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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1891
Page
4
An old printed notice touts AllecoR Porove Pussteks and AlLvonx's Porous Plastees as world tested and endorsed by medical authorities and patients. It warns against imitations and promotes Ant cocks and Brown's Bronchial Traches for irritated throat cough or cold with confident efficacy.
Ancient patent remedy claim for Krk's German Pile Ointment promising relief from bleeding itching and tumors. Describes rapid relief within ten minutes and notes private parts use. Sold by mail at $1 per box with J J Mack & Co as wholesale agents in San Francisco.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets claim to move the liver stomach and bowels naturally without forcing activity. One pellet acts as a gentle laxative with three to four providing a cathartic effect, easing sick headaches biliousness indigestion and related liver and bowel complaints.
Mrs. Sarah M. Black of Seneca describes two years of neuralgia head, stomach and womb pain with yellow complexion and poor appetite. After using August Flower she reports marked relief and a near complete cure, praising its effect before from G G Green of Woodbury New Jersey.
An advert from Richmond Virginia promotes a cure product claimed to stop a disease. The notice requests names and addresses of every milferer in the US and Canada. It lists P Harold Hayes as the contact and references a legion of details around the cure.
Frederick Gerstecker and the Duke of Coburg visit Cairo and Batavia where a German banker and Parsee juggler stage a sunlit trick with transparent balls that vanish at height. Spectators question a chemical or optical cause while a barbaric matanza of dogs ends in apparent poisonings, bribe offers, and threats amid foreign spectacle.
An American mill, under repair, saw workers by a canal to the turbine mock the task with boisterous play. The supervisor witnessed dancing and face painting, prompting a call for additional workers to restore order amid a blue Monday headache.
Photographic plates may be prepared to be more sensitive to light than the human eye and serve well in astronomy. Placed behind the telescope eyepiece they capture invisible light and reveal stars too dim for the eye, enabling earlier detection of events such as a nova eruption before it is visible to the eye.
Davis A. Wells argues in Popular Science Monthly that Europe’s war effort relies on vast paid labor and peasantry, with millions involved. He notes world expenditures exceed large sums and insists that money reflects work, not improvements in humanity or conditions.
Frederick Schwatka describes Alaska and British Columbia totems as genealogical records. Poles in front of houses show maternal clan histories with figures of beasts and birds, while the man’s pole centers on his mother’s line. The pieces form a vivid, if grotesque, family chronicle in carved wood.
The account describes Russian wheat with long slender heads and red grain, noting it would grade as No. 2 in Duluthor-hiengons terms. It explains harvesting in August, threshing by windmill power, and labor practices under serfdom. Mills and windmills are common near Warsaw and in Poland, with labor saving seen as limited.
The proprietor Ty Meichberhool explains that workers from large mercantile houses spend Saturday through Friday finishing pay cycles. Young clerks start the week with money and drift to higher priced spots, then retrench late in the week and flock to this modest eatery at noon Saturday, preferring affordable meals over debt.
A fragmented excerpt argues that precocity is undesirable and may signal risk to child health. Iteth notes adults doubt the desirability and fears of early development, while physicians warn of potential meningitis and related childhood ailments affecting family dynamics.
A bizarre brown adder eleven and a half inches long with two distinct hems was discovered in a rock pile. Professor W A Rogers and the aeronaut examined the specimen, described as two snakes artistically rolled into one. It was killed days ago by a seven year old Milton boy using abort tick as the adder emerged from rocks.
A New York City feature profiles the so called wharf rats, expert divers who loot ships along the riverfront. Buckshot Taylor is named as a notorious figure, with others slipping via rowboats to steal rope bars of lead and sugar while junkmen buy the plunder. most thieves operate at night, avoid harbor police, and seek lodging in tenements during winter.
The New York Sun notes rising interest in newspaper shares with London Graphic listings showing dividends from 25 to 104 percent and prices around 18 cents per share amid brisk competition. A Philadelphia physician warns against heavy spice use while advocating restraint.
The text extols a plant based stomach biters as a rational remedy for weak, dyspeptic or rheumatic sufferers. It claims these bitters are derived from vegetables and pure spirits, safer than common stimulants, and asserts benefits through tested experience. The closing farmer metaphor suggests hidden effort risks illness or failure.
A promoter argues against medical ignorance praising the Histogenetic System. He claims free consultations and a free book, citing Dr. Jordan's office at ex Mayor Yesler’s residence Third and James. He warns the Histogenetic Medicine is sold legitimately with a single label and labels other devices as frauds.
Centrally located American and European plan hotel at Third and D streets Portland Oregon advertises first class accommodations at one to one and a half dollars per day. Proprietor C W Roby highlights Meecuast H ore and Jacob Hass for stove polish and breakfast with no dust or smell.
Faaxk J. Cheney sworn as partner of F J Cheney & Co in Toledo Ohio to pay one hundred dollars for each case of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary public Gleason attested December 9 in the State of Gao. Cheney company advertises internally and externally.
Our experience and finances enable us to provide a bond in all treatment cases. We do not use knives or syringes or sell trusses but cure ruptures. We report over 700 successful results in men women children and infants in five years. Correspondence invited from Portland Oregon area residents to assess permanent cure viability.
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