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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1888
Page
9
A Toronto Globe writer argues against being middle aged insisting the body is only a house for a youthful spirit. The essay contrasts morning rose light with midday hardship and urges young women to preserve youthful spirit and benevolent aims over cynical views of aging.
Investigations by M Semmola urge avoiding cold exposure for Brights disease patients as skin sensitivity to temperature rises. Cold baths, violent exercise and massages are discouraged. dry equable climates and mild indoor gymnastics are preferred. Sodium iodide chloride and phosphate therapies show benefits with careful dosing. Oxygen inhalation repeatedly proven beneficial.
Advertised claim extols Allcock's Porous Plasters as the highest achievement of medical science with unmatched ingredients and method. It asserts originality and reliability for quick relief of weak back rheumatism sciatica colds lung trouble kidney difficulties malaria dyspepsia liver and stomach affections strains and local pains. Buyers are assured they obtain the best plasters made.
A romantic exchange between Esmeralda Long geoffin and Kosciusko features vows of love and imagined sacrifices including marriage to another. A separate note reports a Swedish invention of a new ultra-microscope glass claiming visibility down to 1-204,700,000th of an inch, far surpassing tradition.
The report that poll tax reductions are expected to pass may bring relief to barbers and other small-operator trades, signaling lower operating costs and potential customer benefits.
A New York Sun quotation records a wry exchange between a woman and a tramp about a free breakfast. The tramp counters that the meal was not payment but a gift, framing the exchange as pointed rhetoric rather than nourishment.
Two young onlookers admire a Tremont Street shop window display. One boy asks what he would do with a shop full of flowers and the other replies he would roll up in them and sleep forever. The remark captures a humorous literary mood from the Boston Budget.
The ad promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a preventive remedy for rheumatism and heart complications. It claims the tonic purifies blood, aids kidney and bladder function, and relieves dyspepsia biliousness fever and debility with no irritation.
Young Dolby jokes about a potential royal flush while Looker laments the odds and a lampooned debate cycles through the room. In a separate note, a Tid Bits column notes silver’s annoyance in white lead production due to light-induced darkening of its salts.
Travel promoters tout renewed assurances of speed comfort and safety on the Great Rock Island line. Round trip tourist tickets to Chicago via vestibule trains cover Colorado Utah Idaho Montana Wyoming and popular resort destinations with reduced rates. Mention of Rock Island routes to Council Bluffs Omaha Des Moines and Davenport plus rail copy for medical and home products follows.
Request your name and address on a postal card to J. D. Larkin & Co Buffalo N Y and they will mail a 30 day trial of Sweet Home Soap and presents. Also notice Rough On Itch Ointment cures skin humors pimples ring worm and other conditions priced 50c available from ES Wells Jersey City NJ.
A grateful patron imagines the next comet as a huge bottle bearing Golden Medical Discovery in bold letters. The item touts Dr. Pierce’s vegetable compound as a universal tonic cleansing the liver kidneys and blood, a remedy for scrofula and consumption, and an unmatched health tonic. A separate brief notes a man dying from Kentucky whisky with a witty regional jab.
Woman's Work. A successful housekeeper needs good health to handle daily tasks. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is offered as a remedy for irregularities and weaknesses specific to women, sold by druggists with a satisfaction guarantee or money back.
A playful instruction to a bashful correspondent urging both to propose and to probe the response, intertwining romantic gesture with journalistic inquiry. The wording blends flirtation with newsroom curiosity, inviting boldness in both love and reporting.
An advertisement discusses Scott's Emulsion with Hypophosphites as easy to digest and palatable, claiming rapid improvement for delicate people and use as a remedy for Consumption throat and bronchitis. It cites anecdotes of weight gain in an eight month old and mentions Moxie as a popular nerve restoring beverage. Concluding aphorism on conscience.
A letter from Mr Pringle of Louisiana recounts his encounter with a cotton-mouth moccasin and a second snake swallowed whole by the first. He describes shooting the snake, cutting it, and the two snakes stacked head to tail as the swallowed snake measures about fourteen inches, while the eater is thirty inches long.
A public health warning links city service stoppages to general congestion and ties a strike impact to serious personal illness. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets as a preventive and cure for liver and kidney issues and mentions Kansas City police officers as church members.
Ad lists various patent medicines with prices for rough on neuralgia, rheumatism, asthma, and malaria. Druggists offer these remedies at $1 to $1.50 each with express prepaid by E. 8. Wells, Jersey City.
Warners Safe Cure is described as a purely vegetable blood purifier that heals kidneys and cures disease permanently. The ad cites testimonials from cured individuals and endorsements by Prof. S. A. Lattimore and the New York State Board of Health, noting a $5,000 reward for proof to the contrary and urging use for illness.
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