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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1883
Page
4
The Cambridge Herald is issued every Thursday as the official parish or city newspaper for Ohio. The note confirms regular weekly publication schedule and origin.
A poem recounts awaiting a mother's passing with reverent devotion. Family members share sorrow as the aged matriarch nears death, reflecting on her seventy years of patient love and the peace of heaven promised in Immanuel grace. The piece ends with longing to know the mother's spirit’s destination beyond life.
A Massachusetts Ploughman tells a Thornville tale of ambition and marriage across social classes. Caleb, a college graduate and teacher, loves Julia Thurber who values him for character over riches. Alfred rises in city life then falls, while Julia's steadfast choice contrasts with her mother's elite aspirations.
Rome correspondent reports a February 16 event in a field near Brescia where a large aerolite with bluish smoke crashed, felt as far as Verona and Piacenza. A three foot deep oblique hole yielded a hot truncated cone weighing 4 to 5 hundred pounds. fragments sold for high sums while owner’s crops were trampled. Prof Bombei of Bologna later found scoria shards nearby.
Georgia Major recalls a magician in a theater who makes money appear and vanish. Si suspects the performer used clever practice to conjure dollars, hinting that the white man might once have been a freedman's bank cashier.
In Syracuse the Wright cow was opened to relieve suffocation and a large string of thirteen buttons was found inside its stomach. The incident is reported by the Syracuse Journal.
A survey of figures notes 1882 grain exports near 8,000,000 bushels, Texas sheep gains of 13,500,000 dollars, and a 1,442,525 dollar payment ruling for Myra Clark Gaines. It covers England and US postal areas, Italian opera outputs, Tennessee colored-property value, Florida alligators, and multiple population age insanity rates. Cigar trade data from Cuba and Irish rent actions conclude the snapshot.
A collage of quips and jokes from New York Advertiser Yonkers Gazette Pittsburgh Telegraph Norristown Herald Life Plattsburg dentist and San Francisco Philharmonic Society notes. It captures light satire on business manners manners and common sense with regional quips and a Plantation Philosophy vignette.
Michael Connelly from Syracuse New York, a bright lad at the Newsboys Home on Sixth Street, is a remarkable whistler who speaks only after whistling. Once a professional bootblack traveling from Chicago to Boston, he learned whistling to curb violent stuttering. He says he must whistle after every word, often thrice per sentence, and the habit nearly banishes his speech.
A wooden one story float house with hinged sectional walls sits on Saratoga Lake. The cottage has two rooms and a tank beneath the floor to hold captured fish. Reported by Zroy Times of N. Y.
A religious editor recalls a Friday morning encounter at a freight depot with a Cincinnati faker who played three card monte. The con artist flung cards, claiming a rooster card could settle a four dollar street tax, while the old man denies beating anyone and jokes about fighting flies with Marie Ellick and the Mexikan war. Georgia Major notes no one answers and doubts the street tax is paid.
A patchwork of medical notes and product pitches from a 19th century page. Claims praise Brown's Iron Bitters and Ely's Cream Balm while citing testimonials and humorous asides. Mentions Worth's DyspePS Dispensary and various patent remedies, with district news snippets and light humor.
An 19th century column mocks medical quackery while advertising patent remedies. It cites Dr Everett endorsing Scovill s Sarsaparilla and Blood and Liver Syrup and warns of tornado like quacks. It promotes Brown s Bronchial Traches Teething Cordial Rough on Rats Lyon s Heel Stiffener and shoe dealers sell these products.
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