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Newspaper
Steele City Standard
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1899
Page
1
A husband Michael and his wife travel with a young girl and a cradle in a Weydon Priors roadside scene. They visit a furmity tent where alcohol flows and tensions rise over lodging and a potentialsale of the wife. A sailor buys the wife with money, and the wife deserts Michael taking the child, breaking a brittle domestic vow.
In a sunlit marquee the battered man finds his wife’s ring and a sailor’s note, realizing a grim fate. He vows to abstain from drink for twenty years in a church oath and begins a fruitless hunt that leads him toward Casterbridge and a new path.
A reader reports trying many proprietary treatments for rheumatism without success until using Pink Pills for Pale People. After starting around March 11, the pain eased significantly and claimed complete relief, with an offer to provide further details to the Times.
Spanish sailors on certain days beat block gear at sunset to drive out the devil, a custom said to stem from a disastrous order. A paused squadron once anchored could not sail as blocks were rusted, and Friday voyages are avoided by English and American seamen when possible though Columbus began his voyage then.
The document pledges Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Dugary & Co. to pay one hundred dollars for each unrecoverable catarrh case, sworn before A. W. Gleason in Toledo. Also advertised are notices for remedies including Hans’s Catarrh Ours, St. Jacobs Oil, and Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with price cues and trial offers.
Fragmented paste reads about shipments of air locomotives and seeds, with testimonials praising Mrs Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for change of life symptoms. It includes letters from Mrs Fing and Mrs Allen praising cures and urging women to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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