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Newspaper
Reading Eagle
Location
Reading, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1869
Page
1
A Macon newspaper excerpt tells a humorous Tar River tale of a merchant who kept books in pictures and signs. The ledger shows a dispute over a ceese purchase and the debtor asserts accuracy of his books despite illiteracy and quirky accounting methods.
The article narrates McKean Buchanan the tragedian suspected as a top poker player and describes a scheme in Australia where a manager lured money through gambling. It also recounts a fire incident during Rose Saqui’s act at Alcazar Madrid where she saved her hair and continued the performance despite flames.
A German forester claims fifty year use of a remedy for a horrible disease. The method involves washing the wood with warm vinegar or tepid water, drying, then adding a few drops of galphtric acid. The poison is said to be neutralized by the acid. The cure relies on acid cautery, but the remedy is extremely dangerous except in extreme hydrophobia cases, with intense pain on healthy tissue.
A clipped item notes unusually cold conditions here and out West with a marble statue leg reportedly frozen stiff needing possible amputation. Barbers poles and lamp posts froze off while the air cut sausage meat for aged canes. Physicians urge citizens to breathe to ease the bite as a benevolent town figures out extra bartending to aid charity work.
The Russian Legation in Washington reports homeopathy faces no government ban in czarist dominions and may even expand. Interior Ministry authorizes a society of homeopathic physicians in St Petersburg, and a Warsaw hospital ward is placed under homeopathic practice. Meanwhile Maryland farmers report milder winter aiding plowing. A Parisian counterfeiter dies from a poison fly bite near the nose.
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