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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1876
Page
7
Practical directions on cleaning, cooking, and gardening from 1876. Recipes include cheese pie and wedding cake, plus remedies and washing tips for fabrics. Essays urge patient, steady garden work and improvement, with notes on pollen in corn and garden layout ideas.
The author argues for a compact front yard design with a straight front walk, a broad rear walk, and a twenty by thirty foot lawn. A central bed, simple ornament, and sparing use of shrubs and climbers complete a low cost, low maintenance scheme suitable for a small lot.
A correspondent asks for experiences with feeding cattle on roots. The author argues turnips are a costly substitute for corn in fattening, but roots aid digestion and should be used as an auxiliary for wintering beef.
The article advises starting corn on a table with tin inverted sods under glass, transplanting in squares, and protecting seeds with tar or ashes to deter grubs and birds. It mentions overnight soaking, rolling ash coating, or lime immersion, heating tar to liquid, and notes success at larger scales. Also a note from Point Reyes Cal about a 45 000 acre day farm with 000 cows renting to tenants yielding substantial income. It adds a population height stat and a marketing plug for Procter & Gamble soap and Dr Sykes remedies with distribution details.
The passage extols the relief of disease as a grand mission and credits Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters with restoring debility through a tonic and alterative action. It claims the remedy strengthens the sick, reduces irregularities, and removes liver complaints, fevers, constipation, urinary issues, uterine weakness, and related health problems.
A patient from Wentixeton Lorain County dated August 24 1874 reports relief after using Dr Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery and Sage s Catarrh Remedy for chronic catarrh skin sores and neck swelling The letter praises the medicines as life changing and condemns mercury based tonics while claiming superiority of native plant extracts over older remedies.
An archaic medical pitch touts Schencke Mandrake Pine pills as a cure for headaches poor appetite and liver disorder claiming immediate relief in one to two hours and promising to purify the blood and prevent disease. It urges travelers youths and all patients to take multiple boxes before summer.
Subscribers are urged to send name and address with twenty five cents to the publisher Mr F Vent of South Street Cincinnati to receive Hodgman’s Fairy Album. The ad promises a unique illustrated design and guarantees a copy in perfect order upon payment. Additional notices refer to Ventox and Chicago wine vinegar figures from 1875.
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