Mourning for a Father of His Country
Fragmentary obituary prose recalls a former leader, praised as Father of Mercy, who served two terms and died in a distant age. Congress offered tributes as ships fired broadsides to honor the sleeping hero carried to his last home on the Potomac.
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Assington
United States
Father of Mercies
Potomac
Washington Post
Ohio
John Bryan
C4ton
Stark County
James Robinson
State Capitol
Bheriff Dew
Cleveland
Postage Reform Aims at Lower Rates and Weight Change
The article notes Arthur era support for lowering letter postage from three cents to two cents and replacing weight units from half ounce to one ounce. After July the rate becomes two cents per ounce or part. It mentions newspaper postage, a shift aligning with English standards, and anticipates small effects on postal revenue. A minor reform follows.
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Arthur
Congress
Post Office
Reflections on Forgiveness and Living Simply
The passage meditates on truth and deception, urges forgiveness to avoid personal ruin, and extols voluntary labor over indulgence. It asserts happiness grows like trees while it thrives and praises love and a faithful heart over wealth and display.
Rich youth delays crisis ends in realization
A wealthy young man courts a poor girl and delays proposing. She laments poverty, prompting him to laud her charms as priceless. She retorts that she would trade wealth for others’ beauty, triggering the eventual decisive moment.
Parker's Hair Balsam Promises Thick Glossy Hair
An old man laments thinning hair and gray hints while Parker's Hair Balsam claims to restore fullness and conceal bald spots with a single bottle. The ad asserts heavy value and social impact for men facing hair loss. mentions Henry Ward Beecher and a new New York paper Day and Foley of the Hour as editor.
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Parker
Henry Ward Beecher
Envy
New York
Foley
Hour
Startling Cure Claim For Dr King's New Discovery
A Dakota man writes his wife suffered bronchitis for years until Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds cured her. The product claims to treat throat lungs or bronchial troubles with trials at Laubach and Danelly's drug store and a $1 large size. A silver balustrade from a Mexia church linked to Cortez was torn down and minted yielding 80,000 silver dollars.
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Wm. Jiohoson
Hon
Dakota
Dr. King
Laubach &Danelly’s
Mexia
Cortez
Catarrh of the Bladder Cure Claims and Odd Advice
A brief note claims Buchupaiba cures bladder catarrh with stinging irritation and discharge. It mentions apnagtets Ohio Depot and D Papi Cincinnati Ohio. The item also asserts a New York physician links elopements to hereditary diseases and advises checking a coachman’s family history.
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Buchupaiba
Apnagtets Ohio Depot
D. Papi
Cincinnati
Ohio
New York
Parker's Tonic Named Best Remedy For Health
The Western Argus urges Parker's Tonic as the ideal medicine to regulate the liver ease costiveness and biliousness aid digestion and strengthen the body with pleasant taste and popular approval among mothers and children. A stray line hints at a couple discussing a theft of thirteen thousand dollars from the Mandelbaume household.
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Western Argus
Rough on Rats ad copy found for various pests
Fragmentary OCR mentions a pest control product with phrases Rough on Rats mice roaches flies and boxes. Includes garbled numbers and terms possibly cataloging a university or director references. Overall readable facts are limited.
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Deuggists
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