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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1897
Page
3
Detroit Free Press recounts a slang filled exchange as a citizen complains about a suspect grievance with a question on a missing check and a black eye. The report ties the incident to a dispute between Jimmy and Sammy Dix during a casual gathering.
A recent graduate tells an interviewer he is willing to work in any position to earn at least 2500 dollars. The Somerville Journal quotes his readiness to accept diverse roles to secure a living.
A doctored-era advertisement warns women of left ovarian congestion leading to removal surgery. It promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy and includes a testimonial from Mrs. F. M., Milwaukee, praising the treatment after avoiding an operation.
A 19th century notice touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as essential for back health and kidney disorders by stimulating digestion. It claims the tonic strengthens the spinal column and organs, aids bilious and dyspeptic conditions, and notes the reapers begin singing in Texas.
The advertisement touts Hall's Hair Renewer as making hair lustrous and silken with even color and allowing women to style it in many ways. A separate government survey note states Wyoming surveys this year will cost $25,000.
A Chicago clothing house Kein Brothers markets ornate typography in a fashion plate sample titled Prom Pold tn Latens. The cost is free to readers who forward their address to Kohn Brett for a Jugend souvenir. The note also mentions Champagne grapes and red currants.
A fragmented notice mentions a one hundred dollar reward for a vase or catalog not cured by certain firms. A chain of odd details touches on jobs, sanctions, poultry, a theft at Winimouth Rock, and a curious pig. Names and places are garbled, but the piece sketches a miscellany of small town happenings and rumors.
An 1890s letter endorses Lioad's Sarsaparilla claiming it purifies blood, strengthens nerves and restores physical and mental vigor amid alleged insanities from impure causes. The missive cites a Michigan resident Kalamecs comparing improved health after use.
Archibald Sloss narrates his grim recollections of Bermooda prison and Yellow Jack. He recounts aiding Commander Jackson during a fever outbreak, facing punishment, and later seeing his own sentence remitted for nursing the sick and aiding the captain.
A collection of brief notes covers Spain's goat numbers and menage red hats in Maine, Baltimore planning two child playgrounds, Justice C W Walton's impending Maine retirement after forty years, raft excursions in Old Town Maine, lobster hatching by U S Fish Commission in Maine, a witty remark on a woman's hat, a Maine man facing asylum after attempting bicycle counts, Vermont sturgeon weighing ninety four pounds, Vice President luncheon habits, Chinese embassy staff schooling in Hartford, a Maine householder's insurance agent absence, a remark that wars long precede the present, Prussia's 1806 alliance with France and Napoleon's Berlin entry, Berlin cycle stands with a penny rate for day hires.
A digest of assorted remarks and anecdotes about public figures. John Bright plans his son to publish diary portions. Queen Victoria owns twenty five state carriages. Hindoo prince Ranjitsinhji authored a cricket book. Edinburgh classmates Stevenson Drummond and Maclaren show no distinctions. A Houston barber chair purportedly hosted Hamlin Douglass Blaine Garfield Tilton and McKinley. Swinburne on James I. German expert Cuffey plans plague research hospital in Bombay. Zola is said to write three hours daily with a shift between day and night.
Dr Rauwolf, a German physician, is credited with bringing coffee to Europe from Arabia via Abyssinia in the mid-1500s. A counter to coffee, Grain-O is praised as a nourishing grain drink. it's said to be nerve safe and cheaper. The notice also mentions Oregon flax premiums, free farms in Manitoba and Alberta, abundant coal, light taxation, and travel rates, with a contact for C J Broughton in Chicago.
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