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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1886
Page
1
Herbert Linley disrupts a hotel confrontation seeking Catherine and Kitty. Bennydeck, Catherine’s husband, remains composed as Mrs. Presty maneuvers to shield secrets. A waiter delivers a grave interruption as Linley reveals his identity and presses for answers.
Review highlights Robertson Smith Kinship and totemism in Arabia. Traces progress from mother kinship and polyandry to male-line kinship and monandry, with historical examples in Genesis and Islamic practice. Credits Cambridge lectures and argues a long conflict led to patriarchal family structure.
An appeal about a dying child and a mother's fear of losing her. The piece asserts consumption is curable with Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, claiming past patients were pronounced incurable yet recovered, and urges readers to buy the remedy from druggists.
A letter from Rev. John W. Brown praises White Wine of Tar Syrup as a remedy for weak lungs after pneumonia eight years ago. He requests the drug to be supplied to Cabool's druggist Mr. Gorman and notes sale by Crowder & Reed and a subscription prompt for the TIMES.
A Louisville Post feature praises Patrick Byrnes of the Treasury Department for sealing thousands of quarterly interest checks daily with remarkable accuracy. Using only a wet sponge, he sorts envelopes at 50 per minute, producing three store boxes of sealed mail with no mistakes. The piece contrasts him with a humorous aside on American isms and ends with an ad note for Dr Pierce’s Pellets.
The American Agriculturist argues grazing hogs on stubble wastes feed and harms health. Hogs roam in heat and dust, drink excessively, and lose flesh as gleanings remain scant. Raking or threshing gleanings is advised to prevent disease and waste.
Advice from American Agriculturist outlines essential care for egg laying fowls. Maintain cleanliness and comfort, provide varied food, a spacious exercise area, and flock sizes of seventy to one hundred. Use crude carbolic acid disinfectant in bedding and floors, but avoid dirty houses with fermenting manure. Regularly till runs for healthful activity to boost egg yield. St. Facebs Oil relieved rheumatism for Mr. G. EB. Reardon.
Dr. J. W. Hamilton of Merrillan Wisconsin reports selling Warner's White Wine of Tar Syrup for years and calls it the best cough medicine with no equal for asthma. Sold by Crowder Reed.
An account from the Boston Herald recalls a girl in Malden who, adhering to the tile theory of prayer, repeats a request for a white rabbit. After waiting for developments, she pleads again and then insists with a final energetic demand for the rabbit immediately.
A collection of essays on legislative inefficiency marriage and divorce in Mormon policy and the common good The Forgotten Millions The Inefficiency of the Lower House Evolution and the Faith A Plan for Harmony between Labor and the Employing Interests plus poems by Frank D Sherman Minnie Irving a humorous drawing by Robert Blum and a city sketch The Bob-tail Car by Brander Matthews
The Salt Lake Tribune quotes an oath attributed to the Destroying Angels of the Mormon Church promising loyalty to the First Presidency in all things and to report acts of others, with a pledge to execute those who speak against the church leadership. The text includes phrases promising to guard church leaders and to cause dissenters to die.
A pair of quips from the Merchant Traveller and editors in Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph parody a clocking joke about Jay Gould’s income per tick and a Brooklyn card game ban tied to a church ruling. The exchange reflects a period sense of newspaper humor.
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