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Newspaper
Lawrence Weekly Journal
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1886
Page
8
A collage of light verse and wry social quips from various papers. Jests about education, cigarettes, appetite, courtship, and fashion mix with brief anecdotes and pithy dialogue. The tone is playful, satirical, and periodically moralizing about manners and society.
Jovite Arnivault, an Acadian from near Yarmouth Nova Scotia, signed a forty dollar note to Augustus Woodman after a bad voyage. Woodman pressed for payment, then offered repayment if Jovite could raise ten dollars, which finally arrived. Jovite later cleared four hundred dollars and faced Woodman’s renewed demand, prompting the Acadian to call him an naive businessman and depart, leaving Woodman in disbelief. This Detroit Free Press item reflects on trust, debt, and cultural perceptions.
A Malay of palmistry discusses how nail shape and forked heart lines reveal love traits. It warns of crosses between heart and head indicating opposite-sex influence, danger from long head lines, and cautions about famous failed marriages. It cites examples of forged glamor, foreign lovers, and warnings from a London Standard reference.
Henry Clay promoted plain handwriting and told a tale about a Cincinnati grocer seeking cranberries. He wrote to a courier in Kentucky town to secure berries cheaply, but the letter’s writing was so poor that it drew ridicule and missteps.
Michael Davitt will be recalled to Ireland and likely depart America within a month. In Georgia near Maxeys two men suffered long severe sores from head to foot. after six bottles of B. B. and B. the injuries healed leaving the man appearing burned and revived. County authorities and doctors deem it wonderful. Also, Chicago beef firms Swift and Morris returned to the ten hour system this Monday.
The kidneys and bowels are key scavengers of the body. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is promoted as a diuretic that revitalizes relaxed renal activity to prevent renal diseases, and claims to aid chills, fever, dyspepsia, constipation, liver trouble and general debility.
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup touted as a longtime standard remedy for teething children. Claims include relief from teething pain and cures for dysentery diarrhoea griping wind colic and general health benefits for babies. Price 25 cents per bottle. Alexandria Virginia noted as upcoming alliance meeting site following Oberlin session.
Charlotte item quotes T O Callahan praising B B B medicine bag for kidney treatment. The note claims rapid action and tonic benefits. The National Educational Association accepts Mayor Hermon’s invitation to meet in Chicago in July.
An advertisement invites readers in Lawrence to visit Barber Bros. druggists for a free trial bottle of Kemp's Baleam for the throat and lungs. The remedy, priced at 50 cents and 1, is claimed to cure chronic and acute coughs asthma bronchitis and consumption based on its merits and guarantees relief.
An old physician promotes a free mailed recipe for a vegetable remedy claimed to cure consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and nervous complaints. The ad offers German French or English instructions via W A Neves 119 Powers Block Rochester N Y and notes the author’s intent to relieve suffering. It also mentions Bartholdi and Parker's Hair Balsam as unrelated endorsements with dates and places.
A collage of quoted witticisms and observations from various papers. The notes mix humor, moral maxims, and social commentary from sources like the St Louis Chronicle Macon Telegraph Dansville Breeze Boston Globe and others. The snippets cover women, adversity, culture, bravery, shaving, revival meetings, and a humorous misquote about a milkman and a barber.
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