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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1885
Page
4
A poem by Ben S Parker in the Current warns a country lad of city temptations. It sings of sparkling goblets and enticing music leading to murder and ruin, then urges the youth to flee the seductive danger and forego sharpers and vice.
Recounted by The Week, Andrew Crosse bitten by a cat as hydrophobic, experiences a mental and physical struggle. He powers through intense thirst and throat spasm by a determined mental effort, walking and resisting the illness, later deemed an attack of hydrophobia by Dr Kinglake. Brown's Tron Bitters and Gilmore's Aromatic Wine are advertised nearby.
A notary public from Cedarville Cumberland County New Jersey relates that Mishler's Herb Bitters revived him after his family died of consumption and says the product strengthens appetite and health. The advertisement extols the vegetable formula, physician endorsement, and availability at druggists with pricing and mail order details.
A Dayton Georgia church plans a fundraising event where each attending lady will be wrapped in a transparent waterproof veil and carry a lunch basket then be auctioned to the highest bidder. The buyer will win her company for the evening and a share of the lunch basket contents.
Historian George Bancroft, the only private citizen granted full access to Congress floors at all times, was found by a visitor to be as active as a youth at his Washington home.
An officer of the Coast Survey discovers a petrified whale skeleton over thirty feet long on a range of mountains in Monterey county California at an elevation exceeding 3 300 feet. Nutfield England is hailed as highly healthy with a population of 1 200 and only one male death last year at eighty eight.
An old National Live Stock Journal snippet praises Pierce’s Pellets for painless relief from agonizing symptoms. It touts gentle medicine versus harsher remedies and notes cows’ appetite is shaped by feeding, linking narrowing to milk production and animal health.
The piece extols blood purity as essential for growth and repair and promotes Dr. Pierce’s Colden Medical Discovery as a universal remedy for impoverished blood and related illnesses. It notes sports like cycling and tennis can cause muscular disease when overdone and warns against excessive exercise and breathing extremes.
A jumble of notes recalls the Wren inscription and St Jacobs Oil as a living monument. Sailors rely on Mishler’s Bitters for ailments while humorous vignettes about streetcar tickets and steamed potatoes appear. London stats cover hospitals, paupers, cabs, losses, and press counts.
An article notes a German loom invention for weaving household items and lists various patent remedial products such as Gilmore's Magnetic Elixir Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and Sarsaparilla. It mentions medical curiosities, sanitation, a Paris funeral cost for Victor Hugo, a London hospital post for a woman, and a natural bridge discovery in the Tonto Basin Arizona Territory.
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