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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1877
Page
7
Poem fragment addressing a lady with dream imagery and memory. The speaker asks for a moment of pure delight to keep, referencing longing and home as a Mant kept in heart. Appears in Phila Evening Bulletin.
In a Harper Bros. account Col. Long endures six months of rain and disease as he travels from Gondokoro into Central Africa. He reaches Fatoka after 165 miles, meets King M'tse, and is shown a royal reception ending with a human sacrifice performed to honor the visitor.
A New Zealand citizen describes a kapito bite that caused intense pain spreading from groin to spine and chest. The spider was nearly black with a body about the size of a flex, and remedies including ammonia and turnip poultices yielded dark exudates before the patient slowly recovered.
In a San Xavier incident, Mr. Moore mobilizes eleven men and a rescued guide to pursue raiders after sixty to fifty cows are stolen by the Chaco Indians. A skirmish yields several fatalities on the Indian side and frees a captive boy. The column repels a second Indian assault with heavy losses for the attackers.
The piece extols exactness in science from the electro magnetic telegraph to weather prediction and medical diagnosis. It highlights Dr. Pierce and the World s Dispensary system for diagnosing chronic diseases without in person exams and promotes The People s Common Sense Medical Adviser with forty years of medical research.
Dr H James linked to the British Medical Staff in the East Indies discovered a cure for consumption during his travels. After retirement he left books and papers teaching self treatment and medicine preparation, offered to the public for a stamp and small fee. Craddock & Co of Philadelphia advertise the collection and fashion catalogues while other patent remedies promise relief for coughs and rheumatism.
The article promotes fashion advice emphasizing an amethyst ring worn on the third finger of the left hand as a mark of style. It urges readers to adopt a refined demeanor and to cough modestly at times, framing it as a signature gesture of an illustrious lineage.
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