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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1888
Page
4
An assortment of sensational cures and health ads tout Dr Kline s Great Nerve Restorer and Dr Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery with free trials, plus remarks on beauty claims and humorous horse jokes. Includes outdated corset front descriptions and a quip about a woman driving a horse.
The sermon compares Attila the Hun to a star Wormwood and warns that brilliance plus bitterness corrupts nations and people. It contrasts morning and evening stars with Attila, cites sacred and secular ruin, and urges kindness, humility, and gospel influence to sweeten rather than embitter lives.
An orator extols the land's growth from forests to rail, then warns of moral decline. He urges righteousness toward God and justice toward man to avoid ruin, citing wars, plagues, droughts, and locusts. He predicts decline if America forgets divine blessings, ends with a biblical Wormwood reference.
A persuasive essay urges boys to share duties at home and support sisters and mothers. It recounts three brothers who helped their widowed mother, avoided vices, and achieved success, highlighting the payoff of kindness, industry, and fair division of work.
The piece urges adapting diet to season with lighter foods and fresh produce. It notes winter eating dulls the stomach and warns against neglecting seasonal needs. It praises fish cereals eggs and milk as lighter nourishment and calls for simple well prepared meals.
Humorous exchanges unfold with Edwin and Angelina as a bystander, a bilious old gentleman, and a tainted taxpaying context. A streetwise quip envisions a future politician who dislikes work, while a diamond trust rumor hints at danger after a man loses $10 to four knaves.
George Kennan cites April Century on how in 1900s Russia private discussions of public questions were punished. Section 320 of Title IV imposes prison for secret societies and discussions, making private debating clubs appear dangerous to the ruling regime.
The piece contrasts truth as laboring and dull with lie as glamorous and persuasive. It argues that society loves deception, praising fiction while undervaluing fact, and celebrates the creator of original stories as a genius over mere compilers.
A Lewiston Journal reader recounts repurposing discarded tin cans for kitchen storage, gardening, and plant care. She explains using cans as seed pots, decorative salt boxes, watering supports, and improvised garden irrigation, with husband John noting savings from cans used around young trees and as practical improvised tools.
Prof. L. B. Arnold explains that salt draws water from butter, forming a brine that escapes as moisture evaporates. Excess moisture in the butter causes the brine to separate when salt is added, contracting the butter similarly to curd or lean meat releasing moisture.
A humorous Utah scene features a Mormon lady asking Brigham to promise he will never marry another woman after her death. The elder balks at breaking his engagement but concedes to keep Miss Smith as his last wife.
The New York Telegram warns pneumonia can be fatal and tied to kidney impairment. It cites symptoms and argues early kidney health governs prevention, promoting Warner's safe cure as the remedy to restore vitality and curb deadly outcomes.
The Burlington Route offers special land excursions on March 20 April 3 24 May 8 22 June 5 1888 from Chicago Peoria St Louis and all on its line to Nebraska Kansas Minnesota and Dakota and to Colorado east of Akron and Sterling with greatly reduced rates. Tickets valid 30 days to western points 60 days to others with liberal stopovers. Paul Morton General Passenger and Ticket Agent Chicago Illinois.
In Tavistock Square Dickens invited Mrs Procter to an amateur night his children staged. She refused saying her charge was five shillings to witness and five more to applaud. Dickens grew vexed and left, and she did not attend.
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