Fresno Chronicle notes and oddities from early Fresno life
The Fresno Republican recounts a Petaluma woman who shot at a gopher and shot herself in the eye, a warning about heat and climate. It highlights a proposed talk by Mr. Weinstock on selling California fruit to eastern markets and laments jobber profits, mixed with poems, observations on ice cream poisoning, and a quirky tale of eggs hatching in a Fresno home, praising the climate’s warmth and its effect on chick emergence.
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Fresno
Weinstock
California
Freang County
United States
Matain Center
Glencoe House
Carner
L and
Mono Streets
Look Here Defiantly Demands Detective's Help
A defiant woman enters a detective's office and asks about a missing husband. The casual dialogue implies urgency and intrigue, suggesting a developing case with tensions between the caller and the investigator. The excerpt hints at hidden motives and a possibly unreliable narrator.
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Edo
Quoted Exchange and Hamlet Renditions Highlight Paper Text
A fragment from a Washington Star item shows a tense exchange with a woman demanding her husband’s whereabouts while a officer deflects. It includes a humorous aside about three French boys rendering Hamlet’s soliloquy into English with amusing mistranslations and ends with a subscription pitch for the Weekly Call.
Nightly cigar leads to heaven remark in downtown tale
A Buffalo Courant item recounts a well known physician purchasing peanuts from a Main Street peddler when he draws a cigar and jokes that heaven forbids smoking and peanuts. The note is paired with an advert for Electric Bitters promising relief for female complaints loss of appetite headaches and nervousness from Kingston drug store.
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Main Street
Buffalo Courter
Kingston
Bucklen Arnica Salve advertised for wide skin ailments
An old advertisement promotes Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best remedy for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or money back and lists a price of 26 cents per box sold by S Kingston.
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Itia
S. Kingston
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