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Newspaper
Weekly Bulletin
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1874
Page
2
A Congregationalist critique argues that a feverish devotion to money destroys leisure and inner growth. Wealth pursuit empties the heart, corrupts reform, and only rest or a financial reversal can heal. The piece envisions wealth’s fall, urging contemplation, repose, and higher purpose beyond mere accumulation.
Washington Irving remained a bachelor after the death of Matilda Hoffman in 1809, a tragedy he described with moving detail. He recounts his intense grief, daily bedside vigil, and the intimate moments of her delirium as they surrounded her final hours, shaping his guarded private life thereafter.
A reflective passage on Joseph Irving’s sorrowful attachment to Matilda Hoffman. The text recounts his long struggle with despair after the woman’s death, her praised gentleness, and how their memory shaped his character and artistic temperament. It notes a later anecdote when a granddaughter’s embroidery triggered a deep silence in Irving.
A New York correspondent notes Commodore Vanderbilt as the era’s richest private fortunes with an estimated 40 million in railway holdings and vast control across several lines. It contrasts George Peabody and A. T. Stewart, detailing Vanderbilt’s growth since sixty, Stewart’s real and personal wealth totaling around 80 million, and Stewart’s trade focus versus Vanderbilt’s rail investments.
Practical notes on weed control in fields and fences, chemical preparations for glass work and feather dyeing, starching gauze techniques, and advice on raising a daughter’s talents and pork farming methods. Includes guidance from Court of Germantown Telegraph.
Prof Buckman in England ties typhoid fever to a gelatinous fungoid coating on a pump spout and similar growths in an outlet sewer. He finds spores in drinking water and argues the fever originates from the fungus matter ingested, which ferments in beer and poisons the blood.
A Ohio Farmer article cites experiments showing raw corn fed whole vs cooked meal, ground or boiled, yields higher pork weights and profits when corn is cooked. Five bushels raw produced 47.75 pounds of pork, boiled and fed cold 83.5 pounds. cooked meal increases per-bushel profit to about 1.65. Machinery for cooking is simple and feasible for farmers.
Officials from competing fines have buried the hatchet and agreed to restore old rates, reversing a recent tariff and causing an estimated 150 percent advance on cheap fares to the West.
A fragmented 19th century ad row citing Prince and Co organ five octaves two reed sets in walnut cases with price $125 and a separate, odd notice about a Watervillian who reportedly killed 1 000 000 987 272 potato bugs and cannot tell the truth. Also includes a long testimonial for California Vinegar Bitters praising its cures and asserting universal efficacy across many diseases with minimal alcohol interaction.
A period voice critique notes women present varied symptoms to doctors, urging proper uterine treatment instead of palliation. It cites testimonials for patent medicines and tonics, touts Mustangs Liniment, and warnings about counterfeit products and sensational claims in an era of medical quackery.
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