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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1883
Page
8
The article warns that Hop Bitters, praised as the purest family medicine, has spawned imitations and counterfeit products using hop related names. Readers are urged to avoid these substitutes and buy only genuine Hop Bitters bearing a white label with a hops cluster. Druggists are cautioned against distributing counterfeit versions.
Prof. Verrill of the United States Fish Commission presents a paper on the sea bottom’s physical and geological character before the National Academy of Sciences in New York. He details 1,500 government dredgings plus 500 private observations from Labrador to New Jersey, noting cold Arctic-like zones near Maine and a tropical fauna off southern New England with 800 species including 500 new ones.
A New York Evening Post paragraph advises housewives to prepare turnip sprouts for winter meals. Place sprouts in hot water then cold, drain well, and serve with plain dressing or mayonnaise for a simple salad booster.
A writer signing as Content claims Dr Guysett s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla cured him of weakness and dreams and that he now sleeps soundly. Lexton Variety Fair suggests hotel proprietors add notices in three continental languages asking guests not to slam doors from 10 PM to 8 AM.
Advertises Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a remedy for female complaints sold by druggists.
Benjamin Hoover of Indiana is killed while cleaning a well when a bucket falls on his head. The accident ends a routine task as a bucket causes fatal injuries.
Catarrh of the bladder with stinging irritation and inflammation is described as cured by Buuhy paiba. The notice promotes a remedy for kidney and urinary complaints and urges readers to try the product.
Baltimore physician J. M. Porter recounts a dramatic case of Bright's disease misdiagnosed as heart or nervous illness. After losing weight, swelling, and kidney failure, he credits Warner's Safe Cure for rapid, lasting improvement. He urges readers to seek analysis and beware insidious kidney disorders.
The article blends odd anecdotes about Shah of Persia paying a barber, claims about durability of health versus wealth, and advertisements for Kidney-Wort and Russia Salve. It presents health tonics, bodily issues like torpid bowels and piles, and a metaphor about steel before noting a cemetery gate paddle and salve uses.
The article notes rapid shifts as rail routes advance and new remedies supplant old ones. It cites Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pur gative Pellets as preferred over drastic cathartics, sugar coated and small. It also mentions 1,500 people leaving near Chattanooga for western homes, and marketing by the Voltaic Belt Co offering trial of electro therapy devices for nervous debility. The piece briefly records a divorce suit involving the wife of Strangs.
The page lists flour, wheat, barley, butter, beans, potatoes, lard, corn, rye, oats, pork, and livestock prices with locations and marks. It includes a short note on forthcoming season, charity ball costs, and several advertisements for remedies, tonics, and dyes, with testimonials and free offers.
A collage of 19th century notices promotes health tonics like Wells Health Renner and Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya, local pride in Houston voting for a Texas university site, and commercial goods from bronchia lozenges to Lyon’s Heel Stiffeners. Mentions include Prickly Ash Bitters, Chinese Six Companies consolidation, and Hop Bitters with endorsements from J. Williams Toller.
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