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Newspaper
The Semi Weekly Item
Location
Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1900
Page
2
Multiple properties in Johnson City Marshallton Mount Carmel Sunbury and Sunbury areas are listed for sheriff sale. Descriptions include detailed plots frontages dimensions and structures such as two story dwellings and outbuildings. Purchasers must meet payment deadlines and terms with deeds issued after full payment. Eugene B. Zerfing is the sheriff.
Jordan & Co. advertises eyewear with no charge for Atting. The notice emphasizes affordable vision care and displays the store as a destination for glasses shoppers.
Legal sale notice listing seized properties in Marshallton Coal Township Northumberland County Pennsylvania and adjacent Marshallton lots including a two story hotel and a three story building. Names mentioned include Richard Moore deceased Patrick O'Brien deceased James O'Brien administrator and Sheriff Rugenkerb Zerefin g. Sale terms require down payment of 100 dollars and ten percent of excess bid to sheriff with deed issued after full payment. January 17 Sunbury PA.
The advertisement touts Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a cure all for kidney bladder and urinary troubles claiming it can prevent Bright s disease and avert death from heart or lung complications It promises samples by mail and lists Binghamton NY as the company base and requests mention of the paper
A compact wildlife column surveys game birds and animal quirks. It notes foxes, fawns, and vixen behavior, coy horses and mules, and hunting lore such as the fox brush and the bell mare. The piece blends natural history with southwestern hunting lore.
Chattanooga Times recounts a dramatic meeting with Sir Henry Irving in New York during his 1896 visit. The actor’s sombre piercing eyes and Mephistophelean eyebrows unsettled the interviewer, who nearly fled before Irving calmly requested the questioner repeat his tale. The exchange ended with a helpful, cordial interview.
A leading physician laments that personal habits cause most illness and pain. He cites crossing legs, coughing loudly, ill fitting footwear, unhealthy posture, poor diet, cold exposure, smoking, indoor living, and excess exercise as the true enemies.
The Washington Post notes four of the oldest senators seated front row: Pettus Alabama sixty eight? actually seventy eight, Cockrell Missouri sixty five, West Missouri near seventy, Morgan Alabama seventy six next June. It recalls their vigor, wit and varied legacies in a portrait of aging leadership.
The text defines gold karats from twenty four to twelve. It explains twenty four carat gold as pure gold, twenty two carat as gold with silver and copper, eighteen carat as eight parts gold and three parts each silver and copper, and twelve carat as half gold with silver and copper in specific parts.
A London report states street accidents total roughly 3,560 each year, indicating a high level of urban risk and prompting calls for improved safety measures and traffic controls.
A London blacksmith bought a 1450 dated book from a secondhand stall for two cents. He forgot it until a ledger entry drew attention to its age, prompting British Museum interest. The secretary offered 250 dollars, later 500, and the book sold as Guttenberg’s first printed work, deemed priceless.
The speaker recalls leaving South America with $5,000 in local currency and returning to find a revolution had devalued it by about 90 percent, leaving his wealth worth under $500 the next morning. The anecdote appears as a blunt caution from the Chicago Post.
A short comic exchange from a Kansas City newspaper features The Dodger-Why asking Tommy if he would hit his little brother and The Kid jokingly replying that he would not strike his elder.
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