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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1881
Page
8
A readable excerpt lists recipes and kitchen techniques such as a milk and sugar cake batter, warm breakfast cakes with molasses and brown sugar, mashed potatoes with rich sauce, and French beans in a buttered veal or chicken broth. It also covers steak tenderizing with a vinegar oil mix and a basic Japanese cement recipe using ground rice.
Paris fashion notes reveal men embracing vivid hues in hosiery and accessories. Bright blue and greenish tones dominate nether garments with contrasting coats in russet and brown, while cravats feature rich tones and intricate patterns.
A humorous collection of quips about bald men. It mocks bald heads as refined and bold, notes they never dye, and praises Indians as hair raisers. It cites Shakespeare and claims bald men stay cool and wise.
The English noble household required revaccination using the infant's lymph. All complied until a strong Scotch cook refused on grounds of English blood. After pressure she was vaccinated with lymph from a Scotch calf, and her arm alone took. She lauds the calf as a superior wee Scotch beastie.
A logger in the mountains was attacked by a large lynx that tore clothing and lacerated flesh before being driven off. He fled to camp where two men later killed the lynx. The event is noted as a rare unprovoked big-cat attack.
Captain David L. Longstreet recalls a perilous encounter in ten fathoms near sea off New Jersey. A black shark attacked a bluefish, bit through the boat, threw him overboard, and forced a desperate swim to safety as another boat responded to the distress call.
In Talcott Mountain, Professor E C Bassett a psychologist and balloonist demonstrated a blazing coffee trick using brandy and a flame. A farmer, seeing the blaze, asked for a light and fled after Bassett revealed the coffee ignition with a safe paper spark, declaring he would not dine with the devil. Hartford Times.
A Detroit fee press item records a citizen's demand for timely delivery at a Woodward avenue grocer. The merchant refuses to fire the errant driver, instead raising wages to prevent losing twenty six Cass farm cooks as customers, citing pressures from market context.
California's grape cultivation and wine production show growing capital and skill. In 1880 the state produced 10 million gallons of wine and 450 thousand gallons of brandy, with raisin and table grape values totaling 250 thousand. The grape culture yielded about 3.5 million dollars, with over 100 thousand acres planted and 20 thousand more likely to be added. Unsurveyed land exceeds 10 thousand acres, and total investment in grape lands and wine making on the Pacific coast surpasses 30 million dollars.
The article lists typical lifespans for numerous animals from bears to swans, noting elephants may reach 400 years and camels 100. It then mentions Miss Bettie Green of Forsyth County Georgia who made two silk dresses from silkworms she raised, spun, dyed and wove herself.
Senator West recalls a harsh postwar Shreveport scene when a town under colored troops enforced a smoking ban. Major Duffie ignored orders, drew fire from a sentry who demanded a dropped cigar, and West notes the gun’s loadier argument than Supreme Court rulings. Washington Capital.
Reported by Lowel Couvier, the cost of everyday necessities in Bavaria Württemberg and other German regions is listed with per unit prices for pork beef chicken butter cheese sugar and more. The figures suggest higher costs outside southern Germany with regional variation.
A Washington DC clergyman criticizes public testimonials for quack medicines yet praises Hop Bitters as a meritorious remedy used by physicians. He asserts the product's value for family use and states he would not be without it, as cited by New York Baptist Weekly.
A dramatic onstage moment in which Fechter, playing a ship captain, shouts Man overboard and plunges into the water illusion to grab a real boy standing at the prow. He hoists the child aboard, saving him as the waves of the canvas ocean roll about.
A Harrisburg reader reports a mare with a long bone spavin cured by Kendall's Spavin Cure. He praises the book on horses and states he sold eighteen copies after benefiting from the remedy and recommends it to others.
Elmira New York resident Noah Bates reports a four year illness following bilious fever. After using two bottles of Burdock Blood Bitters he notes 80 percent improvement and ability to work a full day at age 61. Trial size offered at 10 cents, full bottle one dollar.
A mosaic of sensational anecdotes and moralizing ad copy depicts a hungry farm family, a wandering husband tale, a San Francisco match story, and a plea against surrender to illness. The piece also promotes Burdock Blood Bitters and includes brief vignette lines about Edith and doll play.
A Vermont church official writes from St Albans on January 20 1880 praising Kendall's Spavin Cure. He states a horse previously lame from a spavin improved after treatment and a later ringbone condition was cured with less than a bottle, leaving the horse not lame and with no detectable swelling.
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