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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1878
Page
4
A rural New Yorker writer urges simple, consistent poultry care to boost winter laying. Provide sound food and regular light feeding, sparing use of pepper, charcoal, sulphur, and cayenne. isolate and treat diseased birds early. Favor grains like wheat and oats over corn, use a hearty soft food with potatoes or turnips and beef scraps, and maintain morning light feeding.
Agricultural notes advise on outdoor life aiding digestion and night harvesting with electric light. Practical measurements include a square acre of 209 feet per side. Observations cover horse-shoe durability, pea versus corn yields, weed control, and hog feeding trials comparing soaked, cooked, and dry corn.
A gentleman in India retrieves a hawk from his library and feels a prick in his finger. The pain swells to his arm and body, and he flees, realizing the danger was more than a mere pinprick from a careless bookmark.
A varied kitchen column lists recipes for gingerbread cards and breadlike pastries, a method for repainting gilded surfaces, a cheese toast bake, shortbread, and mixed preserves. It also includes preserving green corn, pickling with spices, and notes on the freshness and quality of game birds.
In a British Association address Isaac Roberts reported sea water salinity rising in Liverpool wells and demonstrated sandstone filtration removing most salts. He showed dried stones released salts when filtering spring water, indicating a mechanical process. Also noted are journal-box lining improvements for ships like the Gleneagle boosting bearing efficiency and engine speed after upgrading to Parson’s white brass.
The Gleneagle's speed improved by manganese bronze and white brass, shaving about two and a half days from the China to London run. The Woosung to London passage, including stops at Singapore and the Suez Canal, was 38 days and 2 hours, claimed the fastest on record. Bearings were found in perfect order after London examination, and the ship was prepared for another voyage.
A jumble of quips and sketches propounds satirical scenes and puns. It features misused phrases about reputation and humility, a joke about marriage timing, a motherly lie lesson, a farmer's clash with artists, and a Q&A on expressing thoughts. The tone is brisk, mock conversational, and period voice.
An advertisement proclaims Beararen's Liniment is unequalled for people and animals, urging readers to see the offer in the adjoining column and learn how this remedy may help both man and beast.
An advertisement asserts that Dr Jaynes Expecturant reliably treats lung trouble and throat disease. It claims the remedy is prompt and effective and promotes its use for respiratory ailments.
Dr Taylor of the Consumption Hospital promotes vitalized phosphates prepared from wheat germ and ox brain. Hypophosphates claim to increase growth, chest expansion, power, nervous strength and appetite. London doctors report higher cure rates with the product versus cod liver oil. Churchill and V.P. advertised for sale by F Crosby in New York.
A Northern fall article extols Thermaline as a cures-all for chills and fever, arguing quinine is costly and nauseating. An unnamed druggist claims a 25 cent box of Thermaline cures a case after $3 worth of quinine and pills were ineffective. Sent to readers with a 10 cent explanatory booklet from Downas Duck & Co. at 35 Wooster Street, New York.
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