10 Oct 1891
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Newspaper
Le Mars Weekly Sun
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1891
Page
1
A long survey of dressmaking as fine art, praising Ross Bonheur, and noting women in art, photography, and public service. It discusses dress standards, maternal voice, child discipline, manners, and social progress for women in architecture, livery, and trades, with examples from San Francisco, Chicago, and New York.
A husband touts a kitchen tonic made from roots as a cure all claiming to keep his family healthy through spring. The plan backfires as the tonic causes sickness and confusion, prompting the wife to resist and later expose the folly in a humorous domestic scene. The quarrel centers on medical overuse and mistrust of quack cures within a wary household.
A New Castle whipping post astonishes readers who praise it as a relic of a harsher era. Delaware residents defend the device, arguing it deters marauders from Maryland Pennsylvania and New Jersey while lamenting its brutality. A Boston saloon proprietor advertises a sacred clam chowder each Sunday.
A London Hospital note explains cucumbers are highly digestible when eaten properly, mainly water with fast growing cells, and recommends thin slices and thorough mastication plus moderate vinegar and pepper. contrasts with common belief about indigestibility and places cucumber with other mild fruits. It also recounts a Hamburg will case where heirs married to claim 20 000 crowns each, totaling 40 600 crowns, now in court.
An excerpt argues land cannot be privately owned, tracing origins of titles to force and conquest. It contends the Earth belongs to all, that improvements cannot justify exclusive possession, and that present landholders owe society, not private dominion, with a call to recognize mankind’s collective rights to the globe.
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