Home and Farm Recipes and Farming Guidance
Recipes for sponge cake and chocolate cake outline ingredients and steps. The National Stock Journal urges farmers to avoid overfeeding hay to cows. A tip uses a six burner kerosene lamp to ward off frost. A wood glue recipe is provided. Advice on stocking stockings, farm shelter, and herd management emphasizes feeding, culling, and manurial values of various feeds, noting oil cakes and beans as rich manure sources.
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National
Rivestock Journal
James J. H. Gregory
Keep Plenty of Fruit for Home Use and Health
The piece argues fruit is a necessity for the farmer’s family, not a luxury, and urges keeping apples for home consumption despite high prices. It warns against selling fruit too closely, notes fruit’s palatability, health value, social role in the farm home, and the joy it brings children.
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House of
Dairy Trade Shifts Aim Toward Southern Markets
The report notes rising oleomargarine exports and a slight drop in butter shipments, with Wisconsin cheese makers targeting the Southern U S and Mexican markets next season. Aimed at reducing Northwest cheese surpluses by midsummer, producers stress seasonally clean handling and steady care of constables in winter.
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Wisconsin
Mexico
Northwest
Butter Crust Formation and Salt Retention
A detailed note on how salt is taken up by butter via water in the fat and how crusting occurs when brine droplets form on the surface. It explains the roles of water content, churning temperature, and aggregation method in producing fine granules and preventing crusting, including tips for using premade butter and keeping it in brine.
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Bernold
Golden Rules for Making Butter in a Private Letter
Mr James G Moul of the Aylesbury Dairy Company Bayswater London shares tried and true butter making rules. Remove cream before milk sours to avoid curd and cheese flavors, wash butter thoroughly with cold water, avoid over churning, and never handle butter by hand. The guide stresses proper timing and methods for quality butter.
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James G Moul
Aylesbury Dairy Company
Bayswater
London
Eng
Washed and Unwashed Butter in Dairy Practice
The article compares washed butter to clarified sugar, noting washed butter has purer flavor due to removal of milk solids and foreign matter. It argues washing improves keeping quality if water is clean and preserves butter grain, a key factor for high quality butter. It adds that Tuesdays and Wednesdays are general calling days at Washington.
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Washington
The Earth and the Stars and Their Vast Distances
A historical piece explains cosmic scale using mental figures for cubic miles, Sun size, and star distances. It argues stars like Sirius and the North Star dwarf Earth, notes spectroscope clues, and cites observations from early telescopes while affirming a divine framework behind creation.
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Garden of Eden
Sirius
Tigraris
Stara Sen
Taras
North Star
Eve
Trees of
Eden
Groombridge
Victim of Prank Drowns After French Hoax
A mariner mocked by shipmates with a cannibal prank leapt into the sea in Marseilles and drowned. The crew, who lured him ashore with the claim of a roast meal, were jailed as investigators seek charges for the fatal hoax.
Two San Francisco Women Die of Pneumonia Following Insect Bite
Mia and Hebecca Solomon, two San Francisco ladies, died recently of pneumonia attributed to an insect bite on the upper lip. The insect reportedly fed on a diseased animal.
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Mia
Hebecca Solomon
San Francisco
Unclear fragment notes inclusion of race terms and names
Fragmentary text references Hinmas race and entities like Baran Bailey Hutchin Bond Street New York. Include mentions of Penta dwarfs and Soy as Great, with an enclosing photo.
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Baran , Bailey & Hutchin
Bond St
New York
Man Denies Cancer Rumor In Letter To Friend
The letter from Mr Longfellow denies revived reports of a cancer in the cheek or elsewhere. He states clearly he has not and never had such a cancer and asks the recipient to contradict the rumor when heard.
German Poet Bodenstedt to Publish New Volume
Herr Bodenstedt the German poet who visited this country several months is bringing out a new volume in which poems suggested by the New World will appear.
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Herr Bodenstedt
Edward S Stokes in New York After California Wealth
Edward S. Stokes, once famed for killing Fisk, has reportedly achieved considerable pecuniary success in California and now lives extravagantly in New York City.
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Edward S. Stokes
Dim Fisk
California
New York
St Jacobs Oil praised in multiple testimonials
Enthusiastic items hail St Jacobs Oil as a universal remedy for aches and pains including sore throat and rheumatism. Dr J F Speck and others report cures for a child's leg contracture from scarlet fever and for toothache, with many letters of thanks to doctors and newspapers.
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Wilmington
Del
Daily Republican
J. F. Bpeck
Jacobs Oil
Bpeck
St. Jacobs
Speck
fragmentary ad copy for medical products and agents
Fragmented OCR text advertises a drug product, listing Dr L E L Town, GuxarPRE VENTIVE and Cunx, sold by all druggists and Mor Morrison Plummer & Co as Chicago general agents. The readable lines resemble an old pharmaceutical advertisement with names and agents.
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Dr. L. EL Town
Morrison, Plummer &Co
Chicago
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