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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1905
Page
7
The article argues indoor workers suffer from poor air and lack of movement. It urges gradual, tailored exercise to build strength and vigor, with options from massage for the frail to walking, swimming, and outdoor living for robust individuals. It links exercise to purification of blood, digestion, and resistance to tuberculosis.
A guide urging abstention from harmful foods and a healthy lifestyle. It prescribes choosing choicest foods like toasted grains and fruits, springy meals, and ample outdoor exercise. The program recommends eight hours of sleep, morning cold baths, and weekly warm baths, aiming to conserve mental and bodily energy for righteous living.
Night air is not dangerous. Open bedrooms to sun and air during the day to keep rooms dry. Do not overheat and keep at least one window open day and night. Seal off the chamber from the rest of the house and take patients to a warm room for a cold sponge bath each morning.
The poisonous effects of tea and coffee are evident to careful observers. Sallow complexions, nervousness among middle aged women, digestive disorders, and headaches signal toxic character. Wakefulness and loss of fatigue call for caution, as drugs that keep one awake show poisonous traits.
Fragmentary OCR notes discuss misconceptions about tuberculosis being caused by weak lungs and suggest a professor advised on health safeguards. The text mentions a man with a disease and a professor’s guidance, but details are incomplete and unclear.
The article argues inherited consumption is rare and that most family cases of tuberculosis stem from poor hygiene and spread of germs. It urges personal cleanliness, burning used handkerchiefs, using rice paper tissues, and family air circulation. It recommends fresh air, outdoor activity, simple meals, daily baths, and eight hours of sleep to boost resistance. The patient should cooperate in preventing germ spread and pursue fresh air treatment with family support.
The text warns that the stomach is not a mere trash receptacle but a creator of body and mind. It argues that what we swallow becomes brain, heart, blood, and tissue, urging careful choice of food to ensure good blood, clear brains, and strong limbs.
The article argues that alcohol addiction undermines reliability at work and reflects disease in the nervous system. It links rising insanity rates in France and Europe to higher per capita alcohol consumption, noting overcrowded asylums and widespread suffering.
Instructions for cheese straws from puff paste with nut cheese, rolled and baked in strips. Easter Lily Cake uses sunshine cake and lily cutouts with white and yellow icing. Tomato sauce combines tomatoes, onion, parsley, bay leaf, salt, then thickens with butter and flour.
William Ryan, recently jailed in La Crosse for five years burglary, was found to have stolen Standard Oil bonds worth 100000 from a Winona banker just before his arrest. Half the bonds were recovered. the rest reportedly hidden. Ryan admitted fearing to negotiate them except in New York where his confederates were, and said he planned to use funds to move east when caught.
Chicago and New York markets show wide ranges in butter cheese eggs oats and livestock. Prices listed include Rutter Creamery products, eyes fresh stock, various cheese types, onions sweet potatoes and potatoes by region with livestock bids for cattle sheep and hogs across Chicago Omaha Kansas City St Louis and New York markets. Financials reflect multiple grades and markets for dairy, poultry, produce, and live stock with regional price differentials.
Lima April 3 Chile replies to Peru protest stating resolve to acquire dominion and sovereignty over Tacna and Arica without wounding Peru's susceptibilities. The exchange signals a firm stance in the long standing border dispute.
William Marconi and Mrs Beatrice O'Brien arrived in New York on the Campania from Liverpool. Mrs Marconi is the Hon Beatrice O Brien, fifth daughter of Lady Inchquin. The marriage occurred in London on March 17.
April 8. Frank Ogden, a young farmer living near Moulton, Iowa, was found dead in the yard of Claude Whistler with a bullet through the heart. Whistler has disappeared. Ogden and Mrs. Whistler were sweethearts before her marriage to Whistler.
Butte Montana April 3 Mrs Elizabeth Morrison was convicted of manslaughter in the death of Richard Finnegan near the city on June 28 1904 She faces a three year sentence in the state penitentiary
A poem parodies a generous man who spends freely on pleasures and social exploits, yet neglects his family and ends in ruin. The verse contrasts his public charm with private neglect, noting how poverty forces him to borrow and drink, ending in a pauper’s grave. The piece cites Frances S Smith and a figure may reflect temperance critique from the era.
Pastor Steinwender of Gorlitz poses a chilling hypothetical. A man intends to open a saloon and boastfully admits plans to impoverish townsmen, induce hospitalizations, provoke crime, spread disease, rob, and kill, all to earn money and support his family. He asks whether acknowledging such aims makes him worse than one who acts without confession. The piece cautions against deliberate vice and its social ruin.
A Chicago Federation of Labor debater argues that funds once spent on alcohol could advance an eight hour day without legislation. He notes alcohol’s low food value and estimates the distillery and brewery sector would show quick gains if drinking ended, enabling current wages and profits to be sustained with reduced trade losses.
The Armour family story tells of a new clerk who drank heavily then pretended to finish leftover work. He spent the night drinking, drank at a Turkish bath, and recovered with a cold dip before returning to work early. Armour noticed the early effort, gave a raise, and the clerk vowed to quit alcohol forever after his lucky early-morning payoff.
Miss Willard extols women's role and character in society. She asserts the mercury of the race measures progress by women’s status and urges self-forgetfulness, hard work, and the Golden Rule to build a better world. She recalls crusade era hopes and the importance of organized temperance and guidance for young girls.
The New York Evening Post notes Waycross Georgia has kept a $30 000 annual liquor privilege for 16 years for its 9000 residents. With four policemen and high home ownership, the town’s tight liquor rule is argued to show no license can be sustained only by strong enforcement and public sentiment.
A physician warns that men who drink ten to fifteen daily whiskies to blunt exposure suffer deteriorating health. Even good quality whisky harms, but continual intake of adulterated spirits seals a grim fate as the heart weakens.
A vivid account describes a belt worn by Japanese soldiers, each belt stitched with a thousand threads representing prayers for welfare. Mothers wives and sweethearts contribute by adding dots and threads in the streets, passing the talisman from hand to hand as wishes are uttered and knots tied.
A Kansas City mother details dizziness, sour stomach, and poor milk while breastfeeding linked to coffee. She and her family switch to Postum Coffea, reporting improved health and increased milk flow for baby. She praises Postum as best drink, with husband also cured of dyspepsia, and urges others to try. The ad promotes The Road to Wellville book from Postum Co.
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