31 Oct 1895
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Newspaper
Daily Evening News
Location
Modesto, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1895
Page
1
Fragmented text references various times and places including 6:30 A.M. and 3:09 to 4:00, with scattered names such as Bichard Gray and Prah Masuater. It mentions a Fort office and passenger considerations, but lacks coherent events or outcomes to summarize a clear news item.
Henry Clews warned the South African mining boom could be a calamity surpassing the Panama Canal scare and Argentina fever. He cited 25 dividend paying mines with 12 percent average returns and 88 to 100 percent highs, plus 133 non dividend London-listed firms. He warned markets overvalued by fourfold and warned of a coming crash.
George Limegower, a modest farmer with forty acres, yields remarkable crops from a single plot. He sowed wheat last winter, harvested three tons of hay, irrigated, plowed, and broadcast sorghum for stock feed, then cut seven tons of sorghum and seven sacks of sorghum feed on the side patch. He notes the stock clean the field to bare ground, leaving little left.
A fragmentary passage notes various rural dealings including a forty acre tract offered for sale with a five dollar bid per cockle burr, mentions limegrower investments and crop notes. It shifts to a dubious medical claim about ear disease and a bogus cure for deafness, culminating in an advertisement style claim for a salve and medicinal products.
A garbled OCR snippet lists names such as Madam Yuloe Mrs Harrison Dirt Grahame and A3 Bartley of Magic Pa. It mentions Clayen droge store selling toilet preparations and a claim that DeWitt Hazel Salve cured a boy’s leg condition. The fragmentary text resembles a local advertisement page with mixed names and products.
The ad promotes Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for female complaints and general debility. It claims to restore nervousness dizziness and insomnia, regulate functions, and strengthen the whole female system. Testimonials from women in Carlisle and other places are cited to support its efficacy.
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