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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1894
Page
4
Fransom reports 13.123 bonus accrued in the previous year. Readers are advised to seek remedies for sore eyes and may contact Dr Lance Thompson for water Drogziann at 26 cents per bottle.
An unemployed, solitary man in San Francisco has lived for weeks on barnacles scraped from near the Mail dock at low tide. He admits the mollusks are poison to most, but he eats them because he has nothing else and does not know when he will have food again.
Report from Cronstadt recounts 200 fishermen and peasants with horses and sleighs swept onto a large ice floe thirty miles from Cronstadt. Lifeboat crews from Cronstadt and Orenbaum used two lifeboats on runners, forming a bridge of poles and planks to reach and rescue all stranded people after at least forty eight hours adrift. Provisions were carried across from the mainland during the ordeal.
A trial shipment from Victoria Australia to England was inspected by an officer from the Agent-General for Victoria. Experts noted the eggs were packed with grease then bran flour lime and pollard in small cases. On opening the eggs proved fresh and sweet. The cheese portions weighed forty pounds and small loat TM sizes and were sound with good flavor.
A New York Journal excerpt quotes a tale of an African Prince named Eyo Expenyon Evo If That who is educated in Liverpool by an Englishman. The prince, cold and shivering, longs to return to Athens where he once roamed barefoot in sunshine.
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications. it is a constitutional disease requiring internal treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is advertised as a blood purifier and mucous surface tonic, prescribed by physicians, and sold by druggists with testimonials available.
An advertisement touts Pyrup of Figs as the universal laxative and claims the California Fig Symphony remedy achieved great success. The text notes the product as a popular laxative sold by druggists and mentions a five-cent Livingston Confederate stamp selling in New York for 576 dollars.
A survey of women in society covers fashion trends from silver glove stretchers and jet bonnets to open-work embroidery and roses, plus profiles of notable women. It notes Amanda Smith as a temperance evangelist in England and May Philbrook seeking admission to New Jersey’s bar, with legal and educational milestones for women.
Mrs William Tod Helmuth of New York City, elected president of Sorpsis, rejects any belief in female superiority and credits much of her influence to her husband, who serves as confidante and partner in all affairs.
The Philadelphia Record notes animals cure themselves using dust, mud, grass, herbs, and water. Dogs fear fever and eat dog's grass, while terriers seek darkness after eye injury. Wolves, ants, and others show self limited diets, heat, sun, and cold water as healing practices.
The piece details the gaucho diet with a sunset single meal of roasted meat, scant vegetables, and strong drink, shared around a rough hut with horse gear displayed. It connects Gaucho hospitality to travelers, then shifts to Homeric lotus eaters and the fruit of destiny, describing the lotus plant and its cultural associations, including Arabs and various water lilies.
The note argues against the belief that dishonest merchants routinely adulterate sugar with sand, noting sugar adulteration is uncommon unless highly technical. It explains how sand would reveal itself in consumption and contrasts with ancient Greek medicine endorsing sea travel for health, which later declined in favor.
A late 19th century account notes Edgar Aldrich at fourteen serving as a bell boy at the Alpine House in Gorham during General Grant’s New England tour. He documented mountains and rivers for Grant, earning recognition for his effort and painstaking industry, per the Concord Monitor. The piece also mentions cheese imports, petrifactions from the West and mountain states, and a Chicago Herald remark on advances in talent production.
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