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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1880
Page
3
A historic rural guide lists methods to destroy beetles ants and roaches with lime lamps sugar camphor creosote and quick on nests. It also notes canary bird care and a long aside on Saturns appearance and a 19th century telescope view from Elizabeth New Jersey.
Rebecca and Abigail Bates sisters of Scituate lighthouse keeper played a bold wartime role during the Revolutionary era as they aided a British pursuit by signaling with drum and fiddle at Scituate harbor. Their brave deed is recounted alongside family longevity and the venerable homestead built by their grandfather.
A Lowell woman sought a portrait of her intelligent dog. After a stubborn morning, she dismissed him, and he sulked. Next day he returned with a tin type of himself, carefully posed at the gallery, then carried the image home as a peace offering to his owner.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat a report by C. W. Eck, proprietor of St Louis, describes long suffering with severe headaches. He credits Hamburg Drops for relief after many remedies failed, noting no return of headaches since using the product.
Notices promote St Jacobs Oil as a cure for pains and claim a grateful witness from 171 Sycamore. Also touts Dr Ford Liver Invigorator Vegetine Ward Bell brands, Lyon heel stiffeners, Winnie’s Fever and Ague Tonio, Porzie Carpa, and Puzzle Card promotions across columns.
A humorous tale recounts Phil challenged by a club to bring a fresh conundrum. He confers with steward Mike who crafts It is my father's child and my mother's child yet it is not my sister nor my brother. The next day Phil presents the riddle and peers fail to solve it until they name the steward Mike MacDougal. Also an ad for Electro-Voltaic Belts from The Voltaic Belt Co. of Marshall Michigan offers a thirty day trial.
In Talpole Massachusetts on March 7 1880 David Clark reports relief from erysipelas humor after taking Vegetine for a year. He states he is now free of the humor and strongly recommends the medicine as more valuable than gold and a blessing to others.
Dr J Bentley reports VeGeTpvg has done more good than all medical treatment in one case. H R Stevens of Boston notes selling a large quantity with satisfaction and cites a seventeen year old girl benefiting greatly from its use. The letter is dated February 9 1680 from Newmarket Ontario.
An East India report states that in Bengal last year 1 264 persons were killed by wild animals and 9 515 by snakes, with cattle losses over 12 000. Wolves killed 83, down from 152, while nearly 500 more game were slain. A total of 5 543 wild animals were destroyed and 21 102 snakes killed, with rewards paid totaling 28 370 rupees.
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