10 Jan 1901
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Newspaper
Cambridge Jeffersonian
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1901
Page
1
A national health crisis is framed around catarrh as a widespread condition. Senators and congressmen discuss a national remedy while citing testimonials from figures such as H G Worthington and H G Snover. Letters praise Pe-ru-na as an effective treatment and urge its use against chronic catarrh and related coughs.
A historical clipping presents letters where several U S Congress members and constituents praise Peruna for relief from catarrh lassitude and related ailments. Willis Brewer of Alabama, Mee Han Thavaay from Ohno, David Meekson of Napoleon, W V Sullivan of Oxford, S D McEnery of New Orleans, and W P Brownlow of Jonesboro describe benefits and urge continued use. A free booklet offer from The Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company accompanies the letters.
Cambridge Lodge Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks held a New Year reception and ball in their lodge rooms and Red 8, drawing a large crowd from Cambridge and Barnesville. Guests enjoyed ice cream, cake, and coffee, with a Bisix Orchestra providing music, fortune telling, and varied entertainments during the event.
At the Noel Hotel on a January evening in 1901 Col P B Sarchet hosted a Score and Ten Luncheon for old friends. Guests listed aged from 46 to 86, with Rev Dr Mulgan delivering welcome remarks and Dr Lulmes poem quoted. The event featured a festive spread, music, and testimonials, including a medical pitch for Dr Loyal Ford's Dyspepticide and mentions of various local figures and sponsors.
An 19th century advertisement mix touts Mother Grays Sweet Powders for Children for feverish symptoms, teething issues, and digestive aid. It also promotes Swift Specific Go blood purifier S S S as a vegetable remedy with claims of improving appetite, digestion, and strength, plus free medical guidance from Atlanta Georgia.
The page lists themes of personal virtue and vice: govern temper and tongue, love courage and affection, hate cruelty and arrogance, delight frankness and health, avoid idleness and loquacity, fight for honor and home, admire intellectual power and dignity, think of death and eternity, with references to Convict 39702 and Penitentiary News.
An advertisement style passage discusses digestion and nutrient absorption, claiming foods are separated by digestive organs and carried by the body to nourish nerves and muscles. It promotes products like Foley’s Honey and Tar and Foley’s Kidney Cure, with testimonials praising cures and health benefits, and references to medical claims and doctors.
Allied Perceval Graves writes of a lovers walk encounter between two miners as a dramatic scene unfolds. The verse passage centers on longing, heartbreak, and a fleeting memory that lingers in the speaker’s heart.
The page blends diverse items including Schmolze Rischmann & Co declared bankrupt in London with £120,000 liabilities, a lurid ad for Laxative Bromo Quinine amid tobacco warnings, plus a Boer War diarist recounting a farmhouse encounter, a chimney mishap tale from Dan May’s family, and brief notices of arson and crime including a Richardson murder mystery and a wood alcohol deaths report.
A fragment from old Sydney lore recounts a shark haul near Mrs. Macquarie's chair era and a Persian tale of a shipwrecked German found among the remains. A wool broker exploited a supposed war news hoax to drive prices, profiting immensely as a penniless immigrant ascended to owning a tavern in Woolloomooloo. The piece blends sensational harbor legends with early Australian economic quirks and a London press cue.
A Cleveland letter claims Mrs Thittie Wooduff of Conneaut died after her husband, six days earlier, with stomach contents tested for poison. Investigators in Conneaut and Cleveland to review the deaths. bodies were moved to Millerton for burial amid reports of misania and missing items. Separate items note bank fraud at Newport Ky and a Korean-mining move, with other miscellaneous briefs surrounding political and military topics.
A historical discussion compares hat wearing norms in northern and southern cities, noting that men remove hats around women in some places but not others. The piece cites Southern chivalry traditions from Charleston and Virginia to New York and New Orleans, highlighting shifts in public etiquette and the evolving social expectations for men and women in street and elevator settings.
A jumble of overheard chatter and trial snippets shows a portly woman admonishing a youth about schooling while a hydraulic machine discussion drifts into a travel mishap and a tense exchange with a book agent. The piece closes with a comical legal reply between a queen and a king over an appeal.
An advertisement extols Finir Vigor and Bair Vigor for hair repair and coloring. It promises strong results for short thin or splitting hair and claims Ayer's Hair Vigor restores dark color. The offer includes a prepaid $1 bottle by mail from J. Cayer Co Lowell MA with a free book on hair.
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