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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1881
Page
4
The piece surveys antidote approaches for common poisons, stressing emetics and stomach pumping over chemical antidotes. It covers lead poisoning from water or containers, copper and arsenic reactions, mercury salts, antimony and copper salts, and cyanide poisons, detailing symptoms and standard antidotes, along with warnings on rapid action and limits of treatments.
Dr. de Plongeon, a Mexican antiquarian, reports discussions at Uxmal in Yucatan about Chaldaic words inscribed on a stone. He believes these may relate to a Masonic lodge and suggests stone records could connect early American civilization to the far East, though he admits his theories rest on conjecture.
A Michigan poetess sends a rhyming lament about bere brown fields and naked trees. The piece prompts a tongue in cheek suggestion that young women send poems to the Police Suzette for illustrated display, seen as a bananga for the family paper.
A detailed account of a visit to Baroness Burdett Coutts highlighting her refined, modest demeanor and wealth, and describing the elegant home in London. The piece portrays guests, the baroness’s husband Mr Ashmond Bartlett, and the lavish interiors, gardens, pavilions, and birds, with observations on style and social mood. It includes a long aside on weather discussion aboard a South Hill car.
Advice on keeping cattle hydrated with ample water sources and shade in pastures, including wells and pipes, plus shelter strategies using trees and vines. Then a first person account of Mr Mouroe walking in Folk County, seeking shelter from a storm, meeting an old cabin inhabitant who attacked him, and discovering the man’s wife was long dead.
The article traces cigarette popularity in the United States noting New York manufactories and rising demand among Young Americans. It surveys historical origins, foreign paper quality, and tobacco varieties, mentioning Turkish and Havana blends, with a light aside on chic packaging and fashion. It also references a Presbyterian minister and ends noting a medical college for women to open in San Francisco.
Agricultural notes discuss sensible poultry keeping with small flocks and free feeding on insects and seeds. Advice covers housing, hen brood care, fresh eggs, and collecting eggs daily for hatchery use, plus buckwheat flour, bran use, fodder for cattle, Jersey Island dairy yields, and various farming tips such as horse blankets, litter, and wool dyeing concerns.
A domestic column offers winter kitchen and home care advice. It covers waking early for fresh air, ventilating beds, making a jewel box from cardboard, and various poultry and dessert preparations. Also included are tips on warming cold feet, beef broth, celery as diet, and simple remedies for common ailments.
A collage of comic vignettes and dialogue with sharp, rough humor. Jokes about printers, settlers, and city life mix with offbeat anecdotes, stray phrases, and rural observations. The piece reads as a late 19th or early 20th century humor column with quick quips and local color.
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