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27 Oct 1883
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1883
Page
1
Special notices itemizes pricing for four lines or fewer under this header at 25 cents per week. Proportionate rates apply for advertisements exceeding four lines.
Fragmented OCR notice lists multiple vendors and products in a bustling 19th century North Market Street locale. References to carpet houses, fabrics, clothing, and a large array of names and addresses appear, with scattered prices and promotions. The text evokes a street-level sales page with ad copy for Schley and Delaplane and related merchants, plus printing and stationery services.
Interstate rail tensions rise as Salvationsists march and a westward rail war unfolds. A miscreant youth’s obstruction on the Ephrata line leads to a fatal wreck. a Mischievous Boy’s Fatal Mistake results in voluntary manslaughter conviction with mercy recommendation. A Philadelphia freight collision collapses a West Philadelphia bridge, damaging engines and cars but injuring none.
Miss Becket, a Salvation Army leader, was forced to leave as police ordered the immediate expulsion of the Salvation Army from the canton. The incident occurred on October 26 with Beeker as the reporting source.
Briain October 26 Germany and Russia have intensified forces on their frontiers with crowded Russvaen villages and strengthened German fortifications. Salt Lake City October 26 David Rich, Apostle Rich, sentenced to the penitentiary for Zion’s Peale alae report bullion for the Mormon church or plantation flourishing.
Scattered notes mention Chestertown and Rockville with plans for land sales and church construction. References touch on burial grounds, a missionary group in Rockville, Annie McCarty as superintendent, and a democratic court judge. Details are incomplete and unclear due to damaged text.
Paytox Brown reports a disputed incident at a Northyer avenue grocery led to a quarrel with George Cook. Brown says he lent Mary Mills eight dollars to pay for an organ, Cook questioned Mills, a clash followed with Brown knocked down, Brown seized a hatchet, Cook fled after an injury, a brick was thrown, and Brown lost a bag of money during the arrest. Deer hunting theme noted in Jersey stores.
Arrivals at the principal hotels yesterday include City Hotel guests from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Illinois with ten county visitors. Callin House lists guests from West Virginia, Rochester, Vermont, Philadelphia and Washington plus twelve county guests.
A Boston restaurant owner known as Mr Stokes requires his white waiters to wear English mutton chop side whiskers. A bell boy explains the look is mandatory to keep the job, reflecting Stokes great fondness for English style despite his past in prison at But Sin.
An advertising scene features Bucklen's Arnica Salve claimed to cure burns cuts ulcers fever sores cancers and other skin ailments with a 25 cent price. The page also notes women inventors at a Boston fair and various quirky local anecdotes and names related to photos and a physician's failed ascent.
Alexandria reports cholera reappearing in Fayoom on the west bank of the Nile and in Zitteh as of October 26. Public health officials warn residents to seek care for symptoms and follow sanitation precautions amid renewed outbreak concerns.
A reader is urged to buy Electric Bitters from Garrett & Steele for fifty cents a bottle, described as a universal cure aboard various ailments including liver and blood issues, framed as a blessing to mankind amid patent medicine ads.
A collage of oddities and wry witticisms floods the page. Items include a reputed hermit in Tuckahoe slumbering in a wheelbarrow, Marie Antoinette's harp found in Berlin, and a claim that Belgian capitals face telephonic disputes. Other quips joke about Gladstone gifts, a new Nebraska town named Baseball, and a mayoral title likely to be "the umpire."
Advert ends with sensational claims of Dr King’s New Discovery for chest illnesses. It promises relief from severe coughs colds asthma hay fever hoarseness and throat issues. Trial bottles offered free at Garrett and Steele’s Drug Store with large bottles priced at $1.00.
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