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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1892
Page
3
A fragmented verse meditation from Youths Companion on how life joins all beings and crafts a single web of wind and sea. It imagines wings, sails, and the human dream spanning oceans from Venice to the Arctic, tying nature and humanity in one vast circle.
A mother loses her husband to debt on a failing farm. Son Fred, sixteen, proposes staying, pay debts with careful sales, and manage the farm. After a tough year, he pays off the mortgage and keeps the family housed, schooling reduced to winter study. Five years later the mortgage is gone and the farm prospers.
Instruction on mixing brick and adobe to build durable walls at reduced cost. Eight courses of brick backed by six of adobes are tied with strap iron for stability. Also notes on wall dimensions, tar and mortar options, and benefits like moisture resistance and warmth.
A collage of 19th century cooking and household notes covers tenderizing meat with soda, recipes for cookies and puddings, gruel, gravy, wafers, chocolate cake, and an Apple Pudding. It also includes guidance on kalsomining walls, brushes, and the ancient cubit with Roman and Hebrew measures.
Prominent Chicago physician Dr J C Spray discusses kidney disease as a root cause of many mental and physical illnesses, noting asylum overflows linked to kidney failure. He endorses Warner's Safe Cure as effective in decipient Bright's disease and urges kidney health to reduce hospitalizations. The piece interweaves other brief items from The English People and society notes.
A dense ad page fragment touts Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward and testimonials, mentioning West & Truax Druggists and To m Kinnan surfaces. It also promotes various tonics and patent medicines, praising Dr Pierce's pills as safe, effective laxatives with guaranteed satisfaction and money-back terms.
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