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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1879
Page
4
A detailed account contrasts old and new tobacco farming methods, urging deep winter plowing, heavy manuring, and careful hill planting. It argues modern lighter cultivation yields lower quality tobacco and stresses rest, clearing, and fertilizing lands to restore fiber, color, and leaf strength.
A domestic guidance piece urges husbands to treat wives with respect and kindness after marriage. It cautions against gruff behavior, meddling in household affairs, neglecting home duties, and extravagant outings. It also notes counterfeit silver dollars and offers moral reflections from Seneca and a proverb about testing character.
The advertisement describes symptoms of worm infestation including pale face, eye issues, foul breath, abdominal pain, feverish and irritable temper. It promotes Dr C McLane's Vermifuge as a safe cure that does not contain mercury and asserts it will cure the condition in infants.
A Philistine visiting a church sees the minister drawing Shakespeare and the minister's wife with furs, the daughter at the piano, the deacon, the horse and carriage, and the sexton with a flour barrel, leaving him oddly confident why the heathen rage. A thrifty father takes his boy to a doctor and jokes that if curing costs less than a funeral, proceed. otherwise the boy may be doomed.
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