Love Stronger Than Death in Cholera Tale from Boston
In Boston during a cholera outbreak, James Ammerman stays to close business while illness strikes. His wife Ada fights to revive him with frantic measures as death carts pass, until a last improvised use of hartshorn revives him. They escape to New Hampshire, saved by love stronger than death.
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Jennie Porter Arnold
All the heroes ain't dead yet in life’s tale
An old man and his grandson debate bravado in a Life magazine quote about Niagara Falls and a barrel. The boy notes bold feats come from having a barrel. The scene juxtaposes age and youth over courage and luck.
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Old Bagley
Niagara Falls
Shaver
Warner's Safe Cure praised by medical authorities abroad
A Rochester newspaper excerpt quotes Dr J L Stephens of Lebanon Ohio and other eminent physicians endorsing Warner's Safe Cure as a unique kidney and liver remedy. The interview links narcotic habit recovery to kidney health and cites rising sales and reduced advertising as proof of merit. It also notes a Treasury Dept policy restricting women from certain messenger roles and a planned visit by G A R leader Fairchild to Nashville in December.
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State Board of Health of Iowa
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Academy of Medicine At Columbus
Fowler
Homely Dave Sells Books On A Rail Trip
An artistic book agent nicknamed Homely Dave reads aloud to Secretary Evarts and a party of dignitaries on a California to Chicago railroad journey. Impressed, Evarts buys a book and Dave sells over $200 worth of titles to the group before they reach Chicago.
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Dave
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California
Council Bluffs
San Francisco
Mr. Evarts
Aus
Edwin Arnold
Asia
Mr. Evart
Chicago
Secretary backs rejection of Gravel Goulet timber offer
Secretary Lamar recommends not accepting Gravel and Goulet Brothers of Minnesota offer of $2 per thousand for timber seized from George D. Whittier and Stewart Scott. Whittier’s claim was canceled. the firm may owe full value at $3.50 per thousand. Also urges suits against Sanborn and Loud and Meyers Cohn for unlawful inclosures in public lands. Justice Woods leaves for Colorado to treat lung trouble.
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Minneapolis
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Gravel & Goulet Bros
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Montana
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Range
Oneida County
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Malarial Ailment and Strikes Mentioned in Milwaukee
Malarial disease described with symptoms of cold chills heat and excessive sweat is said to yield to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and linked to liver derangement with saffron skin tint. The piece notes quinine is ineffective and cites other reliefs. Separately, Milwaukee switchmen discuss a potential strike.
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Gibraltar
Annie Shaw the Wests Bold Rights Advocate
The article recalls Rev Miss Annie Shaw a famed women's rights advocate. It tells of her defusing insults with a Derringer during a Michigan lumber trip and how the driver aided her audience draw at a settlement. It also notes a public meeting where a speaker teased her hairstyle and she replied I was born so.
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Annie Shaw
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Dalaney Bishop of Cork Lies Dying
William Dalaney, bishop of the Catholic diocese of Cork, is dying. The note mentions a treatise delivered post-paid for 10 cents in stamps from the Address World's Day Medical Association, Buffalo, New York.
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Medical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
Most Roy
William Dalaney
Cork
Delays are dangerous and health cures advertised
A collage of old medical ads and local notices. It promotes Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for consumption, Sage’s Catarrh Remedy, Hall’s Hair Renewer, and Ayer’s Pills, with testimonials and warnings about illnesses. Mentions women voting in Olympia, a domestic shooting in Dayton, and Brown’s Iron Bitters as a stomach and liver cure.
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Ayer
D. W. Blaine
New Berge,n. C
Quack Patent Remedies and Household Cures Advertised
A crude 19th century advertisement mocks various patent medicines and tonics. It touts Perry Davis's Pain Killer Allen's Iron Tonic Bitters Piso's Cure for Consumption and Lyon's Patent Heal Buffener while claiming miraculous effects and urging readers to buy these cures for coughs colic and bad boots.
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