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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1886
Page
4
Detroit Free Press recounts an anecdote aboard a New York Central smoking car. A boastful man challenges a quiet stranger who calmly outlines his likely responses to threats and insults without violence. Conversation then shifts to the country’s general prosperity.
A farmer visits the Jackson and Fort Wayne line headquarters urging a new passenger station at a crossroads. He argues local patronage would justify it, citing residents like Skinner and Aunt Deborah Smith who travel to Jackson Fort Wayne and Lansing, promising a dozen locals would use it if built.
A Christian Advocate correspondent notes that Sloven correctly refers to men and boys while sloven should not be used for women. The piece asks readers to accept the linguistic distinction. In a light Union Depot exchange a passenger misreads Montrose as Smith, humorously illustrating the common surname mixup.
Advice to mothers urges sending for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup to calm teething infants. It claims quick relief from crying and pain and also promises cures for dysentery and diarrhoea, wind colic, and inflammation with a pleasant taste and worldwide availability at 25 cents a bottle.
The ad notes a sale of a medicinal product sold by all druggists at one dollar per bottle with a bulk offer of six bottles for five dollars.
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