04 Apr 1884
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1884
Page
1
Product description touts Crofts Senna Digs as wholesome fruit based laxative. Claims endorsed by physicians for constipation and related ailments. Ingredients listed include prunes figs oranges lemons spar powder senna sulfur aromatics and other substances. Sold at 35 cents with usage guidance for all ages.
SPECIAL NOTICES list multiple help wanted and rental ads from a historic paper. Entries include for rent two story brick houses and apartments at West Patrick Street and North Market Street, various rooms for rent, a white woman for domestic work, and shop space sales. The page also notes Oysters and groceries for sale and restaurant notices in Norfolk style.
A public notice announces opening of books to subscribe to capital stock of the Frederick and Middletown Railroad Company. Subscriptions run April eth to May ath at Valley Registers office in Mountchetown Frederick County three hours daily. Shares cost fifty dollars with five dollars cash per share due at subscription. Names of corporate officers listed.
Compiled chronicle details New York City riots from 1712 to 1874, including the 1863 Astor Place clash between Forrest and Macready and the July 1863 bloodshed. It notes police actions, casualties, and the political context of draft and war protests. It also reports a dramatic railroad storm chase from the Charlotte Observer and a separate Robbins death and pension dispute case.
April 2 report notes potential reopening of the copper mines at New London. Company houses vacated, workers expected to occupy them, and renewed mining could bless the community with jobs and activity. Farmers toil between weather limits. roads remain rough but improving. Foster's pleasures eyed, Mt. Pleasant seen as nearest entertainment with Prof. Merrill of Western Maryland College likely to read at Mt. Pleasant Reformed Church before Easter.
Samuel B. Robbins of Appleton Maine fell ill and faced dwindling pension due to no wife. His brother Noah found a Rockland woman willing to wed and inherit as widow. Bans were published February 26 and Robbins died March 4 after collapsing March 2. the bride arrived nine hours after his death.
Governor Hoadly urged a reward for Captain John Desmond's murderer and aid for his aged mother. A senate bill would compensate militiamen injured in Cincinnati and another bill would allow citizens to recover riot damages from the state. The revised death toll stood at 45 and injuries at 158 as barricades were removed and travel resumed.
In a Ster column, the piece notes that blondes fell from fashion due to overpopulation and artificial bleaches. It contrasts real blondes with artificial ones, describing eye brows and lashes mismatching hair and dull winter complexions. It argues brunettes gain favor as winter deepens.
Prominent claim that intrinsic worth earns universal trust and that Dr Bull s Cough Syrup is widely used and satisfactory, with druggists keeping it available.
The notice touts Crofve Senna Figs as an agreeable laxative to prevent debility and mental stupor from costive halt. Sold by a local distributor.
Philadelphia Item reports Charles Branwall a 25 year old with teenlike behavior who confessed to setting Young's stable fire in 1880 while drunk. He later recanted saying his aim was to get printed in the Police Gazette and sent to the House of Correction to sober up. The piece warns of flash literature's influence on weak minded youth.
An editorial notes New York Court of Appeals ruling that voluntary intoxication does not excuse homicide. A drunken murderer remains fully responsible, with the same legal inferences on intent as a sober person. The piece cites urban drinker ratios and social distress in New York. It includes a clipped Workstoten Herald quotation and a Brooklyn Eagle aside.
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