17 Feb 1887
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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1887
Page
1
Fragmented poetic lines celebrate living in the moment with nature imagery and yearning to seize the day. The speaker addresses love, fate, and choice while questioning postponement and death as bells toll. The text reads like a late 19th or early 20th century lyric fragment.
A ruined hospital room hosts Rachel Bond as Dr Denslow guides her into nursing duty. She tends exhausted patients, writes a letter home, and sees a bare space transformed with cleanliness and care amid grim sights and hopeful improvements.
The article traces horse domestication to Egypt and notes early uses for wagons and war chariots. It highlights Shire and Cleveland Bay horses, their size, strength, and temper, and profiles Samuel Bell and his brothers who import and sell English and French breeds in Wooster.
An 19th century alert argues kidneys drive most illnesses including consumption. It cites Brompton Hospital data claiming 90 percent of diseases originate from inactive kidneys and promotes Warner’s safe cure as restoring kidney activity and neutralizing uric acid poison. The piece critiques modern medical complacency and urges vigilance over kidney health.
A dated petition from M Melancthon Tope of Bowerston Ohio calls for abolishing sub districts and local directors, creating township graded schools with central higher schools, compulsory township supervision, elected township school boards, and paid directors to improve efficiency and reduce costs. The document argues current common schools are obsolete and proposes a centralized governance to benefit youth and governance.
In Paris Texas vicinity Mr J H Gorlay was near death from consumption. A trial bottle of a Great Discovery brought relief, then two boxes of pills and two bottles of the remedy restored health and added 30 pounds. Free trial bottles advertised at Laubach Boyd's.
Mr Geo V Willing of Manchester Michigan reports his wife nearly helpless for five years improved after using two bottles of Electric Bitters. He claims the remedy will do all it promises and cites hundreds of testimonials. Available for fifty cents at Aubach and Boyd's.
A crowded 19th century trade column touts The Best Salve for cuts and sores, mirroring cheap cures and false guarantees. Also advertised are Gilmore's Aromatic Wine and Blood Elixir with claims of universal cures, plus a pest killer and poultry fattening tips, reflecting common patent medicines and household remedies of era.
An 19th century patent medicine advertisement extols Hose Letters Stomach Bitters as a fourfold remedy a tonic alterative and blood purifier. It claims to improve digestion stimulate appetite purify blood strengthen nerves and restore vigor while noting its use arrests decay and renovates health as it promotes a healthier life current. It also compares training wild horses to teaching by example.
An experimenter notes that ignorance about cures for weakness and disease results in vast wasted costs on unreliable decoctions. The report compares nutrition claims: one pound of oil cakes equals three pounds of corn meal or nine pounds of wheat bran or ten pounds of timothy or clover hay.
An 19th century advertisement touts Golden Specific as a hidden cure for alcoholism, claiming the drug is added to coffee without the drinker’s knowledge and leads to a permanent, voluntary abstinence. It lists free circulars from Golden Specific Co. and cites testimonials and other products like Gilmore’s Magnetic Elixir and a neuralgia cure sold by local merchants.
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