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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1881
Page
5
The article advises cooling hogs in hot weather with shade and water, plus feeding adjustments and creek and pool access. It covers gypsum use as a fertilizer helper, ammonia fixation in clover and grasses, and shows practical manure uses from horse hoofs, ashes, bones, and leatherwork scraps. It also notes water and wood preservation tips for farming equipment.
The article outlines plate glass production from pouring and rolling to final burnishing. It describes attaching glass to plaster of Paris beds on rotating platforms, using sand then emery grinding, rouge polishing, and heavy machinery. A large skilled workforce is required to transform a one inch plate into a smooth three quarter inch finished pane.
Instructions for preserving gooseberries with dry weather method and bottling. Also guides on drawn work shawns, stomach ailments remedies parched corn pudding, poison neutralization with sweet oil, and assorted household tips including bonnet baskets, batter cake, cayenne tincture, hoarseness remedy, and potato rub for warts.
Experiments in Paris show a horse may last 25 days without solid food if supplied with water. A horse can survive 5 days without water, and 10 days with adequate food but little water, yet perish after day 11. A horse starved for 12 days could still haul 600 pounds on day 12. A glass and porcelain cutting method uses diamond-coated German silver disks to bore and carve quickly with minimal tool wear.
A miscellany of comic quips and anecdotes with feeble jokes and moralizing asides. Light verse and sketches poke fun at love, marriage, editors, and social foibles during a rambling parade of humorous vignettes and a few pointed jabs at public life.
Letters from W L Lloyd and R M Buepherd & Co. extol Vegetine as a life changing blood purifier and remedy for fever, chills, measles sequelae, and joint pain. Mrs Lloyd claims her son recovered from severe illness with eighteen bottles, and praises no ill effects.
The article surveys mica its properties and uses from acid resistance to lamp shades and shoe linings. It notes large North Carolina deposits with historic workings and details modern applications including compass dials and sign lettering.
Instructions describe using syrup or milk as a base for mustard plasters to keep them soft and pliable. An absorbent layer such as paper or fine cloth should lie between the plaster and skin. Variation in strength is achieved by adjusting the quantity of Hour.
A fragmentary page promotes Hop Bitters as a tonic and purifying option for stomach and blood, with other tips including saltwater enema for colic, a hominy based bake, Lydia E. Pinkham’s remedy claims, and a pest control tip using iron perchloride. The text reflects late 19th or early 20th century patent medicine advertising and home cures.
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