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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1881
Page
4
Agricultural tips explain hogs gain little in heat, with skin sores from sun and fat causing discomfort. Provide shade and cooling water, wallows, green fodder, sour milk, and limit heating foods. Use pools, streams, pipes, and shade from trees or straw sheds to keep hogs cool.
Gypsum sulphate of lime acts indirectly as a fertilizer by attracting atmospheric ammonia to growing clover and grasses. It fixes ammonia on vegetation and aids root nutrition in subsequent years, with variable effectiveness by locality. Apply when plants are two to three inches high, dust on dew laden leaves to form a mucilage that holds ammonia, using about one bushel per acre. It benefits garden vegetables and vines and can deter pests with regular dusting.
A farmer travels weekly to the village for trade and letters while many household wastes such as ash bones and hops can be turned into valuable manure. Shavings from horse hoofs hold high ammonia, and manure layers or soaked horn and hoof water can boost crop growth with rapid results and little odor. The text urges farmers to reclaim urban waste for soil fertility.
The text explains that grease suffocates insects by clogging their surface pores and killing them. It notes mercurial ointment works partly through its oil content, but warns animals licking it may be harmed. any oily application can destroy vermin on animals when applied effectively.
A method describes taxing wood or drinking water tanks by applying a coating of genuine asphaltum melted and stirred for six hours. The dry wood is coated and left to stand several days before it is wetted.
The article outlines plate glass production from melting to final burnishing. It compares rolling with pie crust work, then describes grinding with sand and emery, polishing with rouge, and the heavy machinery and skilled labor needed. The result is a smooth three quarter inch thick plate ready for display windows.
Instructions describe preparing clean dry bottles and ripe gooseberries for bottling. Heat water gradually, scald fruit, fill bottles, seal with boiling water and bladder, then store cool and dry. When used, drain water and re sweeten to preserve flavor and quality until next harvest.
Drawn work stitches for linen items such as towels and table covers. Begin with hemstitch then add lace stitches like herringbone buttonhole, overcasting, chain, darning and knot stitch. Create drawn thread areas by removing threads, cross and bunch, then use chain stitch to join rows. Elaborate with waving thread lines and lace figures.
The writer claims parched corn pudding helps starving patients. He describes roasting corn like coffee, grinding to meal, and serving as mush, gruel, or light cakes with milky parched corn and meal feeding curing summer diarrhea and dysentery in adults.
A column asserts that poison of any description may be instantly neutralized by swallowing two gills of sweet oil, with a stronger dose for robust individuals. It urges readers to cut out the note and keep it for possible use, claiming broad efficacy against vegetable poisons.
In some English houses a bonnet basket sits in the guest bedroom. A flat wicker basket with a cover holds two or three hats and is lined with pink or blue diagonal silesia. The top is interlaced with ribbon tied in bows at the lid corner.
A recipe notes butter sugar flour eggs and milk with soda cream tartar and salt. Fold in citron sliced thin and place endways in batter to keep it from sinking to the bottom during baking.
Take one teaspoon cayenne pepper one teaspoon salt one pint water two tablespoon vinegar and honey or leaf sugar to taste. Mix well and bottle.
A vintage remedy advises beating two egg whites with two teaspoons sugar and grated nutmeg, then adding a pint of warm water. Drink frequently to cure hoarseness quickly.
A terse old note suggests pulverizing leaf sugar and applying it to the afflicted part. It also mentions burnt alum as an old reliable remedy. The text presents these remedies as painless options.
Mr Fairthorne states benzine can have its offensive odor removed by vigorous shaking with quicklime at about three ounces per gallon. The note describes a chemical treatment to deodorize benzine.
A reader suggests a home remedy to cure warts by cutting a slice from a raw potato and rubbing the hand each night until the water dries, promising only a few applications needed.
Instructions advise washing the swollen area with brine and drinking the brine twice daily until the ailment is cured. The guidance reflects a historical home remedy approach without medical endorsement.
Experiments show a horse can survive twenty five days without solid food if water is ample. It can subsist about five days without water. If well fed for ten days but starved of water, it dies before day eleven. A horse with no solid food for twelve days could still pull a 600 pound load on day twelve.
Richter and Co of Chemnitz have developed thin German silver disks coated with diamond that cut glass or porcelain quickly when used on a rotating tool. Cylinders made on the same principle allow rapid, precise holes. The wear on the tool remains hardly perceptible even after extensive use.
A humorous exchange features Brown claiming he suffers from rheumato gout and resisting a dispensary remedy. A young woman questions the treatment while Brown jokes that what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, noting his wife’s physicians and his own “suck” at medicine.
A controversial opinion defends a man who flogged a woman after her body was found on a threshing floor described as a heart turned to jelly. The piece calls for public opinion suspension until his side is printed.
A bygone voice counsels cautious youth to avoid stock and grain gambles. Instead choose a sensible marriage, invest in a home and cottage as margin, promising lasting profits and security with a secure partnership. The tone reads like a moralizing matrimonial ad from an era of frugal wisdom.
A humorous Lovina bride responds to her newlywed husband that she can preserve her orange blossoms for future occasions. The exchange shows playful marital witticisms as the couple navigates home life.
A little girl asks why Solomon needed no bed of his own noting he slept with his fathers. The exchange turns on a playful take about wealth and heritage.
A student thanks a professor for his clear lecture and ability to explain. The professor replies that he is glad the student understood, noting he has studied the subject for thirteen years and still does not feel fully certain about his understanding.
