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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1887
Page
1
Do not be deceived by imitations promising the same relief. Insist on Dr King's New Discovery for consumption and throat and chest affections. Trial bottles free at Laubach & Boyd's Drug Store, large bottles $1.
Horse Cave Kentucky resident D I Wilcoxson long suffered from phthisis and diabetes with severe pains. After using Electric Bitters he gained eighteen pounds and believed he would have died without the relief. Bottle price fifty cents, sold by Laubach & G Boyd. Also advertised best salve for cuts sores ulcers fever sores and other skin ailments, guaranteed satisfaction or money refunded, 25 cents per box, by Laubach & Boyd.
A vivid old ad touts Rough on Dirt as a perfect washing powder. It claims harmless, extra fine formula that whitens without harming fabrics, softens water, saves labor, and prevents yellowing when added to starch. Sold in 5c 10c and 250 at Grocery weekly.
A Romantic excerpt from Lerner's Magazine praising steadfast love and beauty. The speaker vows to wear the beloved's colors in heart and brow, seeking victory through devotion. He imagines tournaments, garlands, and the beloved as queen, offering comfort amid life’s disappointments.
In London society circles, Optimus Codd, the wealthy but unobtrusive stockbroker, tutors Lady Umfreville’s daughter Geraldine toward marriage while Rupert Paulet pivots from rival suitor to fiancé. Codd engineers a double match as Geraldine and Margaret wed men of means, and Paulet marries into the family as a favored son-in-law, with Geraldine becoming the happiest for now.
An essay laments American speech as jerky and nasal, urging early vocal training to improve public singing. It notes a scarcity of fine freeles and critiques contemporary female voices. The piece alongside Greenroom Gossip reports on actors Langtry, Vokos, Bernhardt, Robson, Potter, and others, with touring plans and upcoming productions in New York, Boston, and Europe.
In vivid prose the writer describes New Orleans cemeteries with mossy oaks, white marble family tombs, and a park like layout. The first site presents open gates, Gothic domed mausoleums, and bright magnolias while the second features a tangled lot and a towering rough granite pyramid honoring a wife and enduring love.
A San Francisco concern produces pressure bricks from coal ashes and cinders that resist air leakage and pass severe strength tests. A fanciful earth destruction theory links polar ice to furnace fire causing global explosion. The note adds that piano tuning is affected by wood and soundboard dryness, citing spruce as resistant to temperature changes.
A rosebush owned by John A Connor near Murraysville Pennsylvania bears over 800 full blooms with as many buds. A New Lisbon florist reports a graft of Canterbury bells atop foxglove stalks. Elder Ward of Iowa Michigan notes a full orange with one quarter of a lemon growing on its side. A Burlington New Jersey buttonwood about 150 years old fell, its trunk twenty feet around. A Middletown Illinois silver maple sixteen feet in circumference grew from a twig placed by a traveler in 1540.
Fragmented OCR notes mention the Japanese emperor considering an early visit, King Humbert's late nights, Emperor Dom Pedro's long workdays, and the earl of Aberdeen addressing San Francisco's YMCA A. It cites the crown princess of Gerthary with home sickness after twenty nine years, plus Polish names and a stray death notice from New York.
A Hayes Texas cat dances on piano keys while a Selma dog, aged fourteen with three legs, killed 147 rats in under ninety minutes. A Blue Mound cow yields three large pails of milk daily, and a Jasper chicken hatched a week ago follows its mother. A San Bernardino rancher captains a bug with a one-quarter inch stinger, and a Pa observer finds a sparrow hanged by a tangled nest hair. An old pony ridden through the Civil War era, a Cloft Hale horse, bees nesting in a pine tree yield a hollow thirty-eight feet long full of honey.
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