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Newspaper
Kane Leader
Location
Kane, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1885
Page
4
An old voice recalls a distant valley and blooming hills as a speaker longs to return. The poem contrasts a foreign scene with memories of olives, sunlit vines, and pines, where faiths revive and rest is sweet. Larose crosses the sea seeking youth’s homeland, finding graves on a hillside and winds urging peace as love wanes.
Richard Carisforde faces Hetty Morgans warning that Julia Deerhaven may be a danger of manipulation. He visits the Deerhaven household and encounters Julia’s temper while Hetty’s claim lingers. Carisforde contemplates the lure of a second chance and vows he will not marry before seeing how Julia’s nature unfolds.
Smoky chimneys arise when a chimney is filled with cold air and drafts are insufficient. A simple remedy is to light dry shavings on top of coal to establish draft, and avoid overloading the stove with coal at once.
A period of abundance brings fruits and summer vegetables praised for health benefits. Spinach aids kidneys, dandelion greens, asparagus for blood purification, eelery for nerves and rheumatism, tomatoes for liver, beets and turnips as appetizers, lettuce and others cooling the system, beans as nutritious, and onions and leeks boosting digestion and circulation. Red onions are diuretic, white onions remedy insomnia, raw onions touted as digestive tonics. French call onion soap a restorative. A vegetable diet is advised for family health this season.
A Gulf of Mexico spot south of Sabine Pass appears calm in surf yet reddens and muddies in gales. The 2 mile circle shelters ships from heavy seas, with 12 feet depth and mud 25 to 30 feet thick, reputedly cleansed by soapy mud and possibly harboring petroleum traces.
A report from the Michigan State Board of Health outlines a cheese linked illness known as sick cheese. Prof. Vero Vaughan identifies tyrotoxicon as the poison from superfect ripening in factories, found in curd and vats. Symptoms include throat constriction, vomiting, cramps, headaches, and nervous exhaustion.
Practical household hints on cooking and cleaning from an 19th century Springfield Republic piece. Includes methods for extracting flavor from tea, boiling cabbage odor control, steak browning, slow braising tips, oiling woolen fabrics, cleaning oilcloth, milk with glassware, and using a boiled egg skin for boils.
A West Virginia freedman's school teacher used an original math example saying the colored man earns one dollar for a day and asks how many for six days. Student Moses asks if six times one means a week and jokes about a Saturday delivery. The exchange highlights classroom prejudice and math word problems.
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