28 Feb 1884
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1884
Page
1
A distressed OCR fragment advertises oysters and fish for sale with multiple business notices. It mentions Dr J Marcin's patent medicine, a barber shop relocation, rents on Market Street, and various merchants like Beckley and Poche offering wood, coal, and household goods. Names and places appear in jumbled form.
The article presents a sermon style discussion on the woman at the well from John and the living water doctrine. It expands on Jesus as Messiah and the three offices of kingship priesthood and prophecy, with references to spiritual gifts and the Holy Spirit as the living water. It includes illustrative biblical parallels and a stream of doctrinal reflections.
Misses Ella Maggie and Maude MeComas visit Mrs W O Rabb of Cocksville Toward county. J J MeComas recovering from rheumatism. Miss Mosuie Jones visits Miss Starr Frederick. Mrs Dorsey Baltimore visits Mrs J A Jones. Lucy and Nettie Dorsey visit Frederick. Mud slows travel. Wheat prospects look good for the next harvest.
A health note claims sick headache languor and melancholy stem from a disordered stomach and promotes Croft's Celery and Chamomile Bitters as a speedy remedy. Sold by Steiner Bros druggists.
February 26 1884 at the bride’s home Rev J W Boyd officiated as S G Swarts wed Miss Alice Peters daughter of John L Peters at Three Spring Mills near Greenfield. Emma V Maxwell returned home after several weeks visiting her brother merchant W A Maxwell near Clarksburg Montgomery Co.
A fragment reports that Dr Schley’s Family Cough Syrup is advertised as finding relief for coughs and colds. The note urges carrying glad tidings into every household to spread the remedy’s supposed benefits.
Michael T. Donnelly, a New York sailor aboard the schooner Jeannette, says captain Wet and the mate beat him and tried to cast him into Chesapeake Bay near the Virginia shore. Fishermen rescued him as the pair fled, and Donnelly seeks libel against the vessel and trial for the captain. Police note frequent cruelty complaints by oyster captains toward workers, many of them colored men, with payment issues and harsh conditions common.
A Baltimore Dey article notes a door hinge buried in a tree during a cyclone years ago and a telegraph pole section with a shingle driven in by wind. Recent storm reports recount a pebble embedded in a woman's back and a shoe sole torn from a man's foot.
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