Letter on Chamberlain's Colic Cholera Remedy Endorsed
A Starbuck letter from Yorktown Iowa praises Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It recounts a farmer using the medicine successfully to treat diarrhoea and colic after binding wheat, with a money back offer. The writing also quotes Longfellow on mercy and humanity. The excerpt notes the product marketed locally and stresses strong grateful endorsements.
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J. A. Starbuck
Yorktown
Iowa
Chamberlain
Gurack
Testimonial for Dr Miles New Heart Cure From Auburn Man
R McDougall of Auburn Indiana reports two years of pulse stoppage left side tenderness heart flutter and alarm yet after one bottle of Dr Miles New Heart Cure he claims relief. Crowder Reed advertise free samples and sensational “new and startling facts” about heart and nervous diseases and cures.
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Dr. Miles Medical Company
R. McDougall
Auburn
Ind
Dr. Miles
Crowder & Reed's
Iowa Woman Owns Prairie Land Farm and Sells Stock
Mrs. Jane Fraseur of Tama county owns 1040 acres with 800 in grass and the rest in oats and corn. She sold 8500 of fat hogs 1205 worth of fat hogs and 450 worth of horses last year. She attends every school election and votes for directors. Alex Moir of Britt recalls treating his two year old daughter with Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy during summer 1882 with rapid relief and full recovery. September 1.
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Iowa
Jane Fraseur
Tama County
Tipton Advertiser
Arents
Alex Moir
Britt
Chamberlain
Joe K. Smock
Immortal Minds and Remedies in an Echo of Webster
A historical collection blends a Daniel Webster quotation on immortal minds with early patent medicine ads. It references Dr Miles Nerve and Liver Pills promising biliousness relief and Chamberlain’s Colic Diarrhoea Remedy praised for bowel complaints, with local dealer Joe K selling 25 and 50 cent bottles.
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Daniel Webster
Chamberlain
Joe K. Smock
French Boy Drives Cats in Harness on Streets
A French boy uses two black cats harnessed as a team and singly to pull a cart through the streets each day. He trains them to walk in single and double harness, showcasing an unusual method of pet work.
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Blakes
Wmerrell & Soule
Syracuse
N. Y
Distention After Meals Tied to Digestion Weakness
The abdominal distention felt after eating often signals weak digestive organs. The recommended remedy is a dose of Ayer's Pills after dinner to aid digestion.
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Ayer
Quote on Communists and Equality by Ebenezer Elliott
A sharp quip defines the communist as craving equal division of unequal earnings. The speaker labels the fool and idler as someone willing to give up a penny while keeping a shilling.
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Ebenezer Elliott
Ayer's Sarsaparilla Cures Rheumatism Claims
A buyer recalls relief from rheumatism after using Ayer's Sarsaparilla and notes many similar cures are on record. The quotation emphasizes regret for not taking the remedy earlier in life.
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Ayer
Remarkable Gains Reported From Nervine Cure
After years of nervous illness and sleeplessness, Mrs. L. B. Millard of Dunkirk New York reports eight pounds gained in two weeks on Dr Miles Restorative Nervine. The ad claims the tonic cures headaches prostration neuralgia and more and mentions a five bottle course yielding fifteen pounds for another customer. Crowder and Reeds advertise goods with free hook and line offers.
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Miles
Tam
L. B. Millard
Dunkirk
N.Y
Brown & Maybury Cortland
Crowder & Reeds
Death of Fred Spofferd in Cairo under peculiar circumstances
Fred Spofferd, master mechanic for the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, died at St Mary infirmary in Cairo after an erysipelas infection followed a collar button injury. He had been treated in Cairo after a minor wound worsened, and returned to health measures before his death. He hailed from Meadville Pennsylvania and his body will be returned there for burial.
