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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1900
Page
7
Advertises ZEM as a powerful blood purifier and spring tonic with testimonials from named locations and individuals. Promotes use during system weakness and rebuilding, urging purchase from Grafton Drug and Chemical Company in Grafton West Virginia.
Auction offer lists building lots in Soush Weat and East Grafton with holdings in Petterman and FARMS ten acre estates in Ritchie county. A8 acres include a good dwelling on Pleasant creek with reasonable terms and overall district coverage.
The passage describes memory as regulated by the nervous system, using hand imagery to illustrate nerve cell connections and fatigue. It links dissociation to depleted nervous energy, notes how worry and fatigue deplete energy, and explains difficulties in recalling text and recurring mental fatigue as signs of strain on memory and concentration.
The article describes ancient clay and bronze Roman lamps showing early design perfection and notes Dr Hill Burton on their decoration. It adds that terra cotta candelabra lamps appeared in simple forms enduring through history, while tracing lamp origin with Roman expansion. It then quotes imperial population figures for the British empire and nearby regions, including Egypt and the Sudan, and cites Pagliah language speakers numbering about fifty million.
A recounting of Lieut Edward Hepenstall known as the Walking Gallows a brutal executioner in 1798 Dublin. Raised as an apothecary in Wicklow militia he used improvised nooses and his own strength to strangle rebels, earning notoriety before dying in 1804 with his funeral kept secret.
An ex theater manager recalls a 91 performance by Japanese jugglers including a feat with a bare faced climb up a ladder formed by sharp swords. The swords, native straight blades, could cut a handkerchief in midair. A hidden steel tape shield protected the blade edge and was later shown after the act.
A Detroit Journal fragment recounts a doomed romance where the woman laments lost love and mocks suitors as unwary lobsters. A Detroit Free Press quip follows about electricity curing bee stings, with a student recounting an awkward experiment that left him stung and seeking a hornets nest remedy.
Judge John d Tecnoon in Monroe County delivers a decision on whether state court judgments for fines stemming from unlawful retailing indictments are provable debts in bankruptcy, and if discharge releases the debtor from them. The opinion holds such judgments are provable debts and not entitled to precedence, clarifying that discharge in bankruptcy covers all provable debts except state taxes and similar claims.
The Grafton post office lists undelivered letters for M D Ashby J M Heath W Kieser Robt Musgrove JO Osborne Chas White E T Williams. Recipients must claim as advertised cas. W Hot postmaster. Coupon 7797 note: holder of 779 is owner of a doll offered by W Monroe news dealer. bring coupon to receive present.
Question Answered. August Flower claims largest sale among medicines. Mothers used it for indigestion biliousness and general malaise. Green's August Mower in liquid form urged to stop fermentation and regulate liver action. Sample bottles at Grafton Drug & Chemical Co. and Monroe & Brobard's in Flemington. Dewey and Olympia pictures at the Sentinel office.
Wanted 100 men to visit L Bernstein on Main Street in Grafton for a holiday sale offering overcoats suits cloth and underwear at unusually low prices. Men and youth jeans pants from 49 cents up, hats from 25 cents, silk items and accessories included as holiday presents. Prices claimed as low as last year.
The fragmentary OCR reads as a garbled prompt referencing an engagement in a formal lecture at the Addirews Hotel Windsor. It mentions Root Joontins Splendid tide and a misrendered location Giraftom, with no coherent event details or dates.
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