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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1879
Page
4
A lyrical speaker rejects delay and decline, valuing immediacy. The lines compare life to a flower that may drop bloom suddenly, expressing a desire to pass out or break in a morning of singing or a springing walk. The imagery centers on abrupt, natural endings and the urgency of action.
A Massachusetts Ploughman contributor shares horse colic remedies using salt on the animal’s back and tongue with warm water. He argues soil quality, careful breeding, and bright stable conditions improve profits, plus a liquid manure formula from horse hoof clippings.
A correspondent from Elmira outlines practical sheep husbandry tips focusing on parasite control and nutrition. Remedies include tobacco decoctions, sulphur mixed with salt, and careful winter feeding with grain and roots, plus advice on water access and breeding timing.
Charles H Farnham describes New York docks amid wealth and waste. A high pier floor hides rooms under the deck where bones metal rags boots and even a living space are stored. Italian workers earn 12 to 20 dollars weekly from trimming sorting and selling refuse contents.
An Indian paper outlines King Theebau of Farmah leaving a vast household: 53 wives producing 48 sons and 62 daughters totaling 110 children, of whom 59 survived. Many wives faced imprisonment or confinement, and most princes and princesses met grim fates or lived under strict control after his illness and death.
Old Mr Hazlett of Oregon believed he would die and burned 22 000 in owbacks to prevent heirs from fighting. He survived and now helps with woodcutting, leaving heirs feeling they gained nothing and are behind him.
A collection of period recipes including Pineapple Custard, Molasses Plum Cake, Dolly Varden Cake, Chicago Cake, Lemon Syrup, How to Bake Potatoes, Pole Flounder au Gratin, and How to Boil Ham with practical steps, ingredients, and baking times.
A philosophical meditation on happiness as a driving motive in human life. It argues most seek pleasure as a central goal, with few individuals entirely resisting this impulse, and notes how societies organize around this pursuit while acknowledging exceptions.
The text promotes Dr Bull's Cough Syrup to end colds and coughs, claiming it quietly yet positively places all Colds under its control. It notes a price of 25 cents for the remedy.
A pamphlet touts a dry vegetable compound named idney-Wort for self preparation of six doses. It claims cures for duey Diseases, Liver Complaint, Constipation and Piles and calls Carboline a deodorized petroleum extract improved for use as a toilet preparation that cleanses and promotes hair growth.
A party led by M F Strobl of Linz ascended Gross Gleckner on August 23 and faced a violent thunderstorm. As lightning flashed the six men saw St Elmo sparks arcing from hair coats and gear, yet all escaped serious harm and returned to base due to rain and frost, delaying the ascent.
The piece compares American wit to a safety valve in crises, arguing humor underpins republican governance. It cites Abe Lincoln’s wartime jokes and wartime political humor as tools that lightened tensions, while noting wit pierces politics, religion, philosophy, and manners without sacrificing seriousness.
The Eureka Sentinel uses biting humor to riff on gender roles. It traces the origin of woman from Adam and jokes about domestic life, independence, and social proscription with playful exaggeration and wry comparisons to dogs and shotguns. Eve is portrayed as poignant yet constrained by old customs.
The piece lists state nicknames such as Alabama lizards Arkansas toothpicks California gold-hunters Colorado rovers Connecticut wooden nutmegs Delaware muskrats Florida fly-up-the creeks Georgia buzzards Illinois suckers Indiana hoosiers Kansas jayhawkers Kentucky corn crackers Louisiana creoles Maine foxes Maryland crawthumpers Michigan wolverines Minnesota gophers Mississippi tadpoles Missouri pukes Nebraska bug-eaters Nevada sage-hens New Hampshire granite boys New Jersey blues or clam-catchers New York knicker bockers North Carolina tar boilers and tuckoes Ohio buckeyes Oregon webfeet and hard cases Pennsylvania Pennanites and leatherheads Rhode Island gun flints South Carolina weasels Tennessee whelps Texas beef heads Vermont Green mountain boys Virginia beadles Wisconsin badgers.
A precocious youth recalls a prior term and likens school teachers to Jags saying they lick your hand as they take the palm. The remark reflects juvenile wit about instructors and authority.
A collage of jokes and quips about politics, journals, glasses of beer, schoolboys, a dealer’s lecture tickets, beans, Rhode Island, Time as money, existence, laundry lists, perfume colors, and a liquor seizure witness. The sketch favors dry wordplay and rounded punchlines.
A Georgia moving tale tells how Watch the dog returned to the Norman family after a cross state move from Flowery Branch to Elberton. The tale is joined by a Alabama story of a dancing rooster that performs for Mr. Samuel Spigener. A Port Jervis owl battles a dog in a coon hunter’s dawn hunt.
The text traces women in medicine from ancient myth and Egypt through Rome Greece and Salerno medieval Bologna and eighteenth century Bologna. It highlights Agnodice opening the profession to free-born women and Ann Morandi Mazzolini who lectured at Bologna delivering her husband’s lectures and becoming famed for wax anatomical models.
The piece promotes Kidney-Wort as a diuretic and cathartic to cleanse the system and support kidney and liver function. It introduces PHOSPHOROLE from Billings Clapp & Co. as a promising remedy combining phosphorous with cod liver oil, praised by practitioners and tested by the editor with positive results in neurasthenia.
Begin this soup early and use six pounds of lean beet, six quarts of water, one teaspoon salt, and the hock of a cold ham for flavor. Boil slowly, skim after the boil, then add a quarter peck of chopped tomatoes, French beans, pepper, and optional onions. Remove meat shreds before serving and aim for a jelly like thickness.
Claim asserts malaria prevalence endangers all. Warner's Safe Pills neutralize the poison and cure malaria and bilious troubles. The text presents a medicinal patent remedy and its broad effectiveness.
A collage of old advert claims for Dr King New Discovery for consumption and a parade of tonics and syrups. Promotions tout trial bottles, cures for coughs colds asthma bronchitis hay fever and hoarseness. Other items include Hop Bitters, Jaques German Worm Cakes, Uncle Sam's Nerve and Bone Liniment and Tar and Wild Cherry extracts with claims of rapid cures and lifelong health benefits.
Don't be without C Gilbert's starches Bucktien's Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for cuts bruises sores ulcers and skin eruptions. Guaranteed to give satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by all druggists and dealers.
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