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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1883
Page
1
Claim states the remedy is equally effective for eye ailments and other inflammations. Markets show it as beneficial for ulcers fever sores tumors salt rheum burns piles and other inflammations. Sold by all druggists at 25 cents. Volume 26 issue 10.41.
Akron Beacon reports a 25 year old woman recounting four marriages and one attempted death by poison. She details a cigar-maker husband death, a second marriage ended by a staged suicide plot, a third husband from New York, and a fourth marriage amid doubts of a legal divorce. She declares lifelong singlehood thereafter and blasts the harsh reaction of church and society. The piece highlights personal tragedy, marital deceit, and social judgment within a sensational interview.
A Pennsylvania couple arrived at a Rawlings Station farm seeking work. The young man called Joseph Scott was revealed to be a woman named Josephine who had dressed as a man to gain employment with her uncle accompanying her. She now works in the dairy and farm tasks while the companion remains with the family.
A compact composite of quotations on fate and virtue. It cites Confucius and Buddha notes on jealousy money love and truth. The collection blends reflections on character ambition and moral action with terse maxims.
A Augusta Chronicle excerpt argues reform starts with the home circle, praising wives and mothers as the best temperance workers and criticizing reliance on laws or lectures. It promotes medicinal tonics from Swayne & Bon as an alternative to abstinence rhetoric, selling mail orders from Philadelphia.
A enslaved couple plots to murder a husband by hanging him with a rope fixed through an upper floor. The wife greets him at the door as the man above raises the rope and pulls it while the husband struggles. They flee to Pamlico County, North Carolina, and are arrested and jailed.
Philadelphia note quotes a poet advising moderation in eating and avoiding work during heat. The fragment hints at social exchange and recovery ideas, mentioning a neighbor and a man named Renewer in a puzzled tone. The text is incomplete and lacks clear events or dates.
A Washington paper describes a preserved display of Charles Guiteau’s head and features. A curator explains how the scalp skin eyeballs and facial details were preserved in alcohol to recreate the murderer’s visage. The article notes the head’s life-like appearance despite missing vital expression from the eyes.
A collage of quips and brief witticisms from Exchange and other papers. Notes range from jokes about cabbage worms and gum chewing in England to sly quips about juries and temperance. Snippets mention goose mates, a murderer on the gallows, and a kitchen helper with blue glasses.
A baby was born in Montana amid unusual exclamations. Theatres adopt electricity for stage effects while a Newark to Bloomfield streetcar test explores electric propulsion. German railways replace wooden sleepers with steel. Veneer manufacture may discard sawing, instead steaming logs then shaving strips. Carrie invents an instrument to store sun heat via lenses into a box. Crystal casket houses Cardinal Borromeo’s body in Milan at $3.8 million. 100 women with spades begin Youngstown church dig, an earthworm interrupts. Forehead lights for horses promise safety at night. Harlem gunsmith touts a dynamite clockwork device hidden in a hat, with plans to deploy by wearer.
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