Farm and Household Remedies from Old Newspapers
A collage of home cooking and domestic tips from the Rural New Yorker and New York Times columns. Recipes include lemon snaps and Pan Dowdy style apple crust dish, plus guidance on pig medicine, crossbreeding observations, and cleaning methods with logwood extract. Also notes on rice cream gelatine dessert with brandy suggestion, from the Boston Transcript.
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New Yorker
N. Y
W. Y.tribnne
Joston Transcript
Farm Implements Through Time and Innovation
The article traces farm tool history from the humble plow to modern machinery, noting early American inventors like Jethro Wood and Thomas Jefferson. It highlights the disc harrows, reapers, mowers, cotton gins, manure spreaders, and sowing machines, contrasting past toil with today’s efficient farming aided by machinery and steam or electric power.
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America
Jethro Wood
Thomas Jefferson
Ivitation
San Francisco Chronicle
Two Crops a Year Secret to Profitable Farming
The Massachusetts Ploughman explains that keeping land covered with growing vegetation yields two crops annually, protects soil from loss, and draws fertility from the air. It argues continuous cover prevents erosion, boosts yields, and allows heavier manuring, with practical notes on corn, rye, potatoes, and garden crops for year‑round coverage.
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Massachusetts
Old South Carolina Railway Built Locomotive Era
The South Carolina Railway ranks among the oldest in the United States. Construction began in 1834 with the Charleston to Augusta main line completed the same year, and the road largely as it is today finished in 1848. It stood out for many years by not expanding mileage nor joining a larger system, and before the war it was a prosperous, profitable property yielding large dividends.
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South Carolina
United States
America
Charleston
Augusta
Louisville Courier Journal
Miss Amanda Waters Hears Spirit Voices
Near Winston in Madison County Kentucky Miss Amanda Waters once healthy now afflicted by a fancy that she hears spirit voices calling from earth She has copied the song she hears them sing Her health grows worse and the hallucination may bring its own fulfillment.
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Winston
Madison County
Amanda Waters
Earth
Chicago Times
Imitation gems boosted by tin foil fool buyers
A Chicago man used a tin foil backing behind imitation diamonds to enhance sparkle and charged $2,000 in a week by betting on the gem’s value. Losers were misled by the foil backing.
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Chicago
Chicago News
Treatment of Corns in Farm Animals
Practical outline from Prairie Farmer on treating chronic and acute corns in horses and draught animals. Discusses shoeing adjustments to level walls, heel support, and balance for riding and draught work, avoiding knives unless abscesses exist, and using hot fomentations, poultices, laxatives, and dressings. Covers quitter, bruises, sloughing, and new horn formation with bar shoes to protect the frog and heel.
Lye Hominy And Other Dainties From Old Recipes
A reminiscence on making lye hominy with corn and wood ashes, urging readers to recall traditional methods and inviting farmers' wives to share. Also a brief humor exchange about a child staying up late and a note on making carmine ink from carmine and ammonia.
The Lost Child and Parental Responsibility
A Camden Maine Herald piece urges parents to guard children’s health against disease and neglect. It cites W. O. Thomas’s family tragedy and warns care for kidneys and liver as crucial, linking improper care to fatal outcomes while endorsing Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.
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Camden
W. O. Thomas
Hermon
Edward
Eddie
Charles K. Miller
Warner
Edward Thomas
Bright
Milledgeville mare injures mules in escape incident
A Milledgeville resident reports his twenty one year old mare turned violent last year, killing a horse and escape night damage to two mules. Both animals suffered broken legs and multiple bruises, rendering them worthless.
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Milledgeville
Judge Hunt Learns Russian During St Petersburg Stay
Judge Hunt, our minister to Russia, has acquired the language and now converses readily in Russian after his residence in St Petersburg.
Toothache cured by St Jacobs Oil in ballroom incident
A Madison Democrat item reports an aching tooth fixed by St Jacobs Oil after a young man became enraged in a ballroom. He rushed to a drug store and used the German remedy, and the pain subsided within ten minutes.
