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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1882
Page
8
A collection of home guidance covers child shoe growth, quick potato breakfast prep, home canning and dyeing, pest and plant care, worm control in plant jars, and advice on children sleeping and breakfast routines. Includes excerpts from Prairie Farmer The Household and Country Gentleman.
An unnamed patrolman is approached by a stranger on Jefferson Avenue seeking confidential help for a man named Johnson who claims to have lost his watch and a hundred dollars and faced hardship. The exchange reveals a request for discreet aid and sympathy, ending with a warning to tell of Johnson’s Detroit visit and leadership.
Captain Burton reports vast gold deposits on Africa's Gold Coast claiming it rivals six Californias. English Commander Cameron supports the finding after inspecting the region. Gold reportedly appears in sea sand road dust and hut mud, with experts debating feasibility amid hostile climate and native resistance.
Description of a log chute sending massive logs from a river brink to a railroad, cascading down seventeen hundred feet in fourteen seconds. Logs travel at speeds up to two hundred feet per second, creating fire, spray, and a grand fountain as they hit deep water. A ten ton sugar pine log and the spectacle of impact are vividly depicted.
A historic scene portrays Cetewayo in his cabin with relatives and aides as he sleeps or stays awake, while courtiers observe quiet decorum. The article notes the king’s dignity, ritual, and the meaning of the phrase the king sleeps in royal conduct and access.
Dr L W Baker argues for hospital reform citing a system used by the U S army erecting two story wooden post hospitals on piles to aid air flow. He says such 40 to 50 patient structures cost little and would relieve suffering for the poor. Britain has built about 250 such buildings.
In Perry County Alabama a 107 year old woman has died with a surviving 100 year old husband. Various clippings promote St Jacobs Oil as meritorious for rheumatic pains and health, including a New York pastor’s cure claim and a Wall Street News anecdote about frontier lodging and prices in Michigan.
A 19th century public health note warns against naked feet in winter and rapid eating. It promotes Dr Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla for indigestion and sexual weakness, and Kidney-Wort for kidney and liver protection. An English lecturer visit is anticipated as winter signals.
An old advertisement touts Dr. R. V. Pierce Golden Medical Discovery for biliousness and impure blood with claims of lungs and consumption cures. It also promotes Pleasant Purgative Pellets, sugar coated and bottled for freshness. A Goshen tale reports a nervous prostration cure via fiddle playing. A Arkansas girl rejects a suitor unless he proves himself, prompting an elopement with her mother.
An assembled set of old ad copy highlights various remedies and cautions. It promotes Thomas EvtLectric Om for rheumatism and injuries, Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for women’s health, Diamond Dye ink, and Rough on rats or pests. It also notes miscellaneous maxims and the value of Redding’s Russula Salve.
A bold sales pitch touts the Burpock BLoop Birrers as a great system renovator priced at one dollar. The promotional line invites readers to try the product and be convinced.
A fragment from the Arkansaw Traveler notes a folksy moral about self-respect and cowardice in social ranks. It contrasts natural imagery of animals with a child’s difficult teething, using dialect to convey a cautious, rural wisdom.
A Workingman declares debt and sickness haunted his family until his pastor advised Hop Bitters. After one month of use the family recovered and has remained well for a year. He urges poor men to use Hop Bitters as a cheaper alternative to a doctor visit.
A compact note reports prayers collected by Wien bound in a book likely to be repeated in future editions. The item notes archival binding and anticipated reprint in a local church collection.
Marshall Michigan ad promotes Dr Dye's Celebrated Electro Voltaic Belts for nervous debility and vitality with a 30 day trial and full restoration guarantee. No risk as trial period is allowed. Also advertising Mopoc Axle Grease Lyon's Heel Stiffeners Wise's Axle Grease National Yeast Spring Tobacco and bread claim.
A New York party on a Western pleasure trip nearly burned in a Wisconsin tent blaze. A member with severe burns found instant relief from Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil after the accident, praising its pain alleviation and calling it a household staple.
The dixivent page weekly Govern Days presents adventure sketches and instructive pieces for boys and girls. Its purpose runs through every article to teach obedience honesty truthfulness and reverence for the Golden Rule as guidance. Notable contributors include Marry Castlemom, Frank B Stock ton, Franklin Calkins, Frank H Converse, Elsie Leigh Whitl lese y, Mrs Christine Stephens, Fannie Williams, James Otis, Oliver Optic.
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