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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1878
Page
3
A collage of humorous snippets and stray verses. Nonsense poetry and mock dialogue mix with woodcut captions and travel notes. The passage provides fragmented vignettes about music, swords, bears, Investiture jokes, and a rustic auction scene.
A veteran metropolitan press figure reflects on past success and current decline as alcohol effects threaten careers. He notes a once powerful editor now begging for a drink and predicts a return to modest pay while highlighting drinking as a citywide curse affecting actors managers critics and merchants.
An old drugstore ad urges inquiry for a new medicine noting the name Dre Davin Kexsepy’s Favorite Remedy. It emphasizes a price of one dollar per bottle and lists the doctor’s address as Rondout, N. Ed. 4-2.
Local merchants M. Hazen and Carl E. Bargquist offer Brown's Conan Barsam Brown's Tan Trocaxsa Re Lane Renepy and Brown's Arnica Salve and Poromer Fawity MEp roins for coughs voice issues sore throats and healing of sores in Sidney Nebraska with prices ranging from 25 cents per item. The ad touts absence of opiates and claims relief of irritation and easier expectoration for speakers singers and the general public.
The November number of that superb monthly Tax Housekeaven offers a daily bill of fare and a full oyster chapter. Publishers offer to send it FARE FOR Two MONTHS to any lady who sends two ladies addresses at five post offices, valid to January 1, 1879.
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