20 Dec 1871
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Newspaper
Connersville Examiner
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1871
Page
1
A poem lampoons social follies and unfair laws as it urges bold reformers to confront perilous issues. It uses a playful refrain about shooing the fly to critique public opinion and the cost of dissent. It mentions gravity of consequences and the need for heroic action.
An 19th century advertisement extols Hoofland's German Bitters as alcohol free and pure. It claims the remedy uses genuine herbs and barks from Germany, processed by a chemist, offering potent vitality without intoxicating effects or causing drunkenness.
An advertisement touts Hoofland’s Garman Tonic as a combined bitters and tonic made from Santa Uris Rumi. It claims to aid liver and kidney issues, dyspepsia, nervous debility, and eruptions, listing numerous digestive and systemic symptoms and arguing the product cures them by using a best-ingredients claim.
Cure claimed for external use on all pains and aches including rheumatism neuralgia headaches bruises bites and insect stings. The ad lists many ailments and pains it allegedly relieves and markets it as a lightning cure.
An 1870 advertisement promotes Dr Hoofland's Pedophyllia as a mercury pill substitute that cleanses the liver and bowels with two pills per dose. It claims Pedophyllia is a mandrake extract stronger than mandrake, and pairs it with German Bitters or Tonic to purify blood, strengthen nerves, and energize the body. Sold by druggists nationwide from the German Medicine Store in Philadelphia run by Chas C Evans.
A humorous tale recounts a wedding split across two towns with the ceremony staged across jurisdictional lines. The couple, clergyman, and guests navigated a split venue while a parson hid in a hay window and a later marriage took place near the Iowa line after a chaotic reception.
Dr J M Taylor reports success using internal vaccine virus in smallpox treatment based on St Landels's method. He treated a two year old with crushed crusts in water, observing rapid pustule reduction and no future marks, then extended to further cases. He urges testing and notes potential safety with proper article and dosing. He compares this to Jenner and calls for early use in disease.
A satirical list of fair practices mocks agricultural fairs as public folly. It lampoons officials, wagering at horse fairs, gendered displays, premiums, diplomas, and the social rituals surrounding fairs, including premiums, attendance, and the parade of hats and gowns.
A 25 year old San Francisco man with a left arm ulcer reportedly healed after a skin graft from a black man. Several months later the transplanted skin spread, darkening about a third of his arm, prompting alarm over a potential full color change and raising questions about the physiological process and pigment spread.
In Waterville Maine the young ladies create an anti tobacco society while the young men form an anti corset society reflecting local moral reform efforts.
The Warsaw Indiana urges readers to back their home paper this year as distant publishers seek new subscribers nationwide. A united local effort would make country papers rival city weeklies in strength and reach, transforming their welfare and reach.
The Atlantic Monthly excerpt recounts Gambrinus as a fiddler who, after a failed romance, bargains with Beelzebub for thirty years of pleasures. With Satan’s help he creates lager beer and bells, earns titles from the Holy Roman Emperor, then, after a drunken setback and a century of peace, ends as a living beer barrel.
A 19th century column mocks adding a feature to the Wedding Department by proposing a list of local women who attend weddings. It satirically suggests publishing details about their attire and even their linen quantities, noting the public’s supposed appetite for such personal trivia and the purveyors of news.
In a Georgia tale, old man Smith of Butts County on the Sherman line is pressed to contribute to Chicara relief. He pledges a hundred bundles of fodder for the cow blamed for kicking a kerosene lamp that torched a modern Sodom.
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