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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1887
Page
4
A Reverend sermon uses Paul in a basket lowered from a Damascus wall to illustrate how small acts and overlooked helpers secure vast outcomes. It honors unseen helpers, cites Wesley, Pitcairn, and shipboard rescues, and urges gratitude for those who hold the rope.
Excerpt recalls dramatic sermons and parables of humility, faith, and providence. A speaker recounts acts of charity and peril, from hiding a persecuted man to guiding a ship away from disaster. The message frames small acts as destiny shaping events and eternity.
A pair of SandersiIe owls measured four feet six inches wingspan. A robin’s nest with five eggs was found in an old tin cup in a disused sewer in London. An Auburn Me. woman watches an English sparrow nest from her window as she sews. Crows roost aboard the Minnie Eaton, then follow to Orfordness and back to Dartmouth. An eagle twelve feet across battles a buzzard. four eaglets appear later. A groundhog feasts nearby and is driven off by the eagle.
The piece discusses Chinese fears of the dead and Feng Shui as barriers to progress. It cites Feng Shui as the wind and water path shaping architecture, and notes ancestor worship with April grave visits. Miss Gordon Cumming estimates annual offerings exceed thirty-two million sterling to propitiate spirits.
Mrs. Davidson of Harrriet street suffered a toe severing accident while cutting wood two months earlier. Dr. J Jacobs repaired the middle finger and also the first finger bone, sewing them back in place. The fingers have reunited and she is regaining use. Three similar successful operations are on record.
Health hints warn excess meat harms health and advise tightening habits to prevent illness. A Chirpodist blames ingrown toenails on knife trimming and Turkish bath practices, urging scissors. Anger worsens heart disease risk and may trigger paralysis epilepsy or hysteria per Boston Herald reports.
Harper's Bazar portrays Burma as sixty seven thousand square miles with three million people. It notes Buddhism mingled with Shamanism, widespread literacy, widespread marriage freedom for Burman women, and civil marriage with easy divorce. It also details harsh taxation, unpaid officials, extortion, and a vast monastery relief system, while land is crown property and occupancy rules govern reversion.
A Washington Post writer cites Leonard Sweet recounting his recovery through twenty mud baths in Las Vegas and horseback riding. He compares Sweet to Abraham Lincoln and notes improved health, appetite, sleep, and energy after his treatment and winter riding.
A compendium of maxims on happiness discipline and growth. From self control to patience. It notes the long effort behind success and the value of weighing both sides before judging. It reflects on resilience and the gradual gains of learning religion and riches.
Professor Wiesner argues yellowing of paper results from light driven oxidation, especially by refrangible rays. Wood papers yellow more than rag. dry air aids preservation. He notes electric light is worse than gas for libraries due to refrangible rays, meriting further study.
Doctors worldwide praise Scorr's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites for its milk like taste. It is presented as a valuable remedy for consumption scrofula bronchitis debility wasting diseases in children and chronic coughs and colds with physicians noting children take it willingly.
It claims to cool the blood and control excessive perspiration while aiding periods of headache fainting spells and spasmodic fatigue. The tonic is advertised as safe and life-giving for the entire system. Dignity is defined by deserving honors, not merely possessing them.
Anecdotes recount a Pennsylvania dog funding a $1,500 trust for church support after death and a daily breakfast for eight Hill sboro gray squirrels. Stories include a robin led attack on a nest robber, a monkey saluting a charging dog, a mule revived after presumed death, a Scotch shepherd dog fishing, a Skye terrier guarding eight chicks, an old cow saving a man from choking, and a St Paul dog sharing a meal with a house cat.
An offensive breath distresses the afflicted and those around him. The text notes bad breath and catarrh as inseparable and promotes Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy as curing even the worst cases, supported by supposed thousands of testimonials.
Advertisements promote Dr. R. V. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a universal cure for organic weakness in men and women, with appeals to mothers and wives and promises of household harmony. It also offers deodorizing fur services and a pamphlet from Dr. J. B. Marchisi in Utica New York.
The piece explains that a back log was a large porous stone buried in ashes with a back stick on top to keep fire through the night. Lighting relied on flint and tow, and turf later replaced stones in some rooms after 1800. The author recalls ownership of a stone from a grandmother's era, now offered to the Boston Society as a century and a half old.
Dr B W Richardson urges British invalids to gain tropical climate benefits from winter homes in their homeland. He envisions 50 plus two story houses around a glass enclosed central square with libraries baths gymnasia and amusement halls. Electric suns would create constant pleasant weather under glass roofs.
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