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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1882
Page
8
A frustrated man visits the Chief Clerk at the post office seeking a valuable letter from Boston addressed to A Caulifly Jones Esq. He notes a change to express delivery and asks about registration and delivery, then leaves after the clerk marks a long board and remarks the Foolkiller will begin his work.
A New York Star excerpt shows a council of Park Row newsboys riffing on Americanized English phrases. The piece catalogs terms like rooster, mansard, giddy blossom, and rhino as they discuss meanings and social cues in a lively, period voice.
A commercial drummer returning from a Western trip at seven thirty a.m. sits at the breakfast table. The landlady asks what ails him and he muses on why the cook has changed while he lifts a fish-ball by a long yellow hair from his plate.
Finley McKenny, described as poor, died in Morgantown Kentucky. At the end he urged his wife to break an old smoke-house jug. She complied and $1200 in gold and silver spilled out, a remarkable find connected to his last words.
Prof. Robert Opium of the Natatorium in this city reportedly cured of a severe rheumatism attack by St Jacobs Oil. The Washington Star notes the claim and the Boston Pilot backs St Jacobs Oil as unmatched.
A humor piece from Peck’s Sun reports a Storm Lake editor wandering across Iowa after mixing two articles. The foreman misprinted a concert by Storm Lake’s sixteen young ladies with a cattle write up, describing short horn cattle as the audience and praise for their appearance and “finest shorthorns in the country.”
Local buyers are urged to choose Dr Guysett s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla as a superior blood purifier and tonic. The remedy is said to improve blood liver bowels kidneys and nerves, rebuilding a weakened constitution. Testimonials from Middletown Connecticut claim renewed health and vigor after use.
Sojourner Truth, aged 106, dictated a will she could not read or write for £4,000 of property. Her cross signified the bequest to her three surviving daughters, the rest of her numerous children having disappeared in slavery. The report references sale of a dictation book.
A list of English race horses includes Funny Eyes Theophrastus Hoya Wandering Nun Liberator Lady Scat tercash Troll Dutch Oven Quadroon Redskin Speculum Soap Ends Quib ble Bounce Risk Ancient Pistol Cater waul Fanatic Jolly Sir John Servant Maid Pudding Macaroon High Heels Miss Martyn Muflin Boy Truthful Irishman and Skillegolee.
In a Detroit Free Press feature a prominent doctor now in New York discusses his reversal of prejudice and adoption of new remedies after severe personal illness. He credits a treatment with restoring health and urges physicians to consider these findings, citing improved outcomes for kidney and liver diseases and urging open scientific inquiry.
A Detroit Free Press interviewee, who asked to remain unnamed, describes long battle with dyspepsia caused by a torpid liver. He details severe symptoms and relief after a treatment, hoping to spare others nightly agony and fulfill a duty to fellow men.
A rhetorical jab questions Hop Bitters as a cure for stomach liver or kidney inaction. A remark notes a young author often lives in an attic due to limited early success.
A collection of letters and notices touting Dr. R V Pierce remedies from Buffalo to Iowa City, praising Favorite Prescription Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets for curing ailments including female weakness and biliousness. Includes an inquiry about scarce American coins and a breach of promise expert reference.
An advertisement claims doctors use Kidney-Wort to treat biliousness constipation and kidney issues and urges a spring course for all, promising readers will feel renewed after use.
A Northford woman reports seeing a live grasshopper in a snow drift. An old style advertisement page includes remedies from Dr. Benson skin cure to Celery and Chamomile Pills and various household products. It spotlights novelties, jokes, and promotional lines typical of a late 19th or early 20th century paper.
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