Untitled fragment about law and remedy in Illinois
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Illinois law, management, remedy, and people seeking guidance. The readable text lacks clear events, dates, or names to form a full news item.
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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1886
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Illinois law, management, remedy, and people seeking guidance. The readable text lacks clear events, dates, or names to form a full news item.
A Secret Service tale recounts how a Baltimore detective living near the Williams counterfeiting family uncovered a hidden press room with two Gordon presses. The bust yielded nearly 50 000 dollars in counterfeit plates and spurious goods, leading to eleven men in prison and others fleeing.
A satirical piece by Lstelline Bell argues a man abandons his town paper for a cheaper larger New York weekly filled with snake stories and ads. It mocks his disdain for domestic language, mocks his fixation on price, and contrasts local versus distant news including a note on a turkey weighed at 47 pounds and a death in Dakota Territory.
A National Weekly snippet lampoons a politician and the empty rhetoric of dangerous vanity. It likens a scarce, dry dond to an angel and mocks impropriety while stressing self-control and dignity.
A street laborer asks Jimmy about a clearing house and doubts its being a sugar refinery. The other worker recalls a past mortgage incident where a lender cleared them out, forcing a search for a missing child. This Wall Street News excerpt captures rural confusion and financial precarity.
In a discussion cited by the Newman Independent Wheeler argues common schools suffice and a college education cannot replace brains. The fund solicitor notes the father’s regret but refuses to apologize for the historical mistake.
A roundup of marvels including a coal tar extract 230 times sweeter than sugar, restricted school paper rules in Austria, a 14th century German NT manuscript, a shrub juice halting bleeding, Westminster clock details, wood alcohol risks, a milk diet prodigy, African poison gland practices, and London’s population surge surpassing rivals.
A humorous reminiscence follows Bob Babcock recalling a spring 80 East trip. In Boston a dentist misreads his patient as Tom Johnson from California, mixing talk of trains, teeth, and old schoolmates. The tale ends with a nod to mortality and flowers.
The Cincinnati Times-Star reports a former chemist, H. C. Wilson of Loveland, now opium abstinence advocate, describes his recovery using Warner’s safe cure. He details addiction origins, kidney and liver focus, and claims the treatment cures the habit when organs are restored and used with his program. He cites medical endorsement and notes many patients recovered when kidneys and liver were treated first.
A Texas woman asks how to stop her boy from stealing sugar and milk. a neighbor suggests swapping the contents in the bowls. The note catalogs various short items from Hall's Hair Renewer to an epitaph in India and short anecdotes.
The Washington Post quotes an official explanation for Atty. Gen. Garland's absence from the President's wedding. It says a vow after his wife’s death forbids social festivities, and keeps him after hours with his aged mother. It notes his son’s wedding was attended by him with approval. It rebuts claims of a dress suit aversion.
Rochester New York based Rural Home offers 150 cloth bound Dollar Volumes for a $1 subscription to the Great 8 page weekly. Titles include Law Without Lawyers and Family Cyclopedia. A one year postpaid price is $1.15 with satisfaction guaranteed and references to Hon. C. kd. Parsons as mayor.
The ad promotes the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot with European plan, elevators, and restaurant. It boasts spacious rooms costing one million dollars and daily rates. It highlights convenient transit, rail connections, and a claim families can live better for less than at other first class hotels.
A child, after laying aside her slate, tells her mother she is drawing on her stocking. The playful remark captures a witty moment reported by the Troy Times.
The Vouraic Ber Co of Marshall Michigan offers to send Celebrated Vouraic Bers and Electric Appliances on a thirty days trial to men afflicted with Nervous Debility Loss of Vitality and Manhood. A illustrated pamphlet with full particulars is mailed free in a sealed envelope. Write them at once.
The Baltimore Sun notes the fashionable pairing of purple and yellow iris with cow slips dandelions buttercups and daffodils. Pansies join yellow blossoms for a charming effect while heliotrope and violets appear in garlands on bonnets for elderly ladies.
A man in Elmwood North Carolina reports a foaled colt that lacks a mane and has a tail like a rat with a woolly body. The owner sheared it recently and gathered several pounds of wool from the unusual animal.
The essay asserts women hold under 1 percent of U S patents annually and that no significant female inventors are on record at the Patent Office. It mentions a few cited examples such as a coffee pot, a fire escape, an artificial fruit compound, and a method of cutting paper patterns.
A promotional note touts ScoviiL's SARSAPARILLA and Blood and Liver Syrup as cures for blood diseases and impure blood. It claims this medicine is highly effective, carefully prepared, and endorsed by leading professionals, contrasting it with poor physician prescriptions.
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