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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1874
Page
7
A Missouri child named Reuben, aged as a street anecdote notes, astounds locals with perfect time and arithmetic. He can tell time, sum sequences, and compute complex figures instantly, earning money from law clerks and merchants who test his abilities.
This brief profile celebrates Reuben Fields a renowned local mathematician whose counting skills attract farmers and townspeople. The narrator describes traveling to Fayetteville to meet Fields and verifies his extraordinary abilities through direct inquiry and observation, noting initial skepticism but growing curiosity.
The account describes a Rensselaer and Saratoga train scene where a newly married couple board a crowded car. The husband steps to the smoking car leaving his wife, a stranger sits beside her, she nods and leans toward him, he returns to find her blushes. The stranger explains and the husband is amused.
An 8 note organ with six stops sold for $125 at Reed’s Temple of Music located at 92 Van Buren Street Chicago. A Pennsylvania legislator was shot and killed amid a domestic dispute as a man attempted to separate a fighting couple. The report notes ingratitude for the attempted peace effort.
A historical medical pamphlet from the Voxn's Dispensary Buffalo New York advocates treatments for skin diseases such as tetter scald head and erysipelas alongside blood disorders including boils carbuncles and white swellings. It presents the blood as the life and outlines various conditions and remedies.
A promotional piece extols blood purification to cure skin diseases scrofula and eruptions. It promotes Golden Medical Discovery and Purgative Pellets as restoring health by cleansing the blood, curing ulcers and glandular issues, with patient testimonials from Ohio New York and beyond. It warns against cancer cures and unsafe tonics and claims broad compatibilities with native plant ingredients.
An old newspaper ad bundle touts Wilhoft’s Anti-Periodic for malaria, plus courts beauty and hair products. It promotes Lyon’s Kamatrox for hair reanimation, Hacanx Maano-Lia Ball for complexion, and Plantation Bitters as a health invig orant and epidemic safeguard. The piece references George Curtis & Brown and distribution by New Orleans and New York druggists.
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