Expensive License Debate Stirs Marshfield Town Meeting
A noisy Marshfield session debated a costly license proposal and related restrictions. Citizens questioned the policy’s impact while officials defended the measure amid mixed public input.
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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1900
Page
4
A noisy Marshfield session debated a costly license proposal and related restrictions. Citizens questioned the policy’s impact while officials defended the measure amid mixed public input.
A mother recalls her 16 month old son developing a rash thought to be measles then mumps and later scrofula. After several doctors and blood medicines failed, Hood's Sarsaparilla cured the running neck sores and restored his health.
The piece notes southern Italian towns where upper class women cannot walk alone, escorted by a male companion and duenna. It discusses Castilian customs fading yet persisting in Naples and other centers, questioning public acceptance of gender equality and women seeking votes. It mentions Portia and a shift in independence amid tradition. Also cites Rushin's sixty books earning $20,000 yearly.
The ad promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for painful periods and female ailments. It claims overwhelming proof of health benefits and offers free advice with an address in Lynn.
Dr Talmage argues drama is a God given element in human nature and Scripture. He urges embracing theater not suppression, citing biblical examples from Judges Job Solomon Luke and the Prodigal Son to show drama informs morality and culture.
A speaker urges churches to create a reforming amusement association to cultivate the dramatic instinct. He envisions compressed programs under trustees who expurgate and modernize plays, ban dull sermons, and stage one night performances led by women in the community.
A Swedish boy who kept silent through pain after a fall grew into Gustavus Adolphus’s famed general. An Italian boy saved a drowning woman, later Garibaldi, admired for promptness and generosity. A young artist painted on white walls with flower colors and became Titian.
An old text fragment discusses superstition in nail reading and signs of temperament from nail shapes and colors. It blends with later advertisements for Cascarrets candy, tonics, and tonics claims, and mentions plans about military pay and harbor material figures.
The fragment lists various products and claims from old advertisements including dyes, bowel remedies, cough syrups, deafness cures, and patent medicines. It mentions Putnam Faortrss Dyes, Cascarets, Piso’s Cure, Hall’s Catarrh Cure, and Hall’s Family Pills, with scattered names and addresses such as M. P. Dretrh and Brooklyn.
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