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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1890
Page
4
A California druggist note from Corrixs & Marvew at Twentieth and Mission streets San Francisco endorses the Great Sierra Kidney and Liver Cure as the best selling kidney and liver remedy with rapid daily sales growth. The letter favors the product in comparison to other California remedies.
A broad advertisement extols electricity as the ultimate force powering life and healing, offering free examinations and treatment by Dr. Darrin. It includes testimonials from Oregon and Washington residents for deafness, nervous debility, eye disease, consumption, and other ailments, with home treatment options and confidential care.
Advert describes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a universal blood purifier usable year round. Claims no alcohol or sugar, concentrated vegetable extract, tolerable for adults and children, with a money back guarantee if no benefit. Cures skin and scrofulous ailments including eczema and fever sores according to the text.
A fragment from a poem reflects a couple's exchange about harming feelings and forgetting. The speaker notes hurt despite forgiveness, while the woman acknowledges love's strength can leave deep memory. The lines imply inner conflict between affection and memory.
A robust middle aged man recounts losing his job from twelve hundred dollars to seven hundred fifty a year. He walked five miles home, then ten miles daily, lost weight, gained health, and credits salary reduction for saving his life as quoted by the Philadelphia Call.
A visitor detects a flaw in the east front bronze doors of the Capitol depicting early US history. Cast in Chicopee Massachusetts the central rider lacks stirrups as Washington looks on, drawing criticism from a granger observer.
A study by Herr Tarchenoff reports skin currents from mental excitation using unpolarizable clay electrodes and a galvanometer placed on various body parts. Light touch hot water or pain provoke responses, and imagined sensations also yield currents, with strength varying by sweat gland density.
The New York Mail and Express reports a severe shortage of English sailors in Hong Kong with wages up to £21 per month. Masters substitute by hiring Chinese sailors, raising concerns about safety and skill, with an estimated 20 000 Chinese sailors in Atlantic and Pacific trades.
A religious editor laments a missing revolver from his desk and a joking reply from a snake reporter about whether it was loaded. The exchange ends with a quip that the weapon might misfire on its own, reflecting a tongue in cheek newsroom banter.
An uptown businessman explains a new credit brokerage system that lets people buy goods on credit via a broker who secures merchant credit for them. The broker earns commissions, handles orders, and al lows purchases from clothing to jewelry to tools, even teeth work, on installment plans.
A London owned 170 carat cat’s eye valued at 80,000 rupees, Mme Dosne’s pearl trove, a 2980 carat emerald in Vienna, plus a museum quip about the famed phantom Fiametta spark reader interest. The dialogue notes a ghost visible to some.
The Norristown Herald notes the new diamond trust trend and how editors struggle to cover it while families race to obtain diamonds at current prices. The piece highlights editor fatigue and pressure to secure diamonds amid rising costs.
A nostalgic tale recalls Henry Gladstone’s wooing of Misa Maud Rendel at Posillipo in 1889 ending in a hopeful confession after she admits uncertainty. The piece shifts to a high school scene where a science teacher’s quizzing about armadillos highlights wasted study time and a bleak outlook on youth science education.
A Medical Journal summary reports mortality among 86331 clergy with 180 infectious deaths, far below 239 expected, while physicians show 127 percent above normal. Lung diseases exceed expectations for clergy, Catholic priests show higher mortality than Protestant ministers across several age bands, with possible links to celibacy and strict penances.
Coleridge’s playful verse to Lamb is rejected by the addressed, who mocks being called gentle hearted. Benjamin Fills Martin criticizes elderly reluctance to cede homes and stay out of the way as unworthy. Christian Union condemns such timid withdrawal and urges gratitude to elder generations. The Nonotuck Silk Co combines water power and a dynamo to drive mill equipment in Massachusetts.
A fragmentary reminiscence portrays Abraham Lincoln’s deep melancholy shaping his character and politics. It recalls his sympathy, personal losses, and tales from a Salem grocery partner about Lincoln’s grief for Ann Rutledge and the rainlike tears at his eye. An 1800s letter in Corona highlights Warner's Safe Cure as a remedy.
An advertisement offers an ornate package of 15 rare novelty cards sent by mail to anyone who buys a box of Dr McLane's Celebrated Liver Pills from Fleming Bros Pittsburgh Pa. The pills are advertised as pure and effective for indigestion and headache with a 4 cent stamp and address on the wrapper.
A brief, dated health note extols onions as healthful but warns they worsen breath. It suggests Beaxpreti's Prucs as a remedy to regulate liver and stomach, promising sweeter breath. The text ends with an odd remark about Aveld and personal scent.
A cautionary note warns readers about counterfeit versions of the Seal of North Carolina Plug Out Tohaves and recommends trying GeRMEA as a breakfast option.
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