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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1886
Page
2
The Indiana Senate president and acting lieutenant governor nominee Senator Smith plans to file a suit in the Supreme Court to void General Rovinson's election as lieutenant governor.
The Times criticizes the affidavits and places the burden on Prosecutor Patterson, arguing that responsibility should be shared with other parties along the highway rather than solely on him. The piece urges a more balanced view of accountability.
Official returns from Ohio indicate the Republican vote fell 18 386 from last year and the Democratic vote dropped 12 516. Prohibition rose 1 110 over the previous Dr Leonard vote. Mediterranean storms flood towns, flood shores, and wreck property as far as the Mediterranean. Texan reports claim Mexican invasion to seize states and form an independent republic, a socialist charge likely to remain talk. Government versus American Bell Telephone Co in Cincinnati court dismissed for lack of jurisdiction, shocking pan electric circles.
The figures show 93,303 Sunday schools in the United States with 7,668,833 pupils and 1,000,000 teachers. Canada has 6,060 schools and 430,000 pupils. England and Wales report 5,200,766 pupils, Scotland 761,262 pupils, Ireland 295,693 pupils, Germany 2,851 schools with 200,000 pupils. Worldwide totals reach about 15,750,000 scholars and 1,750,000 teachers.
Ex Prosecuting Attorney Montgom ery, Dr. C R Montgomery, Algerman Granville, Otto W Horn and B H Merritt were bound over in 500 dollars each by Justice Frichey to appear before the Common Pleas Court and answer charges. They gave bail promptly. Fred Steube was discharged. Costs totaled over 350 dollars.
In Passaic County New Jersey the third assembly district recount left Carroll Democrat with 1 893 votes and Emley Republican with 1 897 votes giving Democrats a one vote majority on joint ballot in the Legislature. The piece notes faith leaders opposing musical instruments in worship and mentions a conference in Pittsburg resolving to oppose organ. The next meeting is set for Xenia Ohio on November 9 1887.
In the Bellaire Tribune Col Poorman’s critiques of Guernsey Republicans are noted. A poem like message to the Ohio State Journal praises Congressman-elect J D Taylor via a brother Dave. Taylor led the state ticket district 315 votes. Belmont County shows Kennon trailing by 107 votes amid opposition from local factions.
Court notices show multiple civil actions resolved or proceeding. Dismissals at plaintiff costs include National Bank of Middlebury against Thos Rich and George W Rich vs H F McDonald. several other suits settled with costs paid or agreed. Criminal cases list verdicts of guilty for manslaughter and adultery, with others ongoing or partially resolved.
Maryland employs about 60,000 people in canning foods and produces 50 million cans of oysters yearly. Hartford county adds 24 million cans of tomatoes and 12 million of corn annually, while a Frederick City firm can 2.5 million cans of corn each season.
Edward Shepherd of Harrisburg,Narrative claims Electric Bitters cured an eight year running leg sore that doctors warned would require bone scraping or amputation. After three bottles of Electric Bitters and seven boxes Buckien's Arnica Salve his leg is sound. Prices: fifty cents per bottle and twenty five cents per box. C L Wall & Co markets both products.
The writer argues that many leave for the west with no plans or practical information. If they'd live frugally at home as in early western settlements, their savings could match or exceed what they expect to gain in the West.
A health notice proclaims that consumption can be cured not by secret remedies but through proper exercise and the judicious use of Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites. It claims the product contains the healing and strength giving virtues in their fullest form and is prescribed universally by physicians. Take no other.
A Wilmington business man reports the S. S. S. remedy cured a cancerous nose lesion and an arm abscess after expensive treatments failed. He cites a customer who recovered after using S. S. S. and praises its superiority, while another patient improved from skin and blood diseases. The Swift Specific Co. is solicited.
The article notes yearly U S washboard production exceeds millions with at least 7 200 000 sold between the Allegheny mountains and Missouri river. It cites Cleveland two factories producing 200 dozen per day Toledo 300 dozen daily and two St Louis plants turning out over a million annually.
D A Bradford of Chattanooga Tenn reports severe cold settled on his lungs and he found cure with Dr Kings New Discovery for consumption after trying many remedies. He now uses it for coughs and colds with best results. Thousands claim lives saved by this Wonderful Discovery. Trial bottles free at C L Wall Co drug store.
A noted quirk shows Lord Palmerston wearing improbable items: a white hat on his feet, polished boots on his prow, a dark cloud in his hand, a walking stick in his eye, and a menacing glare. The passage mocks misplacements caused by a comma altering meaning.
Travelers warned of weather exposure and urged to carry Dr Bull s Cough Syrup. A Nashville physician prescribes to a lady with neuralgia. She uses a bonnet cashmere shawl gaiter boots and Salvation Oil. She recovers immediately.
A man in Ohio has gone twenty eight days without eating anything as reported by the Brooklyn Eagle. The paper he edits could not be identified in the snippet.
An old advertisement touts Dr Bull’s Baby Syrup as opium free at 25 cents, alongside Dr Bull’s Baltimore Pills as a preventive for constipation. It also promotes Day’s Horse Powder to aid stunted pigs and prevent hog cholera, and Drexel’s Bell Cologne scented like incense.
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