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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1883
Page
7
A historical household tip piece outlines room by room cleaning steps. It covers moth prevention with camphor, cellar and attic care, furniture cleaning, wall washing, carpet refreshening, and kitchen sanitation with lye scalding. It includes a testimonial from Jonathan Bowens of Fishers ter Ohio praising a remedy.
A Christian Intelligent er piece urges daughters to care for their mothers and share duties. It notes mothers often neglect self care while daughters enjoy lighter tasks, citing a young speaker who declares it is mother's turn now. The column Warns against perpetual parental self-denial and urges mutual kindness.
Dealing with Dr Boutelle of Hampton Virginia records a patient describing widespread pain and distress. The narrative preserves dialect and details a long list of symptoms including head neck back and stomach pain with strong emotional depiction.
A Pullman porter discovers a passenger is a detective by three heel crosses he scratches on a boot. The porter and conductor foil the spotter together while the detective remains aboard. The idea of placing a spotter on each car raises who would watch the watcher.
A wife tells her husband she fears staying alone and imagines someone in the house, but believes there is no intruder when he arrives. The Arkansaw Traveler records the remark as a domestic aside.
A mid 1880s promotional clip from Washington DC includes doctors in Europe and America praising German Hope Bitters as a top remedy. It quotes a patient, Mrs Mary Stuart, claiming nervous debility and stomach issues improved after one bottle, gaining strength and appetite and resuming work. The piece also notes a quip about a black eye as the window of the soul.
An assortment of medical ads and odd notices includes Dr. Pierce promoting his Golden Medical Discovery for consumption, a Dresden watchmaker's paper watch claim, health product testimonials, and scattered local vignettes from Cameron and Liverpool with miscellaneous remarks about people and rumors.
Fragmentary report notes a craze termed inspect shooting with individuals armed and aided by the Princess of Wales promoting it as a bird saving activity for pigeons and Bmw birds.
A brief note records pests including flies roaches ants bed bugs rats mice and a chipmunk cleared from Rata area. The fragment suggests local concern about sanitation and pest presence with no further details.
A long list of eminent endorsers from public life and military ranks backs St Jacob Oil as the premier pain remedy. Testimonials hail instant relief for rheumatism and neuralgia, with international praise and awards cited from the Zealand International Exhibition of 1882.
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