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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1881
Page
8
A compilation of old time kitchen instructions including milk paste doughs cakes muffins and biscuits with notes on beef tea sunburn remedies and flavoring techniques. It covers methods for muffins cakes and puddings and provides guidance on preparing beef tea and lemon milk treatment for sunburn.
A Syracuse Herald writer recounts ex Secretary Belknap in a humorous tale about a tailor shop window likeness of the president and cabinet. Belknap buys engraved plates and mails copies to Grangers as a jab at Kirkwood while recalling his rough, carefree manner in Iowa.
The passage extols Frenchwomen as morally and intellectually superior, ruling in the home and business, noted for order thrift and domestic affection. It praises their housekeeping skill and supervisory role over husbands’ enterprises, contrasting them with German wives.
Hawkins County Tennessee reports major quarries producing six of the finest marbles in the region. The stone is quarried for employment of many workers and shipped in blocks to eastern cities at high prices.
The Massachusetts State Board of Health urges local authorities to tighten diphtheria controls this autumn and winter. Emphasizing disinfection of clothing and rooms, use of safe water, ventilation, and proper drainage, the board also calls for independent local boards of health to ensure enforcement and public safety.
George Alfred Townsend describes the pistol linked to Garfield's death. He details its crude design a five and a half inch barrel and bone handle, made for cheap profit at about ten dollars, with no identifying marks.
Mrs Delilah Deeds of Pleasant Valley widow of Thos Deeds died November 11. An early settler since 1838 she managed a large 1000 acre farm and shipped about 100 head of cattle yearly. The town plans a cemetery fence and funds for a new church house at the county line. Mrs John and others on the sick list are mentioned.
The notice tallies a string of health updates with typhoid and diphtheria cases among local residents including Dawson Bechler Wise and Johnnie Parkinson. It mentions property moves in Jefferson and a returning Captain Russell Hays spending winter with his parents. Zollicofer signs off with satire on local commerce and politics.
The speaker condemns civilian gun use amid a national crisis. He urges respectable citizens to abandon swords and firearms, arguing pistols are cowardly, infernal weapons. He espouses fists as sufficient for self defense and mocks pockets carrying a pistol.
C R Hall of Grayville writes that Thomas Eclectric Oil cured a badly ulcerated throat and relieved threatened croup in his children, praising its universal satisfaction and effectiveness.
Readable household hints suggest simple remedies for kitchen odors and health cures. Charcoal in cabbage or turnip water absorbs odor while bread in a cloth in boiling greens neutralizes smell. Burdock Blood Bitters promise purification of blood with a $1 price and 10 cent trial.
A veteran farmer recounts wasted years from heavy drinking. He recalls two sons lost to alcohol and his wife’s death, urging youths to avoid drink as it ruined his life. The piece then cites Hopophosphites syrup and Carter's Little Liver Pills as remedies.
The San Francisco Chronicle notes raw fruit advances for canning rose from 100 to 800 percent with eleven acre orchards reporting net profits over 13000 dollars from apricots peaches and white cherries. Formerly fruit sold for a cent and a half per pound now five cents a pound yields large profits for new bearing trees.
Mrs Barnhart of Buffalo endured rheumatism twelve years near Pratt and Broadway. She was cured by Thomas Eclectric Oil after trying many remedies. A humorist, embittered by endless jokes, once hurled a baleful quip at his wife on washday. she struck him with a stew pot, and as he died he uttered Stewpandous joke and passed away.
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