Remarkable cure claim for Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup
A Jackson Michigan resident, Epwamp Bakr, master mechanic and blacksmith at 202 Jackson Street, endorses Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup after a long battle with stomach disease. He reports illness from a stomach disorder since youth, prior medical efforts failing, and states he used thirteen bottles and felt well. Prepared by Rheumatic Syrup Co. of Jackson, Michigan.
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Hibbard
Rheumatic Syrup Co
Jackson, Mich
Epwamp Bakr
Jackson Street
Dignified Senator Clarifies Gambling Moral Theme
In a satirical exchange, a dignified Senator asserts that keeping marbles won by drawing a paper from a hat is not gambling. The youngest son confesses he did not win by play but by a draw, and the Senator allows him to keep the marbles.
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Edward
Chivayo Herabé
Nature in Convulsion and Sunfish Spawn Facts
Criticizes violent purgatives and praises Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters for gentle relief and regularity. Notes sunfish can spawn 44 000 eggs from a small specimen. Mentions Kemp’s Balsam for throat and lungs with free sample bottles offered by the proprietor. Announces plans for a Congressional Palace in Mexico with Placentini’s designer.
Unconscious Spy Rescued by Union Nurse Mrs Wheeler
Eugene healer Mrs Wheeler served as a Union nurse during the Civil War. At Spotsylvania she safeguarded papers for a doomed officer, was captured, and court mar tialed as a spy. A guard’s tunnel and a disguised horseman named Dr. F. Russell aided her escape to Union lines. She later met her rescuer after twenty six years.
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Eugene
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Guards
Mugene
Journal
Telling Their Ages and Public Scrutiny
A discussion on voter age questions notes discomfort mainly among women with age disclosure and argues for minimal age checks. It cites incidents of resistance by a clergyman and a bank teller to constitutional reading and signing, framing it as impertinent inquiry. The piece concludes with a Leeds Mercury report of two historic maritime disasters involving Hugh Williams family members.
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Liverpool
Leeds
Leeds Mercury
New Englander Faces Town Guarding Truthful Promises
An out-of-town would-be grocer in a small Arizona town faced a deputation of locals questioning the honesty of his business claims. After a tense exchange about quality and integrity, the leader warned the newcomer to leave within 24 hours, joking about angels and a postal award if ever needed.
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Arizona
A Safe Name to Have in Sea Disasters
A 1664 gale capsized the English ship Menai with eighty one aboard and only one survivor named Hugh Williams. On the same day in 1785 a pleasure schooner wrecked near the Isle of Man, with sixty aboard including Hugh Williams and his family, and only one survivor from the group.
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Straits
Hugh Willinms
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Hugh Will
Sioux Surprise Party and the Night Raid Tale
A veteran recounts an 1866 stage route attack by a group of twenty three Sioux. As the riders waited, the ambush exploded with a volley killing nine and wounding four, while a captured warrior fears his hair has turned white as he pleads for a mirror to see his face. The incident ends with the warrior’s rueful joke about his heart stopping.
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Julesburg
How old Rings Are Made
A Rehoboth Sunday Herald description details how gold rings are produced from a single bar fifteen inches long and two inches wide. The process spans twenty minutes and twelve steps from shears to final polishing, marking the bar as 11k 16k or 18k after copper oxide removal and pickle treatment.
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Tripoli
Rehoboth Sunday Herald
Jigoku Hell Tiers in Japanese Belief Described
The Denver Republica n describes a complex Japanese belief in hells. Jigoku is said to have 16 ante-hells per hot or cold level, totaling 136 hot and cold hells plus 272 total, plus 20 mammoth dark hells for lost children misusing sacred names.
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Timmense
Dal Butsa
Great Budha
Denver Republican
Photography in medicine and a famed autobiography
In hospitals amateur photographers study medical use of the camera. A Paris publication offered seven thousand dollars for a Frenchman’s autobiography, who quipped that since birth in Lyons in 1819 he recalls nothing except not being killed in uprisings. Whitaker’s Reference Catalogue of English Literature is noted as the thickest octavo ever, weighing twelve pounds and eleven inches thick.
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Paris
Lyons
Whitaker
Syrup of Figs promotes health for travel and ill effects
A period piece notice extols Syrup of Figs for kidneys liver and bowels to prevent fevers headaches and sickness. It lists prices 50c and 1 and promotes widespread sale by leading druggists. It also includes testimonials about Hall's Catarrh Cure from a doctor in Toronto and a challenge offer, plus a note on watch manufacture and the balance wheel’s long cycle.
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Ohio
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F. J. Cheney & Co
L. L. Gorushc
M. D
Sumit Street
F. J
Palmer
Chicago
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General ‘Western
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Hibbard's Pills and Patent Remedies Ad Offerings
An advertisement page lists Hibbard's Rheumatic and Liver Pills and other remedies for headaches constipation dyspepsia and biliousness. It promotes Brown's Bronchotan Troones and Piso's Cure for Consumption, plus tobacco advertisements and Oregon immigration offers.
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Hibbard
Favorite Prescription Aids Nervous Exhaustion And Hysteria
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription promotes strength for overworked women including teachers milliners dressmakers and shop-girls. It claims to be an alcohol free tonic and nervine that steadies nerves aids sleep and reduces anxiety. A 160 page book “Woman and Her Diseases” mailed for ten cents from World’s Dispensary Buffalo NY.
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worLv’s Dispensary Medical Association
Main Street
Buffalo
N. Y
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