16 Jun 1881
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Times
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1881
Page
1
A garbled report describes a man and wife arguing over garden pests and plant growth. It references applying a liquid mixture to leaves when moist, noting effects on insects, rabbits, and plants, with various unclear tips about timing and frequency of application.
Camille a scrub girl in a Paris hotel loves Pierre a young Gascon who tends guest boots. She watches him from the back stairs while scrubbing and dreaming of love despite misfortune. A brace of jealous colleagues and a dramatic interruption end with Camille stealing away in sorrow.
The article notes Bishop Faire of Montreal condemning the sin of swearing Catholic witnesses on a Protestant Bible. It lists high NYC clergy salaries and discusses Jewish university participation in Hungary. Benjamin Porter offers land and barley for a California Normal School site. The Uplingis Supreme Court allows German in schools as part of education. Mary Bliss of Columbus donates 810,000 to Kenyon College for a new Hubbard Hall with gym, offices, and science rooms.
A London meeting on revivals notes city population estimates and church capacity. Boston hosts a fundraising event for a blind readers fund aiming for 75,000 dollars, with Miss Laura Bridgman and others in attendance. The article then shifts to family health guidance, child feeding tips, and a plea for better public understanding of digestion, followed by assorted items on beverages, literature, and a few short notices.
Local exposure to various patent medicines and cures appears in state papers with examples from Shilohs cough remedy and White's Dandelion Alternative. Advertisements tout guarantees, prices, and broad cures for coughs, bronchitis, biliousness and more, with sellers listed including Weller and Wheeler & French in Cedar Rapids and Adams Street.
Mrs. Wilkins writes in reply to your inquiry that her child is well again. The remedy cured a kidney complaint and bed wetting, restored appetite, and eased pain, with her strongly recommending it. Prices listed as 31, 50 cents, bottles 10 cents, sold by J.
OCR fragments show Senator Conkling reading a revised edition with garbled phrases. The text blends unrelated ads about prices, commodities, and notions of “Spring Blossom” amid scattered references to Constantinople, Jewish and Spanish origins, and ornate fashion imagery.
The ad touts Shamas Eclectile Oil as inwardly and outwardly usable with only safe, pure ingredients for pulmonary issues disors rheumatism neuralgia and burns. It notes J. J. Wii as seller. A Mescal la New Mexico ride on a coffin leads to hangman fate for Fenner C. Clark in an unrelated report.
The text touts Dy yhomay' Eeleetuie Oil as a sovereign remedy for rheumatism and animal diseases, mentions Lydia E. Pinkham and her advertised vegetable compound, highlights Paris salons as increasingly worthless, and notes new government buildings in Washington. It also references a basal injection therapy and a cough of circulating cures.
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