12 Dec 1889
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Newspaper
Columbia County Republican
Location
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1889
Page
1
An 1874 notice from Bloomsburg Pennsylvania lists a physician and surgeon office on North Market Street with a date of April 2 1874 and indicates a Westward listing in the local notices.
The issue announces a new Shakespeare feature by Edwin Abbey with Andrew Lang's commentary. It notes exclusive serials by Alphonse Daudet translated by Henry James, and illustrated by Ross and Myrbloom, plus Hawkes and Harpacioa HeaRN works.
Harper and Brothers advertise Harper's Magazine per year with postage free to the U S Canada and Mexico. They offer bound volumes for three years at a set price and an alphabetical analytical and classified index for volumes 1 to 70. Remittances by post office money order or draft.
The 1890 issue outline for Harper's Bazar notes fashion plates and pattern sheets for home dressmaking, with weekly content including snort stories parlor plays and thoughtful essays. It lists authors Lttvr Thorne Miller Christine Terhan Herrick and Mary Lowe Dickinson as contributors and mentions serials by Walter Basant and F W Rosinson titled The Daughter at Home Three Meals a Day and The Woman of the Period.
Advertisement from Harper & Brothers offering bound volumes of Harper's Bazar with free postage for subscriptions and back issues. Details include pricing at $7.00 per volume, cloth cases available for binding at $1.00 each, remittance by post office money order or draft, and mailing terms for New York buyers.
The remedy, first marketed in 1878, is hailed by a leading Paris doctor for thirty years of success. It has spread worldwide and is favored by many physicians and medical societies after chemists confirmed it contains no opiates or bromides or other harmful ingredients.
Harper's Weekly presents itself as America’s leading illustrated newspaper. It touts fairness in political commentary and rich literary content plus varied weekly supplements. A Mexican romance by Thomas A. Janvigs is announced to appear in the weekly in 1890.
Grant Herring solicitor announces an application to the Court of Common Pleas in Columbia County on December 11 1889 at 2 PM under the Act of Assembly for incorporation of The Buckhorn Council of the Order of United American Mechanics No 212. The corporate purpose is to manage funds and enjoy rights granted by the Act and its supplements.
Advertisement from Harper & Brothers New York detailing subscription options for Harper's Weekly and Harper's Young People with postage, binds volumes, remittance methods, and pricing for back volumes. Includes terms for United States and Canada and notes about delivery and payment.
An ad claims a fever remedy called Fe Fever particle is applied into each ankle. Price 50 cents at Dr red, 60 cents. Ely B Thera, registered on Street, New York.
Magnolia Vane, a Florida bred beauty in New York society, defies arranged match by choosing Wayne Clifford over Major Miles Brabazon after Brabazon pursues a winded romance with a Boston contralto. Clifford’s calm and attentive approach wins Magnolia, who rejects family plans and declares happiness trumps lineage.
W. D. Salt of Bippus Indiana testifies Electric Bitters relief in rheumatism. Abraham Hare of Bellville Ohio calls it the best selling medicine in 20 years. Thousands testify it cures liver kidney and blood diseases. Only fifty cents a bottle at C A Kleim's Drug Store.
The article describes ancient Chinese money called fly ing money and convenient money issued as early as 1697 B C. by the treasury and later by banks under government control. Notes carried bank name issue date value and penalties for counterfeiting with exhortations to thrift and economy.
A long standing demand from the west calls for robust, healthy women rather than frail beauty. The article notes a global push for health among women and highlights Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a leading remedy for female ailments and weaknesses.
A dialog from New York Weekly shows a stowaway explaining his absence from home and a captain recalling a musical sister, with humor about plans and plans on ships. The exchange ends in a warm moment as the captain embraces the youth.
The proprietor invites readers to obtain a free sample bottle from any druggist to test Kemp's Balsam for lung trouble relief. Large bottles cost 50 cents and 1 dollar.
A courtroom exchange shows a lawyer objecting to a prospective juror. The attorney cites three witnesses who swear they saw him at a news-stand reading papers within the week. The scene reflects tension in juror selection and courtroom procedure.
