07 Dec 1888
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Newspaper
Salem Times Register
Location
Salem, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1888
Page
1
A poem depicts a family’s loss and disruption as a stranger, bearing the father’s name, sits in the mother’s chair. The speaker laments the mother’s death and the estrangement felt by the narrator as daily life shifts under the pressure of grief and a new companion. The piece laments the mother’s absence and questions whether her memory is remembered by the family.
Belle Brandon and Bertie Moore marry after a public scandal and a life changing train crash. Belle defeats heartbreak, embraces love, and becomes a prudent, content wife. The pair reunite on a church aisle, with Belle regaining joy and social virtue.
A dressmaker notes the end of the bustle era as fashions shift to plainer skirts with no steel supports. She cites Mrs. Cleveland and broad street trends, observing visibly less fabric among stylish young women. The piece is tied to a broader collage of notes on society figures and local curiosities.
A humorous miscellany of riddles and puns about cats doors time doctors maidens and more. The piece features quick punchlines comparing everyday items to abstract ideas with a light bantering tone.
A local notice warns against fake cures for lung diseases, urging buyers to insist on Dr King’s New Discovery for throat lung and chest affections with free trial bottles at W T Youngers Drug Store. A humorous anecdote from Anniston Alabama notes a church dispute over sending a bishop versus other preachers, ending with a preacher finally being sent.
A saddle colored man claiming legal credentials from New York arrived in Powder Springs and, riding on Harrison's election, told Black residents he would buy land and resell to them in twenty years at 6 percent. He charged $10 to $12 to inspect a farm, collected ahead, promised deeds in Marietta on Saturday, took a few hundred dollars, then vanished by moonlight.
Gen James A Walker receives a letter from a Virginian who moved to Los Angeles warning aspiring young men about Southern California The writer censures the climate prices and living costs noting coal at ten dollars per ton wood at fourteen dollars per cord fruit quality and irrigation costs and says land is priced from five hundred to five thousand dollars per acre with owners eager to sell to eastern buyers
In a Chicago Tribune excerpt, Mrs. Rambo scolds Absalom for staying out past midnight at a political meeting. She cites Dickens saying truth is strongest in emergencies, while Absalom mumbles and Mrs. Rambo urges him to go to bed.
An words offering “The Best Salve in the world” claims to heal cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chap pea handa chilblains corns and eruptions and promises piles cure or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by W. T. Younger. nov 13-ly
In a Petersburg Index Appeal note, growers are urged to send only their best tobacco to market to fetch sufficient money. Report says yesterday many piles of poor logs and frosted leaf sold for low sums, urging planters to avoid inferior stock to cover wagonage and costs.
Mr James A Richard of Hamburg killed four raccoons in one night using three shots. His dogs treed the animals on a hill opposite Mr Kauffman, and Richard fired as the quarry stood under bright eyes in the dark. The Courier praises him as the county’s top coon-hunter.
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