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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1883
Page
4
The text explains that animals must receive a balanced diet with all essential elements. It stresses proportional nourishment of bones, muscles, and tissues, adequate fuel via carbon, and ample nitrogenous, glutinous, and phosphatic nutrients found in corn only in small amounts. Salt aids absorption through mechanical actions.
The article traces the thermometer’s history from early open-tube devices to closed tubes using mercury, noting key figures like Drebbel, Halley, and Celsius. It explains fixed points, calibration, and the shift to mercury, with mention of Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Reaumur scales, and describes modern construction and accuracy tests.
A miscellany of kitchen instructions and home tips including frozen custard with pineapple, croquettes made from tongue and sweetbreads, macaroni with chicken and cream gravy, mosquito repellent, wall paper removal tips, home cordial with currants and ginger, decorations using congreve glass, mint sauce preservation, rattan chair fashion, and various small household notes on plants, ornaments, lamp shades, and kitchen hygiene.
A collage of anecdotes and snippets from a 19th century Austin page. It opens with a New York millionaire teaching his son to speculate, then recalls a storm day duck anecdote, a loan tale, a jokey marriage dialogue, a hotel dining gag, and a short medical note on disinfectants.
A pharmaceutic ad and testimonial page extols St Jacobs Url as a pan cure doubling trade and a major remedy. It features Benj W Patton of Globe Village and multiple patient testimonials for Hunt's Remedy and other products. Endorsers include Mrs W H Stilson of Boston and Elisha Nose of South Boston, praising kidney and liver relief.
Investigations reveal sugar present in leaves and stalks, accumulating in the embryo until starch forms in seeds. Sugar then moves into the inflorescence to support it, and finally into seeds where it is converted to starch, supplying the seed with starch elements.
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