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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1882
Page
4
The English seize 10 000 Mes 15 000 rifles and fifty field guns from rebel stockpiles. Officials warn some leaders may face execution while lingering rebellion risks escalate across the region. The seizure bits underline a strong decisive move against the insurgents and signal severe penalties for ringleaders.
Reports detail 23 000 Egyptian troops surrendering at Kafr El awar and Aboukir area actions as British naval forces patrol, with Abd Ellah Pasha and Arabi Pasha involved. Damietta resistance, mass trials planned, and Wolseley authorized to restore order. Island garrisons shift and rail lines suffer desertions amid ongoing conflict.
A health tonic claim promotes Dr Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sareaparilla as a cure all. It extols protective effects and lists Juniper Tron Celery and Calisaya as ingredients while urging readers to ask their druggist to stock it.
A lamented tale set in Austin during a smallpox scare describes a colored man exchanging his blanket at a pawnbroker for a quarter to avoid vaccination. He claims the blanket once belonged to his mother in law who died of the disease, while the pawnbroker fears credit ruin as he plans to vaccinate with buckshot.
An elderly man from Circleville Ohio writes about his health improving after using a remedy claimed to combine “Dex” and Sarsaparillate. He notes his age is 71 and credits the treatment for feeling better.
Poem verses describe blue and brown eyes meeting with mutual love. The speakers praise the tender gaze and smiling glances that ignite affection, making the world recede as two lovers share a timeless bond. The refrain urges the blue eyes to keep the world of love in their keeping.
The piece surveys New York theater fashion with pinks blues browns and greens and notes lavish dressmaking details. It highlights Lillian Russell Cynthia Leonard and Mrs. W J Florence at recent performances and recounts a mixed audience including a black servant in the gallery.
In Virginia, widow Martha Skelton, famed for wealth and grace, rebuffs two suitors with a harp and violin. Rumors say she soon engaged to Thomas Jefferson, who cherished his fiddle even after a family fire.
The Scotia has spent about two months in the Atlantic repairing the Brest St. Pierre cable for the Anglo American company. It has recovered the cable from 1,940 fathoms, laid sixty miles of new cable, and is now fixing a long-standing fault near Brest. The cable, down for twelve years, shows defects from chemical action at the sea bottom but was in good overall condition.
In London Field entomologists use toads to capture minute nocturnal insects. Toads are released at night near a site with rare prey and collected in the morning. The prey is removed by pressure or the toads are killed and searched for their spoils.
The Burke Walker firm opens January in a five story block at 236 Adams Street and rapidly doubles expected trade. Burke has led Chicago wholesale trade for twenty five years, with strong public confidence and rapid growth amid initial strong fortune and eager customers.
A little known fact notes that the juice from the seed stock of the common parsnip is poisonous and can raise water blisters between the fingers and on the arms of workers who cut seed tops.
A collage of health ads and home remedies touts Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for consumption and blood purification, Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for female complaints, and various tonics. It promotes cures for paralysis, dyspepsia, cholera, and diarrhea, and markets Bitters, Carboline hair product, and Brown’s Blackberry remedy. It urges farming efficiency and anti poverty tips alongside medical claims.
Advertisement style notes claim neuralgic headaches and skin conditions cured by Dr. Benson's Celery Pills and Skin Cure. It touts relief from headaches and mentions a grape vine yielding up to 100 bushels per season as a curiosity.
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