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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1885
Page
7
A quirky montage of quips and jokes from a bygone era. Odd puns mix with social jests about trains, cooks, farmers, and petty miscommunications. The item gathers snippets from witty exchanges, parlor humor, and light editorial edges, preserving the cadence of a busy urban page.
A jumble of quirky notes reports a neighbor’s water hoard and peculiarly small couples marrying in Jefferson Jon, a circular-gaw nest in Fitchburg, a balloon Couple in Topeka, famine fears in Indiana, strict marriage ages in Japan, a man killed then self, a boy and dog hunting a wild cat near Sarnia, and sewer rats mastering flood traps. Also mentioned are Wak-bun-a-Kee in Parliament, a Paris hospital death by boiling, Hartford cab fares, Adele Hugo’s confinement, Miguel Noe’s life insurance ploy, and a Death Valley probe.
A French devised process to extract a gum from Atlantic and Pacific algae yields a translucent algae gum for leather substitute production. Plants are washed, dried, and macerated. hot water and steam extraction used. gum is diluted, settled, and cooled to gelatinize at around 50 percent.
Community readers are urged to buy Peruna and Manalin as cures for catarrh kidney disease and heart trouble. Testimonials from W D Williams A S Pension Agent and others praise health gains after using the products. Miscellaneous business cards promote remedies and patent medicines with claims of quick cures and vivid health benefits.
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