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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1881
Page
2
A Dr. J. B. Diack cited paper warns seventy thousand Americans die yearly from consumption and many inherit constitutional defects. It urges hygienic care and medical guidance to extirpate hereditary disease, noting physicians can end tubercular consumption in themselves and families.
A Philadelphia Ledger piece discusses vision and perception through Bunsen and a claivoyant seance. It contrasts dreaming with testing reality and notes political color blindness, urging limits on vision to include what is known and practical.
The Des Moines Register records Old Eph arranging his will with a lawyer. He mentions a dog, a hazel splitter sow, a box and pipe, and a house with an incumbrance. Eph drafts bequests to kin and notes the old woman’s life sustenance.
The Atlantic Monthly questions revised dictionary definitions as laws in several states criminalize tramps. Massachusetts and its New England peers channel vagrants into workhouses and correction houses, but with compulsory confinement that strips the tramp of liberty and dignity while offering free board and lodging. The piece notes the indignity of forced work and the harsh reach of criminalization on a free individual.
The piece notes Louis Grumme a German soap maker who grew wealthy but feared failing to expand his factory. He cut his left wrist then hanged himself using a rope from a cross beam, dying after the attempt. It claims the case is unique in crisis reports. The article adds Gen Hawley and Senator elect Harrison joined the army as privates. It also plugs Parker’s Hair Balsam for restoring gray hair.
A sequence of 19th and early 20th century notices from Guilford Connecticut Paducah Kentucky and Detroit Michigan feature individuals declaring long battles with dyspepsia and endorsing COOKS DYSPEPSIA CURE as curative or highly effective.
An advertisement extols Hegeman’s Camphor salve for chapped hands lips and sunburn skin care. It advises rub on affected areas or warm in extreme cold and warns to avoid inferior substitutes. It also promotes Hegeman’s Camphor Ice as a pest extermination product and lists manufacturers in New York and New Haven.
A testimonial mix extols Cop’s Cough Balsam curing typhoid related chest issues in a ten year old and whooping cough in several children. It touts rapid relief, claims of universal success for coughs and consumption, and notes endorsements by Dr. Dyer and agents.
An advert offers a marvelous cure for catarrh diphtheria canker mouth and headache. Each bottle includes a nasal injector for improved treatment. Price and dispatch by Conrad Cook.
A famed Missouri attorney Billy Campbell is portrayed as generous yet impractical, with social satire on his dress and habits. The piece also discusses human senses, beauty in form, and a Providence Franklin society test claiming pitchers can curve a ball left or right by placement of stakes.
A Brooklyn man resents newspaper mentions, fearing his wife will see the story. The piece notes Brooklyn differs from most cities in media coverage and public curiosity.
A fragmentary poem recalling youth’s pull as two figures dance and bound forward together. It speaks of a silken tether and the ache to see the sweat and face of youth again.
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