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Newspaper
Mattoon Star
Location
Mattoon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1894
Page
3
A fragmented excerpt discusses self insight and remedies for chapped lips. It cites various vignettes on marriage age mismatches, moods, and social quirks, including a 13 year old editor and a widow’s marital history, with brief notes on other topics.
An advertisement praises Syrup of Figs as a pure laxative cleansing the system and aiding kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them. It claims wide satisfaction and medical approval and notes packaging in 50c and 81 bottles sold by druggists, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co.
Dora Leslie helps a dying stranger and her child Tottie. The woman dies and Dora and her mother shelter the child, who calls Dora Papa. Years pass with Tottie beloved by Dora and Mrs Leslie, until a wealthy father claims the girl and Dora agrees to marry his son, uniting two households.
Royal Baking Powder Company announces a new location at 106 Wall Street and T. New is listed in the address, signaling a relocation or expansion.
A collage of oddities and curios from distant times and places. Notes on a Katherine II founded foundling asylum funded by card-playing tax, alum deposits in Lower California, and a historic seven pound door key at Temple Church. Also mentions frozen winter markets in Quebec and a quixotic critique of reform.
A fragmented device of moral couplets extols virtue as beauty and condemns corrupted speech as corrupt mind. The piece notes youth as malleable parchment, criticizes chronic grumbling, and ends with a humorous jab about a wife leaving a man’s restraint.
The article extols nasal catarrh battles and lauds Ely's Cream Balm as a successful radical cure after many failed treatments. A street car anecdote contrasts polite behavior with a commuter exiting at a stop, illustrating ordinary life amid medical discussion.
160 World's Fair photo collection offered in ten parts of 16 pictures each for one dollar. Send payment to Geo Hl Heatford, GM agent, Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway, Chicago, by draft or money order for mail delivery. Also notes on stage debut by Young Mr. Gatlings and a cough remedy advertisement.
A dated column blends moral maxims with humorous vignettes about marriage, reform, and self discipline. It notes the idea that personal duty lifts a department, jokes about a spouse and grooming, then extols Salvation Oil for injuries and closes with a quip about ties seeming fewer near home.
Street car workers and others exposed to all kinds of weather are urged to remember that Dr Bull's Cough Syrup cures coughs and colds. It is unequaled.
Griggs asks about realizations in German lotteries. Briggs replies he realized five times and found himself a man. The exchange hints at a turning point in life and a new sonnet about meeting another.
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