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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1869
Page
6
Dr J V O Smith notes aging eyes flatten with reduced secretions and longer focal distance. Some resist reading with glasses. many historic figures like Cicero Humboldt and Adams relied without them. Owning to persistent effort, eyesight could stabilize, though most eventually need magnification for reading.
A miscellany on head shapes and expressions, listing barrel heads pin heads and many others from barge to battlements. The piece blends anecdotes of riding a mule and early magazine notices with sketches of literature, publishing volumes, and a quirky passege on head terminology.
A fox in a Norwegian forest tested vaulting by leaping onto a tree stump with a dry oak in its mouth. After several trials, the creature waited as a sow and her piglets approached, then seized a piglet and fled to its lair. The sow returned repeatedly, but the fox calmly devoured the prey through the night.
A humorous Florida letter to the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser recounts a gentleman’s mule ride. He jokes that friends urged rest for health, noting a plan to extend the journey and contrasting the mule’s pace with horseback travel. The piece shows playful travel tone and rural observations.
Farm Journal advises on restoring depleted soils in old wheat regions using bone dust and bone super phosphates, lime, and sulfuric plaster. A composite manure mix of muck, barnyard manure, clay, lime, ashes, plaster, and bone phosphate is recommended, applied in fall to feed roots as moisture enables nutrient uptake.
A Revue horticole correspondent reports experiments with charcoal in pots. Pulverized charcoal half an inch deep revived faded rose color in roses and boosted vigor in red and violet hues. Reapplication produced similar results. white petunias showed red veining and violets gained blueish spots. Yellow flowers remained unaffected.
County Gentle Mun notes spring farming priorities urging farmers to mobilize labor, horses, and oxen to seize favorable days for planting and cultivation. Delays risk mis-timed planting, reduced yields, and poorer hay quality as moisture wanes and demand for work grows.
The article discusses opinions on digging between strawberry rows. It cites Keen of Isleworth advocating shallow digging to preserve subsoil while others in Hafield practice deeper between-row tillage to aerate soil. It notes benefits from atmosphere, manure trampling, and water access during bearing season, with regional market implications.
A household remedy claims to relieve soreness or advanced felons by soaking the affected finger for half an hour. The product is described as a thoroughly tested and never-failing cure. Sold by medicine dealers generally.
An advertising notice extols Hostetter's Celebrated Stomach Bitters as a universally beneficial tonic for dyspepsia debility and nervous disorders. It cites medical praise from a New York physician and proclaims the Bitters as the household tonic of the American people with enduring, rising sales.
An 19th century appliance advertises MISHLER'S HERB BITTERS as a seasonable remedy. It promises blood purification, balanced circulation, digestive support, nervous calm, elevated spirits, and vitality. The piece urges daily use to fortify against health hazards of winter and seasonal changes.
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