Newspaper clippings from June–November 1895, collected from The Tyrone Daily Herald.
June 11, 1895 — Remarkable Operation
Drs. Ewing and Crawford performed an operation this morning which removed from Mrs. Neubower eight gallons or seventy pounds of water. The lady suffers from dropsy, and this the third time in two years that about this amount of water has been removed.
June 21, 1895 — Effective but Dangerous Hiccough Cure
The Everett Press says that some time ago an old man named Witherow had violent hiccoughs, and the doctors despaired of saving his life. His mother-in-law procured a gun and crept under the bed. When they were left alone, she pulled the trigger, but she had aimed the weapon upward. The powder burned the sick man’s toes, and in a rage, he sprang from the bed, and dragged the woman from beneath and gave her a sound beating. In his anger Witherow forgot all about his hiccoughs, and when the doctors came, expecting to see a dying man, he was dining, and they had only the mother-in-law’s bruises to look after.
June 25, 1895 — Killed by an Envelope
A man who died in New York the other day after licking an envelope was poisoned by decaying animal matter from the glue getting a sore in his mouth. No poisons are more deadly than those produced by the decay of animal matter. Persons who lick envelopes in sealing them do it to their own risk.
August 1, 1895 — Cancer from Chewing Gum
And now it is said that a young woman of Milesburg has a cancer on her tongue in consequence of chewing gum that could be drawn out of the mouth and let snap back, and the constant snapping produced an incurable cancer. This is a cold, cruel world, in which boys cannot in safety smoke cigarettes nor girls chew gum.
August 20, 1895 — Unfairly Arrested
Two men aged each about 25 years took breakfast at Charles Waple’s Central Hotel this morning, and upon leaving the table pocketed the napkins at their places. Officer Snyder being put on their tracks, the gentlemen were taken from the depot back to the hotel, where they put up the price of the stolen goods without objection. They denied lifting the napkins.
August 21, 1895 — The Mistake
It turns out that the men charged with lifting the napkins at the Central Hotel the other morning were not guilty. A couple of regular boarders not having napkins at their places appropriated those that were supposed to be stolen. It isn’t fair to strangers to be treated that way, and all concerned should be certain as to the accuracy of their position before the proper line is overreached.
September 17, 1895 — Great Potato Yield
The Somerset County man who raised ninety bushels of potatoes from three bushels of seed is cast way back in the shade by farmer George W. Snyder, who conducts the agricultural business in a suburb north of town. In the spring George planted five gallons of potatoes of the Great Freeman variety and recently lifted from the earth on the flat just below his house an even thirty-three bushels of the finest potatoes to be found anywhere. In another patch he planted one bushel and three pecks of mixed varieties which produced sixty-five bushels. George’s entire potato crop this year is between three hundred and four hundred bushels.
November 7, 1895 — Croup Cure
A strip of flannel, or a napkin folded lengthwise and dipped in hot water and wrung out, and then applied around the neck of a child with the croup will sometimes bring relief in ten minutes.
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