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Newspaper
Sumner Press
Location
Sumner, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1902
Page
4
An assortment of curiosities discusses crocodile stomach stones used for aging and a German proposal to grade wives by social rank. It also recounts a humorous tale of Pope Leo X and a doctor named Lappont who delivers a biting rebuke with mock ceremonial powder.
Obscure historical clipping highlights Lt. Col. E83 and various ranks tied to a British officer noted for Ashanti and Egyptian campaigns plus a controversial Philadelphia workhouse policy. The text criticizes public decorum at Cramp’s yards and urban labor discipline, suggesting a broader social critique of wartime and city life.
Washington reports Dr. Talmage urges Christians to make religion a constant practice not just on Sundays. He cites daily talk of faith, honest work, and gratitude, urging believers to apply Christ's teaching in small annoyances and common tasks, turning every moment into service to God.
The text traces the early church between AD 7 and the Acts era, noting growth in numbers and spiritual depth. It explains the dispute over distribution to widows, the selection of seven deacons led by Stephen and Philip, and the ensuing expansion of the church’s work and influence. Stephen’s rise from table server to preacher, worker of miracles, and martyr is highlighted, along with attempts to stop his ministry through argument and false charges before the Sanhedrin.
A Quebec paper estimates that the United States and Canada spend about 15 million dollars annually on golf. The figure covers clubhouses maintenance wages of caddies and staff golfing attire clubs balls and all related expenses across courses.
A fragmented remark on discipline and ethics compares reading ability, debt, and behavior. It riffs on hypocrisy and advice, concluding with a vague exhortation to persevere. The item reads as a stray philosophical aside with several garbled phrases and impairments.
The article discusses diet for consumptives stressing uricemia conflict, advises specific foods and enzymes, notes Fernandina Florida as the world’s largest phosphates ship point with annual shipments rising to 283000 tons and foreign destinations. It also mentions Defiance starch, cheap paper making in Canada, Piso’s Cure, the walking fish of Catalina Channel, kidney cures, and seaweed glass substitutes.
An 1880s advertisement claims deafness stems from inflamed mucus of the Eustachian tube and describes focus remedies. It offers one hundred dollar rewards for catarrh related cures and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Faculty Pills with sales details and a quip about gallery gods.
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