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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1892
Page
4
The advertisement touts Royal Baking Powder as the purest lightest and most wholesome for bread and pastries. A New York State Analyst letter asserts its superiority and unmatched purity strength and wholesomeness.
An advertisement claims a universal cure for ear disease using a Conetitia remedy and a proposed Eustachian tube treatment. It offers a monetary reward for any condition it cannot cure and promotes a harmful, unverified drug regimen and product names.
J D Cox of Allegheny City, Pa, reports five months of dyspepsia with fullness after meals and sickness. After two weeks using August Flower while employed by Thomas McHenry, he improved, gained twenty pounds, and can eat foods previously avoided.
The New York Tribune recounts a supreme court scene where many jurors shared common names. The clerk drew John Smith twice, George Rogers, John Town twice, John Brown, and finally Jacob Levy twelve times before selecting the correct Levy. The judge noted the time wasted by sequential draws.
A New York Commercial Advertiser report recounts a baby from the south who has lived in town only weeks. The infant, under her mammy’s care, wandered near Morty Second Street and Tenth Avenue while helpers searched the area.
A confused account describes a visitor pressing toward admission after 2 PM, facing a determined veteran guard near the treasury front. The visitor insists on seeing Mr Cash about a brash item while being rebuffed and escorted deeper into the building.
The article presents a table from insurance calculations showing average life expectancy by age. It notes the law of averages and gives examples like a one year old expected to live many years longer, with figures for 10 11 20 40 and other year spans.
Dr. Sieben a Berlin electrician lives in a house famed across Germany as The Wonder of Wanne. The building is wired roof to cellar with an electric railway linking dining room kitchen and wine cellar. A tiny switch and button move items instantly along the track.
Fragmentary note describes savage tribes of Oregon and a Persian myth about a crowned eagle figure. Mentions a matron fattening a name and an ancient Persian context, with sudden shifts in topic and unclear narrative connection.
The odd note describes a parquette scene with a young attendee in dress circle during a play line about emotion and tears, with unsure dialogue and stage imagery. It captures a fragment of a theatrical moment amid a noisy audience and unclear references to a specific show or event.
A London trial on piracy of a melody features Cooke explaining musical accent to Sir James Scarlett. He defines accent as emphasis on a note, akin to stressing a word, illustrating with donkey versus you are a donkey. The piece notes the public fascination with music theory sparked by bar division.
A lion tamer, fearless before ferocious animals, fears bronchitis and, after entering a cage with bears and a panther, notes the cages themselves are a dreadful place for draughts. The exchange with a gentleman highlights the irony.
In the Chicago Tribune excerpt a shopper notes that an unaware seller may substitute a cheaper cigar for the brand named, warning that an unknown customer is more likely to be swindled by deceptive packaging and worse product. The remark emphasizes buyer diligence and distrust of unfamiliar imported labels.
Mrs East drops a bluing bag into pulp causing a peculiar tint. The husband reacts, a London shipment reveals the tint, and the public embraces the novelty. The wife confesses, the husband forgives, and the tinted paper becomes a fortune.
A recipe to fix glass letters fares and similar items by using india rubber cement made of one part india rubber three parts mastic and fifty parts chloroform. Let stand at low temperature to dissolve the cement and apply rapidly as it thickens. The mix can seal cracks in glass or porcelain but cannot withstand heat.
The New York Telegram notes a treatment method stating stammerers rarely impede speech when whispering. The plan bans talking for ten days to rest the patient, then allows whispering for ten days, followed by a gradual return to ordinary conversation over fifteen days.
A Times Democrat interview with Dr. K A Gunn at his West Forty-seventh Street residence reveals his strong endorsement of Warner's Safe Cure for Bright's disease inflammation of the bladder and kidney ailments. He cites several case records including a recovering Bright's disease patient, a man with renal stones, and a woman who recovered from uremic coma after late pregnancy.
A New York Star report describes a morning glove sale at a large uptown store where forty five cent gloves drew a huge crowd. Shoppers crowded, paid with wrong bills, and clerks struggled as floor walkers paused the sale for three hours before restarting it amid continued demand.
A Utica Observer item recalls how some wealthy visitors hunt for rare locked horn specimens. Guides and hunters collect matching antlers by twisting cords and springs to resemble a fight lock. The horns fetch high prices for display amid tales of deer skeletons and barren ground.
The Detroit Free Press notes long lifespans for birds such as swans claimed at 100 years and falcons observed at 162. It cites sea eagles dying 104 years after capture and a white headed vulture living 118 years in Schoentrunn Castle aviaries. Paroquets ravens magpies can pass a century. canaries live 12 to 15 in cages, longer in the wild.
An essay notes mechanics and storekeepers hold the largest savings, with doctors and lawyers favoring savings banks or national banks respectively. It observes professionals keep funds for rainy days, while actors and pointers often earn seasonally. A Brooklyn Eagle quotation and a 1918 influenza anecdote follow.
A medical classic argues excessive meat and concentrated foods cause a range of disturbs from gallstones to dyspepsia and irritability. The suggested remedy emphasizes increasing overall food intake to improve health and mood.
The passage compares purgatives and drastic liver remedies with “Rivers” as a well-known, trusted option. It critiques overreliance on drastic cures for liver trouble, malaria, constipation, and dyspepsia, urging reason through experience and public judgment. It notes the appeal of Hustetter's stomach Bitters and the Rivers remedy as favored by intelligent readers.
An advertisement extols Beaxveeta's Pits as a purely vegetable medicated food that delivers a consistent dose with repeated effects. It claims blood purification, digestion improvement, liver stimulation, and overall vitality restoration, with cures for rupture piles and private diseases offered by Dr Porterfield & Leary of San Francisco.
Proprietors guarantee cure or $500 payment for Catarrh sufferers. The ad claims the medicine cures permanently and has tested many hopeless cases over years. If willing to test, you pay fifty cents to your druggist and start the trial.
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