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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1888
Page
4
Agricultural column offers practical tips for plowmen and housewives. It emphasizes training calves to lead, choosing windmills with sufficient power, and cautious use of salt in gardens to avoid harming young plants. Additional notes cover straw onion bed care, manure practice, and poultry hygiene.
A Rural New Yorker note discusses early feeding of piglets from a young sow to favor a small, thrifty litter, and cautions breeding timing for heifers. It urges Jersey cows for early breeding and dairy vigor. It also covers pig form choosing, noting growth and structural balance over cosmetic features.
The text advises choosing flat-sided, short-legged hogs as easy keepers and quieter animals while warning against long-legged hogs that roam for food. It emphasizes using a male for targeted improvement, ensuring the desired trait is boosted without overdeveloping another part that could spoil overall quality.
Instructions by Eva M. Niles describe dissolving soap in hot water with ammonia to form a rich suds for soaking flannels. Avoid rubbing on fabric, use gentle pincer motions, hot rinses, bluing, and careful wringing by hand. For shawls, use a thin soap lather, rinse, stretch, and pin to square sheets to keep fringe straight.
Cleaning and polishing a stove requires weekly care and daily touch ups. Use soap suds for grease, wear gloves, and choose gentle polishing methods to avoid dust and damage while preserving a bright finish.
The piece discusses winter bee care including colony warmth, food checks, and feeding honey or sugar syrup to prevent losses. It presents experiences from J M Clark of Hillsdale Michigan with 23 to 43 colonies, harvest yields, and a humorous water cure anecdote.
A compilation of vintage kitchen directions for foods like Rice Cakes Small Potatoes and Jenny Lind Cake. It outlines batter proportions ingredients and cooking steps for fried parasnips muffins and other baked goods with notes on technique and oven temperatures.
A traditional pastry method boils water and butter then adds flour to form a dough. Eggs are folded in, puffs are baked twenty five minutes, then filled with whipped cream and iced.
The wife of M Sadi Carnot emerges as a keen social force. She guides her husband’s prominence, attends official functions, and reads English fiction broadly. Fluent in English, she admires George Eliot while enjoying Miss Braddon and Ouida, and her father Dupont White translated Stuart Mill into French.
The dahlia originated in Mexico and spread to Europe after seeds were sent by Humboldt. Abbe Cavanilles named it after Prof Dab of Stockholm, and by 1804 the cultivated plant had become the flower widely grown today. Also notes mention lemon juice enhancing fish flavor and varnishing Ormcloath to keep bright.
A broad critique traces evolving economic power from Pittsburgh to Birmingham, notes grain and pork shifts to the West, and cites rising U S health awareness. It urges attention to kidney diseases linked to consumption and endorses Warner’s safe cure as a preventive measure. A mother recalls kerosene treatment aiding her diphtheria sick child.
The article notes dramatic progress in surgery with pneumotony where diseased lung tissue is removed. Though occasionally successful, the procedure carries high risks and low recovery chances. It advises using Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as the safer early treatment to arrest the disease and heal the lungs.
A Spanish student notes that lawful people walk with a longer right pace and narrower right base, thieves show a wide base with long steps, and murderers have a less obtuse angle of foot axis but marked footprints. A judge quips about love and a gambler, while a breakup scene ends with a catarrh remedy curing him.
An open letter from Rey J Roberts and Pastor Kirst M E Church Fremont Michigan praises Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup and Plasters for Maud, noting swelling pain relief, indigestion cleansing, and ongoing use toward full recovery. Dated October 26 1887, it lauds the remedies as of great merit.
An advertisement touts Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a trusted remedy for female functional disorders and painful conditions. It claims periodical pains internal inflammation and ulceration yield to its healing powers and guarantees satisfaction or money back printed on the bottle-wrapper.
F Marion Crawford recalls Oscar Wilde visiting his study and confessing deep sadness. Wilde laments that half the world denies God while the other half denies him, a remark underscoring his troubled view of belief and reception.
A long ad filled with quack cures claims Brown's Broncatan Trocues and Prickly Ash Bitters cure coughs and liver troubles while denouncing harmful medicines. It promotes a free two-bottle offer for consumption cures from T A Slocum M C of New York, asserting dramatic health improvements and urging readers to send addresses for samples.
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