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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1878
Page
2
A vivid old account extols a mighty western waterfall system in India, detailing four major cataracts named the Great Rajah Falls the Roarer the Rocket Fall and La Dame Blanche. It paints the vast vertical drop of eight hundred and thirty feet into a series of pools and basins with dramatic imagery and precise measurements.
A historic moral exhortation argues that poverty is a choice from waste and false views of fate. It extols diligence honesty and frugality as paths to fortune and independence. The text urges self denial and saving to secure a future rather than reckless spending.
The article details miners at a Consolidated Virginia operation washing their dusty clothing in a large trough daily. An assay by Henry G. Elder shows $259.10 per ton in metals recovered from the sediment, with prospects of yearly earnings near $2,000 from washings. It notes historical waste from blown ore and wagons and urges saving such fines.
A new substitute for gutta percha named ralata has been discovered. It is described as the hardened resin of a tree growing along the Amazon River.
An 1876 letter mix of odd relics and medical advert claims fills the fragment with asides about jewels in a vault, a mortar and sea, and a segue into Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. The text then shifts to a Toledo reader letter praising the remedy and a plug for Grand Central Hotel in New York.
A fragmented advertisement page touts Dooley’s Yeast Powder and Sheridan’s Condition Powders as full weight and effective. It also promotes Dr Tobias Venetian Liniment for humans and horses, claiming cures for diarrhea, dysentery, croup, rheumatism, sore throats, bruises, and more with a Geld of prices and depot in New York.
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