06 Apr 1882
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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1882
Page
1
James Andrews of Ida Hill seeks a remedy costing one dollar a bottle claimed to test its virtues. The ad urges readers to obtain it through their druggist or by writing Dr Narid Kennedy Rondout NY.
A reporter describes a trip from Columbus to Lancaster Ohio to visit a reform farm for 250 boys. The 10 brick houses house elder brothers and wives who mentor以the boys in trades, study, and daily routines. A large chapel service features speakers including Senators Eason Carlysle Myers and Mrs Van Doorn. The piece praises the institution’s discipline, Christian influence, meals, and music, urging continued state support.
An ad urges readers that blindness is hard to cure but can stem from impure blood. It promotes Dr David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy priced at one dollar to purify blood and restore vision, offering free physician opinions from Rondout New York.
A Southern planter Pompey and his slave Pomp rush to summon Dr Montague after a night of heavy drinking. Pomp misreports the doctor’s orders as hair from a dog being a remedy, causing comic confusion until the physician arrives and saves the master from a perilous overdose.
J. W. Adams of Newark Ohio testifies that Cuticura Remedies cleared his severe skin disease after three years of failure. He credits the products with saving his life and suggests his mother might have lived if she had access to them despite a twenty year struggle with salt rheum.
An exchange between Daddy Winterbottom and Uncle Wotherspoon centers on a bottle presented as gin. They praise it, drink heavily, then grow sick, realizing the bottle actually contained a non alcoholic hair restoration preparation marked as genuine only with a signature.
An old advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a remedy for suffering and loss of appetite. It claims the tonic will bring new life, strength, and activity, promising relief from misery and a return to vigor for a fifty cent bottle sold by Lou Donelly at No. 1-42y1. The text also mentions political provisions about a prohibitory bill.
Mrs. H. W. Beecher argues that a wife should yield gently to a husband yet remain a responsible, autonomous being. She contends true happiness stems from mutual respect and tender care, not mere dominance or “rightful authority.”
Travelers are warned of Buruxctos Route inducements as ads appear elsewhere in this issue. Snow storms along the Canada Pacific and Winnipeg routes disrupt travel until warm weather. Pierre Duchain, sixteen, died after being buried by snow near Cavilear Dakota while driving a yoke of oxen and remaining buried for eight days.
Polk Wells, arrested in Wisconsin for horse stealing and bank forgery, was sentenced at Sidney Iowa to ten years in the penitentiary on the forgery charge. The item also references Well’s Health Renewer advertisement and D PARK & BONS Cincinnati Ohio from Ohio Depot.
Mrs Helen Pharviz of 831 Dayton St Chicago Illinois says she suffered consumption for ten years and was pronounced hopeless by nine physicians. After using seven bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption she fully recovered. Free trial bottles available at Laubach Healthleys Drug Store with large bottle priced at 1.00.
The excerpt surveys Greek and Enlightenment views of education from Plato and Rousseau to Kant and Aristotle. It argues education must transmit past knowledge while shaping character, urging teachers to guide youth beyond book learning to social duty and self understanding.
Dr Kittridge lambasts sensational literature as a pervasive threat to children and society. He urges Christian parents to oversee what their children read, arguing such works inflame passions, ridicule virtue, and corrupt minds, leading to crime and ruined futures.
The account follows Arthur Edgington recalling a rough period of pain and treatments. He mentions st Jaco and a bottle of Yes as a remedy, while political figures from Kansas and the Bradstreet Commercial News are noted as actors and agents.
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