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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1887
Page
4
A fragmented agricultural column offers tips on soil preparation and weed control, mentioning plant care, fertilizing materials, wood ash, and compost. It includes guidance on watering, mulching, and bed maintenance, with practical notes on injury care for livestock and wounds.
The fragment lists various home tasks including preparing milk por and hot water mixtures, making batter and cakes, and cleaning with lime solutions. It mentions dish ideas like roast beef slices, potato dishes, and salad pours, plus starching tips and a Hood's Sarsaparilla ad asserting value and fair return for money.
A Cincinnati Commercial Gazette correspondent describes the Amazon as the king of rivers, noting its width, immense flow, rainfall, and effects of the Andes. He travels from Para toward Santarem aboard a steamer, observes rubber workers, river lighthouses, and the dense, diverse forest, detailing native life, canopy, and animal life along the lower Amazon.
A wide mix of notes cites university enrollments and degrees in Scotland, honors in music, Pilate’s sentence misrendered in a Milan translation, salamanders from Japan with peculiar biology, church restorations and fundraising in 19th century England, plus temperance and charitable totals. The items read as brief curios and institutional milestones from historic press.
In 1873 a Lockport druggist recommended Hood's Sarsaparilla after a long struggle with scrofula and chronic catarrh. The patient, Charles A. Rom Ents of East Wilson New York, took twelve bottles in a year and reports disappearance of eruptions and abscesses though scars remain. W J Huntley corroborates the cure as a great victory. The ad promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla, $1 for 100 doses, made by G L Hood & Co Lowell Mass.
A jumble of comic snippets and spoof texts includes jokes about a soldier a titled nobleman and a railway mishap described with playful spelling. It also presents a parody marriage ceremony rite with archaic phrasing and mock prayers for Isaac and Becks, ending with humorous, rambling asides.
An advertisement extols women’s need to combat functional irregularities that age them prematurely. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a tested remedy for female weakness, claiming it restores youth and vitality. Distributed through druggists.
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