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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1902
Page
15
Fragmented ad style copy touts Jacobs Oil as a miracle treatment curing back pain and deafness with dramatic personal testimonies. Mentions Dr McCroa and Tennessee native, plus a general critique of wall coverings and sanitation trends tied to the era.
An old report notes a wheeze of a vehicle demise in Austria for a sum of 2515 dollars over the conveyance. Authorities document the incident and compensation context in restrained terms.
An advertisement touts the Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for impurity of the blood and related eruptions. It claims to eradicate boils pimples and salt rheum and to enrich and purify the blood. The text urges readers to seek the medicine from N Y New York and promises a free medical book.
A quirky column blends verse about a prim old fashioned girl with short curios about a baby elephant aboard a mail steamer, a ship’s bosun, a mischievous elephant’s bakery raids, a swimmer’s winged device, a finger preserved in gold, and a “blushing” Florida tree caused by insect color change.
A magazine note explains sepia pigment comes from a ten armed octopus in the Mediterranean and Adriatic. The ink is a water soluble powder that colors strongly, used as durable paint though fades under sun. Cuttlefish ink also yields ancient sepia for painting.
A curious accident in western New York involved a cat climbing a pole on the Buffalo and Lockport Electric railway. Its body bridged a 22,000 volt transmission line, halting Niagara power for hours and disabling several electric railways and lighting systems. Another Utica cat caused a fuse blowout next day, but the cat survived.
Fragmentary OCR describes ancient religious texts linked to a colonial era, mentioning bogie and thowgi bibles, public possession, and an event involving a coronation belt in England. It references a Wales coal operator and a monetary figure around $250,000, with a total sum possibly twenty five.
A fragmentary notice recounts old shifts in pronunciation from grandmothers to later generations with examples such as lay versus slept and potticary for doctor, plus a brief ad and a blurb about a Baltimore musician avoiding social events, and a note on Dr Hamlin's Blood and Liver Pills.
The excerpt notes an antisethrical painting in Germany showing Abraham with a blunderbuss about to slay Isaac, an angel pouring water on the pan, and a Verrio scene featuring Sir Godfrey Kneller and May surveying Christ healing the sick. It cites the first Rhine steamer in 1822, fifteen years after Fulton’s Hudson service.
A cache of testimonials extols Peruna as a cure for catarrh and related ailments. Figures including Congressman D F Wilber of Oneonta and Edward Given of Crown Point advocate its use, citing rapid relief, renewed vitality, and long term benefits after cold and bronchial issues.
A column notes Irish spoken by Bahamas descendants and Irish speakers in London docks. It then recounts a Germantown matron asking for Saratoga chips, only to be offered bundled sticks described as resin-tipped. The humor hinges on language and a mistaken snack request.
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