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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1880
Page
4
A man at a post office lamp clerk window struggles to spell Jim and recall his friend Jim’s exact name and address. The crowd jokes while the card remains unwritten, and the man fears sending the message with wrong details about his sick wife.
Mrs A E Watson of California wed George Rouak a wealthy stock grower of the Arkansas Valley after meeting on a Buena Vista equestrian outing. The ceremony occurred near Granite with Mrs Wright as bridemaid and A J Scott as groomsman. An accident on a bridge left Mrs Wright with a broken arm, yet the couple proceeded with the marriage as planned while a perilous journey to Leadville added to their ordeals.
The article praises Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for bilious liver ailments, noting it relieves pains, skin hue changes, blood impurity, constipation, and bad breath. It claims quick, pleasant improvement and brands the tonic as botanic with no harmful ingredients, recommended by physicians.
The article discusses winter grafting of grape vines to avoid sap pressure in spring. It explains Miller of Missouri method with stock prepared two inches deep and a wedge graft fitted and tied. French interest has spread Concord and Clinton cuttings to France, boosting future wine quality.
Anakesis, described as an infallible cure for piles, is touted as a scientific poultice and medicine by DruLsBer and medical men. It claims instant relief and lasting care for sufferers who have tried other remedies, with mail delivery at $1 per box and samples sent by P Neustaedter & Co.
The article notes a shift in public taste away from fat in meat, visible in England and America. It argues fat provides little полезный nutrition, worsening digestion and reducing value for laborers and professionals. Rising fat prices and scarcity push buyers toward lean meat for better nutrition and cost efficiency.
The article advises keeping hens warm and well fed during winter. Avoid crowding, provide ample space, clean houses, fresh air, and ample clean water. Ensure constant access to oyster shells or finely crushed bones for calcium.
Farmers who spread a thin coat of manure and expect a good crop would be astonished by the quantities market gardeners apply. They often spend 600 dollars of horse manure to an acre and two to three hundred dollars per acre is common, with a reward in their yields.
The article explains a compost method where two heaps are formed at each end of a pile, each three feet from the center, with coarsest material in the middle. After nine feet of heap build up, the piles heat within a month and are then reversed to form a single heap again.
The complaint claims Vegetine quickly improves debility by acting on the blood and body systems. It asserts Vegetine nourishes strengthens purifies the blood regulates bowels steadies nerves and arouses overall function, with no remedy matching its effects.
Two historic recipes outline making Florida water scented with bergamot, lemon, lavender and cloves in a base of alcohol and water. The first mix uses 31 gallons of alcohol then adds 6 pints of water after a day or two. The second combines bergamot orange and cinnamon with tinctures and balsams, then alcohol and water, to rest before filtering and boiling.
A vintage recipe prescribes boiling two ounces linseed in a quart of water, straining, adding two ounces sugar candy, a pint of whiskey, juice of three lemons, and boiling briefly. Let cool, bottle, and take a teacup before bed with the hotter the better.
To a tablespoonful of pearl barley washed in cold water add two or three lumps of sugar and the juice of half a lemon. Pour one quart of boiling water over and let stand seven or eight hours, strain, never reuse the barley. Half an ounce of isinglass may be boiled in the water. Increase sugar if desired. A strengthening drink for fevers or weak stomachs.
Instructions advise preparing ground brown or white rice with boiling water then steeping, straining, and sweetening with leaf sugar and boiled milk. The mixture is to be drunk freely and is noted as particularly nice for children.
A deodorized petroleum extract named Carboline is advertised as the sole real cure for baldness. The product is described as recently improved, free from objections, and the best hair dressing known.
Wash Irish moss, soak in boiling water for two hours, strain and squeeze in lemon juice. Sweeten to taste. If lemon cannot be used, flavor with vanilla or nutmeg. Serve at a kept warm boil point.
A brief cooking note instructs broiling a small thick surloin steak over clear coal fire for eight minutes, then seasoning with salt, placing on a warm plate, and serving immediately.
Into one quart of boiling milk stir two tablespoonfuls of flour mixed with cold milk. Add a handful of raisins and a pinch of grated nutmeg. Boil twenty minutes. Season with salt and strain.
A recipe explains corn tea made from sweet dried corn and boiling water steeped fifteen minutes described as light and nutritious for weak patients. The text also states Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup is highly regarded with endorsements from leading druggists.
To remove a stain from a mattress, make a thick paste by wetting starch with cold water. Spread the paste over the stain while the mattress basks in the sun. Rub off after a couple of hours and repeat if the ticking remains not perfectly clean.
A caller describes rubbing the affected area with the hand until numbness dulls the pain. The method is claimed to cure most pains and heal frequent open sores by rubbing around them.
Crystalized carbolic acid applied two or three times daily with the cork of the bottle relieves pain immediately and removes the corn in a few weeks.
