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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1883
Page
4
The passage ponders wishes for the coming year asking for twelve months of ease yet acknowledging that courage and patience are learned through hardship. It contrasts dreamlike serenity with enduring sorrow and the need for strength.
The article warns that eye care is often neglected and excessive strain harms sight. It explains eye anatomy briefly, highlights how light and pupil size adapt, and urges gradual light changes, proper rest, avoiding rubbing, using caution with medicines, and consulting an oculist for serious issues.
A Toledo Blade physician urges care in reading practices for children to prevent near sight. He notes long-term risks from small print and close-up work, recommends larger print, proper lighting, regular eye exams for readers not comfortable at fifteen inches, and avoiding self prescriptions. He stresses consulting a qualified oculist and maintaining general health.
A survey of summer attire details highlights pointed tab bodices with checked skirts, kilting, and lavish trims. It notes parasols in dark garnet with black lace, Turban hats, necklines in Jersey style, and Watteau overdresses with gay satin patterns.
A mock lesson at Mule Gulch Nevada features a stranger posing as Superintendent of Schools who uses comic arithmetic problems involving heads fingers and horses to entertain children and critique civic plans before a moral philosophy pairing ends the Exchange.
A Colorado student studying music in New York insists on five dollar hourly terms for lessons. She offers her English teaching to a family with a seventeen year old daughter, illustrating her firm view on compensation. She trains fifteen hours daily, rising at six, and has self supported since fourteen.
Albert Tong of Deptford devised a peculiar eviction tactic by flooding a home with water then mud to drive out an insolvent tenant. He argued a county court action would be too slow. magistrate fined him forty shillings for repeated assaults as described by Pall Mall Gazette.
A five year old boy fell into a forty foot well eight feet deep water near Boggy Creek. His mother Mrs R Reddrop rushed to the scene, slid into the well on a rope, recovered the child from the water, and was pulled to safety with rope burns and torn hands. The child survived with little harm.
A letter to Rev. Dr Buckley asks if a Methodist member can keep checker-boards for sale in his shop. Buckley replies it depends on the business, noting incongruity for bakers and butchers. The snippet also mentions a child’s grasp of the word amen and a New York Times remark.
The article argues that consumption is a blood disease caused by impure kidneys and liver. It cites Dr. Felix Oswald and endorses Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure as the remedy. A Buffalo foreman named W. C. Beach testifies the product restored his health after severe illness. The piece blends medical theory with testimonials and social commentary.
A Detroit Free Press note highlights the Cancer Hospital at Aurora Illinois presided by Dr Pond. It claims the institute treats cancerous and scrofulous diseases with years of study and numerous cures since 1872. Letters to Dr F L Pond in Aurora Kane County Illinois provide details and terms.
The article reports Dr. Pierce of Buffalo New York declaring his Favorite Prescription cures women’s diseases and weaknesses. It notes initial doubt but says the truth was acknowledged as thousands of ladies used the medicine and were cured, with references to druggists and an office-seeker’s Forget-me-not flower from the New York Advertiser.
A compiled set of testimonials and product pitches from 19th century periodicals. William S. Baker of Vigo County Indiana cites scrofula cured by Scovil's Sarsa PARILLA and Stillingia. Various endorsements praise Brown's Iron Bitters and other tonics, salves, collars, and authorial quips. The piece reads like an omnibus of patent medicine claims and testimonials with prices and sources.
A compilation of household and garden advice covers preserving wool, keeping chicks healthy, treating fruit stains, baking rhubarb pies, soaking oats in milk for neuralgia relief, making chicken fritters from leftovers, removing moles with sun exposure, and selecting fence colors and yard layout for curb appeal.
Prairie Farmer discusses weed control as a positive part of cultivation. It emphasizes repeated soil stirring, timely harrowing, hoeing, and mowing to prevent crop loss. The piece argues weeds can spur growth when soil is managed properly and that diligent cultivation yields larger harvests.
A Chicago Banner item notes the Postmaster General is poised to exclude patent outsides, insides, and co operatives from the mails as second class. It argues 3,000 of 4,000 would suspend, leaving 1,000 stronger co operatives to publish their papers. The piece cites Postal Law Section 7 and claims the ruling would be illegal.
An advertisement touts Wells' Rough on Corns claiming a complete permanent cure for corns and bunions. It urges readers to ask for the remedy.
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