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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1885
Page
2
The Hon. F. Hassaurek editor of the Cincinnati Volsblatt and a noted German traveller for health died in Paris last Friday. The battle will come off next Tuesday, and the musketry with rattle louder and swifter than in Presidential campaigns.
Lawrence declares it unlawful for a Board of County Commissioners to appropriate money to defray expenses of teachers' institutes, effective as a binding legal interpretation.
In another column will be found the prospectus for the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The above named is a fearless Republican journal and one of the leading newspapers in the West.
A campaign comment condemns button holing at polling places as a nuisance. It argues voters unprepared for voting do not deserve the elective franchise and urges better conduct by candidates and electors.
It is agreed that a two meeting debate will occur with Judge Foraker and Gov. Hoadly. The first session will be in Toledo today and the second in Cincinnati on Saturday.
At a meeting in Newcomerstown J O Grimes and E L Lybarger were chosen as Republican nominees for State Senators in the district. Despite their qualifications the district faced a 2800 vote majority against them, lowering their odds.
The first issue of the Spirit of Prohibition, a neat little paper from Quaker City, promotes the Prohibition cause. Editor F H Winker guides the publication, with mechanical work by the Independent office, described as creditable.
Ohio political chaos and liquor influence frame the current race with Hoadly Foreaker and Prohibitionists shown as players. The October issue of the Magazine of American History features General Grant’s autograph letter from 1883, a critical piece on Grant's military abilities, and open discussion of Civil War campaigns including Port Royal and Kentucky. The publication notes include illustrations of Dupont and a planned November follow up on Baldy Smith, with several antiquarian essays and a New York City imprint at Lafayette Place.
Wool growers of Guernsey county will meet Thursday October 15 at one oclock sharp in Agricultural Hall at the fair grounds Milnersville Ohio. Important business will come before the gathering and a full attendance is urged.
If you suffer low spirits loss of appetite debility bilious diseases procure a bottle of Electric Bitters. You will rapidly improve gain new life strength and activity return and pain cease. Sold at 50c a bottle by CL Wall & Co.
A 50 year old man’s life is described in sweeping daily totals about 6000 days of sleep work and 600 days of illness, while the remainder is amusement. The ad extols Ayer’s Sarsaparilla as cleansing the blood and purging impurities, while invigorating the system and making one young again.
A council scene sees many hygienists each championing a personal hobby as the only correct remedy. A gentleman recalls Brown's Iron Bitters for debility and dyspepsia, praising its practical cure over endless theories. Thousands of convalescents reportedly attest to its benefits.
A speaker urges boys to finish tasks quickly and return home. He condemns street corners and stables as places for gossip slang and tobacco, advocating a spacious playground with green grass, trees, fountains, and room for healthy games. A town should provide the space and set strict boundaries to keep boys active and orderly.
Miss Tommie Emery of LaGrange Georgia describes severe scrofula from infancy cured by Swift's Specific after mercury and potash failed. A neck tumor disappeared, digestion improved, and she gained health and weight, praising the vegetable remedy and noting its availability through Swift's Specific Company in Atlanta.
The patent grants two Philadelphia inventors rights for an apparatus to run sewing machines. They claim a fatigue reducing treadle, using ordinary clock springs as motive power. The device allows adjustable motor speed by pressing the foot on a rest, enabling control without the traditional treadle.
A historic ad describes gout as pain in small joints with terms like podassa and chivassa for feet and hands. It recommends rubbing Salvation Oil at once to annihilate the pain, priced at 25 cents per bottle.
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