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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1883
Page
7
A collection of anecdotes and notices recounts varied vignettes from prominent figures and daily life. It mentions Mrs Stowe, General Scott’s kin, library holdings, a Buffalo editor, Henry Clay Thurston, and biographical sketches of writers and actors, plus curious legal and social scenes.
A collage of short notes from various papers: a simple egg sugar butter cookie recipe. a Baltimore gardener using beehives in hot-houses to aid cucumber pollen distribution. Abel Schofield's apple tree in Adair County Missouri yields twenty barrels of fruit annually. a Prairie Farmer reflection on success depending on the man behind the method. a rice and apple dessert preparation. an English gardener on hoeing and soil porosity. critique of burning weeds as harming soil fertility and long-term soil health.
Mrs Townsley a Vermont visitor visiting her nieces in New York lost her purse at Grand Central Depot. She calmed the crowd by declaring her Vermont origin and need for help, then waited as the men quietly vanished and later recovered her pocketbook with a clever ruse.
A Madrid photographer recalls a sitter who held a pistol to her temple during a portrait. She explained she aimed to frighten off a deserting fiancé and sent him a photo after their wedding. The tale sits among humorous and ad filled clippings about cures, products, and a Western President tour.
A collage of testimonial quotes and quips railing against patent medicines and quack products. Ads tout Golden Medical Discovery for consumption and various throat chest ailments, elixirs like Brown's Iron Bitters and Rough on Corns promoted by drugsellers, jokes, and notices on medical cures and household goods across multiple locales and newspapers.
May 1983 letters claim Hunt's Remedy cures kidney and urinary ailments and Bright's Disease. Col S F Traarrra of Dover praises relief from back pain and sleep loss after using Hunt's Remedy purchased at Wingate's drug store. Another note from Putnam Conn cites twelve months of kidney and liver troubles with blood in urine improved by the remedy, described as the best medicine for kidney and liver troubles.
Advertisements claim Hop Bitters prevent and cure biliousness nervousness liver and kidney diseases gravel Bright's disease and urinary troubles. Abundant testimonials from Oswego Ludington Monroe Chicago and others laud relief from seizures debility and typhoid after using the remedy, urging use for suffers in the climate and general fatigue.
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