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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Times
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1869
Page
4
The piece discusses running from duty, enduring trials, and becoming a stronger Christian. It compares affliction to fire refining gold and urges self reliance over dependence on others, using the oak and open field as metaphors for character formation. It references a Creatch Gazette tone and social guidance.
A verbose farmer’s creed extols small-scale and broad farming aims, belief in soil health through industry and intelligence, and the virtues of good fences, barns, orchards, and a clean household. It emphasizes ownership, fertilizers of effort, and a prosperous, orderly farm life.
Pickles are prepared by washing very small cucumbers, packing them in stone jars, soaking them in a hot salt brine, letting them sit twenty four hours, then sealing with cabbage leaves and vinegar. The method applies to other pickles as well.
A Cleveland periodical shares a home remedy for chicken cholera using calomel in corn meal dough and goat oil as a weekly treatment, plus cleanliness and ashes. It also notes experiments with tea vine leaves distilled into brandy like liquor and a sensational snake charming tale ending in death.
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