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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1898
Page
1
The ad touts STAR STORE POLICY of low prices and customer care. MAIL GARDERS offer prompt service and the text lists a vast array of patterns, fabrics, and household goods including mohair stripes, novel patterns, crepe weaves, granite pots, and men’s and women’s apparel with various sale items and reduced prices.
A decorative verse fragment extols saying Hasta Manana to a beloved Manuela. The text blends multilingual edges and garbled phrases about tomorrow and roses, with stray references suggesting a cosmopolitan inspiration and a misrendered speech note.
Excursion tickets to Indianapolis via Pennsylvania Lines available from Indiana ticket stations on February 20 and 21 with return by February 23. Four requirements apply to Pennsylvanian ticket agents. BUELEN'S ARNICA SALVE advertised as universal healer for cuts bruises sores ulcers and other skin ailments with money-back guarantee. Sold by Geo. W. Bass.
A narrator recalls a starkly solemn May funeral of a widowed mother and her ill daughter. Opera star Parepa Rosa accompanies the widow through a brutal winter, turning sorrow into a moving ceremony amid sleet and crowded stairs.
In a humble room Parepa stood beside a coffin and sang Angels ever bright and fair to comfort the dead girl. Neighbors and mourners filled the space as the voice rose, the scene described as the most impressive funeral service heard in memory.
A traveler recounts visiting a Siamese household where a large rat calmly roams the room and climbs the master’s legs. Rather than react in alarm, the visitor is shown the custom of Bangkok to rear pet rats from a young age into monstrous size through careful feeding.
At a Washington meeting of the Entomological Society specimens of phrysopa from the White Mountains were shown as curiosities. Each carried one or more tiny cecido myiid flies on its back. The group judged this to be a form of parasitic hitchhiking by a smaller insect on a larger species.
The greater part of cast off British soldier uniforms enter secondhand clothing shops. Coats are cut up or sold to theatrical managers or exported to Africa and other regions for trading with Kaffira and other uncivilized peoples.
A Grandin Missouri reader recounts relief from bilious fatigue headaches and digestive distress after using Blood and Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic. The letter touts cures including a heart inflammation case and a neck of bladder issue, claiming widespread success. It also mentions Foley’s Honey and Tar for coughs and Foley’s Kidney Cure for kidney problems, plus DeWitt’s Little Early Risers as a liver aid.
The article notes that kidney disease is a major killer and urges prompt treatment with Foey's Kidney Cure, guaranteed or money refunded, to address early symptoms.
Livery effort in manufacturing Chamberlain's Cough Remedy aims for a perfect preparation for coughs colds croup and whooping cough. Pleasant to taste safe for children and effective for adults. A fair trial should prove the claims. For sale by B W BAS.
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