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Newspaper
Cambridge Jeffersonian
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1903
Page
8
Community update shows Miss Margaret McCleary recovering and traveling to Pittsburgh for Christmas nuptials with Mr. B. Alexander. Nineteen reads of illness, marriages, travel, school closures, and social visits across Odell, Kimbolton, Claysville, and nearby farms.
Local notes list Miss Eva Hayn visiting relatives and Mr Oliver, Homer Meighen, Leona Lepage, and Mrs Brown各 visiting Cambridge Nelsonville and Cumberland. Families like Spaid, Crow, Dingis, and Secrest guests share holidays. Santa at M B E church, Jeffersonian greeting received, and many residents spend Christmas with kin in Hartford Cumberland Wheeling Benfield Obers.
A vintage medical ad describes kidney and bladder issues as affecting both women and men, noting how illness dulls mind, ambition, and vitality. It promotes Swamp-Root by Kilmer as a mild, immediate remedy available in varied bottle sizes and offers a free sample and literature by mail from Binghamton NY.
A dated advertisement touts Mystic Cure as a radical treatment for rheumatism and neuralgia claiming cure in 1 to 3 days. It asserts removal of the disease's cause and immediate disappearance after the first dose, selling for 75 cents and $1 through J. M. Ogier, druggist, Cambridge.
North Salem reports social visits and holiday gatherings. James Shawver of Cambridge called, and James Smith drew the dish set at Forney & Patterson’s. Several residents travel, marry, welcome newborns, or move homes, with December events and local incidents noted.
Mrs C O Hurd of Muscatine Iowa lauds Dr Miles Heart Cure and related remedies for treatment of la grippe induced nervous and heart symptoms including sleeplessness headaches and tremors. She credits relief to Miles products for herself and her son now in the Philippines Army.
Berwick area notes include school changes, local visits, and holiday greetings. Fisher teaches at Berwick School. McAleary district leacher Ira Kennedy and Miss Mae Taylor of Kimbolton are home for a week’s vacation. Annie Taylor visits daughter Bertha Patterson in Cambridge. Andy Lanning visited Claysville. J J Lanning of Pennsylvania visited Oakley Lanning. Waldo Beal returns improved from Columbus. Elizabeth Kennedy receives a set of dishes from son Ira C. Kennedy. Oyster slip supper planned at B A Bell’s Friday night in 1904.
Isaac Beyde of 605 Esterly Avenue reported severe back pain and lameness from missteps. After using Doan's Kidney Pills from Ogler's drug store he experienced relief with no recurrence months later. Wester-Milburn Co of Buffalo, N.Y. is sole U.S. agent. Remember the name Doan's.
Christmas visits and New Year wishes mark the Washington scene as locals from Cambridge Columbus Wheeling and nearby towns describe holiday gatherings. mentions names like Patterson Frame Bonnell Wallace and McDowell along with church notes and a 1904 Presbyterian missionary society anniversary.
A farmer and a mule staged a comic scene on Main Street, the mule backing through a window as the farmer tugged a strap. Veterinary surgeon Rittenhouse of Cambridge treated a horse injury after the incident. Mrs. J. B. Law of Marietta returned home from a visit. A Coshocton dispatch recalls Rev. G. A. Shot remembered by Dr. Miller and his old Steubenville congregation who sent him twenty-six dollars and Mr. Chandler of Cincinnati twenty-five dollars.
An enduring traveling figure advertises Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil as a healthful tonic for consumptives, weak children, and pale individuals. The pitch emphasizes strength, flesh, and blood, claiming beneficiaries in families across generations and noting availability from Scott & Bowne at Pearl Street for 50 cents and 1.00.
A long list of deeply discounted clothing and household items including caps, hats, underwear, jackets, sweaters, corduroy and duck coats, skirts, stockings, gloves, shoes, rubbers, felt boots, handkerchiefs, and novelty goods. Many items priced at fractions of their original cost, with emphasis on men’s and boys’ wear, ladies’ wear, and holiday specials. Includes plush, corduroy, wool, fleece, and silk products with low per garment prices and bulk discounts.
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