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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1893
Page
4
A 17 year old Yankee, tracing a wrong fork toward Italy, endures a grueling hike across the Alps toward St Gothard from Airolo. He bears blistered feet, braces loneliness, and narrowly misses rides from passing travelers before a late return to Howpen, becoming a modest hero for perseverance and misadventure.
A New York minister considered giving up long prayers after a mother’s son remarked that God must be tired by listening to so many lengthy petitions. The boy’s line, overheard after services, drew laughs and a reminder of prayer’s patience in the pews.
A Kern County rancher recalls riding Major the mustang to fetch a doctor for his dying sister Mary. In a nightlong chase over slick mud and hills, Major dodged an ore wagon and saved time, but Mary died upon the rider’s return. The horse never carried a saddle mark again, becoming famed for the valley’s longest gallop.
A Pueblo workman found a rounded concretion in a stone block eighty feet underground. The surface held a perfect human face and an identical imprint appeared on the block, leading to plaster casts and debates in European museums. Some scientists call it a fossil. most deem an idol from prehistoric times.
Two women in a Detroit scene clash over impressions and messages. A queenly figure in street dress and a divan sitter in a Grecian gown debate whether to send a message to a neighbor across the way, Clara skeptical of the other’s motives.
A passenger notes a conductor’s two bell signals for stop and start, while a veteran driver can recognize the difference in ringing style. The conductor claims proper signals are one bell to stop and two to start, and that experienced crews may rely on cadence rather than quantity.
A Boston Journal anecdote recalls Sir Richard Wallace hearing the elder Dumas laugh in study while in company with a character of his own creation. A Newburyport Standard item then notes a newspaper printer’s week schedule totaling 120 hours 45 minutes, averaging about 19 hours 82 minutes daily.
A western Nebraska farmer, with no corn for his shoats, tried to sell a wagon load in Broken Bow. No buyers, he released them. the marshal warned of arrest for cruelty if they stayed. He planned to return home and kill them, until told he could be charged.
A garbled advertisement blend cites Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and Allcock's Porous Plasters as remedies for bilious symptoms, stomach and bowel issues, nervousness, and rheumatic pains. It touts world wide reputation, warns against imitations, and urges asking for Allcock's brand in a medical rhetoric voice.
Vintage ad cites rewards for curing catarrh with Halls Catarrh Cure. Includes testimonials from F J Coevey and Wholesale Druggists of Toledo, praising the product and claiming it works by affecting blood and mucous surfaces. Mentions throat ailments from colds and fatigue and advertises Brown's Bronchial Troches.
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