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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1894
Page
6
A statement from Mayor John Orson of Clinton describes twenty years of severe abdominal disease. He credits Dr. Lighthill and a friend Mr. Bryan for a radical cure after prior suffering, expressing lifelong gratitude for the successful treatment.
An anonymous patient from BISSELL HUNTERDON COUNTY NJ raves about Dr Lighthill curing chronic piles in under four weeks after ten physicians in New York Easton Washington and elsewhere failed. The notice extends to local readers with testimonials and likens the doctor to a miracle worker.
Dr Lighthill available daily except Thursdays at his office and residence for consults on obstinate and complicated diseases of the human system.
Partial OCR text touts No 144 Crescent Ave address and claims successful treatment of deafness catarrh and head throat and tongue diseases. It lists piles and other rectal conditions radical cures in weeks without pain or business detention, then mentions epilepsy skin blood rheumatic and scrofulous affections and diseases of heart stomach.
Social items report a dance in New Market at the hail k after next and a moonlight ride by the tennis club to Rahway early next week. Also notes Mrs Storms leaving for Kinderhook to visit her daughter and visits to Tremont NY. judgments awarded in two contract cases with small debts.
Mrs H T Williams of West Front Street confined at home after falling through a broken plank on Duer Street near Linden Avenue Thursday night. She stepped on a loose board, nearly broke her ankle and damaged her shoe.
The Plainfield Courier lists Schenck's stage times from Plainfield and South Plainfield with connections to Lehigh Valley trains. Local notices report visits from Mrs. VanNess and others, a new coin arriving at the mill, school attendance, and several social calls. A frost damaged crops and a stage accident injures William Manning in a quoits game, with Dr. Fritts responding.
Grace Church and many parishes list Sunday services with morning and evening schedules. Rev. E M Rector leads early and later services. German Lutheran, Congregational, Presbyterian, Christian Endeavor, and other churches publish morning prayers, Sunday schools, and special events.
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