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Dutton
Fred Spofferd
St. Louis Southwestern Railway
Bird's Point
St. Mary Infirmary
Cairo
Sacm
Meadville
Electric Bitters and Amica Salve Claim Cures
S. TI. Chafford of New Cassel Wisconsin cured of neuralgia rheumatism stomach issues and weight loss after three bottles of Electric Bitters. Edward Shepherd of Harrisburg H had an eight year leg sore cured by three bottles of Electric Bitters and seven boxes of Bucklen's Amica Salve. John Speaker of Catawba Ohio with five fever sores on leg healed by one bottle of Electric Bitters and one box of Amica Salve. Sold by Joe K. Smock.
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S. TI
Chafford
New Cassel
Wis
Edward Shepherd
Harrisburg H
Bucklen
John Speaker
Catawba, O
Joe K. Smock
Words and Women Are Wedded
A fragmented collection of adages on gender roles and social expectations. It contrasts endurance, beauty, and intellect across men and women, noting differences in behavior and perception, and lamenting stereotypes through aphoristic lines.
Dr. King's New Discovery Promises Relief for Coughs
Advertisement promotes Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds with a money back guarantee. It offers free sample bottles at Joe K Smock's drug store and lists large sizes priced at 50 cents and 1.00 with claims of speedy recovery from la gripp.
Train shock kills passenger in open window incident
In a brief chat two men recall a death on a train from Boston. Briggs notes Robinson died suddenly after opening a car window, Griggs asks about cause, and Briggs cites the shock from the window as the killer.
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Briggs
Robinson
Boston
Griggs
Beauty remedy sells soft skin with Blush of Roses
Miss Flora Jones promotes Blush of Roses as a life study product that removes rough oily or shiny skin and leaves a soft delicate appearance. Hutchinson & Co. distributes the item.
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Helen of Troy
Flora Jones
Hutchinson & Co
Village Visit Double Entendre in Local Dialect
Travers explains he cannot visit his mother in the native village because he already has a suit from the village tailor. Dashaway notes the irony as Travers contemplates travel. The exchange highlights social ties and practical binds in a rural setting.
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Travers
Color and charm from Buckingham's Dye
An ad claim states that Buckingham's Dye colors all men with gray or shaded whiskers to an even brown or black at will.
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Buckingham
Awakening New Depths in Featherstone and Ringway
In a dialogue from an old era, Featherstone proclaims engagement and marriage while Ringway jokes about newfound affection and unexpectedly high spending. The exchange reveals themes of love and finances.
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Featherstone
Ringway
Give me the Russell House
A man calls the telephone operator asking for the Russell House and asks to have it now. The operator responds in fluty accents and chides his omission of the polite word please.
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Russell House
Two Heads Better Than One Sparks Quarrel Over Flour
In a domestic quarrel the wife urges harmony but fails to persuade her husband. He retorts sharply about flour leading her to leave him to his own device.
Howells Favored Over Ilowers in Question Line
A brief exchange cites Bleeker asking about a favorite novelist and Miss Backbay preferring Howells over Ilowers. The New York Herald records the quip with a playful tone highlighting literary tastes.
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Bleeker
Weather Favorable for Crops and Easy Money Market
R G Dun & Co reports very favorable weather for crops aside from storm damaged areas, with abundant cheap money and good collections. Iron and steel demand up, wool and cotton strong, boot and shoe shops busy, while anti option legislation weighs on speculation and money markets.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Weekly Review of Trade
Boston
Philadelphia
Reading
Baltimore
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Detroit
Chicago
Frick health improves as threats at Carnegie offices prompt tighter security
Mr Frick sleeps well and shows rapid improvement after illness. Threatening letters printed in red ink to officials including Lovejoy and Leishmann raise guard presence at Fifth Avenue offices. Nearby, a patrol network around Frick's residence limits access and deters suspicious visitors. James Close posted bail at Homestead murder case. Homestead steel works report 975 workers. no new departments or mills changes.
