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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1884
Page
4
Detailed household instructions cover starch making from corn by washing, grating, and clarifying, plus blade mushrooms and currants prepared with egg white wash and sugar. Additional recipes include frosted grapes and currants, bread pudding with raisins, wass provrep goons color fix, baked apples with nutmeg, and boiled potatoes finished with a towel. Also notes on dyeing fabric with chromate and salt bath methods.
A sensational column describes a mysterious disease causing chest pains, fatigue, digestive issues, and nervousness. It cites Dr A Richards of Boston who reports recovery after using Werner's Tippecanoe, praising the remedy and criticizing medical failings while urging precaution and early treatment.
A tall sidewhiskered man halts another and asks for a metch and other small items. After a hurried search the melancholy man admits he has nothing, but lends his knife, pencil, half a dollar and gloves, then sees the other off with a dapper air as he leaves the street.
The proposed Jordan canal, framed as a vast inland sea about three hundred miles long and ten to fifteen miles wide, would raise the Dead Sea by roughly 1,300 feet and erase the Jordan, Dead Sea, and Lake Tiberias. A wide navigable channel would replace the current rivers, flooding lands on the western Jordan valley and fertilizing deserts with evaporative rainfall.
The Grown Princess of Germany completed a fine painting of the royal gardens at Bornstadt near Potsdam to be exhibited. Her second son, Prince Henry, is noted for artistic talent especially in marine subjects. Prof William Ramsay proposes applying vibration theory to sense of smell, suggesting odors arise from vibrations of lower period than light or heat. A Berlin Physical Society member coats organic matter with metal to preserve it, showing specimens like a beetle, butterfly, crab, mulberry leaf, and rosebud plated with gold, silver, and copper with preserved detail.
A historical notice covers grazing practices by mixed cattle sheep and horses improving pastures, plum pest details, plow and seed tips, poultry rearing, nitrate and lime use for soil, and general farm economy. It notes sheep and cattle interactions, feed regimens, and climate effects on livestock and crops.
A humorous slice of street life and misc items from a Boston scene includes a pair at a restaurant where the man pretends perfect taste and the woman requests frogs limbs. The page also holds farcical tales of divorces, hotel ads, moonlit romance, and punny product pitches, all in a breezy, city newspaper voice.
Describes Central African itinerant musicians known as Griots under a powerful chief feared by local peoples. Notes their music including violin, guitar, tam tam, and wind instruments, plus a long-standing confederation. The era notes mischief attributed to their licence and beliefs about impurity. The article then shifts to a dramatic oil country tale of nitro glycerine dangers, recounting Hank Franco and Warren Jack handling explosives, a fatal blast, and the wreckage along a road with a wagon and bodies. It includes other snippets on cures, a stray ad voice, and assorted observations about birds, photography spending, and weeds in vacant ground.
The passage reflects on past epidemics, notably the fourteenth century Black Death. It describes how fear, myth, and crowd behavior shaped responses, the lethal spread from Asia to Europe, brutal symptoms, mass graves, and social panic including flagellants and Jewish persecution.
A recipe advises coating machinery with camphor dissolved in lard to color iron and resist tarnish for months. It also notes carbonate of ammonia as a bread improver, describing it as a harmless hydrogen nitrogen gas that dissipates without residue.
The piece cites fears the tunnel could facilitate invasion of Great Britain in wartime and mentions Siemens proposing chalk chamber defenses with carbonate acid gas to deter passage. It also notes experiments with color blindness from prolonged exposure to artificial lights and lists fainting first aid steps with lying flat, cooling, and aromatic spirits as a stimulant dose.
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