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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1897
Page
5
A fragment from a 19th century page mixes quips about medical lore and patent remedies. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve is praised for piles and skin ailments while Coffin & Co. markets tonics, tonics and travel notes hint at local commerce. Wheat costs cited as Massachusetts per acre.
A cautionary note on avoiding kidney troubles by using Foley's Kidney Cure. Mentions cane or bamboo horseshoes in southern China and the belief that life can be prolonged by reducing dangers. States most deaths arise from lung diseases and that One Minutes Cough Care by O S Coffin & Co. offers prompt relief. The largest Mexican state is Chihuahua at about 90 000 square miles.
A collage of medicinal claims and endorsements for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and One Minute Cough Cure, with testimonials from O. S. Coffin & Co. about cough cures, the low cost of treatment, and the spread of patent medicines. Mentions of Vermont wagon tires, Egyptian iron rings, and a note on whiskey distilleries in the United States.
A nostalgic reminiscence recounts a clever runaway pig in an old farm yard. The pig repeatedly enters a fenced potato field through a log, escapes notice, and returns to the home field. The narrator plays tricks to confuse the animal until it vanishes from that area. Ladies' Journal.
A hungry newspaper man quietly sits at General Grant's table before Burnside's arrival, helps himself to coffee and breakfast while Meade moves south and Porter notes the scene, illustrating Grant's imperturbable nature during wartime dispatches.
A Philadelphia Record summary of Dr John Ashhurst's Boston talk on surgery before anesthesia shows surgeons faced brutal pain and fear. It recalls James Simpson's shift to ether, Nelson's brave amputation, and the move from boiling oil and hot irons to ether after Morton popularized anesthesia in 1846 at Massachusetts General Hospital.
The New York Tribune notes Dr Cyrus Teed of Chicago as originator of Koresh a queer religion proposing a hollow earth with a 100 mile crust and humans and celestial bodies inside the earth. It contrasts with Symmes and claims outer surface unknown while touching on Arabia locusts sold as food and a floor nailing task requiring 88 pounds of tenpenny nails per 1000 feet.
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