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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1880
Page
6
A string of short quips and anecdotes from a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper page. It notes a captain blaming a lady’s iron hairpins for a ship’s compass deviation, lists real names of famous pen names, and quotes poems by Ella Wheeler. It also riffs on travel, wine prospects in California, fashioning fortunes, and a dramatic mother and poet lament.
Poem fragment from Claude De Haven in Modern Argo describes drifting life at sea and land, contrasting shadows and harvest with a weary voyage. It touches on love, dreams, sin, and a pursuit of safety and faith, ending with drifting toward a higher refuge.
A fashionable Boston tailor proposes bulk yearly suit plans with discounts. Three suits cost 117 dollars, four for 140, five for 162, and for 200 a year customers may wear as many as they choose with two suits at a time and old suits returned.
For thirty years Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry has been sold by druggists with no complaints. It is touted as the best remedy for coughs colds consumption bronchitis asthma and lung diseases. A Texas man along the Brazos River is said to believe the earth possesses curative properties and a speculator has bought it hoping for a vast medicine business.
The article questions external remedies for skin diseases and promotes Dr Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla as a thorough fix. It notes thirty California State prison convicts recently confirmed as Roman Catholics by a zealous priest, highlighting the church influence.
An advertisement urges immediate purchase of Dr Guysett’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla to cure blood and skin diseases liver and urinary troubles. It cites a Beauport Maine man George Wegner who endured rheumatism twenty years and, despairing at 75, died by suicide.
A stock of proprietary tonics and balsams claims superior efficacy and cost savings. Dr Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry advertises eight times the quantity of standard 25 cent cough remedies and claims fast cures for colds. Reed’s Gilt Edge Tonic sold widely and touted for malaria, dyspepsia, fever and ague with guaranteed satisfaction. Buckley’s Arukea Salve is praised for skin ailments. Hall’s Balsam is pitched as a universal hacking cough cure while local vendors promote inexpensive drugstore options and a cheap hack hire note nearby.
An old item touts Dr Kiya's New Discovery for consumption and throat and lung ailments as a guaranteed cure. It urges readers to visit Allen's Drug Store for proof and purchase, claiming thousands cured and lives improved.
The article contrasts Spanish domestic life with death rituals and gender roles, noting mild autocratic husbands, veiled marital tensions, and grave customs. It then shifts to a Philadelphia reminiscence about a Quaker hiding money and Benjamin Franklin inspiring the first library, ending with a tale of buried treasure found decades later.
A Buffalo Courier letter argues England’s wealth is fading while New York becomes the global commercial hub. It notes a silent trade shift over three years with American goods, from meat to furniture, now common in London and New York prices drawing Americans into fierce competition that limits profits.
In Spaxton England a young man set fire to an almost empty benzoline cask with a lit match and fled. The explosion killed one person and left the youth in prison awaiting trial on a charge of manslaughter. He plans to plead he did not think it would go off.
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