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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1891
Page
4
Believers in Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy are urged to try it with a $500 faith reward for skeptics. The ad touts World’s Dispensary Medical Association of Buffalo and emphasizes purification, regular liver and bowels, and mild treatment. It also praises Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as travel aid and digestive remedy.
A fragmented ad style passage warns of indigestion and dyspepsia with claims that Baas. paern's Pinie cures, followed by dubious notes on dyspepsia, Brown's Bronchial Troches for throat issues, and a stray boast about a product called bin's Mhootrio. It reads as a string of 19th century patent medicine pitches with rhetorical questions and testimonials.
Fragmentary OCR shows a fashion themed scene with a woman dismissing a suitor. Mentions Laura W Sheldon in Judge. The text alludes to love, ambition, and a mismatched appearance as a critique.
In Baltimore a thread and needle shop near Mrs Medlaw’s house reopens with sisters Eda and Ella Carr running the counter. A kindly aunt presses work, a young printing foreman Oswald Grey engages Eda, and Ella ends up marrying Mr. Lessner while keeping the shop, leaving Aunt Medlaw alone but content with the turn of events.
A Chicago man touted a cheap method to form steel files in a single blow, using hot steel cooled in a chemical water bath. The process allegedly involved a collusive worker, a public show, and later a disappearance after investor funds funded larger machines. Fraud claims surround the scheme as the inventor vanished with a set of larger devices. A separate note reports Noah Stropp aged one killed by a mishap with an old musket water charge at LePage Street.
A San Francisco Chronicle report describes a Californian patent that uses a sensitized glass or porcelain sheet placed over a photo or drawing, exposed to sunlight, then developed with colored ceramic powders. The result is a permanent, natural looking image fixed by firing in a furnace.
John Porshosaker reports a fortuitous discovery forty five miles from Dh ringe at the Dialualt mine. A 60 foot shaft exposed two light veins of gold iron and silver bearing ore then a horizontal tunnel revealed a four foot wide vein of tin oxide with sulphur. The ore requires only smelting to ingots, described alongside Italian emigration figures from Castle Garden and Germany as context.
A humorous reminiscence on a cherished milkman and his red wagon. The narrator laments waking early to find the cream topped milk altered by the milkman, vowing to reject milk after discovering the cream top fraud. The piece blends nostalgia with comic disappointment in a New York Herald style excerpt.
The Rothschild family is said to hold about 50 million in American securities and amassed vast overseas support since 1813. They reportedly raised large sums for Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, France, Italy, Russia, Brazil, and smaller states, totaling many billions.
A physician attended a disturbance in a house where a baby irritated all present by constant crying. He gave a bolus of soothing medicines and offered to stay the night to observe effects. After hours the crying ceased, and the attendant declared the child cured despite the mother's continued distress.
An eccentric wedding scene unfolds as a bride weeps at her home and a comic misunderstanding about cooking reveals a chaotic domestic moment. The fragment hints at light humor and unsettled plans between newlyweds.
A man described as a trump asks for a piece of paper to wrap something, requesting “Please, mister, gi me a piece O' pa per to weap sa'thin in.” He receives a piece, the door closes, then reopens as he asks again.
A garbled 1800s advertisement page includes testimonials praising Histogenetic Medicine by Dr Eugene Jordan Seattle Washington and Mas A Toonston. Letters claim neuralgia cures and weight gain, with notes on free consultations and a sole agency in each town.
The advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh as a constitutional disease. It asserts internal action on the blood and system to destroy the disease foundation and build up strength. A $100 reward is offered for any cure failure.
An advertisement touts Dr Williams Indian Pile Ointment as a cure for blind bleeding and itching piles. It claims instant relief, absorbs tumors, and offers a money back or box warranty. Sold by druggists or by mail from Williams Manufacturing Co Cleveland Ohio. Also promotes Enameline Stove Polish with no dust.
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