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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1884
Page
1
The notice announces that the publication is issued every Saturday with J. ca Bartlett serving as editor and proprietor. It repeats the publishing schedule and ownership, confirming the paper’s periodic release and leadership.
Leonora Markham marries John Harper despite warnings about his drinking. After years of sobriety and hardship, a crisis with their child Blanche tests their bond. Harper vows to reform, Leonora forgives, and the family endures. A final sacrifice and fidelity restore honor and happiness.
Dr N B Richardson of London demonstrates a pulse experiment to illustrate how lying down reduces heart beats and alcohol raises strokes. He explains nightly rest from a calm heart and how wine or grog adds many extra strokes, leaving one seedy and unfit next day.
A long excerpt summarizes birth months and ages of U S Presidents, noting October births for Arthur Hayes Adams and others, then lists death months for many leaders. It cites Garfield Grant Pierce Taylor Arthur Lincoln Madison Monroe Jefferson Adams and Washington with ages at inaugurations and deaths, plus remarks on generals and public service. It closes with a note on U S salary histories and a London health exhibit asserting longer lifespans due to better living conditions and medical care.
A Mercantile Journal column observes shop life and the diverse “representative” classes behind the counter. It parries the merchant’s eye-teeth unfairly sharpened by experience, and profiles the “devoted friend” who guides pricing, inflates margins, borrows, and spies on profits while dining at the merchant’s expense.
A compact literary epigram quoting Dean Swift on reasoning and conviction. It asserts that efforts to persuade someone are futile when the person was never persuaded by reason, with a line about a Reynoldsian rider easily shaken off.
The Providence Journal notes common misnomers such as black lead being carbon and iron, Brazilian grass being palmleaf strips, Burgundy pitch mainly resin and palm oil, catgut from sheep entrails, cuttle bone a chalky shell, German silver lacking silver, Cleopatra's Needle not Egyptian, Pompey’s pillar unrelated, sealing-wax lacking wax, tube rose not a rose, strawberry not a berry, Turkish baths not Turkish, whalebone not bone.
The week’s grants include George W. Anderson Westport cut-off and reversing gear James D. Richards Patriot fire place stove Jacob Wimenour Washington elevator John Delotter John M. Snyder Goshen vehicle running gear Abraham Hamman North Webster mole trap Ruben R. James Rising Sun potato digger John F Gent Columbus art of making grits John I Gent Columbus art of making germless cornmeal John F Gent Columbus art of extracting germs from ground cereals and machine used in practicing said art.
A Fashionable Lady questions care of children while a Motherly Old Creature from the Texas Sittings office boasts experience. The piece mentions Ayer's Cathartic Pills as beneficial for those harmed by calomel and mineral medicines. A Mirror and Farmer correspondent describes a hot water milking method to speed milking. A light in a house past midnight raises a child’s question about croup.
A woman lauds Ayer's Sarsaparilla for years of family use and states it relieves pains from female weaknesses and irregularities, claiming it is unequal for household health.
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