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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1889
Page
9
A Salt Lake City letter describes the tithing scrip used by Latter Day Saints. The notes resemble bank bills with bee hive marks and temple imagery. They circulate for charity, temple work, and wages at the general tithing storehouse in Salt Lake City, Utah.
A Philadelphia Record note advises a long-lived canary may lose sight due to aging, not a cure, while warning against opium-laced foods and brass cages with lacquer that can shed poison and trigger blindness. It notes cold drafts can cause a different blindness in birds.
A Swedish and Norwegian practice treats habitual drinkers as criminals and subjects them to confinement with bread soaked in wine. Inmate meals begin with bread fully soaked, then gradually lose appeal, leading to aversion and often total abstinence after eight to ten days. The method reportedly cures most patients and reduces relapse.
In Hestines Michigan on April 22 1889 Mrs H J Kenfield testifies she suffered rheumatism for twelve years and was bedridden for months. After taking Hibbards Rheumatic Syrup she reports relief and claims cure, urging others to try the medicine. Frep L Heath druggist certifies the statement.
The flood chaos of Conemaugh Valley drew Gen. Rosecrans from routine and led him to a Virginia iron mountain discovery. He formed a company that bought the mountain and teamed with a Pittsburg firm to develop the mine. Sixteen chambers are active and ore extraction is profitable. The ore reportedly melts like butter on the carload route.
Claiming Hos tetter's Stomach Bitters cures dyspepsia constipation and liver complaints the ad touts its wide medical sanction and preventive powers. It also recounts hunting dog peril a catarrh remedy claim and promotional notes for Kemp's Balsam and Apollo lore from a period newspaper page.
An incident in New York society saw two ladies of the same name host nearby entertainments causing guests to mix up houses. One hostess warmly welcomed strangers, while the other bluntly told a guest he had entered the wrong house, a reaction described as terrible yet justifiable by the Ladies’ Home Journal.
The piece links beauty of aging women to health, promoting Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Dr. Pierce's Pellets for female disorders. It also reports 1886 U.S. Bessemer steel output: 2,269,190 gross tons, with rails at 1,562,410 and ingots up 689,670 tons from 1885, rails up 602,939.
The ad extols Radway's Ready Relief as a universal remedy for sprains bruises backache chest pains and headaches. A separate report notes a grave New Town area farming region near James town has unearthed gold quartz pieces after a bird found by Chautauqua Lake reportedly fed on rich specimens.
Ad promotes Hibbard’s Rheumatic and Liver Pills as safe for adults and children with no griping pain. Claims quick relief for sick headache constipation dyspepsia biliousness and act as an appetizer. Separately notes Russian military testing a new rifle for potential 1,000,000 unit supply if approved.
A $2.50 paper is sold for $1.75 with the Youths Companion. It promises fine paper illustrated plates weekly supplements and double holiday numbers. By sending $1.75 now, you may obtain it free to January and for a full year from that date to January 1891. Boston Mass appears as the publisher address.
A rural minister asks a discreet member to take up the church collection. The reluctant man jokes he has never passed the plate and fears awkwardness, while others in the congregation are absorbed in hymn books as the plate goes around.
A collage of health ads and public notices including Scott's Emulsion praise and patient gains, Brown's Broncaran Trocites claim, anonymous writing quip, Dobbins' Electric Soap promotion, Tank plays popularity, Oregon immigration pitch, Piso's Cure for consumption claim, and Tansill's Punch cigar promo.
Major Sidney Herbert, a prominent agricultural journalist, writes in 1889 about long term relief from rheumatism after using Swift’s Specific and 8S 8S as a tonic after malaria. He notes friends share similar cures and claims elimination of a scrofulous taint in his blood from over thirty years past.
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