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Newspaper
Mexia Evening Ledger
Location
Mexia, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1899
Page
4
Fragmented OCR items show ads for Hood's Sarsaparilla promising cures for diseases from impure mood to blood disorders, Allen's foot powder advertisement, grooming tips for women, and a line about a teacher famine season. A joke about a priest funeral pronounciation and graveyard humor appears alongside varied product pitches.
A brutal courtroom incident ended with the accused acquitted after a defense attorney collapsed from a gunshot misfire reveal. The narrative includes a counterfeit sting, a New Mexico colonized landscape, and a railroad dining car upgrade by the Baltimore and Ohio line.
Public health advisory cautions that catarrh ointments containing mercury can ruin the sense of smell and disturb the entire system. It urges using only prescriptions from reputable physicians and notes Hall’s Catarrh Cure from F L T Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio contains no mercury and is taken internally.
An account describes Thibet betrothal and marriage rites. The groom may wed the eldest daughter first and then all her sisters, with property shared among brothers after a spouse dies. Parents and families meet. a square lump of butter is placed on each other's foreheads signaling union.
A New York Telegraph report describes a solitary old man living by his log cabin on George Vanderbilt's 9,000 acre estate near Asheville. He refuses money offers, citing past bad neighbors who stole his bacon as his reason to stay loyal to Vanderbilt's hospitality.
Thousands of small apple trees have been found growing on Mull and Iona shores just above high water. Crofters are transplanting the seedlings to gardens, seeds blown ashore from the Dominion line steamer Labrador wreck last fall. The London Daily Chronicle calls it a tactical display of apple pip vitality.
State Entomologist W G Johnson declares a Crawford peach tree on Allen Harris’s Eastern Neck Island farm the nation’s largest. The 67 inch circumference tree bears reliably with a 23 inch diameter, three limbs measuring 29 25 and 30 inches in circumference. Also notes a rail air brake device enabling trackside activation by a tilted lever as the train passes an obstruction.
A Bayonet style warning from Jerry Simpson about delinquent subscribers who owe subscription money. The note cites threats and promises of consequences if payments are not made, reflecting harsh rhetoric used in creditor notices.
A man in McPherson Kansas stored valuables in a safe and wrote the combination on a plastered wall. While whitewashing the wall his writing disappeared, requiring the safe to be blown open. His wife blamed him for the costly mistake.
Roil a lemon in water for a quarter hour then press the pulp in a jar and mix with a quarter pound of honey. Take a teaspoonful occasionally. Dissolve gum arabic and sugar candy in a pint of water with lemon juice and rind. A teaspoonful at bedtime often eases tickling and irritation.
On the accession, the new Chinese emperor proceeds in solemn state to the Temple of Heaven in Pekin and formally announces to his imperial predecessors the titles and dignities he has assumed.
Robert Downing credits Peruna for his splendid health and warns it guards against summer illness and malarial influences. He promotes Peruna as a preventive for changing climates and recommends Dr Hartman’s Summer Catarrh book. Advertising blurbs for tonics and patent medicines fill the page with various claims.
Dr Hartman claims chotera and related bowel catarrhs including cholera infantum bilious colic and diarrhoea are all catarrn of the bowels. He touts Peruna as a universal remedy and cites a forty year practice with no losses in cholera infantum dysentery or cholera morbus. He offers a free pamphlet titled Summer Catarra with address in Columbus Q.
A fragmented note mocks the idea of constant washing for men and hints at a farmer claiming profit by stating needs. It mentions Piso's Care for Consumption as a remedy for coughs and a Denver address, with a stray line on prominent people being famous for their words.
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