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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1879
Page
7
An 19th century Chicago editorial argues intelligent young women should enter kitchen work as commentious labor to support themselves. It claims kitchen roles offer steady income, home life, and social usefulness, suggesting reform to reduce chaos and raise efficiency in domestic service.
The Committee on Sanitary Measures reports split on ice in drinking water. The majority opposes ice due to fears of disease while the minority defends ice as harmless frozen water. Trustee Pulback proposes a compromise favoring no specific summer drink but allowing certain ice in lemonade. A follow-up note mentions a natural soapstone deposit found near Elko Nevada and a local effort to market it as Castile-like soap.
The readable fragments show a columnist mused on natural remedies and healing plants as valuable counterpoints to illness. The tone hints at hopeful observations of bloom and health.
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