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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1891
Page
4
Friday night the C F and Y V Railroad employees presented Miss Mann Alderman a gold watch chain for flagging a freight train to avert disaster. A box car on a siding rolled onto the main track near G F College and nearly reached the trestle. Miss Alderman, at West Market Street crossing with a red shawl, signaled Engineer T H Muse to stop the train.
A fragment discusses young girls sold at auction with prices around 510 dollars and others luring women into traps. It notes detectives probing decoys and mentions a harsh winter and a town marshal killed during a police action in Suc ey, N. C. The piece weaves social menace with local crime amid dated dialogue.
A vintage advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a universal remedy. It claims to purify blood, cure liver and kidney diseases, drive malaria from the system, and relieve ailments like pimples boils and indigestion with full satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded at BR. Blacknall & Son's.
A survey of wide topics from clothing that floats to Antarctic plans and Alaska expeditions. It notes climatological cycles, platinum mining, Earth's depth, cremation trends in Paris, caffeine beverages, nicotine analogs, and hypnologic respiration research across Europe and Algeria.
The text blends aphorisms from Seneca Mencius and London with two medical anecdotes. It notes neuralgia and stomach illness of H. Clifford, claiming Eletric Senet Bestiody and Backien’ Halve cured fever sores and healed a leg, per Blackall & Son, Druggists.
A New Haven Times item recalls a Yale student Cassius M. Clay staging a hoax by publishing a whale capture in the harbor. Crowds rushed to the shore only to find no monster, while the restaurant he frequented gained notoriety and freedom thereafter. The piece then shifts to Sir Edwin Arnold's remarks on Japanese servants and social norms.
An old New England Magazine blurb notes Notre Dame Cathedral Montreal houses the largest bell in America in its south tower. It weighs about 24 780 pounds, stands 6 feet high and 8 feet in diameter, and carries Latin inscriptions and Marian imagery.
An ad claims a guaranteed safe investment with a return of purchase price for Dr King’s New Discovery. It promises relief for throat and lung ailments including consumption, inflammation, asthma, and whooping cough. Available from K Blackosl & Son Druggists with free trial bottles.
Fragmentary lines claim Castoria was given to a sick child and used in infancy and childhood. The text mentions parental statements about Castoria usage and child remedies across different ages. The source reads as an old marketing memory fragment with brand reference Castoria.
Advert shows Camm's Emulsion made from cod liver oil and tea, claimed to cure bronchitis and be easy for children. Proponent states seven patients under treatment and recommends it as the best medicine for such diseases. For sale by A. Craighill & Co. Lynchburg Virginia.
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