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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1896
Page
3
Advertising copy touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for severe female ailments including ovarian troubles womb disorders and spinal weakness. Claims include relief from backache leucorrhea and early tumor dissolution with liver pills aiding digestion and headaches and a local sanitary wash for application.
A reflective verse fragment about chasing an answer to life through a distant, unresponsive beloved. The speaker recalls striving to measure time and sound depths she stirs, only to retreat from intrusion into the secret locked by her stone lips.
Barbara Maitland and Lettice, sisters in straitened circumstances, become engaged to Geoffrey Selhurst for practical reasons. A hidden passion erupts as Geoffrey reveals a lost love from California, forcing a conflict between honor and true desire that endangers their arranged marriage and sisterly bonds.
In the Maitlands' sitting room Barbara coerces Lettice to try Barbara's wedding dress, revealing Geoffrey Selhurst's divided affections. Barbara accepts his proposal despite Lettice's feelings, with a California wedding six months later as the gown finally fits and Hi Denham wins Barbara's heart.
Tokichi Masao of New Haven Yale Law School is admitted to practice in the United States Circuit Court, the first Japanese to gain Connecticut bar admittance. The item also recalls Alphonse Daudet’s rejected Paris editor offer and recounts anecdotes about Menelek of Abyssinia, Osman Digna, Methodist preacher Charles M. Bowen, Duc d Aumale stories, and a note on Chinese residents in Philadelphia.
A Chicago reader recounts Edson A. Wood fifty who served in the 57th Illinois Volunteers and suffered sun strokes, locomotor ataxia, and other ailments. After taking Dr Williams Pink Pills he reports marked relief and plans to continue treatment, praising the remedy. Also promoted are Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a safeguard against malarial West and related health benefits. A brief children’s kite anecdote closes the piece.
A historical note explains the banana as a staple of tropic diets, detailing its rapid growth, single-season yield, use of plant fibers, and its dual effect of nourishing while potentially dampening local incentive to work. It contrasts lush banana forests with social consequences and ends with a conversational fragment about courtship.
The Rochester Post Express extols Boston's The Black Cat as a five cent magazine that has sold a quarter of a million copies per issue in seven months. It highlights its original stories and strong acclaim from The Philadelphia Call and Boston Post, noting it as a marvel of the magazine world and the era’s most enticing five cent publication. Also included are scattered ads and quips about various products and physicians, referencing promotional copy and a few humorous exchanges.
A mild remedy of oils claimed to cure cancer and tumors, internal or external, with physicians recommending it. For particulars and price, address Dr. D. M. Bye, Indianapolis. Also notes about catarrh cure Hall's Catarrh Cure with $100 reward for failures, testimonials, and postal ad copy. Also mentions Piso's Cure for Consumption with a testimonial from La., 1896.
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