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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1886
Page
7
A New York to Philadelphia journey describes a plain man in his forties who becomes enamored with his reflection. He experiments with clothing and hair, posing before windows as carriage mirrors reveal his growing vanity to fellow travelers.
The tiger's eye, once valued for watch seals and decorative work, has sunk from prestige to mere umbrella handle use with a ball atop a column. A rich find could have made the discoverer wealthy, but now many earn only small sums and risk dying in poverty.
A humorous tale recalls Mr Howell’s stage works where kissing scenes are kept modest. A young actress asks how passages should be cut and the lover notes that Howell girls’ kisses “don’t count” in their old club plays.
Lord Ailesbury's Savernake estate near Totten ham Park sits amid Savernake forest in Wiltshire. The forest spans about 4000 acres with grand woodland scenery. Locals recount a keeper's remark that the trees are ancient, planted decades or centuries ago, while the deer and giant ferns enhance the landscape.
Joseph Lambert a laborer was fined 1s and 11s 6d under 19 Geo. III c. 21 sec. 1 for violent swearing from Stratford to Tiddington. The act fines day laborers and other classes for obscene language with escalating penalties on further offenses.
Market prices for wheat corn oats rye flaxseed cloverseed and hay across Minneapolis Duluth St Paul Milwaukee and Dagota notes. Bank openings in Duluth two new banks. local crime and personal notices including Dexter Fay arrest and Victoria Morosini’s husband transfer to Norfolk.
An 1887 edition of Hostetter's Almanac is ready free from druggists and country dealers across the United States and beyond. The ad notes accuracy, health guidance, calendar content, and a likely record edition, with orders via two cent stamps to Hostetter & Co., Pittsburgh. Also reported: a creamery fire in Darien Wisconsin. Piso's Remedy for Catarrh. a deadly boiler explosion in Lecco Lombardy. endorsements for Allen's Lung Balsam and Brown's Iron Bitters. multiple medical claims and notices from the era.
An early 20th century ad fragment touts Dr. Bage's Catarrh Remedy as pleasant soothing and effective claiming cures for thousands. It promotes Warner's White Wine of Tar Syrup as a great cough and consumption cure and notes Donald F. Nicholson tied to the New York Tribune with a $6000 yearly salary.
Coughs and sore throat sufferers urged to try Brown's Bronchial Troches a simple sure remedy sold only in boxes at 25 price.
General Washburn predicts the Minneapolis and Sault Ste. Marie railroad line will be completed by January 1, 1885. A separate note touts Safety Pins Patent with a mail order sample dozen priced at 10 cents, offered via box 311, Siangneac, Conn.
Casneau Hazanp & Co. of New York market Pons Cop Liver Oil drawn from selected livers and refined at sea shore. The product is described as tire and sweet with patients preferring it after use. Physicians reportedly deem it superior to competing market oils.
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