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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1894
Page
5
A period style catalog of patent medicines and remedies for pain and cough appears, praising Salvation Oil, Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, and Hall's Catarrh Cure. It notes endorsements, awards to Walter Nuker & Co. and Walter Baker & Co., plus testimonial streams and cautions against Mercury in catarrh remedies.
An advertisement from Dr R Schiffmann of St Paul Minnesota offers a free trial package of Schufmanns Asthma Cure to as sufferers. It claims instant relief in worst cases and cures where others fail, urging readers to mail for the trial and name banks rivers for the address. The notice blends assorted patent remedies and promotional quips from various sellers, including Beechams Pills and Shilohs Consumption Cure, with generic drugstore pitches.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative benefiting kidneys, liver and bowels. It claims universal approval, pleasant taste, and effective relief from colds headaches and fevers with no objectionable substances. Sold by all druggists in 50c and 1 bottles, manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Co.
Sousa led a seven year effort with the United States government to collect national songs from around the world. The St Louis Post Dispatch notes three classes of tunes, including official airs, occasion songs, and indigenous melodies, with nearly forty specimens arranged after three years of work.
In Madame Arabella's gathering the marquis boasts of an echo that outdoes any others. He enlists his servant Sancho to echo his calls, staging a test in the park behind the lake. The crowd witnesses the echo reply with wit, then breaks as the curtain falls.
A boy tells a druggist his mother sent him for disinfectant, claiming it’s for a secret Eskimo village set up by him and other boys in a back room for weeks. The tale hints at mischief and a mistaken purchase.
A school teacher explains division using a simple apple example. Bobby responds that his sister would get the core portion, illustrating a basic division concept in a dialogue.
Disposition in Boston to revive a last century wedding custom placing the ring on the thumb. An artesian well dig in Louisiana yielded a preserved maple log at 540 feet. Mary A. Curtis of Meridian Louisiana won 2000 damages from a saloonkeeper for serving her drunk husband. A Bangor man aged 22 asserts he has no twin sister in Providence Rhode Island. The U S purchased Louisiana for 11 million dollars, claiming vast territory including Texas and much of the Midwest and West.
A collage of fleeting notes reports a chatelaine style fever thermometer, a barefoot San Diego nurse, beggary instructors in London with dogs for the blind, Miss Gertrude Mitchell winning England's queen’s scholarship, a runaway Baltimore horse injuring a lady, and humorous quips about domestic life. Other items mention queen bee breeders in Texas, Edison linking telephone to solar motion, combustible-proof wood, jewelry found in Greenville, and a Chinese YMC A donation. a Williamsburg drum collection, an Astor piano relic, a pie wagon crash in Baltimore, Brown’s remedy for throat ailments, and a solved mystery about a never Sent letter.
A compact moral allegory urging timely action and measured effort. It cautions that fear and perfection hinder progress, notes silence can censor good deeds, and compares religious morality to the need for practical generosity. It ends with a Swiss proverb about truth and soil.
For the relief and cure of a cold in the head the balm offers potency greater than any other remedy. The product has long been successful for cold in the head catarrh and hay fever. Used early it can prevent serious symptom development and numerous cases report radical cures after other treatments failed.
The report notes a proposed settlement of 500 Italian grape growers near Juma Arizona. It mentions 200 miles of Wabash railroad track between St. Louis and Kansas City surfaced with burnt brick clay. It cites the Bhatgur reservoir in India with about 4.641 billion cubic feet of water, held by a 103 foot high 3020 foot dam, feeding the Nira canal. It observes a physician who regrets replacing steel instruments with aluminum ones due to elastic deficiency. It describes divers' use of a copper backed glass in a helmet with an integrated telephone for bottom communications.
Ostriches live thirty years and a black fox skin is valued at 1090 dollars. The swan is the longest lived among birds. Tigers are nearly twice as strong as lions. The Emperor Duo Tu of Cochin China hides valuables in hollow tree trunks floating in a central tank guarded by twenty crocodiles. When needed, all reptiles are killed to access the bank. Professor Garner questions early Simian language work. Lady Burton notes Sir Richard Burton kept about forty monkeys at dinner and listed sixty words, but the list was lost in a fire. Jinks and Filkins debate diamond wear by a minister with a quip about sermons in stones.
Six tons of hay per acre is rarely reached, yet Salter's Extra Grass Mixtures enable this. Over fifty grass and clover sorts are grown by Salzer Seed Co in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Alsike and Crimson Clover are highlighted, along with Alfalfa. Send postage to receive eleven packages of seed and the large farm seed catalog. A field note on melons adds a local proverb.
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