Scrofula and Skin Eruptions In The Blood
Health notes describe scrofula and skin eruptions as manifestations in the bloodstream. Medical guidance emphasizes cautious diagnosis and treatment approaches.
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Newspaper
Norfolk Virginian
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1897
Page
3
Health notes describe scrofula and skin eruptions as manifestations in the bloodstream. Medical guidance emphasizes cautious diagnosis and treatment approaches.
An advertisement touts 5.5.5 Swift's Specific as superior for blood diseases. It features a Corpus Christi man’s claim of cure from scrofula and rheumatism after using S S S, claiming it reaches deep-seated conditions while detailing its vegetable composition and offering free books from Swift Specific Co. in Atlanta.
The Christian Endeavor traffic moved 23,800 passengers 800 miles from Ogden to San Francisco with 74 trains, 59 special sections, over difficult water supply lines. Managers detail water pumping, gravity feeds, and meal arrangements at towns along the route, noting no major accidents and a block signal ban on July 4th to keep trains in sequence.
Warden Worgler caught two inmates attempting to smoke using two copper wires touching an electric line. A small spark flashed as a lead pen made a primitive cigarette, then the men smoked briefly by electric light before guards intensified surveillance to prevent recurrence.
An old ad claims Micewhe Biktors eases female troubles and boosts strength. It promises to cure loss of appetite, consumption, headaches, fainting spells, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, and dizzy spells. Sold by Burroyy, Martin & Co. drugstore for 25 and 31 cents.
Norfolk Va July 24 1897 Prices for fish meat and provisions list No. 2 mackerel at 7.00 per barrel, No. 3 at 3.50, family roe herring 2.60 per half barrel, Potomac and North Carolina herring, bulk meats and lard prices, cream and New York state dairy butter, coffee grades, syrups molasses, sugar, cotton? prices, grain peas and mill feed with varying per bag and per bushel rates. Local market shows current and refined sugar prices with several grade distinctions.
A garbled OCR style list of seafood prices per pound appears with entries like croakers, taylors, pan fish, bale ing fish, flounders, sheepheads, mackerel, blue fish, speckled trout and rock all followed by per pound markers and strange abbreviations, showing unclear markets and units.
The listing notes firm demand for fancy and prime grades with various brand and size codes. Specific items include Spanish shelled No 1 Virginia No 2 Virginia and hand-ticked Taney extras with price indicators such as 244c and 14 rae.
Market good and good cattle in strong demand. Milk cows from Eastern North Carolina cannot be sold on this market owing to United States quarantine regulation. Western cattle fetch 234 411c and 1M2%e for common and fat cattle. Eastern North Carolina best at 244 314¢. Milch cows priced from $20.00 to $85.00 per head. Hogs dull with dressed hogs at 44c per pound. Lambs at 6c per pound.
A dated listing shows fruit and vegetable prices including oranges at 4.50 per bag, coconuts 2.50, lemons 82.754 cents, cabbage 1.50 to 1.75 per barrel, onions 12.76 per sack, Irish potatoes 1.00, and poultry eggs at 9 cents a dozen. Also noted are wax prices and assorted goods with minor transcription inconsistencies.
Norfolk and Southern Railway Company timetable issued June 60 lists mail and express departures daily except Sunday from Norfolk to Elizabeth City Edenton and other towns. It covers connections at Edenton to steamers to Plymouth Murfreesboro and Wilkins on Chowan and Scuppernong rivers with midweek Ayocn and Telhaven connections. Also notes arrivals at Norfolk and freight and passenger facilities, with connections to Virginian Dare Neuse and other steamship lines and the Eastern Carolina Dispatch routes.
The fragmentary OCR text presents no clear events or names. It appears as garbled letters and stray words without coherent person, place, or action to summarize into a valid news item.
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