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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1885
Page
3
Advertisements quote testimonials from Dustin and Mrs Slack praising Hop Bitters for curing neuralgia liver and kidney ailments and restoring weight. Readers warned that genuine bottles bear a green ps label and to avoid similar tonics.
A famed natural harbor off the Texas coast near the Rio Grande is described as a calm, shallow pool amid roaring seas. The Oil Spot, about two miles long, shelters light vessels with 12 to 18 feet depths while its oil-bearing mud cleans decks and resists breakers rolling in from a 700 mile gulf swell.
Senator Jesse D. Bright of Indiana faced expulsion in 1862 after a disloyalty charge hinged on a March 1 1861 letter to Jefferson Davis praising an "improvement in firearms." Bright claimed it was a mere introduction for a friend named Thomas B. Lincoln, but the Senate rejected the defense and voted 32 to 14 to expel him.
A Milwaukee Sentinel reader recounts long battle with mental illness from 1865, citing misdiagnoses, confinement, and a self derived cure using Warner’s Safe Cure. The letter praises the remedy and its author Rev. E D Hopkins of Dodge’s Corners Wisconsin. The piece also includes scattered ads and brief notes typical of a late 19th century page.
A speech by John P. Hale in New York references a New England clergyman who left six weeks to marry, then returned with a different wife. The anecdote leads to Ben Perley Poore’s remark about not being able to direct his steps. The tale of Joe Meek describes his daring Rocky Mountains crossing and a staged display of the guyascutus to amuse Missouri trading-post friends.
A New York Sun note reports England cheaper for GrackRigs by 16 percent but pricier for meat dairy and produce by 23 percent. House rent in provincial England runs about half of Boston, London about two-thirds. Overall living costs in England are about 17 percent lower than in the United States.
The humorous fragment describes Robert escorting a girl home and unsure which she was at morning breakfast. A stray overheard street exchange mocks habits of spitting and a catarrh remedy, with jests about organ fires and tonic advertisements.
Prof Adolph Ott of New York touts Horsford's Acid Phosphate as a aid for sustained mental work from morning through evening. He claims it enables continuous concentration without fatigue and would not dispense with it.
A Miss Ahni é Witkin of 116 Broadway receives a Waverly novels set as a twenty-fifth subscriber premium from the Chicago Ledger. The Ledger rewards select subscribers with valuable gifts. other items promote medical tonics and patent remedies, including Compound Oxygen testimonials and Brown’s Bronchial Troches.
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