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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1893
Page
3
The article critiques doctors and cites Nalkachoff of Geneva claiming 312000 blind Europeans with 75 percent loss due to fevers. It discusses rheumatism causes, notes various potions, and extols Hosterter's Stomach Bitters as a superior treatment improving kidney action and blood purification.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a pleasant laxative that cleanses the system and relieves colds headaches and fevers. It claims production by the California Fig Syrup Co and warns against substitutes. Bottles priced 50c and 1.00 are sold by druggists.
An advertisement extols August Flower as a cure for kidney and liver trouble and other ailments. It includes testimonials from Lorenzo F. of Appleton Maine and Samuel Whaley ESQ praising Dr Latheway Co and Hathaway Co for cures of nervous debility piles catarrh and blood poisoning with promises of confidential, experienced treatment and no cost for initial inquiry.
A nostalgic poem in verse contrasts women by traits from comely to homely and healthy to wealthy. It lists many types including truthful youthful sainted painted and married or tarried women. The closing couplet remarks silent women who are dead.
George Crowley, a cabinet maker, obsesses over life insurance as he battles drink and poverty. After a violent quarrel with his son Tom and a string of bad choices, he flees to Chicago, adopts the name George Crawford, and ends in a prison spell. A typhoid outbreak, illness, and a nurse bring a fragile peace as he awakens in a sunlit plain room.
George returns to his native village and discovers Tom Crowley’s fortune from a life insurance scheme that ruined his life. Struggling with whether to confront the truth, he chooses secrecy and plans to depart for Chicago. He watches the scene from a hotel window as Tom prospers with his mother, wife, and children unaware of the past.
A clipped conversation between Mrs. Meekino and James reveals a summer trip is being considered. Bridget expresses desire to know when relatives can visit and join the plan, though specific dates remain unsettled.
Correspondent describes South African diamond displays guarded by Zulus and the Kimberley exhibit, noting the educational mining scene. He contrasts eastern dances with Japanese displays praising the Jap showcase as tranquil and superb, including a $30,000 Gobelin tapestry with over 1,000 figures and fine loom work.
Miss Lizzie Fairman, a Peoria girl, wed Ling a Chinese physician after running away from Chicago. Her saloon-keeper stepfather opposed the match, forcing the elopement. The groom, about 30, asserts a strong practice among both Chinese and American communities, and the couple have known each other about five years.
In New York City Central Park faced a rat and stray animal problem severe enough to hire a professional rat catcher. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals condemns his methods and demands mercy, threatening action if he continues killing rats and other pests. The plan shifts to using chloroform as a humane alternative.
The text notes the national salute was set at twenty one guns for the president and adjusts other salutes for the vice president and cabinet. It explains the original practice of matching states with guns and that in 1819 the twenty one gun salute was designated as the standard when the number of states reached twenty one.
An eminent medical authority in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal argues coffee truly aids brain work. He claims caffeine increases reasoning power and adds to overall brain-work capacity for the time, contrasting it with opium and alcohol which impair judgment or lift then confuse action.
The Congregationalists and United Presbyterian church publish figures showing membership by sex. The returns may safely represent broader denominational trends, with men forming the minority in these churches.
The United States produced 2220 pounds of grain per inhabitant in 2005, followed by Denmark 2005? Canada 1500, Russia 1200, Roumania 1150, Spain 1100, France 990, Swede 980, Argentine Republic 850. Australia 760, Germany 700, Belgium 600, Portugal 550, Ireland 600, Scotland 490, England 360.
The article states that British industry uses steam power equating to the manual labor of 4,000,000,000 men, more than twice the number of men thought to inhabit the world. This striking claim highlights industrial steam's vast impact on production.
The pansy has been called herb trinity love-and-idle kiss-me ere-I-rise jump-up-and-kiss-me and three-faces-under-a-hoad in various times and places. Cinderella has 845 different tellings with a glass slipper edition known since 1697. The tale appears in ancient Indian and Egyptian literature.
In William the Conqueror’s era killing a rabbit carried a death sentence while a murderer paid a fine. A Dakota to England wheat trade compares costs with land manuring. A Georgia woman in Dalton possesses a gold breastpin containing a hair lock of George Washington within a diamond circle.
A hem lock and an oak have grown together about ten feet high near Ellenville New York in a rare natural graft. Other fragments discuss labor force estimates and various patent medicines and moral reflections.
An advertisement touts a constitutional treatment for catarrh, asserting internal use cures the disease by affecting the blood and mucous membranes. It promises large rewards for proof and provides a Michigan address for F. Cheney & Co.
An Italian savant warns against kissing pets after studying their saliva. He notes cats carry fatal bacilli that killed test animals within a day, dogs host more bacteria and worm eggs, and horses also harbor harmful microbes. The piece ends with a quip about the right side being the strongest.
Frank Floss of Iowa reports remarkable yield from Salzer's World's Fair Winter Wheat on a field in Wisconsin. Farmers praise tested performance, with some claiming up to 00 bushels per acre. Salzer offers free seed packets and a fall catalogue on request.
Incoherent ad copy touts tonics and bitters for digestion blood and nerves. Mentions Dr J A Hnoter and a Dallas address while promising cures for indigestion constipation and general weakness. The text touts nerve remedies and spectacular claims to attract readers.
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