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Newspaper
Winthrop Gazette
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1885
Page
3
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher argues that righteous living aligned with divine law yields both happiness and prosperity. He warns against greed and overreaching ambition, urging moderation, industriousness, and ethical conduct as the path to true success and communal well being.
The passage recounts exceptional memory feats from a Corsican boy who could recall 40 000 dictated words in reverse order, a 60 year old physician who recited Paradise Lost from memory, Euler who remembered Virgil's Eneid after blindness, and the Bible memorization of the beggar known as Blind Alick. It also notes Gassendi reciting Latin verses daily and his memory discipline.
The process starts with rye straw valued about $15 per ton, soaked in lime water and boiled for 24 hours. It is refined by centrifugal drying, cutting, pressing, and polishing to form straw paper used by butchers for wrapping meat.
A Chicago Ledger extract describes neighbors doubting an older man’s sanity. The tale notes the man gave his wife money without being asked, as part of a shifting impression of his mental state. The dialogue hints at concern over the man’s stability and behavior.
The Railway Review warns of dangers engineers endure from rivals tricks and the strain of constant risk. Anecdotes show engineers being wrongfully punished or sabotaged as rival jealousy flares. The Locomotive Engineers union boasts 17,000 members in 240 divisions with roots back to 1863 and has donated nearly two million dollars to widows and orphans.
Flies prove valuable scavengers by feeding on decaying matter and helping cleanliness. The piece notes blue bottle flies hatch quickly and can locate hidden corpses, as in a man using a fly to reveal a buried dead rat under floorboards. The anecdote underscores keen scenting ability and practical uses.
The ad extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a preventive and curative tonic for fever and ague and malarial diseases in tropical regions. It claims effectiveness for chills and general debility, stomach and bowel disorders, rheumatism, bladder and kidney inactivity, and bilious ailments.
Data from 1834 reports 152 US boiler explosions down from the prior year. Fatalities reached 204 with 21 injured. Sixty percent occurred in sawmills where engineers burn shavings too rapidly. Authors urge better training and firings to cut high mortality among sawmill engineers and reduce overall death rates.
A vintage advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a certain remedy for painful maladies and weaknesses that embitter many women's lives, noting its availability through druggists.
A man was tried in England for giving four drops of laudanum to a five week old infant, causing death. Witnesses questioned beliefs about narcotics for babies, with one suggesting one drop per year of age and another one per week. A physician warned that opium in soothing syrups risks harm to infants under one year and even homeopathic preparations may be unsafe.
W W Armitage, architectural draughtsman of 402 Montgomery street, San Francisco, reports that a severe cough cleared after using Red Star Cough Cure. He shared it with ill family members who also improved, and he urges its use in every household.
The World's Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo New York promotes a large medical and surgical staff claiming cure for chronic diseases through medical and surgical means. It touts nasal throat and lung cures, digestive liver kidney and women’s diseases, rheumatism neuralgia and paralysis among others and guarantees rupture and tumor treatment with short residence. Send 10 cents for the 168 page Invalids Guide Book.
The snippet highlights ostrich skin robes valued for breast feathers requiring slaughter of fifteen to twenty birds. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Pellets for various ailments and Caswell Hazard ferro- Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya as a tonic. It also mentions a free vegetable cure offer from Comrade Converse and includes assorted remarks on fashion and climate.
Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central depot offers 600 rooms at one million cucats cost, daily rates from $1, European plan with elevator and restaurant. Morse cars and elevated railroad connect to all depots. families can live better for less money than other first class hotels.
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