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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1884
Page
7
Bilious symptoms arise from indigestion and liver irregularity. Overfilled bile causes jaundice, sallow skin, yellow eyes, and fatigue. Burdock Blood Bitters claim to regulate stomach, bowels, and liver, purify blood, and aid bile flow. Sold everywhere with guarantee to cure.
Austin Sheldon, the Pike County hermit who lived alone for forty four years, has vanished from his rock cabin nine miles from the village. Nearly eighty, he was last seen after his Connecticut sister and her husband forced him to return home, then fell ill and wandered back to his wilderness hovel. Neighbors fear he died or was robbed, as money and a watch rumored to be in his possession are not in the hut.
A column traces how elegant once described refined things and people yet has become worn and common through overuse. It notes examples from a business lunch to baseball praise, and contrasts slang usage with coarse talk as two ragged youths plan a cab ride uptown.
A reporter questions Gen Rosecrans about Browning and Read’s poem Sheridans Ride. The general recalls meeting the author before Stones River, and explains Elocutionist Murdock spurred Read to write the poem after seeing Harper’s Weekly depiction. He notes Read painted war scenes for the Union League Club and adds wartime details and casualties.
Reports from California and Nevada note unusually large grasshopper crops among coastal tribes. Indians form a ring around pools to drive grasshoppers into water, then dry, clean, and cache them for winter. Dried hoppers are used in soups and meals, with cooking repeated daily through the season.
Old patent medicine claim promises rapid relief from scalding irritation stone gravel and catarrh of the bladder. Sarsaparilla product Hood's cures languor and welcomes druggists.
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