09 Feb 1901
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Newspaper
Deming Headlight
Location
Deming, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1901
Page
1
A fragmentary 19th century page mixes medical quackery with street scenes and letters. It touts a German product for digestion while citing August Flower for liver and nerves, and includes a reluctant furnace explosion anecdote, travel tales from Ireland and Paris, and a Chinese superstition note.
The readable lines suggest a damaged historical OCR fragment mentioning Columbus Monthly and assorted misread words. The text is incomplete and lacks clear events or identifiable individuals to summarize into a coherent news item.
A city resident recounts ant foraging behavior likening an 18 000 strong army to a military operation as ants haul crickets and grasshoppers from a mound. The piece then surveys famed conquerors Alexander Caesar Hannibal and Napoleon, noting death by various causes and pondering fate.
A garbled column of jests and quotes from Edinburgh and Chicago, with snippets of humor about a lame lawyer John Clerk, courtly politeness failures, domestic musings, and a testimonial to Electric Bitters curing Mrs. Phebe Cherley’s long kidney and back troubles. The piece blends jokes, misheard phrases, and medical ad copy in a collage-like style.
An 19th-century editorial argues that heart trouble is linked to digestion and stomach health. It cites Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy improving stomach and blood diseases and claims benefits for weak hearts after other doctors failed. A letter from Mrs. Wilcox praises the medicine, noting six bottles helped her and her household's meals.
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