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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1890
Page
4
A garbled adlike passage rails against false cures and cheap tonics, touting Lestetter's Stomach Bitters and Hall's Catarrh Cure. Trade labels claim wide medical efficacy, with endorsements from druggists West and Kinnan, and Walding. It ends with a rustic moral about appearances and quality.
Advertises Dr Porterfield and Dr Lasey offering painless rupture cure with no pay until cured and promotes Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for consumption and liver blood lung diseases. Claims guaranteed results or money back and warns against inferior substitutes.
A plea to the Electric Engineering Company to develop long distance power distribution for running mills hoists pumps and machinery. The request extols their excellence and asks for Mealy by which power may be spread over wide areas.
An OCR fragment advertises Vaseline products claiming free delivery in the United States and touts a jar of Vaseline Cold Cream with shipping details. It references Chesebrough MCK Co. of New York and a broad sale of genuine Vaseline packages.
William Dean Howells recalls a cruel rite in boys swimming days where knots tied in shirts caused torment. He describes the shame and suffering of youths who faced knotted sleeves and soaked ropes, lamenting the cruelty and noting his own family’s opposition to such acts.
An ex Confederate officer recalls the fort Donelson battle where withdrawal followed a hot fight. Searching for Cesar his colored servant cock the bird was inside a log. Cesar refuses to come out saying whites must stay ahead and jokes about letting him have a whole leg in the next fight.
Thomas Carlyle visits Kircaldy provost and elder for family worship. He opens the Bible to Job and reads slowly through all forty two chapters. The servants watch as he meditates, finishing with the remark that the life is a marvelous drama to be read through. Carlyle notes the invitation was not repeated.
Solomon, lured by a newspaper agent, advertised a Mammoth Catalogue promising 100000 copies. Days later he asked for renewal and faced an enraged merchant who claimed he had been swindled. The shopkeeper demanded why only 2763 responses were received.
A Buffalo Express note recalls two men asking for a rare cigar brand within minutes, puzzling the dealer who suspects a setup that proved unfounded. The piece also mentions Garreld’s Daughter secretary J Stanley Brown’s varied career and residence, and a Philadelphia pension attorney’s wartime service, plus a teen climber’s eighty foot fall from a state house dome with no injuries.
A Washington, D C shopkeeper reports a monkey in a Twelfth Street shop repeatedly cradling a guinea pig as a doll. The primate shows motherly behavior, holding, caressing, and nestling the pig against its chin while a second guinea pig is introduced and treated similarly.
A reader describes a meticulous filing method with two memoranda pages tracking sent and received items by date type and remark. Each letter is numbered and stored in order, enabling quick retrieval by cross-referencing the memo and a cabinet pack.
A Sun man in the Erie depot waiting rooms recalls a mock bargain scheme where a young man sought funds to pay railroad charges. The ruse turned on a staged loan and a punch, leaving one assailant moaning in mud and the other fleeing.
A Quincy Whig item recounts that Justice McDonnell scratched his wooden leg near Fifth and Hampshire streets. Friends contested the act but three insisted he did scratch it, leading the reporter to conclude a temporary aberration of mind.
Countryman discusses a book and notes the author plagiarized from newspapers. The Kashaw of Tangier, once with the Warship Enterprise, is described as corpulent and unable to walk abroad. He stands 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighs over 400 pounds, with thirty two physicians advising a month of fasting.
A column discusses women as keen observers in daily matters citing a man who ignored his overcoat and a doctor’s note on Bright’s disease symptoms. It includes a testimonial from Mrs. Davis praising Warner's Safe Cure after kidney hemorrhages.
A letter from T A Slocum of New York claims a cure for consumption and offers two free bottles to readers who provide their express delivery and address. The appeal asserts thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured and invites correspondence.
J P Davenport of Canarsie New York reports severe chest pain and indigestion from cold exposure. He credits Allooch’s Pills with rapid relief and full recovery within a week. The note mentions using Allooure Toners for colds and coughs and references Brown’s bronchial voices for throat issues. The piece concludes with a line about the bother of being a millionaire and the million helps.
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