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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1899
Page
3
A journalist recalls conversations with plural wives, divides attitudes into three classes, and details personal tales of sacrifice, happiness, and hardship. The piece argues polygamy clashes with female nature, cites revelations in 1862, and urges constitutional action to end the practice.
The piece touts B B B Blood Balm as a universal cure for blood poisoning and cancer including facial, neck, leg and lip cancers. It promises sample bottles free by mail, lists pricing for regular and full treatments, asserts 30 years of testing, and cites other remedies and testimonials from various druggists and stores.
Fragmentary OCR item references the W C T U department at Anderson with unclear wording and scrambled terms. No clear event or outcome is discernible from the readable text.
A lengthy verse laments addiction and ruin yielding the death on December 3 in Charleston of Omarins Cuthbert Roach, husband of the State President. The piece ends with a prayer for the widow and a call for steadfast Christian support.
Fragment from J. J. Talbot's lecture about his suicide by drink, lamenting lost office, riches, home, wife, children, and mother, and the ruin caused by alcohol. The speaker recalls a once noble life, now overwhelmed by the demon of intoxication and its toll on family and faith.
Counsel warned that liquor brings ruin to households and public life. Advocates labeled whiskey bottles with external use warnings and urged caution against drunkenness as a social evil affecting families and morality.
The piece recounts a tale of philosopher Robert Ingersoll visiting Rev. Phillips Brooks on sermon day. Brooks admitted the skeptic, explaining he would see his own church members again, in Heaven, while considering the stranger's belief. A closing note quotes a motto about happiness as a mental state rather than circumstance.
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