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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1878
Page
3
The article describes a Japanese resting place where tired travelers are welcomed by attentive staff. Guests are shown into a bright room with miniature landscape gardens, hot foot baths, tea and sweets, and a march of polite attendants helping with travel comfort. The experience ends with a nominal charge and a cheerful farewell of Bayonara.
The Paris Le Sport describes an artificial rubber baby claimed as an American invention to ease traveler discomfort in trains. The device imitates a crying infant, with a stomach valve that lets the user intensify the noise until fellow passengers depart, granting the exhibitor sole space.
The article discusses crossing and hybridizing flowers, noting pollen can be stored and used later with fresh stigma. It stresses the need for similarity in plant structure, that some crosses are harder, and that not all attempts succeed. Fertile seeds are generally fewer, but crossed varieties often produce more lush blooms.
The piece warns against lotteries and stock speculation as folly and peril, stressing two rules: never borrow for speculation and never risk more than you can bear. It recalls a failed stock example turning from par value to a loss, and argues land ownership often misleads people into false security. It urges avoiding speculation altogether.
A reflective passage contrasts feelings that resist translation with their fragile beauty. It compares intangible emotions to glow worms that shine in twilight but appear ordinary when held to reason, losing their mystic light under candlelight.
The piece argues for accepting scientific truth and progressive ideas, contrasting science with prejudice. It promotes Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription, Pellets, and Sage’s Catarrh Remedy as cures for bilious liver, liver complaints, and general debility. It also advertises Dooley’s Yeast Powder as pure and reliable for baking, urging readers to try it.
Fragments describe patent medicines and tonics with dubious cures. Listings include Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment for bronchitis sore throat and coughs. Sheridan’s Cavalry Condition Powders claim to boost egg yield in hens at listed prices.
An 19th century style advertisement promotes Dr Tobias Venetian Horse Liniment claiming to cure or ease Twarchea, Dysentery, Colle, spasms and many other ailments when taken internally or applied externally. It markets 40 cents for internal use and one dollar for pint bottles with a no pay guarantee. Depot listed as 10 Park Place New York and sold by all druggists.
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