Home Garden Tips From The Press And Experts
A collection of gardening notes and household hints from major papers. Advice covers watering strawberries, blooming sweet peas, cream sauces, fritters from leftovers, warming Dutch apple pie with wine, quince root care, furniture polish recipe, horse grazing cautions, and potato beetle control tips. Names include Wilder Hexamer and T. B. Terry with general guidance from New York and Chicago papers.
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Wilder
Hexamer
N. Y. Tribune
Chicago Journal
N. Y. Post
WN. Y
Chicago Herald
Detroit Post
N. Y. Herald
T. B. Terry
Country Gentleman
Purchasing Farm Implements For Small Farms In Massachusetts Ploughman
The article discusses how rapid farm implement improvements strain farmers budgets and storage space. It argues small farms need selective purchases or shared equipment like manure spreaders or threshing machines to compete with larger operations, suggesting one horse machines when possible and neighborly shared ownership to reduce costs.
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Massachusetts
Sulphur Fumes Vary in Health Impact Warns Against Excess
A Boston Transcript note cautions that sulphur fumes from factories are not harmless despite some positive anecdotes. It warns that inhaled sulphurous acid is dangerous in quantity and duration, while recognizing occasional relief for colds. The column also reports John Perry's death at eighty one and a New York Sun item on cattle grazing in former Texas Indian country worth nearly 14 million dollars.
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Boston Transcript
Indian Country
Texas
First Performance of Clari at Covent Garden Ends in Echoes of Home
A Washington Post writer recalls the debut of Clari at Covent Garden where Miss Tree sang Home Sweet Home in the penitent scene. The crowded house demanded an encore as emotions overwhelmed audience members including women crying and men dabbing tears, likened to memories of Sarah Siddons.
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Washington Post
Sweet Home
Tree
Milan
Covent Garden
Miss Tree
Sarah Siddons
St Jacobs Oil Featured In Old Time Poetry
A verse excerpt praises St Jacobs Oil for sprains and corn troubles with a playful dialogue between a New England farmer and a pharmacist named Mr Otway. The couplet hints at a local business opportunity during corn husking season in a Boston Transcript context.
Rainy boulevard carriage draws P C A sympathy
A rainy evening scene on the boulevard shows a carriage with a horse in wet weather. A member of the 8 P C A comments on the horse being out in such weather and hitched to an open carriage. Source notes W. Y. News.
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Getty
Orse
W. Y. News
Cure claimed for nervous debility in man’s letter
A young man writes praising Dr. Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla cubed tonic as a sure cure for nervous debility and weak urinary organs after trying many doctors. He suggests its knowledge could save many lives.
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Guysett
Umbrella Procession Honors Idol in Terrapaty
A Madras procession celebrated seven umbrellas to be offered to an idol god at Terrapaty. The idol’s public reception is seen as signaling a long reign for the deity according to the Boston Post.
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Madras
Terrapaty
Boston Post
Plague Warning and Cough Care From 19th Century Ads
A column cites Abernethy on coughs and warns against ignoring respiratory symptoms. It touts Dr. Wm. Haw's Balsam for the Lungs as a cure for whooping cough and croup and notes its availability from druggists. The passage ends with a snide remark about winter and circle of circus bills.
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Abernethy
Wm. Haw
Timely Pellets From Dr Pierce Aid Stomach and Bowel Health
Our grandmothers taught that a stitch in time saves nine. A timely dose of Dr Pierce’s Pellets often prevents disease and can break up sudden attacks when taken early. Sold by druggists.
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Dr. Pierce
Leather-bound edition requested by hotel boarder
A hotel boarder asks for a revised edition of a leather-bound item while returning his raw steak to the cook, as reported by the Chicago Times.
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Chicago Times
Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription Promoted for Female Ailments
The ad claims Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription cures diseases peculiar to females and relieves stomach and heart discomfort via tonic, nerving, and restorative effects. It highlights back-ache and dragging sensations and notes availability from druggists, quoting the Philadelphia Chronicle on the product’s merit.
Beauty and grooming ads from Gouverneur Herald
Glens Sulphur Soap promises permanent complexion improvement. Hill's hair and whisker dye priced at 50 cents. A book-binder implicated for ripping and tearing faces potential binding over in Gouverneur news.
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Glenn
Hill
Electro Voltaic Bells Trial Offer in Marshall Michigan
Personal notices announce Dr Dye's Celebrated Electro Voltaic Bells and Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days to men with nervous debility and loss of vitality. No risk with three days’ trial. Also promoting Wells' Health Renewer for dyspepsia and general vigor restoration.
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Tae VolTatic Bett Co
Marshall, Mich
Dye
N. B
Odd Mix of Quack Ads and Snippets in 19th Century Clippings
A collage of antique product pitches and quips, including Golden Medical Discovery claims, weeded humor, and patent medicine snippets. References range from a hen’s lost chicken to a printer’s nine pins, with advertisements for Browning tracheas cough cures and Wells’ Rough on Corns. The tone mirrors a miscellaneous page of clippings with sensational lines and brand names like Browns Bronchial Troches and Lyon’s Patent Heel Stiffeners.
Hunt's Remedy praised for kidney and liver cures
The Scientific Times extols Hunt's Remedy from the Hunt's Remedy Company of Providence R I as a versatile patent medicine. It claims to treat kidney and liver diseases including Bright's disease, urinary disorders, backache, debility, female ailments, liver troubles, and even heart and rheumatic conditions. It emphasizes vegetable composition and offers pamphlets for full particulars.
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Hunt's
Hunt's Remedy Company
Providence
Bright
Hunt
Remedy Company
Scientific Times
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John Perry
Fayville
L. L
N. Y
New York
Chicago
St. Jacobs
Evansville
Philadelphia Chronicle
Guacors Off
Charles A. Vogeler CO
A. Vogeler & CO
Baltimore
U.S. A
Kimplest
Renee
Rendall
Ise
Ontario
Hostetter's
Attento
Nless
H. King
Ceveland
Cleveland
Chuck
Golden Medical
Jingo
Harvard Lampoon
Mr. Gladstone
America
Mother Swan
Lyon
Gitator
SUN
I. W. England
New York City
A.reed & Sons
Reed’s Temple OF Music
State Street
Aultman & Taylor Co
Mansfield
Ohio
Timsthy
Nebraska
Q. F. Gibbs & Son
Ill
J. BR. Price & CO
Adams Street
Clark St
Queen City
Queem City Suspender Co
Cincinnati
Hans
Aarti Gus
W.loxser
Chester, Thayer Co
Neb
J. H. Burcu & Co
Dey St
Parga
Johns & CO
Boston
Mass
Wilbor
Wllbor
A. B. Wilbor
Madison M'f’g CO
Madison, Wis
Ste
Bar Om
Beth Young
Dora Phys
Maud S
Hanren Coast
United States
J.C. Lighthouse & Bird
Rochester, N.Y
Joopy
W. Moody & Co
Economy Printing Co
Newburyport
Maia
Addr
H. Hallett & Co
Portland
National Publishing Co
Nopay Till
da. J. IrkrHueNns
Lebanon
Srnion & Co
American School of Telegraphy
B.c.strahl
Wabashaw
True & Co
Augusta
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