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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1884
Page
1
The Sullivan Times announces subscription rates for in county and out of county readers with advance and arrears distinctions. The paper notes it will not accept cordwood pumpkins wind or other items as payment.
Special correspondent describes a California rail excursion from Los Angeles to San Pedro Wilmington Willmore Downey Anaheim and Santa Ana with hops to Florence and Orange. Highlights include beaches at Santa Monica the ostrich farm near Anaheim and vast orange groves vineyards and raisin packing in Orange. Noted are artesian belts Wilmore City and San Pedro Bay port activities and hog feeding in pumpkin fields.
A denunciation highlights harmful circles selling false cures to youths and exposes Dr Guysett and Dr Wistar as promoting fake health remedies. The piece urges adherence to health laws and embraces Dr Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry as a nightly cough remedy.
The Rev Dr Dodd preaches on malt as a text in a hollow tree drawing a clever moral about drunkenness. The article then discusses shifting farming skill needs from manual to machinical operation and compares old and new tools. It reports on the Illinois Tile and Drainage Association meeting praising tile drainage and listing producer quotes and practices with advice on depths and outputs.
An anecdotal study by Mrs. Susan N. Carter praises Peter Cooper in the December Century frontispiece. It lauds his life as a model of innocence and wisdom, detailing his plain living, kindness, lack of vanity, and steady happiness amid disappointments.
The article portrays Marcus Annius Verus later emperor Marcus Aurelius as a model boy of the second century. He embraced Stoic discipline at age twelve, sleeping on the floor, denying beds, and pursuing study and athletic exercise under the guidance of Stoic teachers, with his mother tempering extremes.
A desert basin once part of the Gulf of California holds a vast salt deposit now used to ballast a branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Tracklaying to the salt mine required grading 1,200 feet with crystalline salt blocks. Reported to preserve ancient grasshoppers and giant centipedes in the salt, still of full size.
No other medicine is so reliable as Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for colds coughs and all derangements of the respiratory organs tending to ward consumption. In all ordinary cases it is a certain cure and it affords sure relief for the asthmatic and consumptive even in advanced stages of disease.
A Boston Commonwealth correspondent analyzes state by state longevity, finding New Hampshire leads with one octogenarian per 174 residents and revealing wide regional variation. The piece argues political leaders should study how tariffs and broad tax burdens affect ordinary people more than manufacturers.
Indiana residents granted various patents including stoves hat protectors straw stackers artificial slate coin counters nut locks straw stackers railroad tracers grain separators and threshing machine feeders jewelers tools spark arresters and a tax and interest calculator. Eighty thousand children in northern England form the Duckey Bird Society pledging bird protection and winter feeding.
An old advertisement states a complete cure for aches pains sores pimples urinary sediments disturbing dreams nervousness despondency indigestion and general weakness is found in two or three bottles of Dr Guysett s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla, proven by many who long suffered but now feel well in all parts of the body.
A New Orleans Picayune quotation declares society’s ideal favors those who avoid paying debts, underscoring social attitudes toward financial responsibility and reputation.
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