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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1896
Page
7
A 19th century advisory note on early menopause symptoms and risks. It claims women nearing the change of life face anxiety and varied symptoms from headaches to faintness and heart palpitations. Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is praised as safe relief, with a customer testimonial from Bettsville Ohio.
Pie Ying a Chinese man on Clark Street trolley fights conductor and motorman, knocks them down and jostles fares. Five officers intervene as Pie immobilizes four cops with punches and acrobatic moves before being subdued and discharged with praise from Justice Bradwell.
Notes indicate umbrella thefts at St Pauls Cathedral London and the Southern Pacific Railroad may allow vagrants to ride freights. Lope de Vega, the famed dramatist, lived 1562 to 1685 and produced extensive works over six decades, with over 1,800 plays attributed to him in a large collection.
The Chicago Record notes the ice skating season brings buyers back to shops as a wide skate assortment appears. Old models gain updates and many have improvements, with racers retaining front turnups and beginners offered slightly turned front runners and rounded backs. Hood’s Sarsaparilla ad claims blood purification cures rheumatism and many diseases, touting its historic sales and broad effectiveness.
Report highlights the American Red Cross Relief Expedition in Constanti and the efforts led by Miss Clara Barton in Armenia drawing observers and interest from headquarters and observers.
A giant Mission grape vine in Santa Barbara County yields ten tons of grapes yearly. The trunk measures seven feet eight inches around, spanning a frame covering about one third of an acre. Sixty posts and heavy beams support the weight as the owner trims back to protect space.
A reflective aphorism urging forgiveness tolerance and goodwill toward others. It lists gifts such as a good example respect charity and kindness toward enemies friends and family to cultivate personal integrity. The tone is moralistic and exhortative.
A New Zealand man holds a patent for a violin sounding board design featuring three interior disks attached to a central metal strip. The passage also extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for infirmities, rheumatic and malarial tendencies, kidney inactivity, stomach and liver disorders, and nervousness in the elderly.
A brief dialogue from the Boston Transcript notes Aunt Susan describes a man as bad and headed to the hot place, while Nephew George dismisses the notion, saying he is used to scorching. The exchange, though terse, conveys a grim tone about a disliked individual.
Advertisement touts a large tract fifty miles west of Houston at Chesterville with high prairie drainage rich soil and abundant rainfall. Promotes low prices easy terms and a free booklet Fertile Farm Lands plus cheap excursions and free fare from SouTHERN Texas Colonization Co. Chicago manager John Linderholm.
A vintage rail brochure describes the California Limited via Santa Fe Route departing Chicago evenings for Los Angeles and San Diego with through vestibuled Pullman sleepers and dining cars. It notes a daily California express with palace and tourist sleepers and a Chicago departure at 10 25 p m for descriptive literature. The piece also mentions a connection to San Francisco via Mojave and weekly return trains, plus unrelated ads and notices on health and industry.
An 1895 Denver notice touts Lane's Family Medicine as necessary for health and bowel movement, claims gentle action on liver and kidneys, and lists prices of 25 and 50 cents. It promotes Piso's Cure for Consumption for coughs and colds and urges good deeds with social commentary on effort and sacrifice.
An old advertisement urges readers to visit a druggist for a free sample bottle of Bala with 25 and 50 cent bottles sold. The copy includes comic banter about Jibway and his wife and ends with a plug for Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Health.
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