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Newspaper
The Harrison News
Location
Harrison, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1883
Page
1
A fragmented notice describes doctors hastening cure plans and patient visits priced at 3 dollars, with Hop Bitters and skin care claims as popular remedies. A dialogue hints at a woman wishing clear skin and a friend replying with hopeful guidance.
Acting Police Judge in DC committed the defendant to thirty days in jail for denying Rev. George H. Smith a place at his public restaurant on account of color. This marked the first criminal section conviction under the civil rights law in DC and the second nationwide.
The Executive Committee in New York issued the closing order on the 17th. Desertions from strikers rose as the Knights of Labor failed to aid, prompting surrender. Western Union will only hire new men who sign a severance from the Brotherhood and pledge not to join similar groups while employed. The four month strike cost operators about 400000 in salaries.
In a Buffalo interview Captain Rhodes said he would attempt the rapids but would not reveal the date except to his wife and brother. He aims to honor Captain Webb by building a $5,000 monument if successful, and to give the widow Webb an equal sum.
Yellow fever rises at the Navy yard seven miles below Pensacola with five cases reported on the 19th. A strict quarantine is set to halt spread. Blankets tents and disinfectants have been sent from New Orleans by order of Surgeon General Hamilton to confine the disease to presently affected persons.
Richard and William Hains of Williamsburgh New York went fishing at Canarsie Long Island when William fell overboard and drowned. Richard, unable to cope with the loss, attempted suicide by strangling himself with an anchor rope but was stopped by a fisherman who intervened.
A Bedouin outbreak near Sinkat in Nubia led to a fierce assault on the sanitarium. Two thousand Bedouins reportedly attacked and were repulsed with sixty killed. Defenders and civilians suffered casualties, while Sua kin faces potential threats.
The evening wire reports a fatal quarry blast near Rising Fawn Tennessee with Kilgore killed and two injured. Rioting Orangemen and Catholics clash in Coatbridge Scotland. Leprosy cases in Reno County Nevada prompt official contact with the Chinese Consul. Chicago authorities arrest counterfeiter J. H. Armstrong. A Cleveland bricklayer dies after a four story fall. An officer in Osceola and several other towns record accidents, murders, jail escapes, and sudden deaths. A Detroit bartender shoots his wife amid divorce proceedings. The notes cover storms in Ontario, stock losses at Second National Bank Warren, a physician’s suit for damages, and city police tech upgrades in Springfield.
In the House of Commons on the 17th Dodson claimed foot and mouth disease spread from England to America. He cited Liverpool contact between Bristol cattle and Irish infected stock. On the 18th Gladstone rebuked Healy for violent language stoking national hatred, Healy asserting war exists between England and Ireland and would become physical warfare if Irelandcould act.
A diver locating the New Dominion hull near Torba Grove identifies the stern name, suggesting it sank after striking the same reef as the Cedar Grove with all hands lost. Also notes Ischia earthquake signs, Madrid Spain unrest claims, and labor strikes in England.
A Chatham Virginia dispatch claims two white girls, daughters of Mrs. Jane Smith, were raped near Rock Springs Church with suspects fleeing. A San Francisco note on the steamer St Paul reports a Yukon gold discovery, by a party led by E Schieflin, with extreme cold hindering prospecting. purportedly $1,000,000 earned in Arizona.
A terrific wind storm hit Chattanooga on the 15th blowing off roofs at G T V and Georgia Alabama Southern depots and damaging many buildings. Flying timber injured J H Jennings as it blasted through a box car. Several other casualties occurred amid heavy hail and runaway horses. telegraph service across the South delayed and business halted.
The Prohibition State Convention of Michigan met at Eaton Rapids on the 15th. They voted to raise 10,000 for a campaign fund and endorsed the National Convention platform at Chicago. They urged constitutional and statutory prohibition of liquor and arraigned the Republicans for bad faith in not submitting the question to the people, claiming the party is unable to handle the liquor issue.
Water famine looms in Galveston as cisterns run dry and gardens fail. Residents rely on neighbors for drinking water while some use Gulf condensate. The city plans a water works system, but construction will take months before service begins. The scarcity is evident in the euphoric restaurant sign closed until it rains.
A genuine case of yellow fever was reported in the Navy yard at Pensacola Florida. The notice notes the exposure area and signals health officials' monitoring and measures.
