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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1891
Page
3
A bizarre illustrated fragment describes a monstrous figure with two eyelike orbs and veiled limbs, a figure called the Beast of Light, amid a surreal setting. The passage mentions a chaste audience with descriptions of odd anatomy and a transforming menace, surrounded by archaic mythic imagery. The fragment blends fantasy prose with portentous lines about conquest, appetite, and a ritualized feast of fear.
The New York Sun essay cites myths about the Ark of the Covenant and discusses theft rumors, then shifts to a Day & Dew toy sighting at a street market. Shoppers react to a new toy with rotating spokes on a clamp net as it glides along the pavement, drawing crowds and sales.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad schedules extra services for the Mr Aury camp meeting with special trains from Baltimore Frederick Hagerstown and Gaithersburg on Sundays August 2 and 9 and seven weekday runs to the camp from Baltimore and intermediates. Tickets sold at low camp rates and return passage valid only on camp days.
A tonic style advertisement claims Baltimore Brewing Company's Export Brewage is pure healthful and sustaining. It asserts natural energy without stimulant effects and promises appetite enrichment blood nourishment and renewed vigor. Sold by Besant and Knott.
The B and O railroad will run its third season excursion to Atlantic City on August 13 offering reduced rates and comfortable train service. Passengers can depart from Cumberland Hancock Martinsburg Harpers Ferry and other stations with return validity to August 22 and possible stopovers in Washington. Time schedules and fares are listed for multiple pickup points.
An old advertisement touts Shiloh’s Care as a universal cough cure and a remedy for croup and whooping cough. It claims high sales, urges mothers to buy, and promotes Blister Plaster and Red Ring Oil for pain relief, with prices noted and Steiner Pharmacy as seller.
Master Mechanic Buchanan of the Van Gechlr Lines explores a steel toach with prow shaped ends to reduce air resistance. He aims lighter cars and faster engines, predicting future trains may reach seventy five to eighty miles per hour between New York and Coons.
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