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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1889
Page
4
An amusing Chicago Times piece depicts ship officers abusing language as they struggle to land a steamer near Madison Street. The captain berates the first mate while the crew endures verbal jabs and harsh discipline amid chaotic line handling and a brutal deck-hand confrontation.
Dr Lyons reports a sharp rise in poisoning cases in India with arsenic foremost in eighty four cases. Metal poisons replace vegetable ones as easy access to arsenic grows. Many poisons go undiscovered and village sorcerers stock alkaloids and mercurials, making poisoning a common and hard to detect crime.
An engineer on a western express fights a two revolver ambush near a remote water tank. With his fireman’s help they outpace robbers and kill the outlaw with a hammer strike, then fire twelve shots into the woods as they flee. The fireman later earns the reward.
The Charles Dickens era style column recalls Wilkie Collins visiting America in 1874. His Philadelphia reading drew a large but mixed audience and collapsed, forcing him to quit readings in the United States and return to England, leaving managers ruined and critics labeling him among the worst English readers. The piece also cites the Philadelphia Record about butter mice and praises invention empowering women through telegraph, telephone, and typewriter progress.
The article explains woodcocks travel briefly through Germany in spring and fall. It details their zigzag feeding flights at dusk, worm and larva diet, and how the long curved bill detects prey. It notes historic observations of bill movement and remarks on captivity and mortality.
Bavarian authorities push for a systematic tuberculosis study to separate heredity from contagion effects amid high prison mortality. Finland gains rail reach toward St Petersburg with a 160 mile line and Arctic Norway conducts northern mining transport. The bass violin is costly to maintain with frequent damage on streetcars, yet prized by players. a court awarded $4,800 for a lost instrument. Artistic vase embellishment steps describe decorating with painted sprays and sanded finishes.
The engineer lists a series of unresolved Glogs topics including whether a long screwdriver beats a short one of the same family water wheels performance at night versus day steel hardening best pulley side for belt drive proper speed of tiny shafts belt lacing economics of compression versus expansion and the stearp sector principle.
An advertisement extols The Great Sierra Kidney and Liver Cure claiming dramatic relief after doctor visits and highlighting rewards for impurities. It also notes a price and wide distribution through druggists, plus a political religious note from Chicago and social commentary on flattery and contentment.
Do not waste time and money on uncertain medicines. Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery is guaranteed to cure diseases of the blood skin and scalp and all scrofulous ailments or money refunded. Sold by druggists in West Etna and offered for an incurable case of catarrh by the proprietor.
An antidote by Dr Livingston’s Chemical Company claims to cure liquor habit in 3 to 10 days without affecting work or diet and is not sold in drug stores. The ad promotes Scott’s Emulsion for consumption bronchitis and other ailments, and cites testimonials. other notices push employment opportunities and Dr Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy.
In Portland readers are urged to seek Dr. Darrin for eye diseases ear discharge and chronic ailments with private treatment claimed. The ad lists office hours and locations at the Washington building and offers home treatment, circulars, and free inquiries while promising confidential outcomes. It also promotes novelty card boxes from Fleming Bros Pittsburgh and warned self-made motives in mower advertising.
Sure cure for blind, bleeding and itching piles. One box has cured ten years claims. Kirk's German Pile Ointment absorbs tumors relieves itching acts as a poultice. Prepared for piles and itching of private parts. Sold by Drugwiste mailed on receipt of $1.00 per box. J J Mack Co wholesale agent San Francisco. Brown's Bronchial Treches noted for bronchial throat issues in cigars marketed at low price. Tansill's Punch mentioned.
An old medical journal excerpt extols four great centers London Paris Berlin Vienna and their renowned physicians. It touts Hospital Remedy Co claims for cures from catarrh to nervous debility with specific tonics and a guaranteed action, offering a free brochure by correspondence from Toronto.
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