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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1887
Page
4
A humorous guide from a Boston Transcript piece advising women how to shop shrewdly and cheekily. It mocks consumer bargaining at meat and produce counters, suggesting tactics like sampling, exclamations, and clever dodges to minimize costs. It closes with a cheeky note on dining well without paying.
Readable fragments cover recipes and household advice. The text mentions cooking celery to treat rheumatism and serving it on toast, a brown bread recipe with Indian meal rye and graham flour, pumpkin sauce with oil, apple storage guidance, and decoration notes for cushions. Includes references to Boston Mulletin and Good Housekeeping.
Dr Leonard Corning presented a method for neuralgia cure using cocaine injected into the skin near affected nerves. A needle device creates painless punctures, a cocaine-saturated sponge delivers drug under a galvanic current, then gauze and banding localize the area to halt capillary flow and spread the remedy.
An anonymous stock owner offers practical cautions on common horse ailments. Remedies include sheep dip for mange, creosote mixtures for sores, salves and washing with custard soup, and cautions on wound care. Advice covers warts, horn growth, wolf teeth affecting vision, and reducing shying with driving aids. A San Francisco Chronicle note adds a mining town incident with a wild boar attacking a clerk’s leg.
A farmer laments cows as ungrateful pets while recounting a tale of a cow kicking him and exposing his dislike for livestock. A hog slaughter anecdote contrasts affection for hogs with cows, followed by a chaotic scene with a ram and a broken morning routine. The piece shifts to an Australian fruit of harvest machinery award and field trials. It ends with stray humor about pumice stones and a French witness quip, reflecting rural life and oddities of the era.
A mix of domestic guidance on flexible washing and housework scheduling, avoiding rigid set days, plus short anecdotes from American Agriculturist and N. &. Farmer. It also recounts Andress Wakeman’s hunting mishap, a seed sprouting test, and a note on using sheep to control sorrel, all drawn from Cleveland Leader and other 19th century sources.
The Harvard Medical School students scold female Miss Annie Copeland of Bridgewater for attending a fracture case. A fifty year old patient’s leg was found to be a damaged wooden leg, repaired with hammer and nails for twenty five dollars, with collection enforced by a cow Nevensen. References to cures and remedies follow in a garbled ad-like cluster including St Jacobs Oil and Red Star Cough Cure, with scattered names and locations, ending with druggists selling remedies.
A recent addition to a Bowery museum in New York reveals a highly unusual skeleton, claimed to be found in a cave near Bornes in South America. The fossil shows features resembling a cross between a monkey and a man, with distinctive head and limb proportions.
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