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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1884
Page
7
Fragments reference Portugal grapes and wine with stray phrases about communion and females. Content is fragmented and contains several nonstandard terms, offering no clear event, date, or identifiable persons or organizations.
A mixture of Speer Port Grape Wine products is described as heirloom juice from Opot, with claims of health benefits for both aging and ailments of women. It lists several wines and cognate products, then shifts to testimonials about Dr J H Schenck’s consumption remedies, including Pulmonic Syrup Seaweed Tonic and Mandrake Pills, with patient letters praising cures of consumption and lung ailments, dated 1879 1881 and 1530s.
A roundup of curious notes: a promise that Ave Maria will be published in 341 languages in Shanghai, a Puebla New Mexico dye factory, camel-powered railcars in Central Asia, and a Black Sea tea plant venture. Other items include a Baltimore goby fish, a peculiar aquarium jumping fish, dental tooth filing in Montezuma Georgia, Hippocrates teaching on Cos island, and Chinese adoption of European ways. Also covered: a Dakota preacher’s delirium tremens sermon, a recipe for mulled aging wine, a spoof sheriff advertisement, Scotland Yard’s misfire with a New York editor, Moroccan massacres in Angara, tribal wars with France, a Porayth Georgia tale, and electric-girl superstition. Notable notes on postal politics, Princess Wilhelmine’s wealth, a sparrow illusion in Leominster, and a complex tonnage formula for ships.
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