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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1900
Page
7
A fragment describes a sudden mucous illness that seizes the body without warning. It claims the affliction can strike any organ from lungs to stomach and asserts a single overarching cause behind all such sudden symptoms.
The text argues catarrh weakens the body and inflames the lining, causing pneumonia, grip, colds, and fevers. It claims Peru na cures the underlying catarrh by reaching the right place, insisting other diagnoses are wrong and promising cure if tried.
A fragmented verse depicts a lone night scene by the western shoreline. Evoking wind gulls and waves, it hints at a mystic life beyond earthly travel and restless rove.
A long rambling rural sermon in heavy dialect laments pride envy and impropriety. It contrasts education and custom with God’s grace refining the soul, notes men at the ladder top keep balance poorly, and mocks hypocritical public decorum and whiskey culture. A child joke about a baby mimics parental fatigue.
W R Smith of Latham Tennessee reports trying many remedies for piles without relief until Bucktow’s Arnica Salve. He says he has not been troubled since using it. The product is advertised as the world’s best pile cure, sold by Wicots & Moore with a money back guarantee.
A dreary Christmas Eve follows Maggie, a poor newsboy called Little Bor rioboola Gha, as she sells papers to support her sick mother and baby sister. A kindly hotel owner's memory of his lost sister prompts a Christmas surprise when Maggie meets Uncle Jack and learns her mother is safe, restoring hope with a generous plan for Maggie’s future.
Fragmented OCR text portrays a wartime Christmas appeal with stray phrases about mothers, heroes, and a call to come forth. It mentions drums, banners, and a hopeful message to soldiers, though exact names and places are unclear.
Ellsworth resident John Drake an engineer with 40 years in the trade recounts chronic back pain and urinary troubles. He credits Doan’s Kidney Pills from FosterMilburn Co for relief after purchasing at Wiggin’s drug store, noting the pills cured his aching and corrected the urinary issue.
In a Bucksport probate court the will of BD McCrea late of Philadelphia is presented for probate. Public notice orders publication in Ellsworth American three weeks before January third. A. Cunningham, Judge of Probate, notes administator appointment for Tremont lands with probate proceedings to be heard at Bucksport.
A probate court in Bucksport Hancock County and related legal notices describe a mortgage foreclosure on property in Ellsworth and Gouldsboro, detailing premises tied to Jobe Malone George Gould and Everard I Greely. Also listed are probate proceedings for estates of deceased residents including Ellsworth, Gouldsboro, Orland, Castine and Swaies Island with hearings set for January 3, 1901.
A Maine notice lists a foreclosure sale of Otis town real estate levied under a Penobscot County judgment in favor of Matthew Laughlin. It details the property in Otis, sale date April 17, 1901, at Ellsworth, and describes the parcel owned by Frank W. Fogg. Also included is notices of probate and administration for Wary Woray of Castine and Emery Bode of Sedgwick with claims and payment directions.
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