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PitTsuurnGc
Mr. Frick
Carnegie Steel Company
Lovejoy
J. G. A. Leishmann
Fifth Avenue
Close
James Close
Homestead
Magee
Governor calls extra session for apportionment laws
Governor Winans announces an extra session to pass new senatorial and representative apportionment acts. He says the 1881 act, used by courts in gerrymander cases, is out of date as Michigan’s population and county and ward boundaries have changed, making fall elections under it impossible. Hanson Craig, once claimed heaviest man, weighed 792 pounds and stood 6 feet 4 inches at birth.
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Lansing
Mich
Winans
Supreme Court
Hanson Craig
Kentucky
New York
Pittsburg
Poisoned smoke from stove injures Asbury Park woman
A woman in Asbury Park New Jersey is in dangerous condition after inhaling smoke from a cook stove filled with green wood thought to be covered with poisonous vine or fungus. Two Stamp Creek Georgia neighbors settle a goose dispute in court after costs reach seventy dollars by each keeping a goose. In Richmond Maine a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals exists but no one volunteers as its agent.
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Asbury Park
N. J
Stamp Creek
Richmond
Society For the Prevention of
Carter
Carter Medicine CO
New York
T. IW. Ry
Army of the Cumberland
Chattanooga
Tenn
Oreatnipiment Sons of Veterans C. S.A
Steen
New Albany
Ohio Valley Tholiness Association
Bebany Park
Porth
Oregon
Denver
Col
Grand Voicl
Knights Templars
B.L. Steen
Agt
Quirky notes and brief items from Oregon to Washington
A collection of short excerpts notes weather quirks in Oregon and Japan earthquakes in Gifu, a hurried marriage in Louisville, a church anecdote from New Hampshire, Daniel Dougherty's serious illness in Philadelphia, a double scull challenge at Tonextra, and Heurich’s Washington brewery destroyed by fire with substantial losses.
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Tonextra
Washington
Cocoanut Used as Vermifuge in India
Goldthwaite's Geographical Magazine notes that the cocoanut has long served as a vermifuge among beef eaters in India. Properly used, it is as effective as male fern oil, kousso, pomegranate root or turpentine, yet more pleasant to eat and not injurious.
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India
Goldthwaite
Ancient Copper Craft by Phoenicians and Syrians
Chambers Journal notes the ancient Syrians and Phoenicians traded copper and made bronze by melting tin with copper. It claims Phoenicians visited England and Ireland seeking tin and cites bronze artifacts found in Cornwall as evidence of early bronze use before it was produced locally.
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England
Ireland
Cornwall
Chambers’ Journal
Man Found Guilty in Dr Wilder Murder Receives Life Sentence
John Redmond was convicted of murdering Dr Bhavius Myron Wilder in Chicago and sentenced to life imprisonment. The case drew wide attention due to Redmonds background and the dramatic circumstances of the crime. The jury fixed the punishment after Redmond shot the physician at point blank range and surrendered to police.
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CinesGo
John Redmond
Bhavius Myron Wilder
Redmond
I. Wilder
Dan
South Park Avenue
String Street
Dr Wilder
WY South Park Avenue
Des Wilder
Josie Gurley
de Wilder
McGann Renominated by Democratic Convention
In the Second congressional district the Democratic convention re nominated Lawrence A. McGann for Congress by acclamation at Caiiaco on Aug 1. The renomination keeps McGann as the party’s candidate for the district seat.
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Caiiaco
Congressional District
Lawrence A. McGann
Congress
Deaths of notable figures listed in congressional records
Pennsylvania congressman Alexander K. Chraig and Chicago railroad man W C Traver die in New York and Washington D C. Alexandria Gazette editor Edgar Snowden dies in Washington. Cleveland citizen Joseph Pursney also noted as a respected figure.
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Alexander K. Chraig
Pennsylvania
Washington
W. C
Phenomivsl Success in Eye Treatments Highlighted
Dr Tarnes reports outstanding results in cataract and other eye diseases with a new method. The practice claims safety and high cure rates over six years, offering examination by appointment and notes about private cases and married couples seeking healthier vision.
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Tarnes
Barnes
Lothie
Sant
Uring
Uae
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