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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1878
Page
3
A frugal home craft guides readers to create a decorative bed spread using unbleached sheeting, quilting frames, and candle wicking worked through with a coarse needle. After stitching along drawn patterns, loose upper loops form tassels that are trimmed. The piece is bleached by cold water and sun or snow. The finish appears attractive and bold, especially with consistent inch apart stitches.
Caspar of the Detroit Free Press notes in New York a trend of financial impropriety among counts and barons. He warns that many nobles misjudge wealth and engage in bogus schemes, including forged checks, with fortunes often unraveling after early missteps and sensational scams.
A new use for paper has been found as wheels are tested under a heavy Philadelphia Wilmington and Baltimore locomotive. The wheels handle the weight, with many paper items weighing enough to make a fifty ton locomotive seem light.
A concise aphorism warns against harsh actions when a situation is subdued or weak The line suggests patience and restraint during low periods before making bold moves or judgments
Japanese newspaper office routine described by New York Evening Post correspondent Japanese proofreaders handle a 50000 character font while foreman and printers discipline the layout Four forms cover outside and inside pages with market data editorials and discoveries telegraphic code empowers correspondents to send news without an associated press during war times
A Louisiana tanager, an adult female, was seen at a Lynn house during a January snow storm. It entered an open canary cage and allowed itself to be captured, appearing hungry but not malnourished. The bird breeds between the Great Plains and Pacific, winters in Mexico and Central America, and may have been swept to Boston by the storm's strong upper air currents.
In St Louis a woman suffered a broken nose last week when a toy steam engine exploded while her children played nearby. The incident disrupted a family scene and prompted local safety reminders about toy construction and supervision.
The passage describes a salt stream feeding the Salt river from a high mountain, about fifty miles from its junction with the Gila. It notes a large, deep salt water outlet that could supply vast evaporating ponds and markets, with potential railroad access to channel brine into basins for salt production.
An advertisement urges mothers to buy Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup to relieve teething pain, colic, and digestive distress in children and to give rest to mothers by restoring the child’s health. It presents the product as an old and well tested remedy.
The text warns that poor digestion impoverishes the blood and can cause weakness or asphyxia. It promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy that stimulates gastric juices, corrects bilious irregularities, aids assimilation, and enriches blood, with quick signs of vigor and bodily gains.
A man cites Kitty's nose as the barrier to marriage and jokes about it. The ad touts Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy as a solution for catarrh and bad breath, claiming instant odor elimination and healing effects. Sold by druggists.
An old newspaper ad promotes Chew The Celebrated Matchless Wood Tag Plug Toxacco from The Pioneer Tobacco Company with locations in New York Boston and Chicago. It touts Johnsons Anodyne Liniment as safe and versatile for man and beast, Sheridan's Cavalry An Powder for small packs, Dooleys Yeast Powder as best value, and Quirk's Irish Tea priced at 25 cents.
The Venetian Liniment offered by Dr Tobias is touted as a universal remedy for many ailments, including diarrhoea, dysentery, colic, rheumatism, sore throats, and external pains. It promises no pay if not superior to others and is sold in pint and quart bottles with a New York depot address.
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