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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1878
Page
1
This article urges consumption as a major killer and links it to scrofulous temperaments. It touts Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets as effective remedies and highlights the Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo, N Y, as a favorable treatment location with a climate claimed to be disease free.
Positive results claim the Cherry Pectoral cures consumption hopeful cases. Ague Cure stops chills and fever quickly. Extract of Sarsaparilla purges scrofula and impurities, cleansing the blood. Ayer's Pills offer well known effects. Source cites Seraton Times Pennsylvania.
A Paris boarding house tale reports two tricks on a boastful shoe-maker. One corpse was watched all night while the other wet a student’s room with sheets. The hoax backfired as the lodgers themselves felt haunted and paid the landlord in kind.
An editorial warns of harmful medicines described as safe for all, claiming children and women suffer from excessive doctoring and unnamed tonics. It promotes Hop Bitters as a simple, harmless remedy made from hops and herbs and urges readers to see another column for more.
A satire on health advice advises exposing oneself to excess day and night, overeating, overworking, and relying on advertised nostrums until sickness prompts seeking recovery. The punchline promotes taking Hop Bitters as the cure in three words.
In Saratoga society the prominent Mrs. William Connor formerly Ada Webb of the Webb sisters is celebrated for beauty and social grace. Her lineage includes an English banker grandfather and stage connections. A Civil War era Canadian tour brought an offer from Sir Garnet Wolseley, which she declined.
A mangled excerpt shows a speaker near a door claiming twenty years of residence and a mention of hard times. The rough text includes garbled phrases about a head of the family and a tramp, with illegible inner dialogue.
The Providence Presse criticizes rapid fixations on short courses claiming true knowledge requires labor. It argues mastering one subject, even if dull, builds scholars and guards against charlatans. It blames schools for overloading pupils and favors superficial cream information over thorough understanding.
A man near a wheat field reports repeated picking of grain from heads. He shot a suspected offender after suspecting marauders, finding only three grains of wheat and three hundred fifty weevils in the creature’s stomach.
An editorial likens corruption in national affairs to a severe cough in the human system and urges political reform as the remedy. It notes Dr Bull's Cough Syrup is sold by druggists for 25 cents a bottle as a satirical comparison.
Fragment describes a social custom in Texas where courtship involves games or tests with apples and targets. It notes that young men sometimes face mock danger from the girl’s brothers and that the wealthy suitors tend to avoid getting hit.
Advertises Dr Bull's Baby Syrup claiming to ease colic diarrhoea teething and other infant troubles. Priced at 25 cents.
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