A seven year old recalls a grand wedding in a stylish church and wonders why the organ played Lo he grins. His sister corrects that it was Lo he green, implying a garbled performance and playful misunderstanding.
An American diner disputes an added waiter tip after paying his bill. The waiter asserts the total should include him, prompting a joke that plays on doubled pain and a pun about twins. The remark winds toward a suggestion to seek medical aid.
A young man, aided out of the house by a stern parent, seeks to air grievances via the Shoe and Leather Reporter, proposing the paper as the vehicle for his troubles.
Clara accuses Charley of discarding a cigar as she approaches. Charley asks why she did not express interest and questions how he could know her intent. The brief dialogue centers on a missed signal and playful reproach.
An Arkansas man amused himself by tossing his revolver and catching it, a dangerous prank that contrasted with his funeral described as one of the most recherche affairs ever witnessed in the state.
An evasive editor tells an inquiring woman that to have her dress gore she need only flutter a bendanna handkerchief before a sullen bull. The remark frames a breezy, risky stratagem in a seaside column.
The saying notes that many individuals seek attention by appearing lofty and pretentious. It compares social display to a circus poster and implies the behavior is aimed at drawing notice.
A youthful Berkshire resident was stung on the lip by a bee. The text repeats quips about politics, wind, and unlikely sayings. It also notes an Iowa paper mentioning a separated couple and ends with a remark about a new name for an old boot.
A brief remarks on kindness toward the lone strawberry in a box. The note reflects on awareness by the fruit dealer and the small gesture of sympathy.
A note from a historical policy states widows above fifty in Portugal are forbidden to remarry. The rule reflects a tradition that widows never reach age fifty in practice.
Classic wordplay note about peanut purchases and disposal termplay. The quip links buying peanuts to a quarter and disposal to a quartette in a playful linguistic twist.
A young man pressing his own suit repeatedly causes wrinkles in the girl’s clothing, drawing attention at the scene.
A quirky note notes the Tux potato bug will return to its hillside habitat this summer. It questions whether a teetotaler should accept a so called cordial invitation and act cautiously.
Mrs J W Lloyd of Vearline recounts in 1878 TaRBORO North Carolina how Vegetine cured her son from measles leaving hip joint disease. She notes crutches and pain before cure and claims the medicine cleanses the blood and renews vigor, recommending it for chills and other ailments.
E M Shepherd & Co of Mt Vernon Illinois endorse Vegetine claiming three years of sales and universal success in cures where blood purifiers fail, calling it the ne plus ultra of renovators.
Mica, valued for its acid and heat resistance and elasticity, was once used for lantern windows and now furnishes dials, signs, photo coverings, lamp shades, and reflectors. North Carolina beds show long activity. Newer uses include mica sheets in boot and shoe soles to resist dampness, embedded in cement between soles. The material grows more valuable as arts and trades progress.
Mr Orlando Weatherbee, proprietor of The Spencer Pharmacy in Spencer Massachusetts, reports customers praise the Great German Remedy St Jacob's Oil for relief. One user, Henry Belcher, credits it with significant benefit in a severe rheumatism case and speaks highly of the product.
The Oberstein area in Germany houses large agate quarries and mills where refuse is repurposed into small stone marbles for knuckling. Stones are broken into cubes, then milled by a grooved bedstone and wooden runner with water, finishing about fifteen minutes per half bushel. One mill yields 160,000 marbles weekly.
Dear Sir requests from Rev Mr St Onee about satisfaction from St Jacob's Oil. Russian North sea expedition notes whale hunting with steamers and bullets increasing yearly kill rates. Whales once pushed fish shoals to coast. now fewer small fishes arrive. gunpowder use reduced danger in whale fishing.
A tax minister asks a Sunday school about Samson’s weapon. The minister taps his jaw and a child answers with the jawbone of an ass, prompting a smile as he explains the Bible tale.
A collage of medical ads praising Kidney-Wort VEGETINE and LinsAy’s Boop Searcher alongside humorous vignettes. Includes a quip about a fashionable lady dropping false eyebrows and a preacher’s scene with Nimbletong and Nimblecung in a backseat exchange.
An advertisement promises Kidney-Wort explains a rational method to wellness. It claims the medicine acts on kidneys and liver to cure diseases from their derangement, available in dry and liquid forms with the liquid being easiest and the dry most economical.
Messrs. Morgan and Headly of the Mutual Life Building offer an excellent stock of extra fine quality diamonds. They claim their stones are perfect in color and shape and can be sold as low as stones of first quality.
Use syrup or molasses to keep mustard plasters soft and flexible and prevent hardening. Place a thin paper or fine cloth between plaster and skin. Vary plaster strength by adding more or less flour.
Boston Globe quotes Hop Bitters as a valuable tonic for stomach appetite and blood purification. It urges early use as prevention, stating an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure and warns against waiting until illness causes protracted recovery.
To Our Corio a homespun remedy suggests a teaspoonful of salt in a pint of cold water for colic and recommends drinking and bed rest. It claims to be one of the speediest cures and can revive someone nearly dead after a heavy fall.
An elderly Maryland man recalls raising his family on Sellers' Liver Pills and calls them nearly as essential as bread in daily life. He asserts the tonic supported health and daily routines for decades.
A recipe using milk hominy eggs and salt describes a bake and cool process. The text also promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound claiming cures for women pronounced incurable by physicians.
The fragment describes making a saltpetre solution for blotting or tissue paper and drying it. It instructs burning the material at night in a bedroom, implying a potentially dangerous practice.
Apply in the morning and evening one drop of a solution of ferric chloride per chlo ride of iron.
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