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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1886
Page
3
A satirical tantrum contrasts a Black man named Sambo with watermelons, describing his yearly obsession harvests, the boat arrival scene, a melon theft, and his secret night raid on a field to steal ripe fruit. It parades stereotypes in vivid, archaic language.
Maj Jamias Biddle Maj Henry Farnsworth and Capt Edward Hunter are ordered to report for duty to adjust state and territorial claims against the United States including Texas Colorado Oregon Nebraska California Kansas Nevada and Washington Idaho. A Halifax dispatch notes the American fishing schooner Marion Grimes detained for breach of customs laws with Capt Quigley claiming the flag and an armed crew boarding the vessel.
An advertisement style notice touts Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters for neuralgia and damp-weather effects, Allen’s Iron Tonic Bitters as a sage tonic, and Piso’s Remedy for Catarrh with 50 cent pricing. It emphasizes protection, nerve tranquility, and easy use.
The advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as uniquely effective for purifying blood, strengthening the body, and improving appetite. It cites thousands of testimonials including Mrs J S Syyper from Pottsville and notes strong sales and home reputation. It also promotes the medicine at $1 per bottle, six for $5, with Hood & Co. as makers in Lowell Massachusetts.
The ad touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as the best tonic for female frailty and de rangements, claiming it restores strength for women and is now priced at one dollar. It notes the remains of the late Chief Justice Chase are being reinterred in Cincinnati.
A chaotic rent of items reports R R Severish’s death by suicide at Sheil Rock Iowa, mixed with health cure anecdotes for Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. It mentions Joshua Nunn’s death, Yale student T F Bayard Jr, and a general raft of patent nostrums and adverts from the era.
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