial, Wise’s Axle Grease, and Lyon’s Heel Stiffeners.
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