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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1884
Page
7
A Philadelphia inquiry exposes women living in crowded rooms earning from seven to ten cents a dozen for shirt and sacque work, plus pennies for buttons and stays. It details rickety homes, meager meals, and the bitter contrast with barbershop ordeals and polluted streets, highlighting poverty and exploited labor.
A short will suffices legally as long as it clearly disposes of all possessions. The piece notes extraneous phrases may be omitted and cites a French fox hunter whose will declared leaving everything to his wife. The Cincinnati Enquirer reference underscores concise wording in testamentary documents.
Hon A W Sheldon Associate Justice of the Supreme Bench of Arizona Territory extols St Jacobs Oil as the great conqueror of pain, noting his personal observation and the oil's extended scope of use for bodily aches.
Chicago News explains how smoke rises or falls with air density. When air becomes rarified, smoke may stall and sink, illustrating buoyancy in a denser medium like water.
The article recalls a great flood threat on the Genesee River near Rochester and Sam Patch’s leap, then shifts to an interview with Mr. Warner praising Warner’s Safe Cure and Safe Rheumatic Cure. It notes the firm’s expansion, a seven eight story fireproof building, and wide use of Warner medicines across the country.
A doctor tells a mother her child will die from scarlet fever and offers a line about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb. The woman laments losing the little angel and remarks the illness did not come from the Jones children whose father made an assignment and whose mother is low church.
The Age notes that for Mr. G. E. Morrison, explorer of New Guinea, two Wadham watches were procured through The Waltham Watch Company and tested at the Melbourne Observatory. Ellery, Government Astronomer, declared them superior to Melbourne-made chronometers after a fortnight of evaluation.
Fragmentary notes show farmers arguing about butter color and quality. They claim white butter would fetch higher prices if color and quality matched ideal standards, but current color practices affect market value and trading decisions.
An elderly man recalls hardships from a twenty year span and a long journey by foot from Newark to Ringgold Georgia. He attributes his recovery to Dr David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy and describes its soothing effects on weakness appetite and nerves.
An advertisement roundup extols Kid ney Wort as a universal kidney liver bowel cure with many reported successes and doctors unable to match its cures. Also promoted are Diamond Dye, Peptonized Beef Tonic, Scovill’s Sarsaparilla, Piso’s Remedy, Brown’s Bronchial Troches, and various tonics and home remedies with claims of quick relief and health restoration.
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