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Newspaper
Weekly Expositor
Location
Yale, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1892
Page
3
An 1800s advertisement extols Syrup of Figs highlighting its pleasant taste and quick effect on kidneys and bowels. It claims to cleanse the system, relieve colds, headaches, fevers, and habitual constipation. The ad promotes the product as the only remedy of its kind and urges purchases through druggists nationwide.
The advertisement extols German Syrup as more successful than any other remedy for consumption. It claims trials in every climate from the bleak North to the hot South and across all nationalities. It asserts millions have used it and calls it the only true reliable remedy for consumption.
A Chicago Herald writer contrasts moonlit beauty with stark poverty. The piece depicts gleaming ice and distant lights against cold huts, starving children, and mothers with frail babies, questioning why suffering coexists with beauty and wealth in a harsh winter landscape.
Isle au Hou Ma fishermen recently captured a devil fish measuring 4 feet long and 23 inches across the back with a 100 pound weight. The creature fought furiously and would have matched one man in a fight.
A collage of quips and curiosities includes Ham's Horn on rotten apples, Uncle George recounting Sioux odds and ends, a phrenology jab, and a tale of a man stealing a ride in a Norfolk boxcar. It weds jokes to brief incidents, including a Baltimore eagle and a monumental railroad excavation on the Mexican Southern line.
A collage of brief notes on public figures and happenings. Mentions include Senator Plumb changing his name, Robert Burns statue plans in Philadelphia, Harvard professor Johe K. Paine slated to compose music for world fair openings, and Nathaniel Berry living in Bristol New Hampshire at ninety six. Also references to circus impresario James E Cooper, Paderewski worshipers, and various patent medicines and advertisements shaping public life.
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for lung scrofula and blood taint. It claims it purifies the blood strengthens the body and treats weak lungs bronchitis asthma and lingering coughs with a money back guarantee. The piece warns other remedies are inferior and profit driven.
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