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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1891
Page
11
A couple together plans to leave their home and move to a distant country without conflict, showcasing harmony and strength in partnership. Their decision is celebrated as a model of civil and enduring union.
The notice extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a malarial combatant turning the tide against malaria and related fevers. It claims universal efficacy against chills, fever, and assorted malarial forms, plus other ailments. It also promotes Pe. John Bull's Sarsaparilla and Dr Kline's Nerve Restorer with warnings of their benefits and trial offers.
A Malden-on-Hudson, New York man Captain A G Pareis writes of seven years use of August Flower in his family. He says it constantly sits in the house and is the best remedy for indigestion and constipation they have known. His wife suffers from dyspepsia and relief comes after meals. He also uses it for his own indigestion with success.
In Denver, a worn narrator recalls aiding a dying stranger in Dublin and meeting Lady Irving who offers refuge and a royal stipend. Back in Colorado, Stella Everett learns Melvorne is her cousin after a long search, revealing family ties tied to the Everett line as weddings loom.
Stella Everett learns of birthright and kin as Melvorne maneuvers to claim her grandfather's estate. A cryptic message links Charles Edward Everett to Earl of York, prompting legal maneuvers while Stella faces class tensions and a looming foreclosure threat.
A former Delaware County pastor recalls austere days with a $400 yearly salary and shared shirt. The elder district colleague mocked oysters during a sparse home dinner, turning hardship into a comic moment that lingered in memory.
A surgeon notes that eight percent of 5,000 aged soldiers under his care suffer heart disease from forced exertion. He predicts many today will face heart disease twenty five years hence due to muscular strain. He contrasts life expectancy in France with England and cites Oxford rowers to illustrate mortality among athletes.
A Virginian who stole a large sum of greenbacks confessed in fourteen variants, implicated a new party, and was jailed after a townwide pursuit. Authorities concluded he was a good liar and a poor thief, and he later sought to tell the truth but faced resistance.
A Missouri constable halted a tramp on the highway and demanded surrender. The tramp drew a revolver and both men fired six shots from ten feet, but no one was wounded. After the exchange, both parties departed without further incident.
A Chicago Times quip notes that the idea of countless grey worms in the ocean is unlikely to entice anyone to seek them out, offering a wry remark on allure versus reality.
Two miners George Murray and Tom Bailey battled a sudden blue flame eruption in a main drift on the 750 level of the Onco mine. The blaze lit the drift like electric light, caused partial blindness and severe headaches, and left timbers unharmed. A Babcock extinguisher finally subdued the fire after forty minutes.
A Dresden institute expert estimates speech rates of Reichstag members. Rickert 153 words per minute, Herbert Bismarck 104, Fehr von Stumm 148, Bam berger 120, Singer 121, Bushing 112. Also mentions unrelated notes on tonics and Rev Brooks bishops as observations.
Believers in Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy are urged to pursue cure, with a $500 faith test for skeptics. The World's Dispensary Medical Association of Buffalo, N Y is cited, asserting trustworthy claims. Begin with system purification and milder treatment, maintaining regular liver and bowel action, using Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as directed.
A clipped advertisement notes a patent medicine claim promising cure or refund. It mentions a guarantee and urges readers to ask a druggist, with a price given in cents. The fragment hints at a sales pitch common to late 19th or early 20th century remedies.
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