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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1881
Page
4
A discussion on using soot as a valuable fertilizer and insect deterrent for cabbage, turnips, onions, roses, and other garden crops. Advice covers soil dressing, root dipping, late spring spraying, and repeated applications to combat pests like caterpillars and wireworms, with anecdotal confirmations and a note on market potential.
Buch extols Dr King’s New Op as a universal remedy for coughs colds bronchitis hay fever and lung troubles. It promises quick relief and cure where others fail with trial bottles for ten cents and regular bottles for one dollar sold by Laubach Bevard at 824y1.
The writer notes currants once common in gardens declined as currant worms strip leaves and stop ripening. A remedy favors powdered white hellebore mixed with water, applied to wet leaves, plus early targeting of worms. Paris Green or London Purple are discouraged. Mulching under bushes is recommended in fall.
An old advertisement touts a salve claiming cure for cuts bruises sores ulcers and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee and price of 25 cents per box It also includes scattered quotes and jokes from the Washington Post and Boston Post about manners and poetry by Dr Holmes and a street singer.
An ad extols Dr Thomas Electric Oil as safe for internal and external use with potent influence on pulmonary disorders rheumatism neuralgia sores bruises burns and more Sold by Laubach and Bevard. The Burling ton Hawkeye notes retirements of Polish nobleman Hotwiski and German Count Enselager while Punch and Galveston News contribute light quips.
A whimsical Boston transcript-style piece extols a goat nicknamed Billy. It portrays the goat as omnivorous and fond of play pills, letters, and sunny climbs, with nanny goats called Nanny and young ones termed kids. It mixes humorous lore about goats’ habits and a playful line about a zodiac sign.
A narrator recalls boarding a streetcar beside a woman whose face he describes with harsh irony. The exchange grows tense when she interrupts and he departs, leaving him with a lingering impression of their odd encounter.
A sprawling Holmes County update notes a Newark city suit for damages from an 1875 gasoline explosion, a free government critique by Georges Early, a North Baltimore physician mother of John Eaton, a Millersburg horses disease scare, and Tuscarawas County’s Wilhelm property sale for a children's home at 25 000 dollars. It also covers a Baltimore and Ohio train collision injuring Electa and Lowry, a Cincinnati liquor dispute, Garfield on journalism, I O O F officers installed in Cleveland, and assorted jokes and anecdotes.
Of the eight men who ran on the new Presidential tickets of 1860 only one is alive today Hannibal Hamlin.
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