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Newspaper
Daily Liberal
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1881
Page
1
A detailed guide to feminine refinements in dressing rooms and bedrooms. It describes making brush cases, toilette tidies, nightgown cases, and combing jackets from mauve glaze and muslin with lace trims. It emphasizes tasteful, refined storage and presentation for a woman of modest means.
In a Texas neighborhood a dance drew many mothers with babies. Young men babysat but swapped outfits, causing the babies to change sex. The mothers tracked the mix, and days away restored normalcy after much commotion and a long unmixing process. The tale warns against future baby swapping.
A goat refuses a wolf's dinner amid a jumble of proverb like lines. The text strings together images of a fox dreaming, a wolf changing fur yearly, and a puzzling dog question, all hinting at deception and identity. The passage reads as fragmented folklore in reflective diction.
In Carluke parish a farmer promises a neighbor a pure Berkshire pig. Rab, sent with the poke, is pranked by miners who swap the pig with a retriever pup. Rab returns home with the pup, the pig is exchanged back, and Rab vows never to repeat the odd episode.
Reprint from the Tawa State Register reviews Judge Miller’s critique of the Farmers Protective Association’s barbed wire activity. It condemns the idea that private property exemptions shield unlawful takings and asserts the association acts within US patent rights to defend lawful fencing while warning farmers against joining alleged anti property schemes.
A disputatious letter argues about legal liability to intimidate farmers and sow division to stop an alleged robbery by an organized monopoly. The writer notes forty licensees in the group, likening them to the Forty Thieves as a vivid critique of presumed collusion and control.
Max Adeler argues that mothers-in-law suffer unequal scorn yet hold moral sway. He compares them to widows and spinsters but notes the harsher abuse comes from husbands who married into them. The piece defends mother-in-law figures as potential disciplinarians and advocates respect for their experience.
An exhortation urges readers to abandon costly doctors and humbug cures. It promotes nature’s simple remedies for all ailments and praises Hop Bitters as the greatest remedy. The note suggests consulting another column for more details.
A collage of short items on practical science from plant preservation without soil to glass invention and varnish care. It notes Dumesnil’s plant method, Phoenician glass origins, car varnish cleaning tips, diphtheria iodine treatment reports, electric railway benefits, magnetic oxide coating, thunderstorm theories, and lightening rod grounding.
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