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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1884
Page
4
A travel sketch details the Motel Iturbide in Mexico with no elevator, scarce lighting, and minimal amenities. It describes the odd blackboard register, a police influenced guest-check system, and the sparse room fittings, including candles and lack of stoves or fireplaces.
An ancient list records the ages of tree species under an undisclosed authority. Cedar appears around 3,000 years old, with other species like schubertia 3,200, and orange 620 years, among many ages ranging from 900 to 1,500 years for various species.
A long report reflects a farmers meeting on cutting hay timing and curing methods for clover and timothy, with varied opinions on sun exposure and storage. It also covers corn improvement via selective breeding, livestock hygiene, celery and cabbage intercropping, and practical household tips from milk washing dishes to beef pickling.
A feature profiles Colonel B. S. Densmore Rin John T. Rickard and Mr T F Pendel at the White House. They recall guarding Lincoln and Garfield era duties, malaria battles, and their remedy use Warner's Safe Cure. They endorse the medicine and recount health gains and personal trials.
A jumble of anecdotes and notices includes a plumber touting durable pipes, a minty rodent recipe with a joke about a hard drinking household, a grand hotel ad promising luxury at low rates, a Bathing Establishment tale with a tip jar twist, letters praising Hunt’s Remedy for kidney and liver disease, a judge and juror quip, and assorted quips about colleges and Pocahontas.
A native recalls how a wild frontier town transformed in five years from wilderness to a growing settlement with twenty men in jail and forty in the poorhouse. A preacher once ran a retail shop and urged a passerby to attend prayers after chores.
A curio of kitchen lore presents recipes for meats and desserts, sauces and puddings, plus methods to clean silver, marble, and to craft paper racks. It notes decorative ware and a novel ice towboat by an Oswego inventor, with instructions on preparing thyme tied lettuces and ginger cakes.
A discussion on reducing shaft fractures aboard steamships proposes adding short drop-in spindles between the driving wheel and roll trains to absorb strain. The idea mirrors rolling-mill practice and favors cast iron spindles replaceable in minutes. The piece also notes Muybridge’s photographic studies of motion gaining European acclaim.
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