23 Nov 1883
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1883
Page
1
A collage of testimonials for Dr. Fahrsey's Health Restorer plus a long广告 mix for local businesses. The items promote remedies, carpets, oysters, restaurants, tools, paper goods, and printing services, with names and addresses from Frederick City and nearby markets.
A 19th century ad listing Bucklen’s Arnica Salve claimed to cure burns bruises ulcers and many skin ailments with a money back guarantee. Also promoting Crofts Celery and Chamomile Bitters as nerve tonic and Croft’s Combined Psypophosphites for pulmonary issues, sold by Steiner Bros.
A scattered news item reports a sensational sequence about Frank Dubois and his wife Gertie Fuller, including claims of gender identity and a physician’s determination of Dubois’s sex during confinement, prompting family tension and calls for arrest amidst public fuss.
Special from Jackson Mich reports a mass murder in Crieade Nevada where Jacob Croach the wealthiest farmer in the county his daughter and her husband Henry White and a visitor Moses Hally of Transfer Michigan were all found dead in bed this morning.
Surgeon Van Zandt reports two yellow fever cases at the U S Marine Hospital in San Francisco involving German sailors from a wrecked barque. They were admitted after endorsement by the German consul. City-wide spread is not feared.
It is understood the Ottawa and Waddington Railway seeks authority to build a bridge across the St. Lawrence at Wed WN NY with local indorsement from Waddington authorities. The request is expected to proceed as a formal matter with little difficulty.
Iron Mountain dispatch says no violence yet but police are increased and militia may be sent. 1500 strikers force employees into ranks, stop pumps, flooding wells. Pinkerton guards machines. gunfire sparks hysteria among women as notices warn others away. Company refuses full pay deduction battles over board and store accounts.
SPRINGFIELD ILL NOV 22 H Oldrard a special admirer of the late President Lincoln has leased the old Lincoln homestead for a term of years and while preparing it for his personal occupancy he is fitting it up to preserve it as nearly as possible as Lincoln left it when he went to Washington to assume the presidency
Patrick Dodd aged 50 and his wife aged 45 were found unconscious in their Penn House room from illuminating gas. They arrived in Attica last night and were removed to a hospital in New York where, at noon, they had not recovered.
After new Caroline County commissioners are seated, moves to relocate the county seat from Denton to Federalsburg are reported. Talbot County sinks 33000 in a first mortgage on Mrs Teresa Retallack’s farm in Oxford Neck. Harford Bank nets 10000 yearly, with 20 percent on 50000 capital stock. Hooper's Island oystermen complain of damage from large bay craft in Hooper's Straits and Honga river. Judge Armstrong of Frostburg loses sight in the other eye. Captain Henry S Conway of Federalsburg survived Tuesday night’s storm aboard the barge Osprey. Over a hundred drowned in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal this year. Cumberland Valley Railroad receives thirty freight cars from the Carlisle slopes. Federal debate moves toward a town hall and improvements. John Shunk, a Carroll County carpenter, dies after falling from a ladder at a Double Pipe Creek mill. A Sutherland Center baby was carried upstairs during a thunderstorm by a lightning flash and was found contentedly playing with an iron nut. Croft's Empress Bouquet Cologne remains a popular perfume sold by Steiner Bros.
A letter from Frederick, November 18, critiques the Daily Now satire column titled Saturday's News. The writer questions Praxiteles as muse and accuses editors of misusing the name Marie, apologizing for involvement and lamenting the column’s aims in verse and public taste.
London Life recounts a Paris Faubourg Montmartre doctor who wooed patients by midnight visits and strange decor. Police learned he held top Paris University degrees but begged secrecy to keep his practice alive as villagers feared the truth would ruin it.
Miss Rebecca Boone of Norristown aged eighty eight died after years of frailty and illness. A distant cousin of Daniel Boone the Kentucky pioneer she traced kin to Boonsboro founder and to Abraham Lincoln. She lived forty years in Norristown and was born in Berks County. Her father Thomas Boone was a first cousin of Daniel Boone.
A mother asks her daughter if Henry has proposed. The daughter replies not yet but predicts it will come soon. She recalls Henry asking if she would live with him if married, and she answered no.
A Pekin mother has given birth to a boy each Independence Day for four consecutive years. The unusual pattern stirs local curiosity as families plan celebrations and community events around the holiday birth tradition.
A mixed roundup notes singers struggling with a new New York opera house, Mrs. Parvenu warning about marked poison on a Delmonico carte, and a joke about spinach preparation. It mentions a reunion of five sisters and a brother in Ithaca aged 604, a Bayonne ship fire, Victoria’s blues banter, and a claim two men run hand organ making. It also covers Nashville’s planned exposition, New York Italian chef pricing, a Philadelphia man dying after a blow, a Chicago torpedo tale, railroad injury reflections, a San Francisco tale of love and suicide, and fashion imports from London that fit poorly here.
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