Figs and home hints from a farm and garden column
A variety of practical notes for rural households covers quick paint cleanup using soapsuds and whiting, fig cultivation in Arkansas led by G M Wilson, frying beef with onions and butter, cabbage and potato relishes, and corn on the ear digestion. It offers plant protection tips, freckle remedy, a gutta percha shellac cement method, tree height via shadow, and a fig pie recipe with meringue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
G. M. Wilson
Drew County
Silk Dinner Cards Imitate Crackers At City Dinner
At a recent city dinner party guests used silk cracker cards that looked like pale silk crackers filled with down and sachet powder. The edges were browned and the stamp impression copied by stitching. The center bore the guest’s name, not the manufacturer’s, creating a lifelike but non edible place setting.
Remembering Her Lover with a For tune
John F. Neuber son of Rev J G Neuber of Philadelphia has come into a fortune under romantic circumstances. He met Miss Mabel A. Kennedy aged fifteen, pledged to marry after he could support a wife. After her death in 1879 her uncle informed Neuber she left him 10 000. the rest of her 70 000 went to siblings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F. Neuber
J. G. Neuber
Philadelphia
Neuber
C. A. Zoos
New York
N. Y
Herdic Coaches Struggle as Streets Deteriorate
The New Orleans Picayune notes coaches find it hard to get along due to terrible streets. Milk carts risk damage or going out of business amid the poor road conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Picayune
Tony Pastor In Trouble With St Jacobs Oil
Tony Pastor of New York tours the Union cities as a leading vocalist and theater owner. The article notes his use of St Jacobs Oil to treat rheumatic pains and describes its popularity among his troupe, claiming managers would be in trouble without it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tony Pastor
New York
United States
Broadway
New York City
Cabner
Walnut Street Theater
Philadelphia
Pastor
Bingham House
St. Jacobs
St. Jacobs Oil
Sand Wash Method for Soft Hands from Household Guide
A dated household tip recommends softening rough hands by washing in a half full basin of fine white sand and hot soapy water. Rinse with warm soap lather, dry and rub with dry bran or corn meal, then finish with cold cream. Use daily and remove stains with acid first.
Plaque Buy Sparks Bargain Gone Wrong
A Bangor Commercial joke piece recalls an old gentleman paying fifteen dollars for a two dollar plaque after a girl’s shop window quip. A separate quip jokes about sneezing in church with cayenne pepper to disrupt the service and loosen teeth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Main Street
Bangor
Picked Musicians Confront Tune At Concert
The review cites a band labeled picked musicians torturing a tune at a recent concert. The remark likens their selection to being picked before ripe. Ex mayor Gregory jokes about cures from St Jacobs Oil bought for rheumatism. Deserters captured. army increases by fifteen percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones
Gregory
St. Jacobs Oil
Madison
Wis
Daily Democrat
Shermanet
Burlington Hawkeye
The Golden Medical Discovery Cures Consumption Says Editor
A newspaper reader offers a hopeful message about consumption being curable and cites Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy that has helped patients once deemed incurable. The note urges neighbors to share the comfort with mothers facing losing a child to the disease.
Truthful Claims of Patent Remedies Headline
An old newspaper notice touts Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery as cures for female weakness and lung diseases. It cites medical journals and physicians endorsing Allen’s Lung Balm for consumption and related illnesses, urging readers to buy from druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
Buffalo, N. Y
Bn Allen
Dipntueria Kina Product Ad Promotes Towne Formula
The advertisement urges doctors to use Dr. L. KE Towne's Dirumeria Kina for Dipntueria and claims a great pre ventive and cork. Morrison, Plummer & Co. Chicago are general agents selling it through druggists. It touts a butter colored composition with no acid or alkali and harmless as butter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. E. Ransom
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Chicago
East Liberty
Deadwood
San Francisco Post
Boston
Buletin
Richardson
Metuco
Price
Oliver Ditson & CO
Lyon & Healy
DR. Dye
Belt CO
Marshall, Mich
Seeds Rel
Post
Demany
S. R
H, Shumway
Rockford
P.O
R.T. A. Slocum
Pearl St
Ted
IIL
R. Scuiffman
St. Paul
Minn
Esample ‘Rea
Jay Bronson
Detroit
Mich
Geo.SanpeRgsuon & Co
Honesdale
Wakefield
Eredad Oc
C. Wakefield & Co
Bloomington
Parsons
Raa Jonxson & Co
Mass
Bangor, Me
G.W. BC
RE Zara
Imperial
R&s
Bland & CO
Peek En Meberny St
Chicago, Ill
Marty
Ricamont
Journal of Health
8. A. Richmond
London Phyase
F Vom
Ab. Meserole
London
P. O
John St
United Stats
Agenta
P. W. Zeigler &Co
KE. Adams St
Charles EB. Hires
Delaware
Oribee
AKIN
Cincinnati, O
Conneaut Copying CO
India
Bend
Conneau Tv Corpyrine Co
Conneaut, O
Aultman & Taylor CO
Phenix Manus Co
W. Adama St
Chicago, DL
Piso
State of
Michigan
Dewrett, Mich
Easay
Lxesuiz Ekentey
M.D
Surgon C
A. BR
Owiens
Jun
Frank
Thomson
Michigan Avenue
Banschee
Centreville
Ind
R. B. Thrapp
Tallula, US
True &Co
Augusta
Rea Addi
H. Halsett&Co
Portland
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