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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1881
Page
8
A collection of kitchen tips and recipes including apple tarts with barley crusts and vinegared pickles, rice pudding and steamed rice, a rice croquette guide, a cheap sponge cake, stewed veal with crust, and a lavender fly deterrent. Practical directions emphasize simple ingredients and common cooking methods for home cooks.
Professor H C Healy told Cincinnati scientists that Mammoth Cave supplied the chief saltpeter for gunpowder in the War of 1812. He traced vaults and avenues used to haul nitrous earth to Philadelphia and urged science to honor the pioneer miners in history.
Amicable settlement referenced regarding Lady Burdette-Coutts fortune since her marriage. Olive Lee notes her elevated lifestyle with costly Piccadilly dinners attended by high society, while British loyalties remain distant. Bartlett praised as devoted husband, and the couple’s social reach extends with their American guest.
The German armaments maker Krupp increases its workforce by 8,000, raising total production staff to 13,000 as orders remain strong.
A Saratoga letter describes a striking Cuban woman at a Grand Union hop. Her graceful pose, cream-white skin, and damask cheeks drew attention, with her son beside her and a Baltimore observer noting the tropical charm and distinctive Cuban attire and manners.
The Vanderbilt Fifth Avenue mansion will take months to complete with lavish interior fittings. Exterior appears plain and brown stone, lacking dramatic ornament yet reflecting Vanderbilts reserved style. Inside will feature the finest decor with costly details including a silver plated bath tub order for the hundred million dollar fortune.
An 1880 Cincinnati Gazette note discusses dubious longlife claims from ages 100 to 118, citing Harvard College graduates from 1642 to 1804 with few reaching centenarian status and questioning evidence for extraordinary ages. The piece also includes a Kalamazoo testimonial praising Hop Bitters for purity and usefulness.
A note on Italy's Jewish presence in government states that despite the commonly held view, eight Jewish members serve in the Italian Parliament, illustrating a measurable minority representation.
A collage of aphorisms from Angélo to Bayard on patience, women, virtue, and philosophy. Notable voices include Goethe, Bacon, Coleridge, and Sherman Knowles, reflecting on manners, happiness, reason, and the pull of Hope and Opinion in human life.
By the unthinking Burdock is a weed with unpleasant smell yet savants praise its root as valuable a diuretic purifier. Burdock Blood Bitters embody all its good qualities. Price $1 trial size 10 cents.
John T. Raymond recalls a London dinner conversation about Americans and Indians. He jokes that New York Indians are fashionable, while at Niagara they travel in simplicity. The exchange ends with a quip about Dean Stanley praising Niagara Falls.
Syracuse resident J M Might reports fluttering and heart palpitations improved after using Burdock Blood Bitters. He describes initial weakness and numb limbs, with the numbness gone and heart no longer troubling him. Price listed as 1 dollar full size, trial size 10 cents.
For a long time there has been a need for just such a Hiniment ag Kendall's Spayin Cure. This item notes reported demand and the product’s claimed relief, reflecting local interest in medical remedies of the era.
A visitor, seeking information in a cathedral town, offers a florin to a respectable verger for clues about cloisters. The verger pockets the coin and pretends ignorance, saying he is a stranger as well. The scene ends with a Punch tableau and a proverb about a whistler overcoming an arguer.
Rev. P. N. Granger of the St. Albans District reports strong success with Kendall's Spavin Cure. He cites a horse once lame from a spavin that improved after a bottle, and later recovery from a ringbone after using the product. He notes the animal is no longer lame and the spur is undetectable.
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