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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1899
Page
7
Fragmentary notes describe a president’s official tour with travel to sleep comforts and a return journey. A secretary estimates costs to be paid and distributed among railway workers, with tributes noted as Tit Dits.
An old advertisement touts God’s Sarsaparilla as a cure for indigestion and dyspepsia. It promises relief today and invites readers to tell friends to try the remedy, emphasizing its health benefits.
The text blends an 1860s era ad for Sarsaparilla and foot ease with a fragmentary report on an annual Confederate meeting in Arkansas and a stray discussion about Tom Reed. It also includes a brief travel aside about the Gibraltar area and a pantry recipe vignette.
Nutritious stews use less water and longer slow cooking to tenderize cheaper meat parts such as shin, pitchbone, flank, neck, and shoulder with bones for richer broth. Fowls and tougher cuts of mutton lamb and veal suit stews, per Sallie Joy White. George Knox, who died in London, called himself the last Rostercian seeker of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life.
The article notes Burlingame will relocate to a new Menlo Park home in San Mateo County and reopen January 1, 1899. Ira G. Ivitt, Ph.D. of Menlo Park is listed. It discusses surging electrical power transmission growth, citing horsepower milestones from 1892 to 1898 and a 75,000 HP jump in 1896. It also mentions a novel device for shoe hardware to adapt to ground freezes.
A farmer described a portable slaughter aid built from 2x4 hardwoods and planks with a pulley system to aid butchering. A New England Homestead correspondent shares a humane method to relieve cattle choking by feeling the throat and removing the obstruction, warning against pushing objects down the throat.
Practical Partner explains egg production costs at about 6 cents per dozen food cost and half a cent per egg, stressing conversion efficiency, labor estimates, and how market value links to soil nutrients. It covers cattle toggle cures, tanning skins, orchard mulching, butter weight records, and best feeding practices for hogs, sheep, and stock.
A historic note describes a ladder frame manger hinged at ends to tip up for adding hay and let down to prevent feed waste. The device protects stock from injury and reduces loss by trampling. For cattle, crossbolts should be strong and closely spaced to prevent entry.
Letters praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sonative Wash for womb and bladder symptoms, backache, and dizziness with claims of cures after months of use. Includes unrelated notes on elephant trunk muscle counts, St Jacobs Oil for sprains, and Piso's Cure for consumption. Concludes with a social vignette and aged questions.
A triggered warning notes that U S soldiers stationed in Hawaii could contract leprosy and bring it back home. It claims Hostetter s Stormagh Dittters cures a range of illnesses and cites malaria fever and ague as targets. It also mentions pineapples growing best in eastern Cuba and low capital needed for cultivation.
The polar fox shifts from black in summer to white in winter, blending with snowy surroundings as it moves across the landscape.
A brief note describes sciatica flare ups in damp autumn nights and mornings and claims St. Jacobs Oil provides relief. It advertises wind mills pumps tanks plows wagons bells boilers engines and machinery from Join Poolek at Morrison street Portland Oregon. It mentions rabbit hair products in Russia made into durable bowls dishes and plates with leatherlike appearance.
An advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure deafness caused by catarrh and offers $1000 for a cure. It also notes Mt Sangay as the most active volcano, 17,199 feet high in the Andes, erupting since 1728 with explosions heard as far as Quito.
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