Quoted reflections from Josh Billings on happiness debt hope and folly. Satirical observations compare laziness pride and charity with humorous, old New York Weekly style wisdom.
Judge Mitchell officiates for Sallie Stephens and Dellie Myrick who wed in his office. The couple then steps into a bucolic scene of singing birds harvest time and idyllic countryside as Nature welcomes the newly joined pair.
Chester L Brown of Coxton lost his watch in a river near that place in June 1887. He spotted the buried timepiece again from a boat days ago, hauled it ashore with companions, had it repaired by Jeweler Jarek, and the works were rusted but restored. The watch now keeps accurate time.
A young Greek seeks a wife not by courting but via his elder female relatives who visit, appraise, and select a suitable maiden. The delegation then returns to the girl's family with instructions to ask for her hand in marriage, outlining a silent, courteous process.
A number of advertising agencies in New York and other cities offer to write advertisements for any firm for a fee. They guarantee attention grabbing copy and earn money if they succeed, claiming advertising is the world's greatest wealth producer when persistently and intelligently applied.
Captain J Starret endorses Sulphur Bitters as a sure preventive against contagious fevers aboard his vessel over five years with no crew losses. He requests two dozen bottles immediately.
Smith questions Brown about petitioning to change his name to Pat O Toole. Brown confirms the change and says he intends to run for alderman in his ward at the next election.
Do not use ordinary pills for sick liver or bowels. Miles Pills are promoted as the safest and surest remedy. Samples are available free at C. A. Kleim's.
A fragment from New York Weekly sketches a playful exchange where a girl asks who discovered America, and the enthusiastic antiquarian father answers nobody knows, capturing a light moment in a historical inquiry.
The Chinese built early suspension and flying bridges in Shense to span deep gorges. Shang Lieng led 10 000 workers to carve routes and string bridges between slopes over immense chasms. A surviving 400 foot bridge in Shense demonstrates ancient engineering prowess.
A note describes methods to age metals with new bronze finishes. Immersing articles in copper nitrate or iron nitrate solutions yields darker tones with longer immersion. Alternative methods include boiling in nitrate copper solution or using iron nitrate with hyposulphite of soda, then drying and burnishing.
A historical critique links tobacco and intoxicants to harming youth in both the United States and Europe. A London medical journal notes juvenile smoking rising and warns of eye impairment hair thinning and other optic nerve effects from excessive drinking.
The advertisement promotes Hibbar ds Rheumatic and Liver Pills as scientifically compounded and uniform in action for adults and children. It claims to relieve sick headache, constipation, dyspepsia, and biliousness, serving as an appetizer, with sale by C. A. Kleim starting August 29.
The tallest masonry structure in the world, the National Museum in Turin Italy, was originally intended as a synagogue but was sold to the city and turned into a monument to Victor Emmanuel. A dome tower rises high with a gilt statue atop reaching 538 feet above ground.
Advertisement claims moist itching and stinging worsen at night and with scratching. It promises Swayne's Ointment stops itching and bleeding, heals ulcers, and removes tumors, sold by mail or druggists for 50 cents. Dr. Swayne & Son, Philadelphia. November 21, 1889.
A witty note from New York Newa extols a housewife’s care for a weak geranium. The text quips that her nurturing would lift a ton the distance of three-quarters of a mile and raise a thousand dollar mortgage from sight.
A West Virginian trained a tiny stream to drop on a rock and after five years carved a seven inch deep hole. The same hole could be made in fifteen minutes with a chisel and hammer.
A humorous line explains a bachelor as a man who has resisted all efforts by a woman to make life miserable through marriage, addressing a child with a playful sterotype.
An advertisement asserts that rheumatism will yield to Hood's Sarsaparilla in a short time. It urges readers to try the remedy with the claim of rapid relief.
Quote highlights that while individuals can merit themselves, the oarsman must always be a man with a pull, underscoring leadership and influence in rowing teams.
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