06 Oct 1883
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1883
Page
1
A jumble of sale prices for black fabrics from $0.25 to $2.50 per yard mentions silks and dress goods, with notes of half-price items and a brief excerpt of verse and fiction referencing a character named Mary Stanley Gibson and a dramatic scene between Alicia Starr and Grosvenor Strong. The piece shifts to a satirical club scene about economizing and ends with several practical recipes for salads eggs and fricaseed chicken.
A sale notice markets numerous women items including 250 pairs and 172 pairs of shoes with varied styles and prices, devises watch for daily lot announcements, and promotes new Ash Suite bedroom furniture at $25 with limited daily production. Also describes all wool first fall robes and wrapper patterns priced around $2.00 to $25.00 with exotic fabrics and designs.
A dog resting in shade is challenged by a bull to swap spots. The dog refuses to gamble, asserting right of prior occupancy. The bull looks slyly, then proposes Toss up for it. The dog declines and walks away, embracing virtue as its own reward.
A sleek faced man asks the price of a leg of mutton. The knight of the cleaver offers a reply and the stranger grabs the meat and darting off declares the charge is on. A New York club pays $3,000 for a pitcher in a china craze. A Colorado town named Wagonwheel arrives and may prosper if residents stay patient. Jenkins quips I always call her my dear wife and means it as bills arrive.
Clean the poultry houses with whitewash inside and out and treat the interior with carbolic acid or sulphur to deter vermin. Restore plank floors with fresh earth, dig dirt floors, wash windows, and keep roosts cleaned with kerosene weekly. Use nest boxes with whitewash and clean litter treated with sulphur or tobacco. For milk odors, add saltpeter to the cow’s feed or a teaspoonful of its solution per gallon of milk to neutralize odors, noting it may dull flavor but preserve color.
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