Plantain, Cabbage Prep, and Stable Hygiene Tips
An Eastern farmer notes plantain dies without seed in two years. A New York recipe outlines cream cookies using sour cream and butter. Barnyard milking is criticized as old fashioned. Cabbage and cauliflower prep methods are advised to salt and soak. Beal describes plant root quirks from damp dark growth. Farming World warns against tickling horses and stresses gentle grooming and heel care.
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N. Y
W. J. Beal
Gardeners’ Monthly
Shake Shrays In Brave Farm Plot
A Gratiot Avenue farmer talks about Shake a sixteen year old boy with a large appetite. He kept the boy at home but Shake drank beer in town and was jailed for sixty days. The farmer contemplates paying ten dollars to release him so he can keep him fed and clothed, joking about the boy’s folly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gratiot Avenue
Detrow& Free Press
Sauer Kraut Recipe From German Town Telegraph
A traditional method to preserve cabbage through winter. Pack half a bushel of coarse chopped Savoy or Drumhead cabbage with salt in a scalded stand, press to release juice, layer with leaves, top with a board and a 12 to 15 pound weight, store in cool place then cellar as it hardens in four to six weeks. Boil well before serving with pickled or corned beef.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germantown Telegraph
Public Notice of Pain Relief With St Jacobs Oil
The Little Model Republic reports Senor Ricardo Sta ven of Valparaiso Canada cured of rheumatism by St Jacobs Oil. The Toronto Globe notes the death of a man who did not go to the dors, as Buffalo Express remarks.
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VaLparaiso, Can
Senor
Ricardo Staven
St. Jacobs
Toronto Globe
Buffalo Express
Pioneer History of America
A 1032 page volume from J B Pioneer Brothers & Co Chicago Illinois offers vivid pioneer life narrative with striking engravings and dramatic prose. The book is praised for accurate detail vivid description and absorbing storytelling aided by Dr Ridpath's introduction. The publishers seek agents to take orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ones Bros. & Co
Chicago
Ill
Ridpath
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Walnut Leaf Hair Restorer Promises Quick Hair Renewal
Claiming to be a pure vegetable remedy it promises to free the head from dandruff restore gray hair to its natural color and induce new growth without harming health unlike sulfur lead nitrate preparations. The ad notes bottles are warranted and lists Morrison Plumner & Co Chicago and C N Cairmenton New York as wholesale agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morrison, Plummer & Co
Chicago
C. N. Caimrenton
New York
Favorite Prescription Promises Cure For Female Weaknesses
An advertisement asserts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription can restore health and beauty to women distressed by uterine or systemic disorders. It urges purchase through druggists and offers a 96 page treatise by sending three stamps to Worup's Medical Association in Buffalo New York. The Detroit Post quote adds a separate humorous line about a man not wanting to buy a cat but becoming a purchaser.
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Worup
Medical Asso’n
Buffalo, N. Y
Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery Ad Cures Torpid Liver
An 19th century style ad claims Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery cures biliousness torpid liver and debility. It touts quick permanent relief and appeals to shoppers at druggists with a Saturday reminder phrase comparing to a shoemaker’s wooden tool.
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Dr. Pierce
Speeches of Medicinal Claims and Advertisements
A collage of claims for cure all manner of ailments and tonics. Swift's Specific praised by a Perry, Georgia writer, with other testimonials for Brown's Iron Bitters and Horehound remedies. Pills, eye washes, and a city brief about a pistol incident mix with quips and ads.
Fire in the blood and a cure for rheumatic pain
An article uses a mine fire analogy to explain rheumatic disease and urges Warner's Safe Cure as the remedy to extinguish the blood fire. It claims the kidneys and liver guard the blood supply and pledges a ninety five percent cure rate, endorsed by Dr. Robert A. Gunn.
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Pennsylvania
Warner
H. H. Warner & Co
Rochester
N. Y
Robert A. Gunn
United States Medical College
New York
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The
Little Model Republic
Toledo
Swift
L. Dennard
Perry, Ga
Dayton
Pittsburgh Telegraph
Ely
Prek Bros
Grand Rapids
Mich
Chicago Journal
Worlpd
Dispensary Medical Ass
Joan Tiscuer
U.S. Cavalry
Rochester Post-Express
Clutsville
Ala
W. Carter
Philadelphia
Rushmore
A. Page
Burlington Free Press
Hale
Pike
Isaac
Selbit
Catarreh
Ely Brothers
Ugwists
Owego
N.Y
Hop
Hop Plaster Company, Proprietors
Boston
Mass
CREAT
Rawley
D. Lorurer & Co
Babyland
Iris
ANLY
Pansy
Wsc
Bsolutes
Hes Caseteg
Monarch
Murray
Portage
Mac Mach
E. Amonares
W. Jennings
Ene Perry
ALL
Department OF Immigration
Atchison, Topeka & Santa FE
Kansas
Colorado
New Mexico
Arizona
Old Mexico
B. Schmidt
Toreka
Kan
Fess Rem
A. L. Mason and
Prof. Co
Cnr
Jones Bros. & Co., Pub
GAY Bros. & CO
Barclay St
Rothchild & CO
Stephen
New Brunswick
Canada
Charles A. Vogeler Co
A. Vogeler & CO
Baltimore, Md
U.S.A
DR. Horne
Nts
W. J. Horne
Inter
Wabash
Cinish
Cook
Adama Street
Mear Reed
State Street
L. Massenburg
Macon
Atlanta
Deland & GO
H. A. & LJ. de Land & CO
Farnport
Aultman & Taylor Co
Mansfield
Ohio
Wells
V. B. Silver
Cleveland
Lad Ats
Permas Y Genent
Queen City
Queen City Suspender Co
Cincinnati
Johnson
Johnson & CO
Loose
M. Loose & CO
Monroe, Mich
Druggists Or Humane Med. Co
Rockford, Ill
A. P. Lacey
Washington, D. C
Standard Curr Co
Pearl St
Agenta
Jay Bronson
Derrycir
Mica
Wigs & Wares
C.o.p
B.C. Strahl
Wabashaw
Stinson & Co
Portland
Goveretan
Bend
Outfit
Coprin & Newman Pus. Co
Hubbell
Addr’s H.haillett & Co
Portland,Me
Dan Linahan
St Louis
True & Co
Augusta
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