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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1872
Page
3
Guidance from the American Agriculturist urges fostering interest in farming among youths, sharing plans and successes, encouraging reading of agricultural books, and improving home life with light, cleanliness, and supportive advice. It also provides practical remedies for stains stings bunions and meat tenderizing with brandy, alongside furniture care tips.
A farmer’s guide to grafting wax outlines its value for pruning wounds and bark repairs. It offers a recipe using tallow beeswax and resin, with notes on alternative amounts. The wax also seals bottle corks and preserves jars, remaining workable when melted and applied.
The article notes green food is essential for penned fowls and a daily supply is crucial for health. It cites turf brought daily for several hens or cut grass turned into green chaff as substitutes, sharing a reader experience of maintaining birds in a small yard with grass pieces and child labor to provide fresh grass.
A Rural New Yorker correspondent asserts a steel tooth rake outdoes the hoe in most garden rows of peas beets onions and parsnips. He recalls a neighbor who proved it by using a hoe for fewer rows and longer time. The writer favors the small iron rake and the Dutch scutche hoe as best garden tools.
A reader from Macon Missouri describes early season control of potato beetles on Early Rose. He reports daily patch visits, smashing each beetle with sticks to prevent eggs and future generations, noting past success when done before egg laying.
Advice notes horses need bright well ventilated stables to avoid blindness. It also suggests a kitchen tip: if potatoes turn watery, add a lime sized like a hen’s egg to the pot.
A collage notes famous figures who smoked and offered rules for smoking behavior. It also recounts two New York youths, 15 and 16, who escaped from the Tombs by shredding blankets into a line, climbing to the roof, and slipping to Elm Street, naked, seen by a passerby.
Paul Bagley reports a remarkable reading feat within two years. He read the Old Testament through one and a half times in Hebrew and completed versions in Greek Latin and Syriac. He also studied the New Testament in Latin Greek and Syriac.
Fanny Howell in Scribner's Monthly details crafty customs busts on Inman steamers to New York. Descriptions cover Cuban, English, French, and American women concealing lace, shawls, collars, jewels, watches, silk, and other valuables in petticoats, muff covers, and undergarments, with humorous anecdotes of unpacking and surprise.
The New York Sun reports Miss Christine Nilsson plans to marry M. Auguste Rouzaud, a Paris stock broker, in late July. The couple met in Paris seven years ago and plan a Switzerland honeymoon before Nilsson returns to sing in Russia in September. Dr. Fordyce Barker will attend as her New York friend representative.
An 19th century remedy guide outlines refreshing summer beverages. It covers ice water sparingly, lemon lemonade methods, citric acid substitutes, cherry Perry, shrub drinks, and fruit ices. It also notes using pounded ice with berries and folding beaten egg whites into fruit ice for a foamy freezer result.
Victor Emanuel deemed invalid with rheumatism. Jefferson’s sight restoration seen as certain. Fanny Ells ler, morganatic wife of Portugal’s king father, enjoying Paris summer. James Russery Lovett to tour Europe for two years. Scuvier Conax delivers at Kalama zoo on July 4. Strauss nets 12000 dollars for Boston Jubilee. foreign bands paid five dollars daily plus expenses. Isaac Corsett visits Baltimore cemetery and dies hours later. Boone’s sister, 95, in Caldwell NC. Thirteen leading dailies represented at Boston Jubilee by women. Cyrus McCormick of Chicago builds world’s largest telescope for Washington and Lee University. New Georgia paper The Cat nicknamed The Cat o’ nine tails for serials. Local man large swap joke over brewer wife for beer barrel. James Mace allegedly pounded by San Francisco druggist’s clerk. Knight of the mortar proves brick. Mace dismayed. Michigan State University grants LL.D. to Benson J. Lossing.
In Wheatland Missouri a young man named Moore sought a quinine cure and drank a bitter mixture of Peruvian bark dogweed and whisky given by the county physician. Moore died and doctors Redfield and Barnes who took doses of the same bitter mixture also died after severe illness. Redfield fell ill at home and died within minutes. Barnes collapsed near his horse and died at night.
James O Neill longtime New York official dies after post mortem shows death from a rare cause. He ate raw oysters late Friday and soon after suffered cholera morbus, dying within two hours. A swallowed oyster shell perforated his intestine releasing contents and causing death.
The article explains biliousness and liver disease with symptoms such as jaundice and right side pain. It emphasizes the liver as the body’s largest gland and its role in bile production and cleansing. Climate changes and impure air can impair liver function, leading to diarrhea, dysentery, fevers, and prostration, and it mentions California Winnear Brewers as a remedy.
Beardshear of Dayton area suffers leg wound after stepping on a barrel-hoop mistaken for a rattlesnake. She had carried wood from the shed to the kitchen and, in absence of whisky, drank alcohol to counter a poison. Husband, near in the field, investigated scream and found hoop lodged in her leg.
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy for bronchial affections and chronic lung diseases claiming it offers unparalleled results. The copy emphasizes unique effectiveness and urges readers to try the product.
A varnish recipe describes dissolving 9 grains of sandarac and 20 grains of mastic in two ounces of washed methylated ether, then adding benzine in small portions until the mix dries with the correct grain. The benzine amount ranges from a half ounce to two ounces depending on quality, with medium quality giving best results.
The Elmwood Collar with folded edges and perspiration proof finish is advertised as staying cleaner longer and more economical than low priced rivals. Also featured are IMPERIAL GIN by Hollany Process and Merchant's Gargling Oil praised for broad usefulness, with endorsements from Com. H. Suvurenor Co. in Chicago and N. Y. Independent.
Elastic Trusses claim superior support and no suffering with rupture. The Elastic Truss Co. advertises 683 Broadway New York for descriptive circulars. In New Orleans historical note mentions Abeille de la Louisiane becoming entirely French, reflecting shift in language and influence.
Purist cod liver oil made by Hazagp Caswett Co. claims superior purity and flavor. The ad promotes Parsons' Purgative Pills for bowel regulation and Halford Leicestershire Table Sauce for meat occasions, with Dooley's Yeast Powder for baking. Johnson's Anodyne Liniment is advised for facial ague and tooth pain.
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