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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1892
Page
4
A poor woman seeking food in Harlem meets a compassionate landlady who shares food and clothes. While organizing a jelly jar the owner finds steel knives and forks and offers them, noting the items are useful to have around. The woman says she has none and reluctantly accepts the old cutlery.
During the summer of 1876 a dysentery outbreak led to the sale of 108 bottles of Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy. Geo B Dunbar, a Center Point Iowa druggist, reports it satisfactory in every case and notes its use in Virginia 1887 and Michigan Illinois 1883 outbreaks. Sold by Joe Ik Smock.
A humorous exchange where a husband asks for his pocket dictionary and the wife corrects him. He jokes the item is a Webster’s Undabridge, but admits he cannot ever locate it.
An older medical ad promotes using St Patrick's Pills to cleanse bilious disorders causing dysentery or diarrhea. It claims a permanent cure is possible after such cleansing and after taking Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy. Offered for sale by Joe K. Smock on August 1st.
Mr. Thomas Batte of the Graphic in Texarkana Arkansas praises Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy after a severe flux attack. He swears by its quick relief and complete cure and recommends it to sufferers. Bottles priced 25 and 50 cents offered by Joe K Smock in August.
In a quiet moment she claims Oscar Wilde doubts local poetry while he plans a future visit to the household, prompting his friend to say the writer will change his mind. The banter hints at anticipation of an eminent literary guest.
Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption and other remedies like New Life Pills Bucklen’s Amica Salve and Electric Bitters boast universal satisfaction. The druggist Joe K Smock guarantees full refund if results are not satisfactory.
Observers note the freight laden boat halts work and departs the dock. A woman asks why the vessel leaves and a man suggests the ship is simply loaded. The river continues to flow as the scene closes.
A historic advertisement compiles reforming cures with Dr Miles Nerve and Liver Pills claimed to speedily treat biliousness torpid liver piles and constipation. It promotes samples at Crowder Reed and extols Ayer’s Hair Vigor for hair shine and baldness prevention. It notes Hall’s Hair Renewer as a rescue for coming hair loss.
Hundreds of readers suffer headaches nervousness sleeplessness and female troubles. N Herbechter Stevens Point Wis found relief after five years of nervous prostration with one bottle of Dr Miles Nervine. Elizabeth Wheeler Laramie City Wyoming also reports relief after three weeks. Sold by Crowder Reed trial bottles free.
A man notes the season brings ongoing want in the city as his wife replies that poverty is perennial. He spreads several pages of want ads for her to view, prompting a tossed book and a tense moment.
A testimonial notes that over a million people have found a friend in Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds. The ad claims it cleanses throat chest and lungs with guaranteed results or money back. Trial bottles are free at Joe K Smock’s drug store with large bottles priced at 50 cents and 1 dollar.
A letter-carrier visits a funny man and asks to borrow a letter from the alphabet. The exchange plays on quick quips about letters like V W X and Z, ending with the funny man unable to supply the final letter. The scene unfolds with light humor and a sharp, punny back-and-forth.
Readers are warned to watch for shortness of breath chest pain swelling and irregular pulse as signs of heart disease. An advertisement promotes Dr Miles New Heart Cure with testimonials available from Crowder & Reed who sell the remedy and offer books.
Advertisement boasts seaside resorts report appearances and cites a hotel bill for June as proof. Claims over 400000 bottles sold last year show thousands seek to bid farewell to pimples freckles and blackheads with Blush of Roses at 75 cents per bottle.
Gazzam asks for writing paper and Maddox suggests note paper to lend $100. The ad copy says there is no magical cure for disease but Ayer's Sarsaparilla provides near magical effect for blood disorders due to its purity and strength.
Excerpts show social quips about whistling in trees and courtship. Dialogues feature Maddox Gazzam Gertrude and Mabel debating romance. The tone mirrors a column of witty comments from multiple papers.
In Kate Fields' Washington a dialogue hints at changes in status as Blank, questioned about starting a household, replies with a single assertion that he is now married. The exchange captures social expectations and personal transition in a concise domestic vignette.
Detroit July 18 delegates at the Baptist Young Peoples union convention debated methods and adopted resolutions calling for closing the World's Fair on Sunday, prohibiting liquor traffic, and pursuing reforms. The session featured Rev. S A Northrup, Rev. D D MacLaurin, and Field Secretary Thomas guiding discussions and questions.
The House considering the civil sundry appropriation bill debated the World's fair funding. Taylor proposed removing the Sunday closing clause while keeping Sunday work restrictions. Wheeler attacked Democrats over delaying a silver bill and tied it to the World’s fair appropriation. Hopkins supported Senate Doings. In the Senate, a resolution to study immigration and contract labor laws passed as they moved to unopposed calendar items.
