16 Dec 1886
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Newspaper
Chariton Democrat
Location
Chariton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1886
Page
1
A farmer’s coat became a wild bird’s nest in a granary loft, with three speckled eggs hatching amid treetop safety. The farmer later discovers the brood, returns the coat, and the birds prosper while the tale broadens into reflections on nations and future paths for the United States.
The writer paints a vivid, sometimes critical portrait of Mexico travel in a bygone era. He describes lodging habits, self sufficiency for travelers, climate, clothing, and railways. The piece contrasts Mexican gaiety with Cuban scenes and laments cultural stagnation yet notes enduring vitality and heritage.
Readers recount that Hood's Sarsaparilla sometimes relieves rheumatism though its makers deny any positive cure. They attribute disease to impure blood and say the remedy helps in severe cases, with 100 doses sold for one dollar.
A countryman asks for show tickets at the box office. The clerk confirms tickets for the family circle, but the man clarifies the request is not for the family Circle.
Mr. D. I. Wilcoxeon of Horse Cave Kentucky suffered Phthisis and Diabetes with severe pains. After using Electric Bitters he found relief from the first bottle and, after six bottles, was cured and gained eighteen pounds. He credits the remedy with possibly saving his life. Sold for fifty cents by D. Q. Storie.
Winchester druggist recounts Mrs. Louisa Pike of Bartonia Randolph county Indiana recovering from consumption after six months on Dr King’s New Discovery. She walked six miles to town and now is much improved and no longer uses it. Free trial at D Q Storie’s Drug Store. Also a juvenile quiz features a geography island and a poker hand joke.
An assortment of medical ads and light humor items appear, featuring a 25 cent salve that claims to cure skin ailments and piles with money back, a quip from a minister about children, and jokes on drinking and onions. Also promoting Dr J H McLean cures for fever and eye salve at 60 cents and 25 cents, with medical advice against indigestion and a strengthening cordial.
The Cleveland Leader columnist notes Paris wealth concentration with 9000 renters paying 600 to 1200 dollars yearly and 288 paying over 4000. He cites Americans among Paris’s rich, a high national debt, vast military spending, and France’s heavy direct and indirect taxes including octroi, tobacco revenue, and pawnshop usury.
The Atlanta Constitution reports on William Wilhite known as Blind Bill, a blind resident of the county poor house whose extraordinary memory spans twelve years. He recalls residents by touch, naming arrivals and deaths with dates, and can recognize people by hand through scars and marks, guiding himself through Lexington.
A Saturday night dance on Grant street was partly broken up by a drunken horseman who rode through the house. The note cites various brief clippings from several papers including England and Chile reports. Other items mention fortune tellers thriving in Britain, a Pennsylvania family with a tangled multiple marriage, and Chilean centenarian deaths.
A Raleigh merchant loaned money for a marriage license, a negro plans to wed a widow with three children to exploit them for labor on his farm, while a homecoming jest and a beach trip boast highlight small town morals. Hood's Sarsaparilla is touted for digestion relief.
An 1886 Spirit of the Times note promotes Ely’s Dream Balm as a safe pleasant remedy for catarrh hay fever and cold in the head. It claims immediate relief and suitability for use anytime with no odor, citing thousands including office attaches as witnesses.
A Trenton man boasts ownership of a colonial copper penny minted in 1786, claimed to be the only known specimen. The piece shows an eagle-like griffin on one side and a Liberty goddess on the reverse, with inscriptions Immunis Columbia and E Pluribus Unum. A San Francisco incident reports an elephant’s rampage aboard a barge, causing extensive damage and injuries, with estimated losses around twelve hundred dollars. The note also recalls Zenas Caldwell, early New England Methodist educator, Bowdoin College alumnus, once roommate to Franklin Pierce.
The Champion Horse Association notes substantial expenditures and urges all persons owing for breeding in 1884 to call and settle accounts promptly by cash or bankable notes. Henry Law, Secretary.
A notice from S. H. Marrory of Mallory and Howard solicits speedy settlement of long overdue horse accounts at their Chariton office. The firm emphasizes closing the old business after years of arrears and invites debtors to call promptly.
There is widespread catarrh believed incurable historically, now treated as constitutional. Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney & Co of Toledo is promoted as the remedy, taken internally, with a $100 oath to prove it fails. Circulation and testimonials available by mail. Sold by druggists for 75 cents.
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