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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1890
Page
4
An advertisement from a New York address touts the Pony saloon offerings including Carman cigars ported brandies and various liquors. It mentions draught lager beer and sample lines, with an odd line noting a traveler earning an average of 35 cents per month for six years.
A Deacon’s meeting at a New York church is interrupted by a Connecticut tramp who enters in a comical disguise making claims of illness and needing pills. The scene shifts through skeptical banter as the visitor seeks aid while the deacons weigh the request.
A collection of coast to coast style salad preparations includes codfish, crab, crayfish, lobster, salmon, herring, and fresh fish salads. Each method details soaking, cooking, and assembling with lettuce, eggs, onions, celery, and dressings primarily mayonnaise or limou lade.
Moisture and intense itching plague piles especially at night and worsen with scratching. If untreated tumors may form, bleed, and ulcerate. Swayne's Ointment stops itching and bleeding, heals ulcers, and can remove tumors in many cases. available from druggists or by mail from Savanta Dr Swayne & Lev Philadelphia.
An irate citizen urges editors to drop French menu terms from U S din ner bills of fare and replace them with North American dishes with city style names like Cincinnati Chicago Kansas City and Philadelphia The piece argues for tariff on foreign words and cites examples such as Cabbage soup Cincinnati style Roast Ribs of Beef Chicago style Spare Ribs Kansas City style and Scrapple Philadelphia style The editor of Puck prints the exchange with a closing note about the quirky public discussion.
Trustees of the University of New York decide to establish a school of Plazoiry on equal footing with the law, medicine, and trevlory departments. The notes include comic snippets from various papers reflecting humorous misunderstandings and social chats. The text preserves a collage of remarks about daily life, art, travel, and mischief across early American periodicals.
A mid ocean wreck is found by a steamship. A mad dog and a white pig in a pen survive as crew members are rescued. The steamer lights the wreck, the dog is shot, oil is poured on the hulk and it is burned. The captain takes the pig and heads for New York with hope the animal will live long. The account comes from the Christian Union.
A corrosive letter describes riots over grain tax remissions near Suchow China. Tax collectors were attacked as farmers looted a local official’s house and a boat carrying a Suchow official was sunk. The piece notes biting officials to death as a feared remedy and warns authorities on crime and detection.
In this defective OCR fragment a medical advertisement extols Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a cure for rheumatic and neuralgic pains, claims safety and efficacy, praises Sunday dinners at Maison Core restaurant, and urges use for kidney, liver, and digestive ills. It mentions a $1 bottle and widespread druggists.
In the Orphans Court Montgomery County Pennsylvania an application for administration upon the estate of Henry S tent of Skippack township is filed. The notice calls all parties interested to appear at the Court House in Noristown on September 1 186 and 10 o clock AM to show cause why letters of administration should not be granted to Gehan. Clerk of Orphans Court Alexander Malsberee will conduct the proceedings.
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