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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1891
Page
4
August Flower the Remedy notes a man’s lack of appetite and a grumbling, fault finding mood when faced with meals at the table. The subject shows low desire and critical temper as he sits down to eat.
Rev. Talmage outlines the first sermon in a series on the Ten Plagues of the great metropolis. He condemns gambling across all forms, notes the reach of gambling in cities, cites rising numbers of establishments and players, and warns of personal and societal ruin. The discourse ties urban pride to moral peril and calls for reform.
A lengthy moral exhortation denounces gambling as a ruinous vice. It argues the sin drains industry, corrupts honest work, and leads to poverty, crime, and broken families, with vivid anecdotes of lost estates and ruined lives. It condemns fraud at gaming tables and previews the gambler's solitary, doomed death.
An OCR fragment discusses a United Co tea purchase cost of 821.75 and blasts on bitters and patent medicines. It references Dr John Bull's Sarsaparilla and various tonics, syrups, and pills, praising cures for blood and liver diseases, with ad-like quotes from multiple newspapers and testimonials.
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