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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1876
Page
7
A reflective verse about summer flowers lifting hearts and evoking memories of loved ones. The speaker notes lilac chains red clove pinks and columbine as symbols of time, seasons, and bittersweet joy, with the cuckoo’s song recalling longing and sadness.
German agricultural schools tested grass and hay at various stages to compare nutritive value. Young grass two and a half inches high supplies more albumenoids and crude fat, and is more digestible than mature grass. Autumnal hay proved more nutritious than summer hay.
A Nevada shepherd argues sheep outperform bonds, stressing fat ewes, crossbreeding, and good pasture. He cites feeding practices, winter hay, and roots, noting fat lambs and heavy fleeces improve sale value while parasites like ticks must be controlled, with tobacco juice as a killer method.
A reader offers practical fruit canning tips noting tin and glass cans both work well if sealed air tight. She warns against leaving opened fruit in tin and advises cleansing cans, checking for leaks, and choosing can types by fruit, with glass for cherries and certain berries.
The guide recommends repairing broken glass cans, saving them for pantry storage, warming jars before filling, and using hot water to prevent cooling. It advises inspecting fruit for pits, removing most but a few, and cooking in a porcelain pot with minimal sugar to keep flavors natural and digestible.
The article advises reducing box numbers as honey flow ends, inspecting packed boxes for moth worms and fumigating with brimstone, and isolating affected boxes. It discusses swarm inspection for laying queens, reasons farmers avoid bees, and urges readers to study standard beekeeping works to improve practices and persevere.
The article outlines a potato soup recipe using eight potatoes two turnips and onions boiled in beef or poultry water strained and thickened with butter and flour and folded with cream or milk and parsley. It also describes a summer sandwich method using half a pound of butter and three tablespoonfuls of oil with light or red options.
A recipe snippet describes mixing pepper salt egg yolk with bread and meat for sandwiches, then cooking a hash with onion herbs in a stewpan. Also included is a mock cream toast method with milk butter flour egg yolks strained and heated to pour over toast.
Advertisement claims Juniper Tar Soap from Caswell Hazard Co New York cures ported faces rough skin chapped hands and saltrheum and leaves skin soft and smooth. Warns that imitators use common tar and are worthless. Com.
The passage portrays Albert Grant as a Gereman man about fifty with a jaunty demeanor. It notes his small eyes, aquiline nose, flowing whiskers, and anxious, hard working lines, describing him as a gambler for massive stock exchange stakes.
Dr. Pierce describes the liver as the body’s house keeper and links liver disease to a wide range of symptoms from dullness and headaches to digestive trouble and skin eruptions. The advisory urges Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets as a lasting treatment, and promotes free samples of Dobbins Electric Soap and various remedies.
An advertisement extols Purton's Purgative Pills as free from impure matter and free of harsh griping. It claims the pills are mild, health-giving, and beneficial for the system, urging readers to use them for relief and wellness.
Advertisement promotes the WEEKLY WisconsIN subscription at fifty cents for six months postpaid. The ad claims it is the cheapest best paper in the Northwest and lists Cramer Aikens & Cramer of Milwaukee as contact. It also promotes Vezetine as a skin remedy to remove the disease cause from the system.
Physicians advise debiltated travelers and hot weather sufferers to use Dr Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic to restore strength and appetite. The tonic, with herbs, is said to not create thirst for alcohol and can be taken after meals. Sold by all druggists along with Mandrake Pills for travel and dietary changes.
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