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Madison
Wis
Democrat
Ah Duck the Celestial Murderer and Death’s Pleasure
A Goon illustration of the ruling passion strong in death appears in Ah Duck the Celestial murderer who rushes to be hanged so he may return after twenty years to torment foes. The piece ponders pleasures of haunting as a ghostly spook at night while foes shriek in terror, a macabre ambition celebrated or mocked by the Herald.
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Ah Duck
Earth
Manila
V. X. Herald
Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla Endurance Claim
A reader testimonial from A Lavy credits Dr. Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla with restoring strength after overwork fatigue and anxiety. The note describes improved endurance and happiness following the remedy. The text also includes a Yonkers Statesman quotation about a lack of practice delaying a musician's return to form.
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A Lavy
Do Likewise From Mrs Morcan on Uterine Cure
Five years ago Mrs E F Morcan of New Castle Maine suffered severe uterine trouble after exhausting three doctors. She began using the Favorite Prescription and guidance from Common Sense Medical Adviser and in three months was cured. She shared her success with family papers and received over four hundred letters of thanks and further confirmations from readers who started the treatment.
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R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
E. F. Morcan
New Castle
Dawley
City of
Providence
Hunt's
Hunt
E. R. Dawiey
Broad Street
Size Ain't Everything Says The San Francisco Post
A column dismisses the focus on size while noting a watch’s ticking can be heard farther than a lead, reflecting a metaphor about reach over raw scale in city life. The piece echoes urban wit and practical observation from the paper.
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San Francisco Post
Chicago and Alton Route Offers Seamless Kansas City to Chicago Travel
The Chicago and Alton Railroad markets its Kansas City to Chicago and Kansas City to St Louis routes as requiring no car changes. It promises continuous Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars and Palace Dining Cars through Kansas City to Chicago and St Louis to Chicago with no meal gaps, plus through Palace Reclining Chairs and assured connections at major hubs. A concluding aphorism about bald eagles and heirs closes the note.
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Kansas City
Chicago
St. Louis
Union
Bloomington
Palace
Curiaco and Alton Railroad
Unadorned Beauty and Trial Belts in 30 Days
An ad touts beauty pills for clear skin and promises from the Vortaic Bell Co of Marshall Michigan to ship Dr Dye's Celebrated Electro Volt Belt and Electric Appliances on a thirty day trial to men with nervous debility and low vitality, with a guarantee of restoration and no risk. The photographer's business is noted as being at a standstill.
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Vortaic Bell Co
Marshall, Mich
Testimony of a Physician Endorses Dr Wu Cough Balsam
Dr James Beecher of Sigourney Iowa attests to long time use of a cough balsam called Dr Wu and Hall s Bat for the lungs noting near universal success in his practice since Civil War army service as surgeon of Hospital No 7 in Louisville Kentucky.
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James Beecher
Sigourney
Iowa
Wu. Hall
Louisville
Shortest cure claims for rheumatism pamphlet offer
Advertisement style notes promising rheumatism cure in the shortest time with a free 40 page pamphlet from R. K. Helphens stine, druggist in Washington DC. Also includes assorted advertisement quips and product pitches for cough relief and other tonics.
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R. K. Helphenstine
Washington, D. C
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Iowa State Register
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Missouri
Corton
Aes
BRK
New Mess
New York
Yonkers Statesman
The
Chicago and Alton Railroad
Hale
Pike
Puck
N. O. Picayune
Tren
Wise
Burlington Free P’ress
Lyon
Beth Young
Aid
LaLa
U.soie
INGE
Freelus
Pamet
Aulman & Taylor Co
Manafield
Uule
Queen City
ICO
E. Adams Bt
J.C. Lighthouse & Beo
Rochester
Ernst, Tayden & Yangue
Winona
Mist
Sheridan
Johnson & CO
Hong
Mass
Roth & Bro
New Oxford, Pa
N.Y
Eee
Rcstamblaist Wabaah-ay
E. F. Nason &Co
Marla
Dresel Corrine
D.W. Moody &Co
Cincinnati
de. J. St Tevugns
Lebanon
Ohio
Tras & Co
Angusta, Me
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Brockton
Baltimore
N.K
Shen Whiting
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