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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1877
Page
7
A Military ee A correspondent notes that the army recently changed the salute and recalls the old gesture with the hand raised to the brow. The piece traces the practice to medieval tournaments where knights shaded their eyes from the queen's beauty, and questions why the traditional salute was ever abolished and not restored.
A French surgeon who warned a priest of a fatal tumor later cures him at Hotel Dieu. Years later the doctor receives the priest’s last consolation. Another note recalls Mr Conway’s letter about a lancaster striker blinded by stray shot and a wealthy widow who marries the blind youth after a lengthy nurseing period.
The Durango tin district in Mexico spans over twenty miles with 600 known veins and 800 stream tin drifts. Shafts show abundant ore and loose tin in veins from pinhead to head size. A visitor notes ongoing tin formation and a layer of cagallerite seen in 1870, while a separate account mentions frigid readings from an Asiatic traveler near the Garden of Eden.
Dr J H McLean offers Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier praised as the best tonic and purifier. The ad claims it aids puny children and delicate females. The Baltimore woman Muapsme Bonaparts, in her 94th year, appears likely to reach 100, remaining mentally sharp and engaged in public affairs.
In a speaker's address at University College London Professor Tyndall urges protecting health as a ship's timbers guard a boat. He compares disease to an invading foe that quietly gains strength at night, urging attention to stomach and liver with Dr. Pierce medicines and the People's Common Sense Medical Adviser. The notice mentions Graefenberg remedies, Johnson's Anodyne Liniment, Durango's remedies, and Parson's Purgative Pills with ads and medical claims from various firms.
An array of 19th century advertisements touts Prof A Corbett with prizes for a new hatching method and manure-based farming profit, a quick Dooury’s pastry powder, Grand Union Hotel services in New York, Byron Moore Burns poetry book offer, and a Durang's Rheumatic Remedy with mail order circlets. Includes addresses in Philadelphia and Washington.
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