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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1888
Page
6
A Victorian paper outlines diet rules emphasizing three meals daily, slow chewing, brown bread, cocoa, and avoiding stimulants like tea and coffee in excess. It cautions against eating every two hours, stresses mastication, and prescribes meals from breakfast through supper with specific foods and drinks.
A parish chapel near a summer resort becomes the scene of a comic hymn miscue when an old lady sings Believing we rejoice to see the cuss removed. The preacher uses the moment for a memorable sermon and reflects on ridicule, belief, and progress. Included are notes about Warner's safe cure and other items.
Emily Leland Moore critiques modern focus on future religious observance. She laments neglect of the present day and warns that many claim holiness by an empty Sunday routine. The piece reflects on Emerson’s idea of to-day as a king in ragged clothes and the danger of missing true devotion.
Flux yields two yarn types linen or line yarn and tow yarn. Linen prep mirrors worsted work with different machines. Flax is hackled and scutched to loosen fibers, sometimes sawn to break long fibers. Scutching is followed by carding for tow yarn, similar to woolen nail carding.
A mother recalls a five year old child reciting Now I lay me down to sleep and pausing at die before I wake. The child then calmly adds a funeral as the next line showing childlike seriousness and mischief in a single moment. A Frenchman in New Hampshire continues to break colts and spurs preachers to keep them from devilment.
The text argues that while citizens boast of literacy, many do not think critically. It notes diseases once read about in promotion of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and urges personal testing of such medicines. A foreign dialogue includes a mispronounced greeting and name: Smith.
A brief note promotes Brown's Brancoian Trocues as the sole effective remedy for coughs and colds caused by sudden weather changes. Sold only in teres, price 25 eta.
Rev J Roberts of Fremont Michigan writes that his daughter Maud, treated with Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup and Plasters, showing eleven weeks of improvement with reduced swelling and eased pain. He notes digestion improved and blood cleansed of rheumatic poisons and that she will continue use until fully well. Fremont October 26 1887.
A cryptic aphorism appears, claiming that minor schemes are unsettled but honesty endures, echoed in a Philadelphia Record caption.
In General Debility, Emaciation and consumption in children Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites is a valuable food and medicine. It stimulates appetite strengthens nerves and builds the body. A testimonial from John Sullivan Hospital Steward Morganza Pa notes improved cough flesh and longevity after use.
A 1887 Franklin Michigan letter from Pastor A Lone of the Methodist Church thanks A A Rust for a bottle of Rheumatic Syrup. He reports two thirds taken and says weather changes once worsened his rheumatism but now he is almost fully relieved. The notice mentions gait money from a walking match receipts.
Dr T A Slocum claims a definitive cure for consumption and offers two free bottles of his remedy YREEK to readers who send express and P O addresses. He signs as M C and lists 151 Pearl Street, New York.
A storied benefactor’s image frames a testimonial about St Jacobs Oil. George C. Osgood & Co. of Lowell Mass published letters praising Orrin Robinson of Grantville Mass who, after using the oil on a knee injury, walked without crutches in days and remained cured in subsequent years.
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