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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1882
Page
7
A brownstone column covers spice mills clean with rice and crust protection tips for pies. It notes a hops price boom and future plantings, rye production, and rye as stock feed. It also reviews a shampoo recipe, velvet pile steam technique, horse care for a mare with scratches, flax seed tea, and a new corn grinding method claiming efficiency and cost advantages.
The piece outlines current hosiery fashion across ages and materials. It details preferred colors such as black terra cotta cardinal bronze and deep blues. It notes silk ribbed stockings for street wear and ornate lace accented pairs as the costliest options.
Professor Joule challenges the standard barometer build and shows it is possible to use sulphuric acid atop the mercurial column without chemical reaction. He devised tubes aiming for easy column movement, enabling instant detection of minute pressure changes. The new design halves capillary depression and allows effective siphon neutralization for accuracy.
A digest of quoted items includes Gen Leib praising St Jacobs Oil for rheumatism and neuralgia, a Hazelhurst Miss. hotel proprietor named Hoad, and a London tale of Arabi shells. It also notes a Charleston shell relic, a Detroit Free Press anecdote, and a Chillicothe doctor’s claim for Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla. Plus bank parody, advice ads, and Hop Bitters marketing.
An ad promotes Celery and Chamomile Pills by Dr C W Benson claiming to cure sick and nervous headaches neuralgia dyspepsia insomnia and all nervous diseases. Sold by druggists 50 cents a box Baltimore Md by mail two boxes for 1 or six boxes for 2 50. Also a joke about a New Jersey man with nasal speech.
Mr Noah Bates of Elmira New York reports four years after a bilious fever his digestion remains weak. Two bottles of Burdock Bitters brought marked improvement allowing him to work daily at age sixty one. Advertisement notes price and urging nervous debility recipients to seek treatments. Other items tout Lydia Pinkham remedies and various patent medicines with testimonials and quips from periodicals.
An 1883 Chicago Times note touts Frazer Axle Grease as the best in the world and twice as long lasting as rivals. It urges buyers to request it from their dealer and avoid other products. A novelty Almanac also promises a new joke prank for the year.
Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar is promoted as a remedy that wards off pneumonia while Pike's toothache drops claim rapid relief in one minute. The brief ad-like note markets two medical products to readers.
Tue Voutahc Belt Co Marshall Mich offers thirty day trials of Dr Dye's Celebrated Electro-Voltaic Belts and Electric Appliances for men with nervous debility and related troubles promising restoration of health and vigor. No risk due to 30 day trial. Addresses above. Also mentions Wise's Axle Grease.
The article notes the New Academy of St Clara's at Sinsina wa Mound in Grant County Wisconsin is now complete and fully prepared to advance pupil health and progress. It also advertises Wise's Axle Grease and Brown Bronchial Troches with various product promos.
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