25 Feb 1897
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Newspaper
Chariton Patriot
Location
Chariton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1897
Page
1
OCR fragment shows times and train numbers for Chariton area including passenger and freight departures and arrivals. Mentions No 112 passenger and No 114 freight leaving Chariton with No 113 and No 1 arrivals. times include early morning and afternoon slots, but exact days unclear.
New York jewelers Tiffany and Company considered lavish ornamentation for a bicycle using gold silver and precious stones. They aimed to charge a high price but only began with a tentative plan to pay a large amount per unit.
A preacher likens salvation to survivors clinging to broken ship planks after a wreck. He urges taking any workable path to faith, rejects rigid doctrines, and praises Christ’s cross as the only sure passage to shore. He recounts rescue efforts and calls for universal invitation to come aboard.
A preacher warns that many waste their lives chasing worldliness and sin. He uses shipwreck imagery to urge embracing Christ now, since time nears the final hour. He cites dying souls seeing their lives as broken fragments and longing for a saved end in heaven.
A Kentucky village records six marriages in one day at Roley with a triple ceremony in church and three more at brides homes all hosted by Uncle Bob Tucker. Despite a large extended family of relatives in the wedding party none married a blood relative, while counts show duplications among Hopkins Dunbar Chelf Tucker McWhorter Pendleton Hood and others. Gossip links kinship and names to Uncle Bob though exact ties remain unclear.
Jackson Jordan, longtime valet of Charles Dickens, celebrated his eighty six th birthday on January 8. He recalls meeting Dickens in New Orleans and working on the American Notes project before following the author to England. Now steward of the steamship Coptic, sailing between San Francisco and China, he expects to sail many more years. He recalls when San Francisco had only two stores and gold mining had not begun.
Harvard students react to reports the corporation may abolish the long standing class day scrimmage around the ceremonial tree. The class of 97 opposed removal, while authorities seek a compromise to curb danger from growing crowds and participants.
The piece compares the human digestive system to a camel and notes that nine tenths of sickness is due to constipation. Symptoms include coated tongue, foul breath, dizziness, heartburn, and headaches. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a mild, safe cure sold by druggists for 81 cents with a mailing offer.
An ad offers Electric Bitters as a cure for female complaints and various ailments including loss of appetite constipation headaches fainting spells nervousness sleeplessness and dizziness. The dosage is fifty cents to one dollar with a guaranteed benefit claim and drugstore availability.
An old advertisement touts Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds with trial bottles offered. A casual two line dialogue about reserve and marriage follows with a note on slippery weather and sidewalk ashes.
Have you neglected your kidneys and overworked your nervous system The ad promises renewed vigor for diseased organs and a toned system with Williams Kidney Pills mailed samples offered at 50 cents per box from Cleveland Ohio for purchase through D Q Storie Chariton.
In a playful family exchange, a young suitor named Fred hesitates to ask for a betrothal today. He proposes to wait until tomorrow and offer to buy a bicycle identical to the groom’s, as a gesture or incentive.
An antique advertisement promotes Dr Mott’s Pennyroyal Pill as the safe reliable female remedy, claiming special use for married ladies. It lists price one dollar per box and six boxes for five dollars, with Cleveland based Dr Mott’s Chemical Co. and local seller D Q Storie in Chariton.
In a terse exchange Knight explains his imprisonment stemmed from a fit described as counterfeit. Mrs Charity reacts with sympathy lamenting the man’s plight.
Cures advertised for rheumatism and neuralgia claim rapid results in 1 to 3 days. The claim states the cause is removed and the disease disappears after the first dose. Price listed as 75 cents. sold by D Q Borie, druggist, Chariton.
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