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Newspaper
Lawrence Weekly Journal
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1887
Page
2
The Journal reports Wichita county farmers nominate a farmer ticket and discuss August rains and corn prospects. Mason Sims cites Kansas corn output forecast at one third below normal.
An advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a carefully prepared remedy mixing sarsaparilla dandelion mandrake and other agents to purify blood boost appetite aid digestion and strengthen organs. It cites cures for scrofula salt rheum boils pimples and various disorders linked to impure blood and lists testimonials from named individuals. It also notes price and availability from C J Hood & Co and urges sending for cures booklet. The latter paragraph reports Georgia legislature's stance on Atlanta University funding and a Winnipeg Canada Pacific official escape from subponea to attend Red River trouble examinations.
A detailed survey of the Icarian community near Corning and the Amana colonists in Iowa. The Icarian experiment split into old and new factions, with elders maintaining traditional farms and youths seeking change, while Amana thrives with centralized meals, strict rules, female leadership, and a large industrial base.
The writer argues that true happiness does not come from wealth or idle ease. Sorrow resides in affluent households as in poorer ones, but the honest laboring class bears fewer skeletons of idle comfort. Industry yields content beyond riches, contrasting idle leisure with diligent toil.
A collection of farm guidance covers horse care with gear checks and skin protection, orchard spacing at twenty by twenty feet, summer shoe removal, vermin control, and dairy cattle notes. It advises kerosene washes, carbolic acid solutions, and hot water udder treatments, plus lime and plaster use on clover and tree pruning.
Practical tips for cooking and home remedies include using wormwood leaves to deter ants, a water bath for custard, coffee with lemon juice for neuralgic headache relief, and oiling a gunpowder urn with inseed oil. Recipes cover tomato bake, stale bread cheese melt, and jam sandwiches with batter fried in lard. Declares shifts in tableware and warns against excessive domestic routines.
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