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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1885
Page
8
An awkward church session introduces the new minister to members. The deacon ribbingly prompts each speaker, linking sly judgments about neighbors and churchgoers to brief, charged exchanges. The scene ends with a plea to end speaking meetings.
Remarkable experiments described by the Dundee Advertiser at the entrance of North Harbor Peterlead show bottles filled with oil sunk to the harbor bottom. Releasing the oil made the water surface smooth and glassy by reducing wave activity. Witnesses say continuous oil application could calm stormy harbors and allow vessels to reach port safely.
A Minnesota horse, loose in a master's yard, investigated a basket on a pole containing a cat. The cat swiped the intruding nose while the horse kicked, sending Laskot and cat skyward like a rocket before wandering off to feed.
A boy bathing at the Fountain of the Virgin and the Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem found a rock with Phoenician inscriptions. The characters are small and finely carved but not deeply cut, partially submerged by a silicate deposit. Draining the channel may reveal the topography of Jerusalem.
A thought on virtue argues that intelligence without sympathy becomes harsh while sympathy without intelligence becomes weak, urging a balanced approach where understanding and intellect guide compassionate action. The idea stresses practical wisdom in human conduct.
A fragment reflecting on human nobility and potential. It suggests that while not all become great, anyone can strive to feel and act nobly like the renowned figures of history.
A collage of old advertisements touts cures for dyspepsia cough and catarrh, with Johnson & Siegfried as a common dealer. Other items urge pumpkin vine cultivation, manure and fertilizer tips, bee trespass cases, and agricultural advice. Multiple health elixirs, nostrums, and farming shortcuts fill the page alongside local sale pitches.
A collage of short notices: J D Rodefer credits Brown s Iron Bitters for eczema relief. buyers seek land and shares in Warren Pa. old shells and Wilderness battles resurfaces. Ely s Cream Balm eased catarrh. ads for newspapers, rooms for rent, purebred stock interest, and repairs. Also hardware moves, Baron Rothschild jewel box purchase, magnetic balm claims, wagon makers, and local printing praise.
An old physician claims a simple vegetable formula can cure consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and nervous complaints. He offers to mail the recipe free in German French or English with directions to any reader who writes with a stamp to W A Novxs 149 Powers Block Rochester N Y Decisonly.
An advertisement touts Bucelen's Arnica Salve as a universal remedy for cuts, sores, ulcers, rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee and 25 cent price. It lists A W Merck as the seller. It notes Congressman Mills of Texas has drafted a tariff reduction bill to revenue basis and will introduce it in the next session.
The notice touts Alfred Speer wines of Passaic New Jersey including Oporto Grape Wine as world class. It promotes Shiloh's Cure and Shiloh's Vitalizer for croup diphtheria and liver issues with a printed guarantee. Also mentions Colonel Pope profiting from bicycle sales and Hood's Sarsaparilla from Lowell Massachusetts with a 100 dose bottle price.
Plant-based remedy hop bitters praised by touts as universal cure for nerves, kidney and liver diseases, dyspepsia, and rheumatic complaints. Authors claim physicians endorse its use, urging readers to avoid inferior tonics and look for genuine Hop Bitters with proper labeling.
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