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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1891
Page
4
A collage of drug claims praises Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and Sage’s Catarrh Remedy, along with Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters and other tonics. It touts refunds, cures for malaria, dyspepsia, and nervousness, and promotes Doublin’s Electric Soap and Brown’s Bronchial Traches with testimonials and local sellers.
A Harper's Magazine piece warns that modern life overtaxes mind and body through constant striving and emotional strain. It argues nervous expenditure harms the heart kidneys and brain, urging abandonment of such intense effort to prevent ruin and illness.
Frank G. Carpenter argues that Japan resembles America in rapid adoption and currentness, but lacks American drive for accumulation and creative power. He notes Japan’s stage as imitator now moving toward creativity, with past civilization largely borrowed from others.
The article traces the shift in life insurance from voiding claims when death results from the insured's own act to policies that become incontestable after three years. It notes earlier practices excluded suicides, while modern policies often ignore such acts after a period, assuming no fraud is found within three years.
A dramatic scene at the Twenty third street telegraph station shows a young woman racing to dispatch a message to Nassau Street near Wall Street. She hurries the operator to deliver at once before 4 30 as she weighs fastest route by messenger and car to Nassau. The note says Dont bring Mr home to dinner Cook just left in a tantrum.
An New York Herald account discusses Vasilli Verestchagin’s Turkestan collection and views on Kirgul life. It describes steppes near the Ural frontier, Kirgul customs, and women’s status through anecdotes from photographers and a Kirgul chief.
The article contrasts old methods of treating strictures with new electro-surgical techniques used in Germany and France. Dr Tol, the Northwest’s sole proponent, recently opened a Washington Street office in Portland and brings fifteen years of European practice to his practice. A closing joke notes cynical neighbors watch a bride stop meeting her husband at the gate.
Public notices promise rupture cure with no pain and no pay until cured and detail a blind eye treatment by Dr La Grange in San Francisco. Other ads tout tobacco products and a purification remedy for dyspepsia, urging readers to beware of imitations and to seek listed addresses.
Dr Wallace Ely has moved his offices to 215 Powell Street San Francisco California continuing to treat kidneys bladder prostate gland diabetes and Brights disease using the latest methods. Most cases can be treated successfully by correspondence. Consultations free from 164 to 104 M tod Mw. Wallace Evy MD 215 Powell Street four doors from ieary street. Use Enameline Stove Polish: no dust no smell.
An excerpt from Scribner's Magazine describes a large French family reunion with genteel restraint, polite children, and rare loud games. It notes the absence of familiar warmth, the social etiquette, and the restrained humor around gambling and conversation, contrasting with American gatherings.
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