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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1892
Page
2
The readable lines evoke a nostalgic scene of a door left ajar a garden in June and a lover recalling cherished days. Fragmentary phrasing mentions a friend, a glove, a page, and a sage while imagery of locust blossoms and balm hints at recollection and renewal.
A canal boat Sally and its crew endure a brutal January gale off New Jersey. The narrator, his wife, and infant survive by leaping to shore as the vessel crashes against a Staten Island dock and sinks. They later salvage the boat and continue sailing freshwater.
The American reports a Cuban physician treating yellow fever by artificial cooling in air conditioned rooms. It proposes each district to build a great glass house to house victims and grow cold and temperate plants to aid epidemic control.
A green onyx find in the Ozark Onyx Company mines seventy five miles from St Louis is reported. A carload arrived in that city, with a slab measuring 3 by 4 feet. Previously the only supply came from a Mexican mine exhausted three years ago. A separate notice reports a thirty five year old widow wed by a thirteen year old in Glaswood County Georgia.
The article surveys silage as beef fodder, notes corn stalks cured properly rival hay, and praises ensilage and mangels for winter feeding. It also discusses orchard spacing, bone storage as fertilizer, and poultry water and feed practices with emphasis on practical farm methods.
John Dietel described as the fattest man in America weighing 420 pounds was placed in a vault in Baltimore last week. The coffin measured 5 feet 6 inches long by 46 inches wide and 27 inches deep requiring ten men to move it from wagon to vault. A leap year custom in Scotland influenced maidens’ games with a stick and marriage prize. An advertisement touts Syrup of Figs as a remedy for colds fevers and grippe with California Fig Syrup Co as seller.
The text outlines that authors no longer hold perpetual rights and explains what works may be copyrighted. It details how to obtain copyright, including delivering copies to the Library of Congress, marking notices on publications, and recording assignments to protect against later claims.
A collage of statistics and anecdotes reports the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen collecting 86 000 last month for deaths, a judge in Id Grove granting leniency, a juror obtaining marriage leave, Edison Electric Lighting planning a 1 000 000 plant in Chicago, watchmakers selling about 2 400 000 watches through 15 000 retailers, Indian wages at 28 per month for housework, Nile water storage plans, and a 225 000 000 to 280 000 000 bushel domestic potato crop with an average yield near 94 bushels per acre in 1890.
Advices from St Petersburg accuse the czar of ignoring famine in his empire or concealing the peasant’s dire conditions. Reports describe crowded huts, women and children sleeping on bare floors, and fuel scarce as barns are destroyed for warmth. An inspector’s rounds reveal widespread hardship and official denial of widespread famine.
An advertising passage attacks questionable dealer practices for tonics and blood purifiers. It touts Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a guaranteed cure for skin and scalp issues, fatigue, torpid liver and impure blood, promising a refund if no benefit. It warns dealers push other products claimed to be equally effective.
The article advertises Dr ne Catarrh Remedy claiming two options for readers. It states if not cured the reader must pay $500 cash and asserts the remedy’s mild soothing cleansing and healing properties cure worst cases.
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