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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1893
Page
3
A dated testimonial from former Libby Prison inmate J. L. Styron praises Thurston's Blackberry Cordial for curing chronic ailments, while a broader ad section touts Hall's Catarrh Cure from Toledo, shows other patent medicines, elixirs, and a claim about a universal cure with various medical promises and oddball items.
An advertisement touts Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative that cleanses the system and relieves colds headaches and fevers. It claims health benefits without weakening organs and notes the product is made by the California Fig Syrup Co with pricing at 50 cents and $1 per bottle.
The Chicago Times profiles the cargador in the Mexican republic. A sturdy backbreaker carries up to 800 pounds, competing with mules and wagons in towns and through rugged passes. Mountain cargadores, often dressed in guaraches, endure harsh life on tortilla meals and pennies a day, with Manzatlan as a key hub.
A collage of brief notes and curiosities covers Julius Cesar as a New York cigar maker, South Africa gold fields found in 1866 by Hartley the elephant hunter, a Missouri guitar crafted from over a thousand pieces of wood, Vienna organ grinders limited to midday hours, and ancient views on dance. It notes a Paris grasshopper soup, a tame rattlesnake near Buchanan Georgia, a 30,000 fish haul at Abbotsbury Dorset, and Moses dying on his birth anniversary. Additional items include Pendleton Oregon rattlesnake fatalities, oak-like drought dew in Paris, Bible translations by 170 years after Christ, coyotes branded by the U S Government, Yakiena Indians lariating coyotes with ID brands, a Bangor Maine office boy delivering a livery team to the wrong stable, and a landlord seeking payment for a team’s week-long board.
A Chicago Herald report notes French savants tested a deceased criminal. They claimed the body acts like a battery with head and feet as electrodes. When the head faced north the body settled, then turned south and returned north upon release, suggesting a persistent directional influence.
A Dunkirk Herald item profiles Sophia Paul, a full blooded Apache living on Chautauqua Lake in a small hut with her daughter for about twelve years. Now over 100, she stays active and welcomes visitors, often receiving coins from guests. The note ends with a state fact: 242 life-saving stations and lifeboats since 1871 have saved lives along the coast.
A long survey of fashionable women and prominent personas from California to Denmark. It mentions Mrs Temple wife of London’s bishop, Miss Dora Sandee a New York lawyer, Miss Clara Clemens and Miss Bertha Lumme, Queen Victoria’s patronage, and Japanese edict restricting women editors. It covers salons, rifles, jewels, and topics from dancing lights in ballrooms to portraits for clubs and more.
The piece argues that harmless pranks can harm others and cites tragic outcomes from jokes gone wrong. It winded through a critique of sensational hoaxes and calls for reform in how society defines a good time. An anxious reader letter asks whether to pursue work or marriage amid coercive divorce demands by a school trustee.
A fragment recalls wooden nutmegs and tin peddlers from Connecticut. The Stratford Times notes such frauds are exaggerated and jokes reveal old cash tricks. It preserves a quaint dinner toast about The Nutmeg State and ends with a stray misheard line about Beech Pill and human ear length.
A Canadian invention, the steam warping tug, is entering wide use in Northern Ontario lumber districts. Built in Ottawa and Nipissing areas, the scow-shaped craft with steel boiler plate, 22 hp engine, and land water mobility travels six miles per hour in water and overland via a steel wire cable. Six units were built this season, aiding logs across small lakes with uncertain navigation, offering a boon to lumber operations.
A man sits on smooth ground in Tokio and arranges colored sand into small piles. He takes a pinch from each pile in his right hand and rapidly draws a complete colored portrait of a person on the ground. The feat shows dexterity and quick execution.
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