Boiled Cider Pie and Farm Kitchen Tips
A collection of home cookery and farm advice from 19th century periodicals. Recipes include a boiled cider pie and sliced sweet potato pie. Household tips cover horse shoeing remedies with toe calks, cheesecloth summer comforts, and tree care to protect roots. Also notes on chicken-house fumigation and leather cement instructions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheelwright
Smiths
N. Y
Chicago Journal
Denver Tribune
Renovating Lawns With Commercial Fertilizer Guidance
The article urges renewing lawn soil by applying a 500 pound per acre commercial fertilizer rich in ammoniated phosphate and bone meal rather than stable manure. It notes shade from trees harms uniform grass growth and suggests keeping a small front lawn patch in shade and dedicating town lots to grass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruri Hone
Treatment of Sprains and Bruises From Herald of Health
A brief Health note advises soaking the injured area in water at a comfortable temperature then gentle manipulation for ten to fifteen minutes. For hot weather use cool water, for poor circulation warm water, wrap in cloths and apply cold water afterward to reduce inflammation. This simple method outperforms liniments and ointments for sprains and bruises.
Vegetable or Mineral Cures and Patent Medicine Notices
A medical letter condemns mineral poisons and endorses vegetable remedies as used by a physician who discarded mercury. Dr Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla is promoted for strengthening urinary and digestive organs, with claims of rapid improvement. The piece includes anecdotes about Dr Pierce's pills and a quip about a counterfeit piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal of Medicine
Popular tonics and remedies touted in old newspapers
Short snippets promote Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Kidney-Wort tonics, boast jokes at social gatherings, and praise Dr Benson’s Skin Cure and Celery Chamomile Pills as cures for various ailments. The clippings reflect 19th century patent medicines and period humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
A. J. Huxck
Dr. Benson
Waitt to Mrs Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound
Fragmentary ad column items note medical remedies and consumer goods. Mentions Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound for health restoration, a joking exchange about color blindness and fish, dye products claiming superior color, coal dealers as lawyers, kidney cure advertised, and various brand names including Russin Salve and Spring Tobacco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waitt
Lydia E. Pinkham
Western Avenue
Lynn
Mass
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Cambridge Tribune
Tris
1. Y. Herald
Dr. Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery
Examiner and Chronicle
Ryan
Pugilist
Sullivan
New York
Wenwene
East Liberty
Phil Elphius
Baltimore
Puck
Wryle
Cambridge
Hite
Lee
Florida
Miss Dickinson
Boston Transcript
National Yeast
Dairymen of
America
Wells, Richardson &Co
Burlington, Ve
Samaritan
Richmond
Parsons
Ifser Stampa
Arry i Johnson & Co
Bogion
Bangor
G. W. Borland & Co., Publishers
State
Chicago, Il
the Age
BEIVS
Jesse James
M. Chambers & Co., Publishers
St. Louis
Royh & Bro
NewcOxford, Pa
G.W
ING Ban AM
Boston
Dle
Belt CO
Marshall, Mich
L. P. Haskell
Avs H Allen
KR. Schtffman
St. Paul
Minn
EIDO
Ziegler & CO
Antis St
Chicagi DL
Sheridan
Johnson & CO
A.reed & Sons’ Organs
REM I Temple OF Music
Chicsco
Cates
County
Phicago Pitts
Black Hawk
H. A. Pitts’ Sons Mfc. CO
S&s
Jefferson St
Chicaco
Ill
Lestix F. Keeney
Chicago
Diehl
Gem
Merch's
S. Water St
Com
Pensions
Cshtern Neanes Melo
B “Stevens &Co
Art
Washington, D
Clervy Ela Cutoano
Detroit
Orneys
Onto
Se. C
Dela Ave
Phila
J.C. Herrman
P.O
Lil
Threshers
the Aultman & Taylor CO
Mansfield, C
Ue. J. Stephens
Lebanon
Ohio
J. Rogers
Mia
True
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Buitain, N.Y
Uinclomati
Milnson &Co
Portland
Valery Ring Byog
Janesville
Wis
Addi’s
FL Trallett & Co
Portland, Me
ALN
Adifirtisers
Ditson & Co
Beacon Light
J Tenney
E. A. Hoffman
R. M. McIntosh
Price
Abbey
M. J. Monger
Lyon & Healy
Oliver Ditson & CO
Ajed
Woolrich & CO
Cigs Si
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