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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1885
Page
7
A Brighton Beach Hotel veranda scene prompts a physician to defend strict cigar ownership. A gray bearded man argues against sharing cigars as a health risk, stressing poison transfer and personal rights. He recounts incidents where cigars or lights passed through many hands and harmed mouths, insisting only the owner may handle his cigar.
A whaling tale from 1876 follows the Helen Mar under Captain George Bauldry off Point Barrow. A struck whale breaks the line before the toggle, leaving an iron bearing Helen Mar marks. The iron later lodged in a whale by the Thrasher’s crew travels eight years across oceans, becoming a California relic. The piece also notes the Pennsylvania Female College in Pittsburgh with its September 9 session and Miss Helen E Pelletreau as president.
Detroit Morning News reports a Detroit bar anecdote about Miss Florence Jerome of New York wearing tights and a fig leaf as Eve at Empress Eugenie’s St Cloud palace masquerade. The tale cites an aristocrat, a Williams College chum, and a claim of Eugenie’s dismay.
Old physician offers a free recipe for a vegetable remedy claimed to cure consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and nervous complaints. Advertisement lists Hood s Sarsaparilla Shiloh s cures with prices and local sellers Johnson Siegfried and Croup offering remedies for diphtheria choking cough catarrh and dyspepsia.
A 1864 letter from Harry W Olmstead of Indiana praises Dr David Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy for kidney disease. He describes lasting relief after four bottles, urges others to seek the cure, and thanks Kennedy for a noted medical discovery. The letter cites Rondout New York as Kennedy’s base and promotes the remedy’s broad claims against liver and kidney ailments.
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