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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1879
Page
4
Promotion offers a free tea canister with every pound of Our Choice 500 Gunpowder Tea. In each canister, one in every hundred contains a coupon for an order of One Barrel of NEW PROCESS IMPERIAL FLOUR valued at $6 from the firm.
In 1801 a foundling girl named Solange is discovered in Brest with a note claiming her name and future father. She grows into beauty and wit, is rescued by Lieutenant Kramer, who marries her in Paris after he returns from war. Swedish ambassador investigations connect her to General Bernadotte and Ning Charles IV of Sweden, with the couple later ennobled.
The article lists large yearly timber needs across industries. Shoe pegs, lucifer matches, boat-trees, tool handles, bricks, telegraph poles, railroad ties, fences, packing boxes and wagons all draw from forests. It notes 1874 timber value at over 112 million dollars and ongoing forest depletion.
The text promotes bitters as a universal remedy for many ailments. It claims it helps chills fever indigestion liver issues headaches and general weakness with quick, broad effects. It presents grateful women as beneficiaries and recommends bitters as the sole remedy.
A saloon keeper in Alleghany Pennsylvania tried a fly killing method by filling his tavern with pan powder and molasses. He ignited the powder to burn the flies off the floor and later weighed two pounds three ounces of insects. The note ends with a remark about bankruptcy being a bad man.
Mrs. Sanan A. Evwiert praises the London Hair Color Restorer as free from impurities and highly effective. She credits it with restoring hair and improving eyesight, recommending it to druggists in Oxford Raleigh and many friends. Price is 75 cents a bottle or four dollars for six bottles.
Judge Edward R Harden of Quitman Mississippi cites Swayne's Ointment as curing itching piles after years. James S McComb of Millersburg Ohio endorses All-healing Ointment for itching piles. L Vailer Hinsdale Illinois claims relief from salt rheum. They reference Dr Swayne & Son Philadelphia selling by mail for 50 cents a box or 125 for three.
An ad touts Dr Swayne’s Tar and Sarsaparilla Pills as a universal cathartic. It claims mild action, no griping, liver stimulation, and relief for headaches indigestion fevers and bilious conditions. retailed at 25 cents per box or five boxes for $1 with mailing available from Philadelphia.
A Philadelphia firm and a grocer praise Dr Swayne's Compound Syrup of Wild Cherry for coughs and asthma relief. The ad touts trial bottles at 25 cents and larger sizes at $1, urging druggists to procure or contact Dr Swayne & Son for orders.
The Baltimore Herald notes Niagara Falls discharges about 100 million tons of water per hour and drops 150 feet with rapids adding 159 feet. The principal fall yields 16,800 horsepower, which would require at least 226 million tons of coal per year to produce by steam, implying global coal would barely meet the power wasted by the falls.
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