A simple home treatment suggests dipping linen in turpentine and wrapping the toe with the corn night and morning. This method promises immediate relief and eventual disappearance of the corn after a few days.
Guidance notes that mutton or lamb chops are cooked and served the same as beefsteak, with fat trimmed from the edges. If the patient cannot eat rare meat, have the steak and chops cut rather thin.
D G Owens a local Altoona Pa druggist says Dr Bull's Baby Syrup has a wonderful reputation and astonishing demand. He notes mothers will have no other and predicts it will supersede all other soothing syrups.
The passage advises that Tra leaves used to reduce dust during carpet sweeping can stain light colors. It recommends salt as the winter cleaning aid and new mown hay for summer use to manage dust and keep fabrics cleaner.
A tip suggests soaking sponges in buttermilk for several hours to clean them, then squeezing and washing in cold water. Lemon juice is also recommended as an additive for cleaning properties.
To drive away fleas pour coal oil upon animals such as hogs and dogs where fleas breed. Vermin on cattle can be affected by dipping and currying with coal oil. The notice promotes a simple home remedy to rid livestock of vermin.
Directions describe boiling one cup of milk then adding one tablespoon vinegar to form curdled whey. If needed add more vinegar to complete curdling and strain the mixture.
To one cup of boiling sweet milk add one cup of sour milk and strain. This concise preparation method presents a simple dairy blend instruction with clear proportional guidance. The item reads like a practical kitchen tip from a historical or domestic booklet.
A reader from Flemington New Jersey describes six bottles of Golden Medical Discovery and Purgative Pellets curing large ulcers and sores on his body limbs and face. He claims his health is restored and expresses deep gratitude in a heartfelt note to Dr. R V Pierce Duffilo New York.
Two young men in a rail car with a Ladies Traveling Alone placard light cigars. An old lady protests and the porter moves the sign to the adjacent car to correct the exposure causing a humorous, light moment at the station.
A critic sniffs at what he calls flirtatious behavior by young ladies in public life. He condemns street corner loitering hat tossing and Sunday night dancing as improper conduct before churchgoers and suitors.
Harvard students bought a forged examination copy from a printer who replicated questions from an old catalogue after failing to obtain the original. The transaction netted $300. The report notes a tense Cambridge day with unsettling air around the campus.
He pressed for her photograph and declared he cared for her affirmative after months of pursuit. Carrie remained silent as his remark unsettled her, and he immediately set out for the tailor the next morning while she tried on various outfits.
A historical remedy claim notes Corucus Brown’s bronchial trocurs reduce irritation that causes coughing. It is said to provide immediate relief for bronchitis influenza hoarseness and respiratory difficulties associated with consumption and asthma.
William McCabe of Cynthiana Kentucky says he gave his aged mother a sound whipping for an unjust punishment she inflicted on him as a boy thirty years earlier. He stated his motive was to settle the score before she grew too old to allow revenge.
A playful night hours dispute turns on a clever math joke as one person questions lateness. The other retorts with a pun equating three o clock to a quarter past twelve, highlighting lighthearted domestic banter.
Citizens express opposition to policies aimed at keeping money in circulation claiming the measure circulates too quickly. The debate centers on delaying spending to curb rapid currency movement.
A fragment shows a mother and daughter exchanging old time sayings, then shifts to an advertisement for Dobbins Electric Soap from Cragin & Co of Philadelphia. The dialogue includes dialect humor about hands in pockets and a mock prohibition of such acts on Sundays.
Denver learns of a gold strike at Platte Canon. Prospectors flood in by train, hundreds rush to stake claims within hours and a full week turns the valley into a bustling city.
A small boy boasts of his father’s many skills claiming he is a notary public an apothecary a doctor who can mend wagons and feeth and play the fiddle declaring he is a jackass at all trades.
In the clipped dialogue two characters, JrEMIS and Robin, discuss a newspaper forecast predicting another storm next Monday. Robin laments that since the Yankees have seized control of weather reporting, storms arrive every other day.
A playful exchange imagines a gay rooster inviting a hen to dance in a quiet nest. The line ends with a pun about an aching tooth forcing silence as the sufferer clams up and holds his jaw.
A brief health note claims that coughing in succession seeds consumption and promotes a speedy recovery with Dr Jaynes Expectorant. It asserts effectiveness against colds early stages of consumption asthma and bronchitis.
Persons with sedentary habits suffer kidney trouble and weak blood. Overwork and irritant medicines worsen kidney disease. Simmons Liver Regulator three times daily strengthens digestion and blood, restoring kidney health. A user testimonial from Gro H Pratt cites long time improvement and urges publication.
Sherman and Co of Marshall Michigan seeks an agent in the county at once with a salary of 100 dollars monthly and expenses paid. Full particulars may be obtained by writing to the above address.
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