
Moab, Utah
On
May 14, 1890 the residence of Moab, Utah tried to officially change the name of
Moab, why?
A)
They felt it wasn’t descriptive enough of their surroundings
B)
They didn’t appreciate the fact that Moab is a name of a nation
in the bible that were idolaters
C)
They wanted to rename their town New Nauvoo
D)
They wanted to rename their town Kirtland
Yesterday’s answer:
(B)
Used as poultices for burning eyes
"One
day I had to leave my children alone while I planned to go to Snowflake on
business. On the way a fearful feeling about the children's safety took hold of
me. I told the man in whose wagon I was riding, that I'd have to go back. Our
place was about a mile out of Taylor. Before I reached home, I heard an awful
screaming. I hurried fast, resulting in a fall into a ditch that almost stunned
me. Oh! what a sight met my eyes inside the house. Victoria told me about it
afterwards. She had been curious about a can that I had put on top of the
cupboard. She and David piled up boxes, and she reached up and pulled the
cayenne down into the eyes of all three, George had also creeped over there.
The cayenne went into their eyes, noses, and throats and nearly sent them
crazy--almost strangled them to death. I hurried and bathed their eyes with
milk and sugar, then applied mashed apple poultices, which helped. But their
eyes were badly swollen and it was a long time before they got over this."
History
of Martha M. Hancock; http//www.boap.org/
Additional
interesting reading:
History of Martha M. Hancock; http//www.boap.org/
The journal of Patty Sessions on March 24th, 1847 list various home remedies including the following for bowel complaint:
Take one tea spoonful of rhubarb one forth corbnet soda one table spoonful brandy one tea spoonful peppermint essence half tea cup ful warm water take a table spoonful once an hour until it operates.
The Diaries of
Perrigrine Sessions, comp. Earl T. Sessions (Bountiful, Utah: Carr Printing Co.,
1967).
The following from
the journal of Nancy Abigail Clement Williams:
One Thursday evening after school we were all out playing stink base for
exercise. I got to chasing my cousin (Darius Sanders) and was determined to
catch him. I run so hard that I had to sit down and rest. I turned faint and
dizzy and had to go in and went to bed. I would chill awhile, then nearly burn
up with fever all night. In the morning I had a high fever. As soon as the drug
store was opened, my cousin got me salts and quinnene, which I took, but threw
it up as fast as they gave it to me. Lizzie bathed and soaked my feet, did all
she could for me.
Kenneth W. Godfrey, Audrey M. Godfrey, and
Jill Mulvay Derr, Women’s Voices: An
Untold History of The Latter-day Saints 1830-1900 (Salt Lake City: Deseret
Book Company, 1982), 363.
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