16 May 1884
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1884
Page
1
Fragmentary note indicates a Frederick Maryland item about infant relief formula. The text is garbled but mentions Da Bod Faheres and a viewer named Nene Nee Ca JMirrs with references to ChE a Teeth.
A private sale advertises multiple lots on Sean Street offered by M CHU Tyg Lynch and Oren Dore ho with unspecified terms and location details. The fragmentary notice hints at a farm or property context but lacks full clarity on size or price.
Advert reads: pasture for cows available for mowing and grazing in a field of clover. Parcel to be sold by the acre at a stated price. Prospective buyers invited to inspect the pasture in front of the barn and make offers per acre.
Thousands endorse Blec Ne Tethers citing quick sales and customer satisfaction. A Mr T. W. Atkins of Gineed Kansas reports strong results and urges merchants to stock the patent remedy. Also advertised are Friedrich Bitters claimed to purify blood and cure various ailments, priced at fifty cents a bottle by Garrott & Quicle.
A fragment from Cumberland Maryland reports general news notes and social items. It mentions a pending new evening daily paper for the city, local executives and residents visiting Washington, pay days at mills, and concerns over cheap provisions and wages. An observer laments living costs and urges wider newspaper circulation.
Pre Curtain notes show Belshazzar's Feast in rehearsal with lively choruses and a featured soloist Ed Amith. The Wallen syronnie cast rehearses crowded scenes from the court to Baal with steady trumpets and drums. Costumes ship from Baltimore. proceeds aid the Skids band. Director Thomas G. Young and pianist Dr. Thomas Fader lead a well received production with reserved-seat box sheets open at Yeakie.
Wide Awake Druggists Garrett and Steele announce the agency for Dr King's New Discovery for consumption and coughs. They offer free trial bottles and a regular size one dollar, with a positive guarantee. This remedy is presented as the only certain cure for coughs colds and throat and lung ailments.
Wim Gazzola, an Italian resident, was arrested in St Paul Minnesota on a murder charge tied to a 19th century case in Nebraska. A dispute over a game led to a saloon confrontation ending with Gazzola shooting the drummer in the back, causing a mortal wound, and then fleeing. He had evaded arrest for four years.
Charlea Morrison aged 15 of near New London Indiana died instantly after accidentally shooting himself through the heart while hunting Wednesday afternoon. This marked the third family fatality in six years, following a father killed by a cow and a son-in-law who fell from a barn loft and broke his neck.
Farrey family on Hanover street, Cleveland, tried a gin colchicum mix after rheumatic woes. Two ounces of colchicum were bought by mistake, leading to immediate poisoning. Farrey, his wife, and Mrs Gorman fell ill. Farrey died within hours, Mrs Farrey died next morning, Mrs Corman perished hours later. Seven children survive Farrey, youngest sixteen months.
A B and O freight collided Wednesday near Connelsville with a camp train carrying fifty laborers. The freight tender arced into the air and fatally wounded the fireman. the camp train tender crushed six men and trapped others who died in a later fire. Twelve injured, fourteen missing. ten bodies recovered. Inquest blamed dispatcher Gilbert Lewis for the crash. District Attorney Cochran to decide on possible prosecution.
Eight year old John H. Sitterding Jr. of Govanstown Baltimore county was struck by a four horse wagon driven by Mr Mumma. The vehicle ran over his left thigh nearly severing the limb. He died soon after at City Hospital. Day reports.
Garrett and Steele’s reports an unprecedented rush for a trial bottle of Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption bronchitis asthma and throat and lung complaints. The store invites all affected customers to call in for a trial bottle and notes regular size availability.
Secretary Chandler reports from Trent that ice conditions in St Johns May 3 are favorable. Emory plans a middle passage through Davis Strait skirting ice to Greenland then Cisco and Upernavik. If blocked by ice at Greenland, he will wait on the coast for a favorable window. Whalers Norwhal Esquimeaux Arctic and Polonia sail for Cape York, two weeks earlier than planned, driven by Greely reward.
A passenger recalls seeing a single freight car at Sutton on the Burlington extension that served as the town’s freight office ticket office telegraph office waiting room express office post office grocery stock dry goods and even the agricultural implements shop. The railroad agent’s family lived in the car and boarded lodgers with a roof room advertised as furnished.
A historic notice describes Crofts Senna Figs as a wholesome fruit laxative endorsed by physicians. It details ingredients like sliced prunes figs oranges lemons sugar powdered yenna sulfur soda aromatics and a conserve divided into twelve parts with a bedtime or needed dose for all ages. Sold by Steiner Brow at 35 cents.
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