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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1896
Page
6
The passage discusses the challenge of convincing people their blood is impure until severe skin infections such as carbuncles abscesses boils scrofula or salt rheum become painfully evident, signaling a belief in impurity as a produce of illness.
A patient with impure blood describes a dreadful carbuncle abscess treated over seven weeks. After beginning Hood's Sarsaparilla the abscess broke and the pain lessened. Her husband, also afflicted with boils, took the remedy and both reported purification of their blood.
A historic local trial reveals the first female juror in Colorado had difficulty taking the oath, highlighting unfamiliarity with swearing unlike men. The piece connects to broader issues of Prohibition era conventions and oddities in public life, with advertisements and health tonics interwoven.
A notice praises Dr. Marsh for curing opium and morphine habits. He has twenty five years in this specialty and is well known for his cures. The writer has personal acquaintance spanning twenty five years. Also notes Maine weather making lake ice slushy for sleighing.
An 1895 page includes Hall's Catarrh Cure advertised as constitutional with price, a Wabash Railroad offer for a summer resort book about the lake region, a note that bloomers are rising in fashion, Piso's Cure for Consumption praised, and a Mayfield preacher selling a book to fund a perpetual motion machine.
In Lake County South Dakota a haunted house investigation ends with skeptics conceding the supernatural. A Norwegian family moved in December 12, heard a flute, and saw a white veiled figure. investigators report dripping, cracking, booted steps, a lamp, and a pale woman in gray. The Olsons abandoned the place on March 10 after repeated eerie events and witness corroboration.
A fight among Italians in Renova Pa last night left John Orlanda shot in both legs by a Winchester rifle. Andrew Poleto and Mike Pagnette were stabbed but not seriously injured. The altercation began when Poleto and Pagnette attacked Michael Ross and Frank Orlando near Ross home. Ross then retrieved a rifle and fired at random, wounding Orlanda. Ross and Frank Orlando were arrested for the shooting and stabbing.
Lural Bacon a noted business and political figure killed himself in Kings ton Tennessee. While testifying in the Himes murder trial his perjury indictment troubled him and he became deranged. He lit a dynamite fuse in his yard causing a massive blast that blew his body apart. No explanation was offered for the act.
At Gaithersburg Maryland Mrs James Jackson attempted suicide in a room with her five year old son present. After her husband broke in he found her in a blood spattered room with a cut throat and a pistol wound. Doctors say six shots were fired with one glancing off a corset and lodging in the ceiling. She also suffered a pistol shot in the left breast. The act is linked to grief over a late daughter. Recovery hoped.
Charles Burns aged 19 shot himself in the street at Bridgeport Connecticut after telling physicians he had deceived his mother and could not endure it any longer. He previously worked in a store earning about one dollar weekly. The report notes his admission following the act and mentions his use of liquor.
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