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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1893
Page
7
A lyrical fragment describes stepping into an Eden of roses in many colors and perfumed blooms. The speaker trims roses named Orosea and binds their tendrils to their heart while praising the flower’s beauty and warmth over lilies lilac and jasmine.
In the Sierra Nevada cabin tale, miner Harry Brandt and his dog Ben endure a missing dog ordeal and a dream like pursuit. Brandt finds Ben trapped in a shaft with a wounded shoulder and a fist sized gold nugget glinting nearby. He frees Ben, uncovers more gold, then sells the mine for 500000 to fund a fresh start aboard a ship to San Francisco with Ben wearing a new collar.
The article outlines early remedies cited by Cardano including fox lung preparations and a nasal draught of craterium in goat's milk, plus external applications of Greek pitch and ship's tar with honey and mustard. It notes skepticism about many medieval cures and cites Blackwood's Magazine as the source.
A health column notes that a slight cough can be a habit and offers home remedies. It explains how to contract the uvula and suggests a dry tannic acid quill or glycerine gargle. For chest coughs from a cold it prescribes bed rest, hot foot soak with mustard, and camphorated oil chest rub. A separate item recounts a buckboard party and local humor about police fines.
In Upper Egypt whole families live on dates. The stones are ground for camel feed. Families own two to three hundred date trees, some over a thousand. Every man who leads men ought to be a follower of Christ.
An old prospector recalls a second burial ground near White Pine California where limestone petrifies bodies leaving stone faces. The silent city mirrors 1867 rushes with diverse mourners from pneumonia to desperadoes, a vast, uncanny graveyard that once hummed with life and now stands as a chilling relic.
A 19th or early 20th century account describes Chinese women elevating eye length for beauty. Mothers reportedly slit eyelids from ages 10 to 12, re-opening the cuts repeatedly to create longer, more prominent eyes, a painful home procedure.
The passage traces how U S territory expanded from 827,844 square miles in the original 13 states to 3,603,884 square miles today. Key acquisitions include Jefferson’s Louisiana purchase adding over a million square miles, Monroe’s Florida purchase, Texas annexation, Northern Mexico, southern Arizona, and Seward’s Alaska purchase, noting much of the growth occurred in the present century.
A collage of short notes on nature and daily life including a guide to growing an oak from an acorn, warnings against drastic medicines, a promotion for Hoastetter's Stomach Bitters, a joke about the National House of Representatives, Chicago excursion rates, and scattered advertisements on electotyping, cataract cures, handkerchiefs, Pereberon horses, safety lamps, Jamaica Ginger, and Shakespearean price of admission.
Knowledge praises Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative that cleanses the system and helps dispel colds headaches and fevers. The California Fig Syrup Co markets it in 50 cent and 1 dollar bottles, with the company name on each package to ensure authenticity.
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