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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1883
Page
4
In a Western community Mis Manly visits Mis Hornish at dusk to discuss a wool-picking planned for tomorrow. Debby Hornish balks at skipping a picnic. Widow Manly laments slim help for selling wool while caring for four children amid illness and poverty.
Debby and her mother join Mrs Manly for a wool-picking at the widow’s farm. Debby defers the picnic to help the ailing widow and Jessy Thing, where Debby saves Jessy from a venomous adder with a rolling pin and earns a chance at a later wedding with Hiram Thing.
The piece argues miners face harsh life and inadequate pay. In Pennsylvania 90,000 miners plus others dwell largely underground and associate only with their trade. It cites Senate testimony and the truck system, where wages return as company store credit at high prices, leaving workers pitiable and demoralized, with much earnings spent on drink.
The Michigan Farmer notes that hog meat from six to eight month old pigs is prized for tenderness and juiciness. It explains English cured bacon favors young hogs and U.S. packing houses supplying the English market demand light mid fat hogs around 170 to 200 pounds.
A Boston Journal tale recounts a Vermont legend where an ill tribal member prompts a messenger to say his father is sick. The simplest reply echoes as the river name Pasumpsic, engraved by campers near the Indian village before white settlement and doctor visits near Newport, VI.
The Pittsburgh Post hails the National turnpike over the Alleghanies from Cumberland to Wheeling as the nearest approach to a perfect road in the United States, valued at least $1,700,000 or $13,000 a mile.
A Richmond baker was fined one dollar plus costs after baking bread on a Sunday. The case highlights local enforcement of Sunday baking restrictions in the city.
Dr. D. Francisco Garcia of Havana, a Royal University member, endorses St Jacobs Oil for troublesome neuralgia from teeth, claiming it cures toothache and earache and relieves bodily pains. A Goop prescription from Mrs Ramsbotham emphasizes fresh air, simple meals, early hours, and exercise.
A collage of testimonial blurbs touts remedies and tonics including Swift's Specific, Brown's Iron Bitters, Ely's Cream Balm, and other quack cures. The notes reference medical sales pitches, endorsements from various locales, and satirical quips about fashion and health.
In a Pittsburgh Sunday Traveler vignette, a weary exchange editor and a mischievous youth riff on streetcar repairs and horse mishaps. The editor recounts aiding a fallen horse and incurring a ribbing from a saloonkeeper, ending in wry reflections on aging and wit.
A Buffalo police superintendent Thomas Curtin is praised for single-handedly guiding the dangerous counterfeiter Tom Ballard to ground after a roof ascent. Curtin recounts his rugged career and recovery from Bright's disease via Warner's Safe Cure, praising the remedy's value for law enforcement personnel.
A short pamphlet on epilepsy treatment is described along with a June Worth's Dispensary Medical Association address in Buffalo NW. The notice highlights a single stamp and references medical guidance.
An alarming note warns half the population suffers from a fatal blood poisoning linked to kidney and liver diseases. It claims German Blood Bitters as the only cure, urging readers to seek the remedy.
Trains do not stop unless signaled. Time omitted notices state trains halt when not given a signal, ensuring service only at authorized points.
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