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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1888
Page
3
The sermon on the dominion of fashion argues women should not imitate men and condemns masculine dress. Dr. Talmage recalls his prayer for wider reach via secular press, citing millions of copies of his discourses. He attacks masculine affectations, calls out George Sand, and warns fashion harms morals and souls.
The article details the Bear Valley Dam project from Crafton to the dam site at 5600 feet elevation, noting cement costs, mule transport, and a 60 foot dam height with potential to rise. Engineer F E Brown, Yale graduate, leads a praised effort and the lake spans 4000 acres with a 50 000 acre irrigation capacity.
An advertisement extols Electric Bitters as a pure medicine that cures liver and kidney disorders, pimples, boils, and malaria. It promises relief from headaches, constipation, and indigestion with a money back guarantee and lists J. P. Fezer's drug store as a seller. A separate joke from Puck mentions art and a broker.
An assortment of patent medicines and health claims target readers with warnings about catching colds in chilly weather. Ads promote Santa Abie and California Cat-r-cure with pricing, Ely’s Cream Balm for catarrh and hay fever, and a cheeky jab at poker players about health.
An assortment of 19th century patent medicine testimonials and quips praises Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption and J H McLean s Cordial and Blood Purifier. Advertisements claim cures for lung abscesses malaria and headaches with sample bottles offered. Various quips about society and humor punctuate the ad laden text.
Readers are invited to send their address to Hallet & Co. in Portland Maine to learn how men and women of all ages can earn from five to twenty five dollars daily and more from home. No capital required and some claim to earn as much as fifty dollars in a day. The ad promises universal success and mentions sea wonders as part of the宣 text.
A Boston Courier excerpt extols Dr J H MacLean's Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier as the best remedy for weakness and disease origins while proposing a society to suppress cranks. It questions the fate of a world if cranks are silenced.
Distressed mothers urged to buy Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething children. Claims relief for crying, pain, dysentery, diarrhoea, wind colic, inflammation, and improved energy. Sold by druggists worldwide at 26 cents a bottle.
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