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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1886
Page
3
An artist recalls a South Africa excursion with baboons wrecking his gear while the tale recounts a dramatic hunt of a twenty-foot cobra. The narrative blends vivid natural history with comic monkey mischief and a perilous, paint-flecked pursuit.
A Kentucky report details Alf Underwood and his brother Jesse as famed outlaws. They forged debts, stole horses, and fled through Bath County to Virginia. After Jesse was shot while fleeing, Alf freed a jailed ally, then aided his brother and fled back to Kentucky. The two led the so called Underwood War. Jesse died, Alf remained exile. Washington Star.
A guest narrative paints Canton as a picturesque maze of granite footpaths and winding lanes. High signboards beam gold red green and black as two and a half million residents bustle past stalls and rich merchant shops in a kaleidoscopic river of activity. The city unfolds through arched gateways into open shops, carved woodwork jade and silk brocades, with joss-altars at street ends and a February New Year rush of varied wares.
A quirky observations compare Japanese animals with American counterparts noting tailless cats with solemn demeanor, minimally featured dogs with nose-less beauty, and goldfish with wide tails. The piece mentions cultural curiosities and a failed Pacific voyage for a prized fish.
The excerpt surveys varied notes from history and culture including the origin of boycott in Ireland, the term Blizzard from French Canadian roots, ivory trade statistics, torture practices under Roman law, substitutes for wooden pails, Roman slavery and child abandonment, Nassau Curiously a phosphorescent lake, Dr Curtis on lung health and tuberculosis, Chinese language character counts and naming customs, and the use of the prefix Ah as a diminutive in English.
Advises wild mulkin smoking for catarrh and warns against habitual one sided carrying of infants. Recommends hot camomile bags as relief for neuralgia, hot milks with seltzer as a nightcap, and an old French remedy Jatt de pole with egg yolk sugar orange water and hot water.
The article notes tea timing affects digestion with farinaceous foods and warns mid day tea with solid food can cause dyspepsia. It cites Sir W Roberts on breakfast tea, five o clock tea, and the impact of worry on tea tolerance, linking excessive tea among poorer women to heart complaints and slowed digestion of bread and butter. It ends with a stray line about the Parliament clock.
The New York Graphic discusses wind and water habits and future meteorology, while notes on glass and bamboo in electric lamps and the superiority of bamboo are described. A mystery man known as the leather man is reported in Waterbury with a cave home and a wooden sole shoe. Emigrants to Castle Garden include two blind Swedes to Culver Minnesota. A Washington Capitol liquor rule is called a farce and Sage's Catarrh Remedy and steamed potatoes are referenced.
The text argues cosmetics cannot overcome emaciation or nervous debility and promotes inward improvement through Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It mentions advertising by German products, de Lenseps on the Panama Canal, and tubercular infection theory. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy for early tuberculosis and related symptoms. Adelina Patti is cited regarding theater crowds.
A physician championing kidney health argues Brights disease is the root of most modern illnesses. He cites silent organ decay behind sudden deaths and links heavy stays and fashion to kidney decline. He describes a remedy, Hall’s Benedy, and urges diet and habits changes to avert tragedy.
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