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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1882
Page
7
The Dixon Sun reports local notices and brief items from Dixon Illinois dated July 19, 1882. Headlines note community events, appointments, and small items of interest to residents gathered from city offices and businesses.
A compilation of home tips including preserving jelly, using ashes for land, fertilizers for plants, washing calico, treating ivy poisoning with ash lye, repairing crockery with white lead, corned beef timing, wart treatment with black soap, preserving colors with alum starch, sulfur as disease preventive, brown bread recipe, potato dishes, glass care and heat handling, a rice pudding dessert, tomato soup, and Virginia pone made from corn meal with eggs.
A health admonition urges careful foot care insisting on thick leather boots with room for circulation, water tight but breathable, and avoiding air tight coverings. It warns against changing from warm to cold footwear and warns of illness from improper shoe transitions and ill fitting fashion.
A printed guide offers simple nourishment for ill patients. It details oatmeal gruel with water rinses and milk and salt, corn meal and flour gruels, egg enrichments, barley gruel, and a beefsteak sandwich as a tempting finger food.
A quick kitchen note describes cooking a filling, seasoning with salt and pepper, spreading between buttered bread, and cutting into small diamond shapes for serving.
The piece explains biliousness as a stomach issue from overeating and spicy foods, worsened by spring heat. It advises stomach rest via brief fasting, a proper diet, and warns against continued abuse of the organ. It also mentions antiseptic ideas and suggests copperas use in water and feed to neutralize stomach gases and purify blood.
There are many opinions on chicken cholera and its cure. Cholera in chickens mirrors human cholera, arising from unwholesome surroundings and poor air. The best remedy is clean hen-house air, with sulphate of iron praised as a deodorizer to purify the air and aid prevention.
The Nebraska Farmer urges every farm to have a well stocked fish pond. It recommends ponding with damming sag ravines or windmill pumps to create water on the farm. It favors carp as an ideal pond fish due to its plant eaters and hardy nature.
Statistics show the nation averages about 14 pounds of cheese per person each year. Agricultural classes, big cheese consumers, are among the most robust and healthy people worldwide.
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