Judge Jeremiah S. Black died at his York home at two in the morning of the 20th aged seventy three. Born January 10 1810 in Somerset County he studied law under Chauncey Forward and gained admission in 1830. He became judge of his district in 1842 and a Democratic supreme court nominee in 1851 gaining the largest vote. He was re-elected in 1854 by a wide margin and served as Attorney General under President Buchanan from 1857 onward.
The body of T. F. Griswold a Burlington Iowa prominent citizen was found in Lake Champlain with no marks of violence. Authorities suspect accidental drowning or death by his own action. Nearby reports mention other self inflicted deaths and criminal incidents across New York and Louisiana.
A Norfolk Virginia scene reports two physicians nearly fought with pistols but harmed none. The incident highlights a mock duel over rival medicine practices, with observers noting the risk of fatal outcome if one doctor had taken the other's drug.
Mrs. Mary Bach of Wheeling West Virginia stated she had outlived her allotted time and then took her own life. She was eighty seven years old. The New York Times notes toll abolition on the canals has greatly boosted business.
A Scottish shoemaker naturalist named Thomas Edward carried pill-boxes for specimens across moorland near Bullock hills between Keith and Huntly. Caught in a thunderstorm his boxes soaked open releasing insects and spiders, provoking laughter from two local girls. An angry six-foot woman chased him from a hut with axe and pole, but he fled to safety and changed his habit to tin boxes. The piece notes other small notices about clergy, donors, and notable locals.
Reports note 1750 drinking saloons in St Louis and a New York City summer week bath count near 250000. A Nashua man aged 102 enjoys garden life and escorts dancers. Boston debates suppressing musical talk while preserving Sunday concerts. A Boston firm carves a library for S J Tilden in New York. Caterpillars threaten foliage. pests defy birds.
Democratic candidate Jupee Kinng praised a saloon on every hilltop and village in a bold speech drawing attention to Alcohol policy. The New York Commercial Advertiser mocks the idea linking it to a club’s impact on a prisoner’s mind.
Former Agriculture Commissioner LeDuc argues domesticated ostriches could replace mules for streetcar service and, when worn out, fetch value as beef. He claims ostriches fattened on sawdust and scrap iron yield the best beef.
Frederick F Schuldt, about 24, killed himself in a city jail cell after threats against his father, a wealthy Reading man. Authorities report grief and mortification from recent family trouble. The incident followed a prior arrest for threatening to kill his father and an unsuccessful attempt to secure money and a gold watch.
A collage of short items and quips from historic papers. Snippets include a Detroit Post joke about a mother and Johnnie, a Newport boudoir remark about a bank owner, and a Sher man autographs missive. The piece ends with a note on Jewish practices reducing disease risk in the old country.
A fragment from the Republican of Springfield Mass describes a tense domestic scene with a parent scolding a child and a child singing a hymn. The glimpse portrays conflict and a brief moment of religious song within a quiet neighborhood memory.
A postmaster teases an old Black man about his wife’s travels and her rough trip home. The elderly man replies with humor about his wife’s rabbit transit and the toll it took on her, singing as he leaves. The Selma Journal cites Mobile’s incident of a Black girl tearing a ring from a white child’s ear, condemning it as inhuman and folly for children to play with costly jewelry.
A hermit named Johnson Terwilliger lives in a Peter's Mountain cave in Perry County Pennsylvania. An exiled European revolutionary, he fled to America leaving a wife and child he has not seen since. He ekes out life by selling his own rattlesnake oil. The Georgia Liquor Bill may become law and would enforce prohibition with new petition rules allowing one tenth of county voters or one fifth of city voters to call a separate election on prohibition.
Bebbl, a rival of Captain Webb, vows to swim the Niagara whirlpool from London. The note warns that if he drowns, British papers should not lecture the United States about Webb’s fate.
A New York Herald philosopher reflects on life from childhood to old age, noting childhood teeth, youthful unrequited love, adult dyspepsia, fear of death, and the belief that lawyers will contest wills and take much of the inheritance. The witty summary situates life as a sequence of common trials and legal worries.
The flannel shirt advances toward general adoption this season at summer resorts, while the starched shirt with collar and cuffs declines in visibility. The piece suggests flannel may soon be worn year round by businessmen, with formal dress reserved for biled linen.
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