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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1905
Page
6
The article extols cold air as a healing force for tuberculosis. It highlights Davos as a premier winter resort for the treatment, explains how cold air improves oxygen intake, stimulates vital processes, and advises careful diet and regulated regimens to maximize benefit.
Discussion argues outdoor life aids tuberculosis treatment and overall health. It claims indoor living weakens vitality, notes air quality in rooms affects headaches, and urges ample cold air in living and sleeping spaces as a remedy.
The article explains how sight smell and thoughts of food trigger digestive juices before tasting. Pawlow notes the stomach remains inert if food enters directly, while seeing and smelling food causes saliva and gastric juice to flow. Proper mastication and retention in the mouth prepare the digestive system for processing food.
The article notes that cold air boosts oxidation and digestion, increases oxygen availability for liver function, and enhances muscle activity. It claims cold air improves respiration efficiency, aids elimination of waste, and prevents buildup of imperfectly burned substances, described as cinders of the body.
A fragment discusses the body as a furnace where food must be burned to be valuable. It notes excess intake floods the system and implies a metabolic or symbolic digestion concept in a concise, enigmatic line.
The article argues alcohol creates a false sense of power in laborers travelers and soldiers. It cites Dr Brunton and Dr Edmunds and reports an experiment where a healthy young man’s total muscle strength dropped from 4 881 to 3 385 pounds after two ounces of brandy with effects persisting ten hours.
The piece advocates baths, exercise, and diet as core cures for chronic illness. It argues that gradual reconstruction of tissues replaces degraded health with a healthier person, using warm and cold baths, increased circulation, appetite, and breathing as key effects, and stresses that nourishment builds the body.
A list of kitchen preparations including Tomato Sauce made from strained tomatoes and peanut cream soups. Steps describe mixing boiling thickening with cornstarch, salting, and serving. Also includes Macaroni with Kornlet and Date Dainties with dates and walnuts.
A. C. Sprague of Normal writes of two years of kidney pain ending after using three boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills. He reports improved sleep and mobility and urges others to try the remedy. Trial free via Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY. sold by dealers for 50 cents.
The Century essay by W. I. Sands describes Korea as the Hermit Kingdom, oppressed by neighbors for centuries, with cities temples and libraries sacked, nobles and maidens driven to China and Japan, and foreign intrigue preventing progress. It explains Korea’s self isolation as a response to centuries of conflict and degradation.
Mrs. Caroline Cable of Waupaca Wisconsin writes that her husband suffered agony from salt rheum on his hands and was cured by Cuticura after trying many remedies. She says one set of Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills cured him completely and his hands have remained smooth since, hoping to help others.
During Senate deliberations, Senator Frye of Maine humorously declares the single yea as the deciding side when an amendment near passage yields one yea and one nay. The exchange highlights a brief light moment amid grave debates.
Salzer's New National Oats yields 240 bu per acre in Michigan 255 in Missouri 310 in North Dakota and 150 to 300 bu in 30 other states. The 1905 growth promises millions of bushels and dollars for farmers nationwide.
A farm seed advertisement touts YOVOYO Womebuilder Yellow Dent Corn as a top yielder with 157 to 260 bushels per acre. It also promotes Salter's Speltz and other seeds, offering a catalog in exchange for a TITIS notice and 10 cents in stamps to John A. Salter Seed Co., La Crosse Wisconsin.
A New York Macmillan notice lauds Eden Phillpotts The Secret Woman as well constructed with a sincere note and genuine passion. The critic says Phillpotts has never written a better book and highlights its believable characters.
Mrs. Jane Evans a 73 year old former slave in New Haven Conn has just graduated with honors from the elementary grade of a night school. She began attending last fall to learn to read the Bible and newspapers. Mrs Evans was liberated by Lincoln's emancipation proclamation.
King Edward visited Buxton Hospital in Devonshire and observed the wooden operating table. He proposed a glass one and donated a glass table to the hospital, saying he had a fellow feeling about the issue.
Wm. L. Swarmstedt of Washington DC says he endured foot pain for years until using two boxes of Allen's Foot-Ease powder. He reports his feet have been completely comfortable since. The product, sold by all druggists, costs 25 cents.
New York city aldermen now perform marriage ceremonies at no cost tempting maidens seeking a quick and inexpensive wedding. The tax funded service contrasts with typical fees and could influence social plans across boroughs.
A report describes massive Pacific log rafts that surpass Atlantic liners in length. One raft 750 feet long carries 600,000 feet of piling and 8,000,000 feet of lumber once milled, with chains weighing 120 tons and a draft of 21 2 feet.
In a Concord Patriot Penacook item, Dudley L. Smith a Gettysburg veteran born 62 years ago starts sawing hardwood at 6 am and completes a cord by 5 pm. Samuel G. Sanborn a retired blacksmith bets he cannot, while Jasper Brown hosts the three men in a local shop, with J. C. Farrand considering hire for his wood yard.
The illustration labels four continents with small squares each a quarter mile square and containing dots for inhabitants. Europe shows twenty five landowners per square, Asia twelve, Africa four, and America two per square quarter mile.
The Highland railway, incorporated in 1856 and opened in 1858, stands unmatched in British railway history for passenger safety. In 36 years no passenger was killed until 1894, and since then only one passenger fatality has occurred despite millions of travelers.
Two German doctors study bearded women, noting that among 1000 sane females 200 show beards with varying prominence. Of 1000 insane women examined 56 have well grown beards and 481 have slight beards or stubble.
Mr Baumgartner of Newburyhert watched his live duck decoys in the river when a large white Arctic owl swooped on a decoy. He fired twice and killed the owl which had a six foot wingspan.
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