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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1878
Page
3
A comic scene unfolds as a fiery Conusdrum Fiend challenges a newsroom with a stubborn riddle about Widow Perkinson and her daughter Sallie. After jokes and misdirections, the answer hinges on Will and age, ending with the fiend escaping after a flurry of quips and insults.
A Texas correspondent recalls a railroad agent named Thomas who botched simple arithmetic. Harried by a client, he first answers twenty-seven to four times seven, then finally correctly says twenty-eight after lunch. The client questions whom to believe between the two figures and the error prompts a demand for honesty.
A fragment addressing boys and mischief alongside patent medicines for children. It references Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup, Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, and Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery with testimonial notes from Clara E. Hunt and Herzen B. McAmner praising cures and relief from catarrh and coughs.
A historical note touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a preventive for malaria like miasma and fever, claiming immunity for those among others ill with the disease. It also promotes Peruvian Bitters for spring debility and reports energizing, non alcoholic effects. It urges Johnson's Apodyne Liniment as a battlefield against lung diseases.
Advertises Quirk's Triad Tes as a bilious remedy for diarrhea dysentery colic and spasms with internal use and external use claims. Prices 95 cents a package. Tobias Venetian Horse Liniment offered in pint bottles for one dollar, claimed superior to others with no pay, sold by all druggists, depot at 10 Park Place New York.
Fragmented OCR describes butter and molasses mix, sugar or ginger steps, eggs, and baking notes mixed with warnings about counterfeit powders. It extols authentic powders as pure and powerful, urging readers not to be misled by fakes and praising its superior strength.
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