Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Cholera’s Cure


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What was one of the pioneers remedy thought to cure cholera?


a.      A mixture of molasses and tree bark

b.      Sage brush

c.       A mixture of alcohol and sage brush

d.      Peppermint


Yesterday’s answer


a.       Invited the officer in for dinner


Two years after John’s birth came another family landmark. At the height of federal prosecution for unlawful cohabitation, William was indicted by a grand jury in September 1884, convicted in December, and sentenced to six month’s   incarceration in the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma. Apparently, the territorial marshal gave William ample notice of his intention to arrest him, and William could have easily disappeared into the “underground,” as many did. However, he made a different decision, greeting the marshal and asking him in to dinner. “I felt so bad I left the room [and] would not see him, “ recorded the usually hospitable Lucy.” After dinner he [the marshal] went back to Holebrook”, leaving William to follow on his own. William traveled the thirty miles to Holbrook in time to board the train for Prescott in the marshal’s company.


David F. Boone, “ ‘As Bad As I Hated To Come’: Lucy Hannah White Flake in Arizona, Journal of Mormon History, Vol. 38, No. 4, Fall 2012, 74.

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