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Newspaper
Waycross Headlight
Location
Waycross, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1887
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text hints at a late 19th century style note or notice with garbled names and places. No coherent event or entities to confirm a complete news item. preserves only scattered terms like time, seat, and a possible date reference from 1886.
The item describes mail train schedules with stops at various B and W stations. It notes stop patterns, connections at Waycross, Pullman Palace Sleeping cars, and mentions officials and the route through Georgia and Cincinnati. The passage preserves rail travel terms and fare notes.
The Boston Herald details a proposed grand Potomac bridge to honor General Grant. It features two central 165 foot towers, a triumphal arch roadway, and memorial stones. Smaller supporting towers, broad approaches, and ample pedestrian space accompany the main span.
A compact collection of aphorisms on kindness in action, the link between thoughts and tomorrow, and the value of reflection. It contrasts mental narrowness with expansive ideas, notes the power of sleep and learning one fact daily, and references philosophical reflections on empire and perception.
Health hints suggest active skin as preventive of obesity and warn against alcoholic tonics. Ammonia is claimed specific for carbuncles. babies should avoid starch before eight months. Hot drinks aid feeble people by warming and aiding digestion. A sprained ankle cures quickly with hot water from a height. Lemon juice can remove warts, saturating daily for several days. Health and Home.
The Orloff Diamond story traces a French thief fleeing to Persia with a tremulous gem worth about £2000, a Jewish buyer who sold it to an Armenian for £12,000, and the Armenian concealing the stone by inserting it into a leg wound. He travels openly, endures searches and torture, then sells to the Empress Catherine for £40,000. Count Orloff later sees and purchases, with nobility patents, while the Armenian dies a millionaire after centuries of fortune.
A garbled office scene shows a German speaker and an inmate clashing over memory and business claims. Misheard lines about a firm head prompt questions about past dealings and shifting interpretations.
A fragmentary line reads like a painterly soliloquy about bachelor life and a uncertain path to freedom. The stray letters hint at reflections on love, choice, and restraint within a cryptic, poetic voice.
In Cheyenne Sun reports travelers faint and tremble at high altitude. A Nevada youth near the depot panicked, barricaded himself in a retiring room, and feared danger. An old African American woman also feared a threat from another passenger. Authorities note thin nervous types suffer most, especially elderly women, with mild shocks triggering convulsions or belief of imminent harm.
A historical OCR snippet mixes phrases about a new cook, tobacco, and medical ads. Notable names include Jos P Murphy of Springfield Tennessee, Charles Tiel of Philadelphia, and Mrs Jenness Miller. It touts Scott's Emulsion as a throat and lung remedy with testimonials, alongside unrelated household notes and garbled lines.
A jumble of speculative claims about uric acid and kidney disease. References to doctors, public figures, and supposed cures mingle with warnings against improper treatment. The text hints at medical controversy and calls for caution regarding unsafe remedies and misused public opinion.
Chicago living church notes Joseph McLemay of the Intercolonial Railway died after an oil can fell from a height hitting him in the skull behind the ear. He was 70 years old. The incident occurred while he was assisting a family at a residence and the body was found to have passed away within two hours.
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