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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1878
Page
3
A reader reports cases of hair turning from white to black or gray after death and notes similar shifts in dogs. The letter describes sightings in sailors on a ship and in elderly neighbors, suggesting color changes may be temporary impressions or influenced by stress or grief.
In 1798 Prussian officers in Colberg formed an informal mess. An old Hussar with fourteen wounds, famed for never fighting back, is challenged by a boastful cornet. The officers intervene, seize the cornet, and eject him through a window, then resume their meal.
A Pennsylvania paper reports a Butler County oil well on TaeCandleas farm producing balls of fire and jets of water. completed as a test, it struck a huge water vein shooting about a hundred feet into the air and continuing for months. Residents were startled by loud rumblings and exploding fire balls amid the water and noise.
A farm and medical anecdote describes a rabies treatment using elecampane root and milk, promoted as effective after bites. The account claims success in humans and livestock, citing 40 years of use in Philadelphia and a comparison where treated cows did not develop hydrophobia while untreated did.
A Philadelphia man, Mr O P Books of 1021 Cherry Street, wrote to Hon John Jay Knox, comptroller of the treasury, about a five dollar note from the First National Bank of Lima Ohio dated September 18 1872. The note lacked seal number and signature but was genuine. The comptroller determined it was stolen from the treasury and canceled it, replacing it with a five dollar treasury. Rooks valued the note as a rare specimen and resisted. The comptroller then decided to redeem all stolen genuine impressions of national bank notes, reversing the prior practice of stamping stolen and returning notes at holders' cost.
The British Museum accepted specimens from inventor M. O Hussey showing a modern method to reproduce fire gilded glass. The process inserts gold leaf or platinum into glass and fuses it with a blow-pipe, creating an indestructible coating that resembles ancient work and may have wide use and profit potential.
An advertisement extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a universal strengthener for the weak. It claims the tonic revives enfeebled systems, aids digestion and regularity, and supports vigor against debility liver disease dyspepsia nervous ailments constipation fever urinary and uterine diseases gout and rheumatism.
A terse note extols Dooley's Yeast Powder as the best and most reliable baking powder in the market after more than ten years of use. It praises the product's reliability and credibility without sensational detail.
The patronage among first-class New York hotels shifts as Grand Cenxrnay Hover cuts rates by one to two dollars daily, rival firms feeling the pressure. Johnson's Anodyne Liniment claims 75 years of trusted use as a world leading remedy. Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders are said to double eggs with sparing feed. Quirk's Irish Tea offered at 25 cents.
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