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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1884
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR note listing amounts and percentages in cents and dollars. Mentions 59 cts 17 ets and Oct 42 ets with various sums and percentages, including a $100 figure. No clear event, participants, or location is identifiable.
The Cambridge Herald reports 1885 almanacs on the market and local shop ads from R. M. Greenway & Co. Additions cover mumps in New Concord, coats and hats, school funding totals for Guernsey county, marriages in the area, illnesses including diphtheria and typhoid, local deaths, and upcoming events such as a Barnesville band performance and a G A R camp-fire.
Numerous local notes list visitors and residents from Columbus Greenville Caldwell and Fairil My with arrivals, departures, and social calls. Court records include guilty pleas in liquor and theft cases and civil actions, plus postmortem fee to Dr J P Tingle and various judgments and attachments recorded by the county.
Special railroad offer for Thanksgiving on the B and O with round trip rates at two cents per mile for all Trans-Ohio divisions from the 26th to the 27th. Travel now until the 8th inclusive. Caution for lung or throat patients due to sea air. Dr Sigelow's Positive Cure advertised for coughs and throat disorders. Montgomery & Co., Decorah Iowa, report high demand and offer trial bottles free at 59 cents and one dollar.
Local notes report dull business and seed corn sales as harvests wind down. Hogs sell at five to six cents per pound. beef prices listed. housing fire quickly contained. Social events include a Thanksgiving Eve gathering at A J Luzadder's with lunch, a band invitation to Pairview, and a Cambridge county display praised as the largest. Dr Jones Red Clover Tonic pitched for health claims.
Readers are urged to try Hall Hair Renewer which claims to restore gray hair to youth color, prevent baldness, soften and gloss hair, avoid skin staining, and treat all hair and scalp diseases.
Sunday school at 1 pm and preaching at 2 30 pm noted. Nat Lepage processed about 1000 lbs of hogs last week. JA Dilley back in Caldwell Monday. James Husing in town last week. Coal shaft work delayed due to a burst pipe. Miss Mary Shaw visited Columbus relatives and Rev AB Shaw at Waverly. Pardum left for Indianola Nebraska Tuesday morning likely to stay years with brother George. A local citizen endorses Hall's Catarrh Cure at 75 cents per bottle, sold by J R Downar.
A Midway quarterly meeting at the ME church is reported. Dr Mills and a Cambridge visitor toured Thomas last week. Miss Ella Wanchope from Wheeling visited Wp Thomas. George Tobin of Birmingham visited his son Lafayette Tobin. Mrs J O Grimes and Mrs P Suitt of Cambridge visited local friends. David Walters plans a Kansas move. W P Thomas bought a Depew & Son wagon, winning first at Columbus and Wheeling fairs. John E Corwin, Guernsey County native, elected to Kansas Legislature from Nemaha County as a Republican.
Local advertisement promotes Griggs glycerine salve as a universal healer for cuts bruises burns and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee. Sold by J R Downar. May 1 84 ly.
Mrs Ben Bugher has been quite sick for several days. Arsinus Morrison goes to Quaker City this week to work at the glass works. A missionary concert was held at the church Sunday night. Guests were invited to oyster dinner at Joseph Hawes Saturday evening. Communion services will be held at Bethel church in two weeks from last Sunday. Sadie Bughere Iowa on Thursday plans a trip this week and expects to win about a year.
Patent style ad extols Dr. Frazier's ointment as a universal cure for boils burns sores cuts wounds corns chapped lips hands pimples and blotches. It claims great value and lists a price of 50e with sale through druggists and the Frazier Medicine Co. Proprietors.
One of Robert Faulkner's children is sick. William Athey and James Couplin suffer from quinsey. Johnny Bergher's child recovers slowly from diphtheria. Mrs Martin Gildon is low with dropsy and little hope of recovery. Dr Samuel Shannon visited his daughter a week. Charles Barth broke his arm last Friday while hunting. The Democrats jollified last Saturday merit. Residences gleamed with flags and lights. Mrs Hall of Pittsburgh visited her daughter Mrs John Bergher and returned home. Paul Desquin returned to Pittsburgh. Joshua Lee now in charge of the furnace. Mrs William Barton and others from Oxford Township visited here. The IOG increases in membership and usefulness. Temperance supporters urged practical application to help youths and good society at Prospect, Penn. vs John Rapsen.
The advertisement claims Electric Bitters quickly cure Brights disease diabetes weak back and other urinary complaints. It promises blood purification bowel regulation and direct action on diseased parts. Each bottle is guaranteed and sold at 50 cents by J R Downary.
The December issue of Rutledge's Monthly announces a $20 prize for identifying the middle verse of the New Testament (not the Revised Edition) by December 10 1884. If multiple correct answers arrive the prize is shared and payment sent December 15 1884. Send 20 cents in silver with each guess and receive the January Monthly which lists the winner and correct answer.
Winchester report shows visitors guests and relocations across Indiana Ohio and Virginia. Mentions Lytle Patterson Burson Hughes Saviers Hoover Wyrick Pardum and Bennett with social events at Johnson Hotel Ulyss Stockdale and Pardum homes. Western migration to Nebraska and Virginia discussed with emphasis on marriageable bachelors and local schooling assignments.
The passage argues rheumatism wastes time and money on ineffective medicines. Armoritoras are presented as directly and quickly effective, saving time and expense by avoiding futile remedies, though it notes that many cases remain unresolved.
Byesville reports social events at IIT Winnakers and a tailor’s discussion, plus an ordinance extending the town’s corporation if a saw mill is added. Miner leader John McBride spoke to Byesville miners, Rev Grubber built a Methodist church at Otterbein, and W S F coal shipped to New Orleans. Births note a Morrison girl. attendees at MP church quarterly meeting included residents from Hiramsburg and Hoskinsville in Noble county. Local politics hint at a postmaster change with names like Grant Seals Gorsuch Hilderbrant Allman floated. one veteran cites three years in service.
An advertisement urges all workers from merchants to laborers to use Parker's Tonic when feeling half sick. It claims the tonic restores energy, saves money by improving health, and equates one hour of good health to hours of languor.
An advertisement touts Williams Indian Pile Ointment for piles and related itch conditions with claims of curing long standing cases in minutes. Price listed as $1 and mailed from Frazier Medicine Co Cleveland Ohio.
Guernsey County Ohio sheriff sells several parcels in townships two and eleven with portions in sections ten eleven and twelve within range three. Described tracts total twenty five, twenty, and one half acre with cash terms and appraisal of 1137.40 dollars. Sale date noted November 5 1884 in Cambridge Ohio with attorney for plaintiff William Farrar.
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