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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1887
Page
3
A long list of local notices reports bargains at Cambridge Boot and Shoe Co and McIlyar’s while other items note local business, weather, church activities, arrivals, and community updates from Cambridge and surrounding townships.
Election results and quiet days frame a bulletin from Washington. Mrs Dio McGinnis and Miss Mary Frame visit nearby counties. Barnesville acquaintances stop by town. Hunters report plentiful quail. schools praised by patrons. W N Cowden sells sheep to David Harpster for 325 dollars per hundred.
New Philadelphia visitors and Newark guests mingle with church events and a missionary concert at the ME church. Cumberland and Lore City visitors, a Cambridge attendance at a Chester LePage wedding, and a West Virginia visitor are noted along with a new second floor millinery move. The revival at Wesleyan church continues with Rev Hopeman assisting Rev Hester and Rev Houghton’s sermon at WM church. The Excelsior literary society schedules Friday sessions with a Chicago Anarchists debate. Mrs Robert McCune dies suddenly after church. the community offers sympathy. Miss Hasta LePage and J W Chester wed at N M LePage’s home and plan to live in Nashville.
In Byesville business rises while election aftermath passes. A ME church festival at Burt's Hall last Saturday netted 31 dollars. Rev J K Grimes and family return from Monroe county. John Frye and D M Slay reelected Jackson township Justices of the Peace. A mule at the Farmer’s mines was badly hurt and killed. MP church plans a Thanksgiving festival at Burt’s Hill on Thanksgiving evening. Stephen Lee buried an eight months old child born to suffer from birth. Parents receive community sympathy. Father Selby’s health declines and he has not left the house in three months except election day car ride.
Simon Stiles has measles while the Union literary society suspends work. Mrs M Dillehay of Cambridge visits here with Miss Olie Bonnell of Lore City visiting her parents. Mrs Harriet Robinson and John Brown trade farms. WD McConnell and FA Devenny enter Scio college. Miss Jennie Allen returns from Illinois extended visit. Ada McCracken visits sister Mrs E Stockdale at Loder Illinois. John Moss family back from the west after months away. Johnson Bros Love City purchase John Thomas hay crop for baling before shipping. Quarterly M E church meeting set for next weekend with Dr Mills preaching. Sunday School Missionary Society reorganized led by Rankin, McKisson, McCracken, Thomas, Stiles, Crawford.
Ada Knowlton spent Thursday in Zanesville while George H Daniel returned from Newark to vote last week. Jus Rannells of Vinton county visits friends here and Oris McClelland of Newark stays with relatives this week. Rey Kumler held a Beech Grove school house meeting on Wednesday, Hayden Martin of Athens Asylum spent part of last week with his family here. John Beachler of Mt Ephraim greeted friends on Saturday and Sunday. Flora Hayes enjoyed a birthday surprise from her little friends. Newton Allison’s sawing accident Friday will keep him home for some time. An era of local ads proclaims Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup and Salvation Oil in colorful couplets.
Standing room only filled Hammond's Opera House as Al Field's Minstrels staged a large program of banjo clatter bones rattling melodies and lively dances to a delighted audience. The bustling show alternated between raucous fun and refined tableaux pleasing patrons.
An advertisement proclaims Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best salve for cuts burns sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions with a money back guarantee. Price is 25 cents per box sold by C L Wall & Co A Steubenville rolling mill worker lost vision the morning after a severe forehead pain ended his shift.
Rome druggists claim four years of selling Dr King's New Discovery, Electric Bitters and Bucklen's Arnica Salve with universal satisfaction. They report cases of consumption cured after use with these medicines and guarantee them. Also, a brakeman John Thompson of West Cambridge was seriously injured after being struck on the neck by a passing train near a bridge.
Benton Hair Grower advertises a hair restoration claim claiming 80 percent restoration and no sugar or poisons. It asserts effectiveness against baldness dandruff and scalp itching and offers mail order through Benton Hain Grower Co Cleveland Ohio with September 8 1887 date.
Harper and Brothers New York promotes Harper’s Magazine Harper’s Weekly Harper’s Bazar and Harper’s Young People volumes. Includes binding options cloth cases and price lists for bound volumes and an index with alphabetical analytic and classified sections. Remittance via money order or draft. Newspapers must obtain express order to reprint.
The notice advertises postage free subscriptions to Harper's Weekly in the United States Canada and Mexico. It promotes starting new subscriptions with the current issue and offers bound volumes for three years back with cloth binding and mail delivery free of expense within freight limits. Cloth cases are available post paid at 1.00 each.
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