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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1888
Page
4
Rev Dr Talmage argues true happiness for women comes from usefulness and Christian virtue not social status or beauty. He warns against worldly pleasures, flattery, fashion worship, and pride, urging daughters to honor parents and pursue steadfast faith and service over fleeting pleasures.
A preacher recalls a snowbound Newfoundland orphan who died with serene faith. He describes her as a beacon of heavenly beauty within a bare room, her soul made radiant by Christ, and the final dawn of heaven replacing earthly snow with imperishable white robes.
A Boston letter to the New York Sun recalls Professor Gray's remarkable memory. A botanist sent a supposed new species to Gray, who identified it as an old specimen and dismissed it as chunked innominatog botanicus. The plant was later reintroduced, and Gray again classified it as dumpy innominator botanicus, showing memory beyond recall of prior meetings.
The Doherty penal servitude case reveals an elaborate card sharping kit. Items include marked cards, a bogus note roll, a sixpence mirror for reading cards, and sleeves and waistcoat devices to conceal and discharge hidden cards. The maker signs his name and address in London World.
An old tale about a store warning sign may be fiction but a second hand furniture shop on Randolph Street displays a placard in its window saying not to proceed further or risk robbery, attracting curiosity about the incident.
A humorous exchange on hens and coal as a metaphor for rising prices. The wife notes an egg in the coal bin and the husband replies that the coal bin is “the place,” joking that hens laying in coal would avert price concerns. Published in the Boston Courier.
A fragmented collection of 19th century ad copy and civic whispers warns of weather omen dreams and a plume of patent remedies The text touts Dr Pierce s Pellets and Dr Sage s Catarrh Remedy while critiquing saloon culture and liquor advertising in city life The piece hints at social tensions over temperance and public signs in Philadelphia.
An 1886 advertorial claims impure blood causes skin eruptions and boils as the liver fails to cleanse the system. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as restoring liver function to prevent serious outcomes like kidney disease or consumption. An aside notes Minneapolis mills produced 8,553,000 barrels of flour in 1886 with large exports and mentions a catarrh cure from Taylors Hospital.
Scrofula bronchitis and general debility are said to improve with Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphite. Medical professionals praise its value and palatability. A Salisbury MD notes success in several child cases of scrofula and debility.
Dr T A Slocum claims his remedy cures consumption and invites readers to request two bottles by sending express and P O address. He provides his New York address at 159 Pearl Street and offers to mail the cure to interested sufferers. This advertisement frames a medical guarantee and solicits addresses for shipment.
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