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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1896
Page
6
A fragmented poem fragment describes Lovelace’s wooing scene with ornate imagery. The speaker notes the superlative hues and an unsteady sway as the lover pursues, drawing gaze to a lordly race and ritualized courtship. The verse images towers, yard, and feigned fidelity as I pray.
A New York World excerpt describes newsdealers foiling sneaky readers who crack magazines at stands in ferry houses and stations. Vendors overpower petty tampering by banding top and bottom of issues, deterring covert leaf watching and page bending while protecting stock and sales.
A collection of testimonials and advertisements including praise for Electric Bitters as a tonic for constipation and sick headache, and for other remedies such as Burdock Blood Bitters, Thomas Eclectric Oil, Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup, and Hood's Pills. Local merchants listed and claims of rapid relief for ailments from backache to sores, with brief notes on scientific demonstrations related to glass-bullet experiments.
The Westminster Gazette mocks the Duke of Devonshire for using a Passmore Edwards House for epileptics to preach about his own wealth. It notes his inherited fortune contrasts with those who built their fortunes and accuses him of seeking audience sympathy for maintaining Chatsworth and Devonshire House rather than funding homes for the epileptic poor.
An old time health advertisement notes eye care and distilled cures from Dr Sadler with claims of glasses curing headaches and cataracts. It lists services in Pittsburgh and other patients and includes promotional dialogue about Otto’s Cure and throat lung remedies, interspersed with oblique anecdotes.
G. T. Hamilton advertises the cheapest and best line of skates in town with all sizes and prices lower than elsewhere, inviting readers to get a pair and enjoy skating this winter.
County accounts list paid and outstanding amounts for jail, furniture, school and asylum support, road and bridge work, jurors, officers, indigent care, taxation, and interest. Items include balance for year 1804, furniture for prothonary, repairs, commissions, miscellaneous expenses, indigent care, and various tax and bond dealings with extensive IOU-like totals and liabilities over assets.
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