12 Jul 1879
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Newspaper
Ogden Junction
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1879
Page
1
Odd fragmentary note from Ogden Utah mentions Richards with Pecascutiog Attorn ey and references Fourth Street. Names William, chief justice, and Raven Crpreme Craft appear in garbled form. Context unclear and sources incomplete.
News from Wisconsin and Minnesota reports severe storms with downed lines and damaged property. Reports also note incidents from Texas to New York including executions, drownings, and violence, with international notes on the Mexican mutiny and canal projects.
Paris July 8 De Lesseps told the geographic society that the total expense for constructing the Darien canal will not exceed 250 million francs. He said difficulties were not as severe as at Suez due to a railway and towns at both ends.
A four hundred house fire blazes in Irkutsk on the fourth. Other items report Casey elected coroner in east Limerick, threats to Tula, Szegedin unable to rebuild, Iceland emigrants to Minnesota, the Arctic steamer sailing, and various notes on wartime and public events.
An urging medical notice promotes Liostetter’s Stomach Bitters as the proper tonic for nervous, slender, and debilitated individuals. It claims the product builds up strength and calm, improves digestion, appetite, and sleep, and corrects dyspepsia and bowel irregularity.
A distressed patient asks if symptoms like dyspepsia and heart palpitations apply, claiming Green's Avoust Fiowss cures indigestion and liver complaints. The advertisement promises two doses satisfy, with sixpence to one shilling prices and druggist availability across regions.
A vintage complaint about sensational newspaper headings and misleading patent medicine ads. The piece warns readers not to trust grand claims like liver tonics and blood purifiers sold by J. W. McNutt & Co and others in Ogden Utah, noting past experience with Brown's Liver Pills and Extract.
In Franklington near Tar River, Junina Wight's home becomes a snake den as large creatures prowl the yard. Night reports a three foot head and twenty foot long serpents, while his wife and neighbors flee as the slithering intruders lash and hiss through the night. Night retreats to fetch ammunition but the snakes vanish before he returns.
The item blends poetry and news notes. It recounts a bluefishing trip from Sheepshead Bay ending with a giant serpent sighting, a fatal self harm case in Mississippi, and a missing youth later found dead in Tennessee after a love disappointment. The tone shows sensational minor items and literary interludes.
The speaker denounces a parrot like preaching while noting one law for the poor and one for the rich. He laments deaths of men, women, and children near and mourns a life here over idle comfort in heaven. The piece blends scorn, sorrow, and longing for social justice.
A St. Louis Times excerpt recounts a grim Independence Day poem about Mary and her brindle gray dog. The dog celebrates with a tied fire balloon and blackened sides, ending as a wreck, while Mary and mother reflect on the holiday’s cost and meaning.
A garbled OCR style collage mentions a figdresser, gas fitter, a doctor, a railroad conductor, and various proverbs. It hints at chimney sweeping as a bustling business and comments on liquor speech, with minimal coherent narrative.
Young Daniel Webster and his brother Ezekiel settle a family dispute on trapping a squirrel. Daniel pleads for the creature’s life, arguing for its freedom, persuading their father and ending further traps. The court scene moves the brothers to abandon hunting.
Timorous actor Yankee Ijill recounts a 19th century western New York audience that sat in solemn, churchlike silence with women and men apart. Despite comic effort, no laughter or applause broke the mood until a bystander confessed he was in the play, provoking a rare chuckle.
In a Boston wholesale grocery, a fresh Maine New Hampshire migrant offered to lift, carry, and never lay down a heavy coffee sack. The merchant hired him for a year at $100 a month, while clerks laughed at the show of strength and the outsider’s bold confidence.
Peter, short of funds for Fourth of July, pitches a comic goose draft plan to Judge Paine. He claims to have driven twelve geese from the judge's mowing and later adds a second tale, testing the judge's patience with a playful misstatement.
A collection of proverb like signs links everyday events to outcomes, including missing friends at dinner, anger from hot wax, and a hoped loan when someone says I hardly like to ask you old man. It mentions dreams of being run over by a fire engine and luck when picking up may.
A fashion authority says ladies will wear lawn this summer. A good lawn mower costs 15 dollars. A quirky saying notes that haste marks a weak man who is never chased by a bulldog.
A physician notes that headaches dizziness sour stomach eruptions and other painful symptoms are offspring of dyspepsia. The report links systemic discomfort to digestive distress and urges attention to digestion for relief.
Helmbold’s Buckyt and stimulates the torpid liver bowels and kidneys to healthy action cleansing the blood of impurities and imparting new life and vigor to the whole body A single trial will convince the hesitating of its remedial qualities
A Philadelphia druggist promotes private medical consultations by mail for one dollar. Patients send name, address, age, sex, occupation, health details, and questions to Dispensatory at Filbert Street, requesting diagnosis and cure opinions from Helmbold and a team of physicians.
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