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Newspaper
The Harrison News
Location
Harrison, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1894
Page
4
A fragmentary calendar listing days and dates for 1895 with scattered numbers and stray symbols. The legible portions show month references and numbered days but lack coherent events or specifics beyond generic date patterns and calendar structure.
The tale traces rumors of a flawless white diamond sought by adventurers across distant lands. Dutch farmer Van Z, aided by a Kaffir medicine man, finally locates the gem, demands a high price, and is forced to surrender after bargaining. The prized stone, worth twenty five thousand, is brought toward the frontier as the foundation of the diamond industry.
The December sessions report extended debate in both chambers on the Nicaragua canal bill and the Carlisle currency measure. Senators Turpie Perkins and others weigh surveys and cost, while House leaders Springer Warner Ellis clash over banking reform and holiday adjournment. Adjournment set for January 3, 18%.
Fragmentary lines describe ladies wearing pointed shoes and garters adorned with golden chains, a custom thought to be cursed by clergy and prohibited. References to a 20 shilling public appearance fee and long tips fading imply social controls and price of appearance.
Grip Rheumatism sufferer Munson Bros. of Clinton Missouri reports severe paralysis and constant pain in 1991. After six bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla the condition improved steadily and the patient now declares he is well and never felt better in seven years, with no other medicine used.
In Curiaco on December 24 Mrs. L Josephine Bedall wife of Rev W Bedall of Evanston died by drinking carbolic acid. An unfinished letter to Mrs Dr Johnson of LaBelle Mo reveals her view of life and the minister's work and her self declared unfitness.
President Cleveland and party reached Washington at 6 o'clock Sunday morning returning from a South Carolina duck hunting trip. The group appeared in good spirits and refreshed by the outing as large hampers of game were distributed among cabinet families and other favored friends.
The Brown children witnessed a public execution on Saturday. Dom Brown, twelve, tied a rope to his neck and a tree limb and jumped, believing his feet would hit ground. the rope proved too short, and he died from strangulation.
Viaproostoen reports a 235 mile section of the new Siberian railroad is open for traffic, expanding regional rail linkages as winter logistics proceed.
Nasuva New Hampshire December 22. Cashier Frank A McKean embezzled from the Bone Head National bank totaling 745000 dollars, surpassing prior reports by fifteen thousand. The bank's bonds were fifteen thousand and the bank's surplus five hundred. Bread riot in Peru Lima December Peru. In Peru over four thousand hungry women and children petitioned President Caceres for relief, dispersed after a riot that lasted hours with numerous casualties.
Wm. Bridge known as Hoosier Bill received at the state penitentiary from Montgomery county on a three year sentence for horse stealing. He has 110 years of prior penitentiary time, with 26 years served in penitentiaries and six in jail. He claims to have helped introduce the train robbery system at Indianapolis. He turns 63 in May. His father, aged 96, lives in Iowa, and Hoosier Bill has a family in St Louis.
Murray City in Hocking county has sixteen saloons and no church. B F Argust told Columbus pastors that aid is needed to finish a modest church already started. Locals have raised some funds amid miner hardships, but $1,800 is required to complete the building, with $600 already available. The Columbus pastors pledge assistance.
Columbus reports a sewer pipe combine formed with twenty eight corporations and a capital of two million dollars. The Central Sewer Pipe Co will be headquartered in Pittsburgh and include the Columbus Sewer Pipe Co. Shale interests at Akron will align with the group.
A Columbus rumor claims coal operators in Ohio Pennsylvania West Virginia and Virginia are negotiating a trust to control bituminous coal of the east and south. W B Brooks refused to comment when asked about the rumor.
Ohio crude oil known as Lima oil rose a cent and a half Thursday as Standard Co. moves control of the Lima market. Prices now stand at 52 4 cents for North Lima and 50 for South Lima with producers jubilant at the escalation.
Rev James Kuhn president and member of the board of arbitration signs the unanimous report which favors eliminating the fifteen cent differential and places Massillon on the same sixty cent base as the Hocking valley, yielding parity in rates.
Warden James has employed Charles E. Cline, a convict electrician, to install a ten station telephone system at the prison, with plans to expand to twenty. The exchange will be on the second story of the deputy warden building, centrally located to connect all departments.
The Ohio and Indiana Pipe Line Co., a natural gas supplier to Lima Dayton Piqua Wapakoneta and other Ohio towns, filed a mortgage for 1 million dollars with the Central Trust Co. of New York. The loan secures gas operations drawn from Indiana fields.
Warren board of health plans delegation to Ashtabula to probe the diphtheria outbreak. Report from Ashtabula says antitoxine is yielding good results in combating the epidemic.
Columbus, Dec 21. George Geschwilm was found guilty of murder in the first degree after a jury deliberation that began Wednesday noon and ended Thursday morning. Four jurors favored a second degree verdict on the first ballot.
