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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1885
Page
6
A Baltimore Herald report describes barroom schemes to mask drinking among temperance supporters. Details include a clergyman, a naval officer's wife, and a custom-house official, all using deceptive drinks and hidden alcohol.
A dangerous and exciting operation on the tail of a savage tigress was successfully performed today by Dr. Al Watts. The English keeper of a small menagerie treated a traveling circus animal in Salem after a fury left the stump painful and unhealed. Volunteers restrained the beast in a cage as the team secured all four paws with rope and provided a log to bite to prevent self injury.
A New York Herald analysis discusses Chile’s recent two chamber elections for Senators and Deputies, the five year presidential term, and the continued executive dominance. It questions whether absence of a developed democratic public opinion may risk future revolutions as Chile grows more centralized and wary of change.
A Brooklyn wife finds a box bill listing tools and dynamite left by an expressman. Her husband admits the purchases for his business, revealing he plans to do cartoons for the pictorial press.
Review of a new book accusing superficial doctors of misdiagnosing illness as malaria and overwork. The critic traces a patient’s decline from travel cures to springs and doctors fees, citing Warner’s safe cure and a Wall Street banker’s warnings. The piece ends with caution to readers and a quip about shy young ladies.
The piece warns readers about numerous schemes promising large returns to boost newspaper circulation, praising The AMERICAN RURAL Home of Rochester New York as a legitimate farm and family journal. It endorses the Rural Home Co and advertises premiums, while noting cautions about dubious pitches and various misused health and consumer ads.
An advertisement touts Wonderful Eighth as a universal remedy curing cholera, diarrhoea, colic, cramps, head and body pains, neuralgia, rheumatism, toothache, and more with a promise to relieve pain. It asserts swift cures and guarantees satisfaction, noting retailers stock the remedy.
An 1880s marketing notice from Morley Bros announces two products Morley’s T X 8S ague tonic and T X 8 tonic cordial. It claims a cure for chills and vigor for women and a system renovator while promoting veterinary carbon salve for horses and cattle with no scar and original hair color. The notice targets shipments via Waco and Austin Texas and lists retail pricing.
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