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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1883
Page
4
In a mixed home section, readers are offered practical household hints. Topics include a refined pudding recipe with cream and salt, ear care with lukewarm syringing, borers in plants and how to cut out and burn affected wood, a recipe for custard baked in buttered batter, and ideas for adjusting a high chair as a child grows.
A dense discussion on butter composition, origins of fats, and the roles of animal and vegetable sources. It cites experts like Arnold Caldwell Voevikar, arguing butter fats derive mainly from vegetable matter with certain animal-origin elements, and notes how feed and breeds influence flavor, color, and texture.
A Detroit Free Press reprint argues that true charity begins at home and criticizes public funds for paupers. The speaker denounces aid to able-bodied or idle recipients, urges private relief for the needy, and condemns misdirected philanthropy and welfare as enabling vice.
Dr John Stainer of St Pauls London praises American organs by preparing an instruction book for Mason Hamlin organs It will be re published in the US by Dison Co Mason Hamlin has earned praise from London Its organs will be used at Westminster Abbey on dates this month with full orchestra and choirs The same instruments recently featured by the Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn and scheduled for Philadelphia with Mr Thomas directing
A wagon with a calf in a cage drives morning markets led by a farmer’s wife. A butcher questions the calf’s breed, guessing Ayrshire or Durham, while the seller cites a chaotic family past to justify a four dollar price.
A Philadelphia bomb maker boasts he has built more infernal machines than any in the country. In six weeks he created four explosives and sold them in New York, each capable of delivering 80 pounds of gunpowder energy. He also says he made two burning devices set for hours, with ignition reaching the intensity of a thousand jets. He claims no knowledge of buyers' intended use and likens himself to a gunsmith, insisting he builds for those who want them, not for murder.
A Lancaster man owns Benjamin Franklin’s old bull’s eye watch and has refused large bids including a New York firm’s offer of 1000 dollars yearly for ten years for repairs. The text also contains garbled fragments mentioning Pittsburgh and an unclear interview in America with unrelated names.
An interview with Mrs. Wing, a Boston physician with twenty two years in practice, details her early study, overcoming gender barriers, and her approach to female health. She discusses medical training, her father Professor J C Wood, and a remedy she uses Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, praising its results while noting imitation products.
An editorial notices The Charles A Vogeler Co of Baltimore launching a new venture with Hunt's Remedy promotion. The piece touts their St Jacobs Family Calendar and Health and Humor book, plus endorsements from readers and physicians, praising the product and its distribution.
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