01 Mar 1877
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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1877
Page
1
The advertisement lists a long array of symptoms including pale circumscribed facial flushes, eye dullness, foul breath, stomach pain, vomiting, bloody stools, abdominal swelling, urinary turbidity, and disturbed sleep. It claims Dr C Lane's Vermifuge will cure these with no mercury, asserting authenticity by signatures of C M Lane and Fleming Bros on the wrapper.
Dr Nislane liver pills advertised for liver affections bilious complaints dyspepsia and sick headache. Also marketed as a superior purgative for preparing with quinine and after. Genuine pills feature a red wax seal and signatures C M Saxe and Fleury Bros on wrappers. Sold by druggists and country stores.
A column charges the Electoral Commission with denying hearing and favoring one side in key states, urging Congress to condemn the act after Oregon’s case is resolved. Separate item recounts a Philadelphia tale of love potions leading to a domestic clash and a newspaper-style cautionary note.
A Titusville Herald report explains a long hidden oil fissure near the George Custer farm caused by a quarry opening. Oil collected in a crevice and then seeped to springs below, creating a large, unexplained oil seepage over three years.
A York reader received a round package from Olympia Washington Territory that held a hollowed potato stuffed with fresh flowers and leaves. The note says the blooms were picked December 26 in a garden outdoors and spent fifteen days crossing the continent to reach the recipient. The writer notes Olympia’s latitude is near Quebec and winter is milder than Memphis.
Fragmentary OCR text discusses a confiding animal on a farm and hints at handling or training. Key names and clear facts are missing, leaving only conjectural phrases about a boy, defeat, and usefulness.
A reader asks Justice Bradley whether, if he accepted a forged check and the forger then increased the amount, he would endorse the raised sum or expose the fraud and hand the forger to justice. The query frames the doctrine that there is no redress against fraud.
The Louisville Courier Journal reports a partisan split over a supreme court judge and a disputed plan. Republicans fear frauds and oppose the plan while Democrats trust the tribunal and concede the judge must be fair, reflecting election outcomes and party knowledge.
The American heirs of the Jennings estate in England met in Bridgeport Connecticut to form an association. They aim to prosecute for property valued at eighty thousand dollars.
A morning sight describes a young man continuing his dairy work amid hardship. He bears a weary, hopeless look as he travels to a town with no soup supply and no station house.
Smith questions strong odor while Jones confirms wind from the sow west spreading the pits scent across the area.
The Springfield Register notes Beecher lectures in Chicago at a rate of $1.50 per attendee. The paper adds a remark that the old man should do something substantial for the Tilton woman.
A country editor likens the organ's swell to a delicious suffocation as if someone sings a sweet song under the bed clothes. The line uses vivid, intimate imagery to convey sound and mood.
A remark notes that a woman's amusing facial expression toward a loved man is more about mood than romance unless she has eaten something disagreeable, suggesting a lighthearted link between appetite and gesture.
A wealthy Connecticut man has paid fifty thousand dollars for two divorces and has begun steps for a third marriage by taking the preliminary legal step toward marrying his third wife.
Josh Billings argues that religion is worthy of the highest genius, even if some claim it's merely second rate. He suggests moral refinement matters more than pretended piety.
A bluejay was heard ringing in a Detroit park on Thursday while a light ing rod man rode the noon train. Garden instruction urges planting cucumbers in hills four feet apart.
A garbled report notes Irlas Tover praising solitude as a great comfort especially when loved ones are away. The fragment mentions a marriage notice and a New York inquiry about wooing, but unreadable portions obscure details of names and places.
Fragmentary text from a Balint event notes plans and expectations for spring seating arrangements. Names and clear details are unreadable, leaving the main idea of a forthcoming plan without concrete facts.
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