Mrs Elizabeth Lechleitner sued Henry King of Newton Falls for 10000 in damages after her husband Daniel Lechleitner was accidentally shot during a fox hunt. A verdict on Thursday night awarded 500 to the plaintiff.
After an all night session the jury found Rose Reimer and Catherine Reimer not guilty of arson in the Dalton home fire. The verdict drew applause and a collection was taken in the courtroom for Miss Reimer.
Douglas Putnam, great grandson of General Israel Putnam of revolutionary fame, died Thursday morning in Marietta Ohio at age 88. The obituary notes his lineage and long life.
A coup bicycle can be bought in Paris for 15 francs. Paris football club recently defeated London Civil Service club. Trotting records have fallen at five seconds per decade since 1845 when Lady Suffolk held it. The 1,000-ton Lucania has averaged just over twenty five miles per hour across nine transatlantic voyages this year.
A Longview man details his eight year struggle with sciatic rheumatism and paralysis, credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring movement after Hot Springs treatment failed, and cites local physician Dr C H Stansbury endorsing the cure as a fact known to many in Longview.
The piece reviews the transition from Alexander III to his son Nicholas II, noting Europe’s anxiety over an incurable Alexander and the cautious continuity of policy. It highlights Nicholas’s calm address, the limited imperial authority, and the need to balance reforms with conservative forces, while defending Alexander III’s generally peaceful influence and condemning excesses in exile and anti revolutionary actions.
A Detroit Free Press tale recounts a humble man who wears a small cross as symbol of care. A curious girl asks about it, and the cross is shown to hold pictures of forgiveness, kindness, and memories of a weary world reflected in a child, a sick woman, and a hopeful stock of flowers. The cross represents unseen lives and the human heart that binds them.
London experiments show jets of water expelled from ship sterns may drive vessels. The City of Glasgow reached eight and a half knots with 180 horsepower. Some experts think hydraulic propulsion could supersede screws in certain craft and rival existing motive power in time.
The Royal Baking Powder is presented as stronger purer and superior to all others. It claims competition offers higher profits from cheaper inferior powders. Readers are urged to distrust substitutes and to insist there is no substitute for the Royal in baking.
A humorous exchange centers on bachelor invitations and social expectations. A line from Harper's Bazar notes one invitation per bachelor, while a New York reference contrasts cook duties and roast beef. The Washington Star and Buffalo Courier snippets mock political fundraising and parental resolve.
Fragmentary dialogue between Achilles and Ajax with playful mythic line by Puck notes a wound and a taunt. The quotation references combat, wound, and a Trojan spear. It showcases classical allusion and theater style language.
The ad claims Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure catarrh, a constitutional disease, with internal use to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents offer one hundred dollars for a failed case and invite testimonials, listing Toledo, Ohio as base and Druggists as sellers. Also includes a humorous Tit Bits exchange about clean sheets.
A promotional blurb praises bilious people becoming jovial through Hostetters Stomach Bitters. It claims the tonic banishes bile from blood and temper, prevents rheumatic ailments, dust and nervousness, and regulates the digestive system without griping.
A girl at the Detroit Free Press game notes his status as a freshman and a companion agrees he is the freshest she has seen, highlighting a standout debut moment in the crowd atmosphere.
The notice solicits particulars about the price of a double berth in a Tourist Sleeping Car from Kansas City on the Phillips-Rock Island Tourist Excursions. It notes through cars on fast trains leaving Kansas City Wednesdays via Ft Worth and El Paso and Thursdays via Scenic Route, advising contact with G D Bacon G A P A Cincinnati and Joan Sepastian GP A Chicago for details.
Fragmented clipped quotes reference disputes with Miss Hopson nicknamed Sweet Alice and a command to Bolt. The item includes unsolicited health advertising for Arlen's Long Balsam claiming non opium, expectorant action and rapid healing of inflamed membranes.
In a Victorian advertisement, Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are promoted as effective for liver stomach and bowel derangements. The copy urges assist Nature with a cleansing laxative to remove offensive matter, regulate bowels, and prevent diseases. A free sample offer and address to the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo is included.
A collage of quips from periodicals features a barber apprentice denying access to regular customers, a blunt man remarking on Miss Brown’s finances and singing ability, and humorous exchanges about throat cures and travel fares, all in vintage magazine tones.
An old advertisement notes Piso's Cure for Consumption has no cans as a cough medicine and lists F. M. Apnott of 38 Seneca Street Buffalo New York with a date of May 9 18.
In Harlem Life a dialogue features Tracuer asking Charley about Croesus with Charley cryptically replying that “Dad wear ’em in their pants.” The exchange captures a stylized streetwise exchange reflecting cultural vernacular of the period.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative that cleanses the system, dispels fevers and headaches, and nourishes kidneys, liver, and bowels without weakening them. It praises wide medical approval, notes 50c and $1 bottle pricing, and warns buyers to purchase only from the California Fig Syrup Co. with its signature on every package.
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