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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1889
Page
9
A citizen attacks medical overreach arguing doctors misdiagnose illnesses by chasing symptoms. He cites a deceased patient misled from pneumonia to kidney disease and credits Warner's Safe Cure for kidney health. He urges doctors to admit ignorance rather than experiment at patients' expense.
Bildad and Ormsby debate buying a typewriter and hiring help. Ormsby repeats he does not want his wife in the office, citing domestic harmony. The scene shifts to Mrs Malaprop's daughter asking about a sculptor, quipping about a bust of her hand.
Charles Whymper recalls dining with Alderman Soandso where a misheard compliment about Highgate scenery leads to social mortification. The misinterpretation centers on the line I think Highgate prettier every day spoken by the Alderman’s daughter. Whymper was never invited again.
A promotional notice extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a pure botanic tonic to restore energy, calm nerves, aid digestion, and strengthen blood. It claims relief from hypopsia, nervousness, malaria, rheumatism, kidney and bladder troubles, constipation, and biliousness.
Two roosters meet and talk in a rural moment as they reflect on the year’s work and a plentiful corn crop while noting their fading crowing. The scene captures quiet humor in parish life.
Sufferers are urged to try Brown's Bronchial Tracies and Kemp's Balsam with a positive guarantee to cure. Emphasizes dangers of a cough left untreated and the quick relief after first dose. Prices 50c and $1.00. trial size free. available at all druggists.
A compact note references Isaac Walton and the proverb about spoiling a child, noting he did not spare the rod in the traditional saying, reflecting colonial childrearing allusions in the Texas periodical.
A promotional note praises Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure for spring fatigue. It claims the tonic purifies and enriches the blood, restores appetite, strengthens digestion, and invigorates kidneys and liver, urging readers to ensure they obtain Hood's Sarsaparilla.
In Brazil a tribe named Cafasos reportedly formed by unions between long stiff-haired natives and imported slaves. Their hair grows as a thick vertical mass, creating a wig so large bearers must stoop to enter their huts.
One hundred dollar reward offer for incurable catarrh and a testimonial list from Toledo druggists and business figures endorsing F J Cheney Co. The ad claims Hall's Catarrh Cure works internally on blood and mucus surfaces and sells for 7ic per bottle.
Late research notes suggest in open ocean areas people starved of food could survive indefinitely with gear to catch small marine life, abundant in the Atlantic and other waters. Dr W H Cameron of Halifax endorses Scott's Emulsion for stomach tolerance and better results.
Letter to the editor claims a positive cure for consumption by timely use. The author T A Slocum M C offers to send two bottles of his remedy free to readers with their Express and P O addresses, citing 181 Pearl St New York.
A clergyman cured of catarra after years of suffering and failed remedies shares a recipe. Send a self addressed stamped envelope to Prof. J. A. Lawrence at 88 Warren Street New York City to receive the recipe free of charge.
From the 21st edition of the American Newspaper Directory, 17 107 newspapers and periodicals are listed in the United States and Canada, a gain of 797 in the last year and 7 882 in ten years. A cold is often the forerunner of consumption and death. MaGrud EMULSION is the safe and best remedy known to the medical profession.
Dr. Pierces Pellets touted as the superior liver pill claiming to be smart cheapest and easiest to take. One tiny sugar coated pellet per dose cures sick headache bilious headache dizziness constipation indigestion bilious attacks and all stomach and bowel derangements priced at 25 cents through druggists. Copyright 1888 by Worlds Dispensary Medical Association proprietors.
The passage asserts that a certain remedy yields many satisfactory results in treating consumption and other pulmonary diseases, claiming it eradicates scrofula from the system. The tone emphasizes high effectiveness and superiority over other treatments.
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