10 Jun 1884
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1884
Page
1
Poem fragment depicts a speaker carrying a laughing child toward eternity and asking the Heavenly Father to heed the truant’s cry. The speaker pleads at the outer door, declaring I only I as the gate nears. The tone blends devotion with longing for a future life beyond mortal limits.
Lady Francis Trimston seeks a rich marriage for her son Jack after American heiresses Katie and Mary Brown arrive in London with a fortune. Jack flirts and hosts lavish entertainments at the Langham while Lady Francis overspends, hoping for an engagement to secure money. Samuel W. Brown looms as a possible suitor for his daughters, complicating Jack’s schemes and threatening the family’s finances.
Burdette laments the loss of a last pencil and imagines severe punishment for the thief. The piece blends comic grievance with a mock-solemn diatribe about patrimonial loss and social justice, ending with a dental and digestive ad note for Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets sold by Johnson and Siegfried.
In a railcar smoking room two men mocked pensions as easy income prompting a furious bald passenger to rebuke them. He described pensioners’ trials from wounds to prison hunger, urging respect for the hardship behind government aid before the conductor moved them to the baggage car.
A tribute recalls the wife of a once funny man whose sister and son comforted her in illness. The poet notes the sorrowful scene as the invalid awaits word, and the widow is described through a moving, reverent remembrance ending with the line Abide with me.
A historical notice highlights Downs Elixir as a famed cough remedy from fifty years ago, Baxter’s Bitters for bilious complaints, and Acker’s English Remedy for consumption, sold by Johnson and Seig fried for 1.00.
The article explains practical tips from the Journal of Chemistry on preserving cut flowers. It advises using a sharp knife rather than scissors or breaking stems, trimming ends immediately, avoiding dry rooms, placing flowers in the coolest part of the room near windows, and exposing them to light. It also notes botany tips such as removing anthers and gum sealing to prevent petals from opening, and methods to revive flowers after long transport by moisture and darkness.
Advertisement notes a long standing private practice medicine by Mother Walton claimed to treat female disorders and monthly troubles. It promises a specific cure and offers mailing on receipt of 50 cents. Sold by Johnson and Siegfried and Frazier Medicine Co. in Cleveland Ohio.
A Boston physician endorses the "Hub" Cough Cure as a cure for ordinary coughs. The cure is sold by a Boston druggist with a 25 cent bottle. Alderman M L Blair of Scranton Pa testified on November 9, 1893 that he used Dr Thomas Electric Oil for sprains burns cuts bruises and rheumatism with reliable cures.
A reader Lopes criticizes the dominance of the “boys” over the old gentleman in New York business. The piece argues the young man has mismanaged, harmed depositors, and should bow out to learn basics while the father returns to oversight. An advertisement for Acker's English Remedy follows.
Anti itch and tumor absorbing ointment claims to relieve bleeding piles instantly. Boasts curing long standing cases in one box and targets only piles and related itching. Sold by Johnson and Siegfried, mailed on receipt of $1 from Frazier Medicine Co., Cleveland Ohio.
The greatest blessing of this generation a sure cure for boils burns sores cuts flesh wounds sore nipples hard and soft corns chapped lips and hands pimples and blotches price 50c sold by Johnson and Siegfried frazier medicine co cleveland hie
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