Monday, June 30, 2014

Why Is It?

Clark County has always been considered one of the healthiest localities in the state; in fact, the healthiest in the West.  In by-gone days, doctors could not make a living by the practice of medicine here; no one needed medical advice. – They had, in many cases to lay aside th[eir] pill bags and turn their attention [missing text] other direction in order to save [missing text] from want.  But how is it [missing text]ime? Do we not need [missing text] disease prevalent to a [missing text].  We hear, complaints [missing text]flicted with sore [missing text]tism – has had [missing text] another has [missing text]ced by goo[missing text] other [missing text]

– Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, Saturday, October 17, 1862, p. 1.  This page of the newspaper was torn diagonally from the lower left to the upper right the rest of the article is missing, and since this was a local article I am not able to reconstruct it using any other sources.

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