Iowa Woman Seeks Cure for Widespread Scaly Eczema
An Iowa woman reports severe eczema covering her chest neck and face with scales and crusts. She attributes improvement to cures she found for skin diseases through folk remedies and faith based approaches.
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Cure for Eczema Reported by Emma E. Wilson
Emma E. Wilson of Liscomb Iowa recounts using Cuticura Remedies to treat a severe skin eruption from infancy to adulthood. She notes complete calm after two courses and six bottles of Resolvent and soap and ointment kept on hand. She cites another success with a child’s facial sores and endorses Cuticura for skin diseases with emphasis on external and internal products.
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Atte
Sam
Emma E. Wilson
Liscomb
Iowa
Not Flattering
English novelist Baring-Gould faced premature obituaries and mock praise. An American editor joked about reading them, and the novelist compared it to a parrot repeating every insult. A London dinner tale ends with the parrot blaring a sharp curse.
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Baring- Gould
London
Kean and the Showman in Chambers Journal
A Chambers Journal piece on John Richardson recounts his claim that Edmund Kean learned the theater through his guidance. Richardson recalls meeting Kean during his early, unsuccessful travels and contrasts his memory with Macready who he says he did not know.
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Chambers’ Journal
John Richardson
Edmund Kean
Macready
Richardson
Oxford Social and Church Announcements and Weather
Oxford residents host visitors from Jefferson and Birmingham while guests plan future moves. Local cotton receipts total 70 to 72 bales and prices range 10 1 2 to 10 3 4 cents. Church services are set with revival at the Methodist and no preaching at Baptist or Presbyterian churches Sunday. A telegram summons John H Hall and Mrs Grogan to their sister Mrs John H Wilson in Jenifer.
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Alliance Warehouse
Oxford Warehouse
Christian Church
Methodist Church
Juvenile Missionary Society
John IH. Hall
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John H. Wilson
Jenifer
Hunters Return from Turnipseed Ranch Hunt
James M. Stewart and Flint Allen are reported to be in a dying condition after their hunt near Turnipseed’s ranch. They returned to the neighborhood with alarming injuries and clear concern from local observers.
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James M. Stewart
Flint Allen
Turnipseed
Cure for weak lungs praised by Ky merchant
A Bae Ky merchant, J W Williams, recalls a near fatal lung hemorrhage twenty years ago and credits Dr King s New Discovery with his cure. The sale claims it cures hemorrhages chronic coughs settled cold bronchitis and is the only known cure for weak lungs. West End Drug Co and sam Ordway Houser Drug Co guarantee every bottle. 60 cents and 1 00 trial bottle free.
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Bae
Dr. King
West End Drug Co
S.am, Ordway & Houser Drug Co
Fern seed lore and midsummer danger in Puritan lore
The text recounts belief that fern seed fed on St. John’s night grants sacred properties and dangers of gathering. It cites Pove t in Pandemonium (1684) describing spirits, bullets, and a vanished seed packet, suggesting devilish control over timing and obedience.
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St. John’s
Povet
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