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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1869
Page
5
Curiosities and anecdotes from New York and abroad fill a miscellaneous column. An auctioneer offers oil paintings by old masters. jokes, urban legends, and provincial pranks share space with a Russian money hoard tale and a practical soap making lesson from Mrs. Toss of Warsaw US.
A collection of household tips and farming advice covers weed destruction by spring digging and burning, a bread crumb egg dessert, honey locust durability for posts, fall root soil preparation, tin labels for fruit tree grafts, and worm prevention methods. It cites sources from Country Gentleman and American Agriculturist on practical, non-chemicals, and simple, durable solutions.
The article outlines strict methods for cider and vinegar production. It emphasizes picking ripe fruit, avoiding bruised or rotten apples, and maintaining cleanliness from bin to press to prevent impurities. Only sound fruit yields high flavor, with subpar fruit acceptable for common vinegar if properly processed.
A fragment discusses cider fermentation in a cellar and using vinegar to hasten the process, with six months to a year of aging if no vinegar is available. The piece then shifts to a New Orleans youth who was beaten for scaring people, and a court quip about his assault suit. It notes New York’s State Capitol construction cost of 4 million dollars, and advertises a boys and girls magazine offering club premiums and free back issues for 1870 subscriptions. It also describes Godey’s November issue with engravings, fashion plates, and stories by Mrs Hopkinson and others, with subscription pricing and bulk offers.
Long running coughs and lung pain urged as danger of consumption, promoting Allen's Lung Balsam. Other products praised including Phalon's Vitalla for hair, Caswell Hazard products for skin and Cod Liver Oil, with a testimonial from GEO A. Martin and mail order offer from R V Pirner in Buffalo.
Summer enervates the healthy and weak alike with heat and October winds bringing fever dysentery bilious attacks and rheumatism A marketing pitch extols Hostetler’s Stomach Hitters as a pure vegetable tonic that regulates secretions renews strength purifies fluids and provides nervous vigor endorsed as the choice of medical professionals and the public after twenty years of widespread use.
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