05 Jan 1884
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1884
Page
1
A garbled advert appears to describe several trades including boot and shoe makers, barber services, hair work, and confectionery. It mentions providers or shops by unclear names and notes generic guarantees, with scattered references to coughs and tonics and a Rock and Rye product priced at 40 cents per pound.
An early advertisement extols Electric Bitters as a cure for numerous ailments including bilious disease and low spirits. It claims rapid improvement in life, strength, and activity, with pain and misery ceasing. The text also promotes Croft Senna Fis as a wholesome laxative and notes other remedies like Dr Schley’s Family Cough Syrup, with prices and suppliers named.
The Chicago and North Western road reported year earnings of 25,058,565, up 1,140,926 from the prior period. Also noted: Sperry & Bowes faces up to 5,000 in losses due to the exchange clerk's embezzlement. Meantime Grant improves after a leg injury and a mail coach robbery near Senterfitt is reported.
In a San Francisco Superior court divorce trial, Mary A Hasalbach alias Mary Henriques once known as the mysterious veiled witness in the Cameron case faces allegations of cruelty and threats from Theodore Hasalbach who contends the marriage null due to her prior husband. The woman admits a long, unsettled marriage history and a claim of multiple former spouses, ages and fortunes varying widely.
A Baltimore letter questions the cost of printing Governor Hamiltons message to the Legislature. The Day reports that type setting cost $57 12, but full production for a day including paper nearly $100, as the message occupied much of the day. The exchange notes the burden on city papers for this substantial printing. Samuel M. Clagett announces a calender.
A witness testified in an illegal liquor sale case while the prosecutor sought to clarify the manner of delivery the liquor. The exchange included garbled words as the attorney pressed for the precise handling and nature of the container used.
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