Attorney at Law Bloomsburg Office Notes
A Bloomsburg Pennsylvania attorney at law advertises a Post Office building office on the second floor of a lane, noting available space or address as of February.
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Newspaper
Columbia County Republican
Location
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1901
Page
1
A Bloomsburg Pennsylvania attorney at law advertises a Post Office building office on the second floor of a lane, noting available space or address as of February.
Barney Case of Espy Columbia County rails at news of a blizzard in Corry Pennsylvania. He mocks railroads for closing when feet of snow fall and bets Dave Campbell would keep trains on time in any condition and even go to Corry to hire crews. The tale contrasts urban rail leaders with rugged operators capable of running express schedules on tough lines.
An 19th century advertisement promotes Humphreys Medical Co cures for piles and a wide range of ailments including burns rashes and skin conditions. It lists three sizes priced 25c 50c and 1 00 with pre paid mail order from New York. It emphasizes instant relief and universal applicability.
In the Fishing Creek Valley Dave Campbell saves a halted train after a 22 foot snow drift. He outfits a traction engine with runners to pull the mail car and coaches, then uses a sawdust cushion to cushion a high speed descent into Central. The feat, witnessed by locals and reported by the Wilkes-Barre Record.
The piece depicts the White Pass and Youkon railroad and its Klondike Limited train. A train boy, the only one in Alaska, sells cigars, peanuts, fruit, candy, books, magazines, shirts, collars, and bright red neckties at exorbitant prices, exploiting miners' ignorance as they chase fortunes and dissipate their earnings.
Mrs Chas Applegate of Alexandria Indiana states she suffered severe coughing nearly all night and spitting blood from consumption. After other medicines failed three one dollar bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery fully cured her and she gained 58 pounds. Trial bottles free at J H Mercer and C A Kleim druggists. March 6 1901.
Warsaw, with a 675000 population, is described as a future doubled city within a decade and a key distribution point for Asia to Europe. It manufactures sugar, leather, cotton, wool, iron, gold and silverware and shoes, exporting beet sugar worth over 300000 dollars to America annually. Lodz, the Polish Manchester, nearby, drives cotton goods for global markets.
The housekeeper must use baking powder to achieve light, sweet, and flavorful cakes. Royal Baking Powder, made by Royal Baking Powder Co. of New York, is praised as essential for the best biscuit doughnuts crusts and other baked goods while alum-based alternatives are deemed harmful to health.
An evening party featured peanut games with two sides forming lines and sharing peanuts from leaders. The event included challenges with a knife and spoon feeding, followed by a blindfolded peanut-feeding duel. Kemp's Balsam and a hypnosis demonstration by Joseph C. Lang also appear in the readings.
Neat job printing at liberal prices can be had by leaving your order at this office.
Count Almerico reports a striking natural event in Cervarese near Padua Vicenza last August. Clods of earth rose six to ten feet in parabolic arcs, landing three to four yards away. The phenomenon occurred daily from nine to four during hottest hours, roughly every ten minutes, ending with cold rain. One four pound clod, nearly circular, was collected for examination.
The report cites a 5020 volume dictionary and a 22937 volume encyclopedia as Chinese literary feats. It quotes Consul General Williams on Hong Kong banning motor carriages. It notes grave robbing as a capital offense and cold cotton clothing habits year round. It also describes Japanese cemetery tombstones and sitting posture burials with square coffins for space efficiency.
A charming tale from a sportsman boasting of his dog's intelligence. The dog refused to move when a man at a bookstall was named Partridge, and the other story recalls a gent who feeds his dog daily, only for the dog to pull him to a garden bed where forget me nots bloom.
Drying preparations worsen catarrh by drying secretions and irritating the membrane. Use a cleansing soothing balm like Ely's Cream Balm, which allegedly cures catarrh or cold in the head. Sold by druggists for 50 cents or mailed from Ely Brothers, 56 Warren St., NY.
A group of divorced women organized in Vienna to provide comfort and aid to those who have left their husbands. The society will also offer legal assistance and pursue reforms to current marriage laws.
An old newspaper advertises Dr King’s New Life Pills as a cure for consumption offensive breath biliousness and stomach trouble claiming to clean the system sweeten breath and banish headaches with dramatic credibility.
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