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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1886
Page
4
A quirky piece blends farm advice on pasture rotation with comic domestic cooking guidance. It extols dividing pasture for better forage and milk, then shifts to satirical instructions on selecting and cooking a husband, using playful, withering comparisons and improbably culinary metaphors.
Concise notes on peach tree failures identify five main causes. First, soil conditions that retain water around roots either topsoil or subsoil. Second, excessive fertility in young trees. Third, severe annual pruning that dwarfs trees. Fourth, overbearing that exhausts vitality. Fifth, deficient and improper cultivation.
The New York Tribune discusses strict egg handling for hatching. It urges immediate collection of laid eggs to prevent premature embryo development, recommends rejecting misshapen shells, and suggests setting eggs quickly for higher hatch certainty. It notes turning eggs daily keeps the yolk centered to preserve germinating power.
Reed a Winchester druggist reports Mrs Louisa Wike of Bartonia Randolph Co Indiana was dying of consumption. After using Dr Kings New Discovery she walked six miles to town in six months and now is much improved and no longer uses it. Free trial bottles at Hallinan,iam rick & Co’s Drug Store.
An old gentleman was seen nailing four notices to a fence on the south side of Austin Avenue. A passerby urged posting the notices for the public to read, prompting speculation about the message and its purpose.
A fragment describes a plan where Mr Arnold donated his evaporator invention to an association in Alliance Ohio. The goal is to raise funds via stamps sent to the Secretary to cover return postage. The drive targets aiding the producing classes by marketing the fruit crop profitably.
A physician notes home remedies for bruised limbs, poison ivy cures, buckwheat diets for diabetes, and simple dental reliefs. Quicklime wash for poison, buckwheat diet relief for stomach and eye pain, hot baths for nervous fatigue, hot dry hydrogen peroxide? no. Instead, hot channell applied to neck for jumping toothache, camphor or clove oil cotton for toothache from decay, diet care for bowels, and extraction when a tooth is too decayed.
The piece argues low ceilings ventilate more evenly than high ceilings with window tops. It says air movement reduces stagnant upper-layer pollution and lowers heating costs. A Springfield Union sentiment about educating girls to be wives is quoted as a call to train men as good husbands and fathers.
A West story tells of an iron manufacturer who hanged himself in his workroom. After coworkers paused their tasks to attempt resuscitation, they returned next day to find the boss had docked them for the time spent trying to save his life.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve touted as the best for cuts bruises sores ulcers and skin eruptions and claimed to cure piles with no pay required if not satisfied. It guarantees perfect satisfaction or money refunded and is sold by Hallum Hamrick & Co.
Fragmentary OCR text describes how to give medicine to a horse by inserting a bottle into the mouth and rubbing the nose to encourage swallowing, noting the liquid runs into the throat and the horse will swallow. The passage is incomplete and lacks full context or clear outcome.
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