In Uniontown Pennsylvania Jesse Guseman aged 15 shot Mary Yeager 17 while she mocked him from a distance. The girl's physician says she will die. Other brief items include arrests and accidents across several states plus a marriage reveal in Indiana.
The body of Cyrus W. Field arrived in Stockbridge and was taken to the Congregational church for burial services conducted by Rev. Mr. Farwell. He is laid beside his wife in the Field plot at Stockbridge cemetery amid floral offerings as crowds from Lenox and nearby towns gathered.
The inter state commerce commission closed three days of hearings in Caicaco with railroad officials denying knowledge of east bound rate cuts. The inquiry will resume in Washington as few concrete violations were proven amid witnesses refusing to answer key questions. In WilkesBarre two tramp victims were wounded when a watchman fired at a group attempting to rob a Delaware and Hudson car. The injured men are named Wittermeyer and Boas.
A Friday windstorm caused extensive damage in Hamilton with five workers injured at the Louis Snider pulp mill and several shops struck by debris. In Cincinnati a brick fell, fracturing a worker’s skull and damaging a veterinary hospital roof and local properties with losses estimated around 25000 dollars.
New York reports from R G Dun say crop prospects are below last year, risking supply gaps. Wheat yields may exceed demand by only six percent, while corn and oats fall. cotton yields look 2 percent below last year yet still meet annual demand. Cash markets show weakness and widespread activity in dry goods, hardware, wool, and iron. business remains steady in many centers with improved crop prospects in some regions.
In Peoria Illinois divers recovered the body of Grant Hepler a Eureka dentist from the wreckage of the Frankie Folsom disaster near Peoria lake. The body of Mrs Beebe wife of a Duluth telegraph operator was found near the shore after her brothers offered a reward for recovery. The wrecked steamer City of Peoria was towed ashore at Caroline street as the search continued for Metenli. Relatives in Pennsylvania confirmed Rev Mr McMexsas remains sent there.
A gas explosion at Bleming & Hamilton tinware factory on Third avenue at 61 and 63 early Saturday morning destroyed the building and contents. The third floor Japanning department started the fire, which spread within minutes. Loss estimated at 45000, fully insured. building had burned three times in three months, each act by an incendiary. Separately, a head-on freight-train collision on the Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton line near Connersville left one engine and 27 cars in the river. two crewmen, Edward Branham and Henry Inglehart, fatally injured.
A large hotel, restaurant and garden area along with the power house and hoisting machinery at the head of the Penn incline plane extending from Sixteenth street over the Pennsylvania railroad tracks to Union station was destroyed by fire Friday afternoon. The loss is about 125000 dollars, partly insured.
A 30 foot wide earth slide descends the east side of Table Mountain near GoupEN carrying an eight room house, orchard, and garden while dammed water from a church ditch endangers irrigation on thousands of acres. The Colorado Central tracks are at risk of vanishing into Clear Creek within hours, with heavy losses foreseen for farmers.
The General Burnside foundered about four miles northwest of Cleveland at 9 o clock Saturday morning as it tried to return to port after loading coal. The crew was all rescued by a tug. The old vessel was owned in Port Huron.
In Springfield Ohio on July 1 James Maloney aged 78 was struck by lightning while sheltering under a tree during an electric storm. He was tending cows in General Bushnell's pasture near Lagonda Avenue engine house when the bolt struck.
Mapison Wisconsin July 18 The Stoughton Milling Company flour mill burned Friday causing a loss of 40000 pounds with 25000 pounds insured. Eight thousand dollars of grain stored in the mill was also totally destroyed.
Parsons Kan July 18 The Missouri Kansas and Texas railway and the Pacific Express company jointly offered a reward of 5000 dollars for the arrest and conviction of each man involved in the express car robbery on the north bound MKT train at Adair station in the Indian Territory Thursday night with $40000 stolen and a large posse scouring the territory believing the robbers will be captured.
William E. Purdy, jailed for three years on murder charges in the Samuel Reininger case from September 1889, was discharged by Judge Hawes after the case was stricken out by Assistant State's Attorney Neeley. Purdy plans to stay in Chicago and seek carpentry work.
The death record outlines the passing of Hon. W. L. Pilkenton, a prominent Belleville, Missouri figure, Rev. Dr. B. W. Chidlaw of Cincinnati at Dolgelly, Wales, and Samuel M. Mitchall, Morgan County Indiana’s wealthiest man, at Martinsville.
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