09 Dec 1885
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Newspaper
Reno Evening Gazette
Location
Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1885
Page
1
A rural chat between Sam and Bill from Chicago Ledger depicts Sam finally paying off his farm mortgage. He plans a loud, humorous celebration with a “rip-snortin’ time” featuring drums, pop, cigars, and a wild night to mark the freed depths of hardship.
A Maine Supreme Court justice, born in poverty, is described as briefly entertaining himself by playing an elf fiddle. The piece recalls his father as a roaming village fiddler and notes the judge’s unlikely rise, with anecdotes about his early life and the fiddler’s sixpence price for entertainment.
A fragmentary 19th century column prescribes home therapies for fevers headaches and indigestion. Instructions include fasting with sponging body to induce perspiration, warm baths for teething convulsions, hot lemonade at night, mustard baths for poisoning, and onion poultices for chest pains and bee stings. It warns readers to breathe through the nose to avoid chills when moving between temperatures.
A brief poetic note from the Minneapolis Tribune describes a rare moment of joy as a subscriber pays up, likening the event to a passing angel with an odor of strange flowers from distant lands.
A notice announces a pricing plan for insertion of legitimate advertisements in the comma at a rate of fifty coins per week. The policy covers various classes of ads and outlines weekly placement terms.
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