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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1879
Page
4
A column of miscellaneous household hints covers making a fermented beverage with honey and water, baking cakes with simple ingredients, preparing asparagus and vegetables, and using natural remedies. It includes practical tips on braiding husk mats, washing with soap, and a fish stew with onions, tomato catsup, and port wine, all in a dated domestic tone.
In a parlor scene Mrs Brown and Mrs White discuss health in the city and mountains. Mrs Warfling credits Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery for restoring vigor after illness, praising treatments, baths, and hotel stays as superior to the White Mountains.
A late 19th century column recounts comic vignettes from Michigan Avenue including a small confectionery owner who negotiates 120 cents on the dollar with three creditors after declaring he has only sixty dollars on hand. The piece weaves in jokes about lawyers, a pig theft, and humorous anecdotes on employment and remedies, ending with a plug for Dr Jayne’s Carminative Balsam as a cure-all for bowel ailments.
J Howlett of Syracuse writes from Europe about a Dutch dairy farm in Tolland. He describes stable design, tail cords, water troughs, and brass pails alongside traditional churns and cheese molds. Cattle prices cited range from 80 to 200 dollars, with cows around 80 to 140 and bulls 120 to 200. Also notes on a corn effect in pig feed and a fertilizer method for hill planting using bone dust, wood ashes, and poultry manure for early growth.
The article describes tinctures and powders for cow udder inflammation and horse rheumatism. It recommends aconite tincture in feed to treat garget and a regimen using saltpetre squills colchicum cantharides and can be dosed as twelve powders for rheumatism, with storage and feeding guidance.
An early medical advertisement extols Sostetter's Stomach Bitter as a diuretic aid for kidney and bladder function. It also promotes Hoofland's German Bitters for liver disorders and Kunkel's Worm Syrup for tape and stomach worms, with dramatic claims of universal worm cures and office advice free of charge.
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