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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1876
Page
7
Recipes and home preservation methods include breakfast cakes with sweet milk and butter, tomato preservation in vinegar, velvet restoration, carpet soap from galls, and green pickles with spiced vinegar. Advice warns farmers about con artists exploiting gullible neighbors and urges honest, steady work.
A denunciation of con artists who prey on farmers with slick talk and tempting get rich plans. The author warns how victims mortgage farms and suffer loss, noting credulity of young farmers and use of patent rights to lure money and property.
At a late meeting three practical bee keepers gave concise methods on swarm control ventilation and wintering. They favor natural swarming for box honey and advise a fall removal of excess honey. They emphasize strong stocks and proper temperature, ventilation, and use of extractor to prevent foul brood.
The painting Guenevere by Mary B. Odenheimer, a New York artist and Bishop Odenheimer’s daughter, sold for 3100 at the Centennial Exhibition. Among American engravers, two women stand out, Miss Sartain and Mrs. Wormley, with Sartain trained by her father and Wormley from Columbus, Ohio.
The wife of Dr. Wormley learned engraving after engravers declined the microscopic work. She completed the plates for a celebrated scientific treatise, contributing greatly to its beauty and completeness. The Exposition features delicate carved furniture by Cincinnati School of Design women and Esmeralda Cervantes of Barcelona, a famed teen harpist. Mrs. Corinne Young wrote an American opera Angerita with Paris production planned. In ten years the screw has replaced the paddle in transatlantic navigation, engines lighter, stem pressure up, coal use down two thirds.
A historical advertisement lists remedies for bile misdirection liver issues and indigestion including Los tettera's Stomach Bittera and Dr Schenck's tonics. It promotes cures for consumption coughs colds and dyspepsia with pills syrups tonics and vinegars and notes Dr Wilhoff's fever and ague tonics. Available at New Orleans vendors and Philadelphia offices for advice.
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