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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1880
Page
3
A columnist recounts Dr. S. H. Collins surviving a fatal-fever scare after objecting to a crude coffin and notes on malaria remedies. The item also mocks a Chicago widower pondering a second wife and promotes Liver Pills. A Ludlow Street diary exposes Poles as cat sausage makers with gruesome yard practices and cat meat demand.
An article extols Dr. Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla as a universal cure for numerous ailments including kidney weakness and digestive troubles. It urges readers to obtain the remedy from their druggist and warns of ineffective alternatives. A separate note reports Dr. Charles B. Chapman’s suicide after failing to save Mrs. De Pas during a San Francisco tumor operation.
Advertises Wistar's Balm of Wild Cherry as a cure for consumption asthma bronchitis and lung diseases claiming unrivaled tonic effects. Promises relief from throat and lung soreness with a large pint bottle priced at $1 urges readers to ask their druggist and avoid other medicines. Also offers a free cure recipe for youth ills from Rev. Joseph Inman to address nervous weakness early decay and loss of manhood.
A village shopkeeper recalls a past romance as a stranger questions the child she raised. Fred, her former fiancé, returns with truth about their daughter and asks for forgiveness. Laura agrees to marry him and reunite the family, surprising the town.
A Philadelphia Times editorial warns young men of the danger of drink, recounting how promising lives can be wrecked by the social glass. It urges self restraint, moral duty, and the hard consequence of sin, comparing temptations to visible warnings and miasma.
In Madison Indiana a fowl strayed from the Hammersmith yard into the Smith yard. Mrs. Hammersmith sought the bird but Smith refused. Misdirected by anger Hammersmith attempted to strike Smith. Kes and his wife hurled stones and Smith fired a gun killing the husband. A separate note mentions a Vassar student testing phonetics and a census worker assaulted in Pittsburgh.
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