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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1893
Page
3
An 19th century style notice touts Hos tetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for dyepepeia and a range of ailments from heartburn headaches and biliousness to chills fever kidney trouble rheumatism and neuralgia. The ad closes with a odd remark about Australia and boxing rabbits.
A classic advertisement touts Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative that cleanses the system and supports the kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them. It cites medical approval and urges purchases from druggists in 0c and 1 bottles, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co.
Businessman Grorce W. Dog of Sardis Mason County Kentucky reports selling large quantities of August Flower after claiming it restored vitality and caused a 69 pound weight gain. He cites Mr Peter Zinville as transformed by the remedy and says hundreds share similar improvements.
An ex-navy mate recalls a moonlit voyage where a ghostly man walked the deck and passed through the witness. Brown, the watch, and crew deny sightings while the specter supposedly haunts the ship on later trips, until the line retires the vessel.
An elderly Canton Ohio man shows a sixty year old copper ball found in a log cabin. The one inch sphere has thirty two flat facets numbered one to thirty two. When rolled the top and bottom numbers always sum to thirty three. A Zanesville man claims it was used in the British army to cast a death lot by selecting deserters for execution.
A Virginia inventor creates smokeless powder for field guns and a Mt. Pleasant man develops a cypewriting device to print addresses on boxes. Hua vana relies on 3000 horse-drawn rigs for transport with one horse-car line. Marseilles sells false hair with Chinese hair arriving for curls. Philadelphia plans a near million dollar free library accessible to all residents. South Africa adopts Pullman sleeping and dining cars. Cook’s tours may expand as Emin Pashas are rescued by trains. In Toston a Woman’s Best Tour association aids affordable travel for women. Maryland’s bog iron industry lingers in eastern shore counties despite long decline.
A collage of quips and snippets. It notes a bride's wary yet humorous remark about husbands, promotes Dr Shoop Restorative Nerve Pills with a free medical book, and spoofs legal and social stings. It also lists trivia: race horses, jurors, a missing cash routine, Cheops pyramid size, St Peters Church, Moss Colliery depth, and a 30 foot marine eel caught at Provincetown Cape Cod.
A curious collage of ad copy and quips shows Beecham's Pills, Kilne's remedies, and Hanson’s Magic Corn Salve, interwoven with witty exchanges about drowning debts, a scrublady, teething remedies, and a bank cashier’s folly, reflecting rustic humor and catalog-like promotions of a bygone era.
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