16 Jul 1879
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Newspaper
Ogden Junction
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1879
Page
1
Fragmentary public notice lists names including Willtans Williams Richards Law Yeher and places in Ogden Utah with a Fourth Street address. Details are incomplete but indicate a legal or business matter in the Peety Block area.
Yellow fever reported in New York aboard a Havanan seaman with officials denying danger while Memphis outbreak prompts tighter disinfection. Dispatches note national board of health regulations for entering ports, no inter-state quarantine yet. Other items include walking race results, financial and political scraps, and a major boiler explosion in Barrymore with multiple deaths and injuries.
July 11 London dispatch notes changes in the Prince Imperial funeral. The body will be escorted to Camden House after identification and stay overnight. Queen Victoria will attend at Camden House, the service led by the Bishop of Southwark, with royal princes present. Three hundred Paris passengers attend.
A fragmentary satirical piece riffs on travel, poetry, editors, and wordplay. It riffs on an elephant traveler, a spring pool dispute, and a publisher recounting garret notes, ending with a quip about a cod liver oil maker.
An old advertisement claims Dyspepsia and liver complaints cause dizziness and poor appetite. It touts Cxrex Avast Fionex as a proven cure with two million trial doses given in the U S and offers sample bottles for 10 cents and regular sizes for 75 cents.
Chicago reports J L Jacobson a multilingual self-styled professor leaves a letter claiming he lies at the bottom of Lake Michigan with a 60 pound dumbbell, after moving lodgings and being ejected for drunkenness. The notice cites the purported masterpiece outline and hints at an advertising scheme.
Captain Logan of schooner Kallie E. Stuart arrived Saturday reporting a fifty foot whale approaching the vessel off Whitehead. He struck the whale with wood from the deck, it charged again, and a large coal lump struck the creature, causing it to retreat.
Cultured citizens debated Monday night whether to attend Cary McCarthy Adams Conly and the Beethovan Society singing Verni'e Re quien Mass or parade the circus by moonlight and electric light. The circus, as usual, loomed in the debate.
Patients may consult by letter and receive the same attention as a visit. Provide name, address, age, sex, occupation, marital status, height, weight, duration of illness, and color details. Enclose one dollar fee. letters go to Denensbury Filbert Street Philadelphia H T Helmbold Druggist and Chemist.
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