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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1889
Page
4
Rev Dr Talmage preaches in Kansas City on the theme no man cares for my soul and urges personal faith. He recounts biblical burdens, earthly trials, and divine patience, urging sudden conversion and warning of neglect as a ship in distress calls for help.
Henry W. Grady of the Atlanta Constitution recalls a citizen obituary he never wrote and a protester saying Grady was alive. A bystander at a political meeting praises a speaker likening him to a bass drum for his loud, empty voice.
A San Francisco Chronicle correspondent describes Natal and its pests, detailing termites that hollow out wood, grasshoppers and moths that devastate crops, reptiles like crocodiles and snakes, plus birds and insects that menace clothing and homes.
A Fifth Avenue resident hires La Farge’s pupil to place portraits of her three children in the library windows. The glass art is beautiful but unrecognizable as the children to guests and even the parents. Friends praise the work yet forget the children, raising worry the display may stay until winter or be removed for plain glass.
At Fulton Market fish dealers tested a patented eel skinner against Si Toppings’s knife. After an hour Si skinned and cleaned thirty dozen eels while the machine managed only about half that amount. The inventor left defeated.
An 1889 Baltimore ad promotes Red Star Cough Cure with claims of cures from Mrs Pollock and a Baltimore reader. It mentions St Tikal Oil cures and a 25 cent bottle price. Paris social elites ban innings cards and substitute slate name entries in halls.
Leading physicians and druggists in Detroit favor Dr. Harter's Lion Tongue for healthy, attractive women. A promotional blurb highlights its popularity among local women in the city. The text also mentions English pension officials and a pamphlet offer from Mrs. Daughters, Wives, Mothers.
An advertisement style prose extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for consumption and respiratory ailments and Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites as a powerful food and medicine. It claims appetite stimulation and strength restoration with testimonials from John Sullivan Hospital Steward Morganza Pa.
Advertisement promises home work with Hallett & Co in Portland Maine. No capital required start free. Addresses all locations and all ages or sexes can earn over five dollars daily, some over three hundred fifty. Complete particulars free.
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