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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1879
Page
4
A mother and her four year old girl ride an Oakwood Road car when a smiling woman offers a rose. The child is blind. the act sparks sorrowful reflection on a life shadowed by disability. The scene ends with the mother tucking the rose stem into the child's hand as tears fall.
A deer hound named Zuna, blocked by sleeping rivals, signals danger by barking at the window and then swoops to claim the hearthrug. The room erupts as humans and dogs rush to the scene, and Zuna settles in to snore, triumphant and unchallenged.
A soldier believed killed returns to a home where his wife now shares life with another man. The pair exchange cold humor before the wife confirms she prefers her current husband, while the soldier departs in good humor. The tale closes with a note that roasted coffee is a powerful disinfectant.
Agricultural guidance warns drovers to avoid overdriving cattle to market. It stresses calm, steady transport, proper cooling, and humane corrections. Overheating, blood burns, and poor handling reduce buyer interest and price, while signs of illness or fatigue indicate poor condition.
The article advises cow feeding practices including meal types and quantities for milk yield and butter, warns about winter conditions and barn cleanliness, and discusses how water affects milk. It also outlines a method to estimate horse age by examining tooth development on both jaws through fourteen years, noting beyond that accuracy declines.
Instructions advise combining a peck of lime with hot cream thickness, then add a pint of linseed oil and a quarter pound of dissolved glue, letting stand half a day before use. This mix is praised for interior walls and durable exterior work, with alternative for buildings using slaked lime, zinc sulfate, and salt per peck of lime.
A few rubbing posts set up in the pasture prevent fence damage as cattle will use the conveniences often. The effort is worthwhile to observe the animals enjoy these simple aids.
A Russian collector offers Mexican relics found at the Lake Tezcuco battlefield where Cortes defeated the Aztecs on August 12 1521. The find includes a two layered breastplate with armorials a chased helmet brass rosettes blunderbuss pistols bearing Castile emblems and a pistol labeled for Don Francisco de Arabia. Also present are two ancient poniards a pair of Spanish scissors over two centuries old a flint-lock pistol from Zacatecas a silver shank knife and Tacubaja era Spanish stirrups.
Advertised remedy claims to relieve constipation and relaxed bowels by improving digestion and bile flow. It emphasizes gradual natural cathartic action without gripes, supporting appetite and better sleep while reducing mucous membrane irritation in the stomach and intestines.
A household recipe describes making a pectoral chicken broth from a young fowl with pearl barley and marshmallow roots, strained and kept ready for use. It also provides a mutton broth using scrag neck pieces, turnips, parsley, thyme, and salt, boiled then skimmed and strained for storage.
Delicare Cakr a simple old recipe lists two small cupfuls of white sugar half a cup of butter one cup of milk whites of four eggs one teaspoon cream tartar half teaspoon soda and three and a half cups sifted flour. Bake in thin cakes and ice. Flavor options include lemon peel and juice or vanilla or ground mace.
A column urges readers to abandon costly doctors and “humbug cure alls” and embrace nature’s simple remedies. It touts Hop Bitters as the greatest remedy from a trusted source and directs readers to another column for more.
Thin orange and lemon parings soak in brandy for three days then pack in juice from citrus fruits. Add rum brandy and water then grate nutmeg into milk boil and mix. Stir constantly add leaf sugar and rest twelve hours. Strain and serve over ice.
A chamomile infusion destroys most insects and keeps gardens healthy, with dispersed plants in beds or pots. Even dying plants often revive when chamomile is planted nearby, making chamomile essential in greenhouses and stored dried or fresh stalks and flowers.
A simple stool can be crafted from a soap-box or small grocery box. Attach a leather hinged lid, add a front lift, cover with carpet and trim, pad the top with quilt pieces, and use brass-headed nails. It also serves as concealed shoe storage.
Two egg yolks beaten with two eggs whites folded in stiff froth. Add one tablespoon butter and one cup milk, then flour to make a stiff cake batter. Bake in jelly pans. Filling uses lemon juice and zest, two oranges, one cup sugar, cornstarch, and water. boil until smooth, cool, and spread between cakes.
A recipe for making savory eggs by boiling six to eight eggs, halving them, removing yolks, mixing the yolks with anchovy sauce, Cayenne, and cream into a paste. The paste is piled into the egg whites, which are trimmed to stand upright, then garnished with parsley.
An advertisement touts Dr Bulls Baltimore Pills as a remedy for overindulgence claiming to restore health after drinking. It urges readers to use the product to return to good condition quickly.
The recipe describes chopping ham finely and mixing with mace cream and a touch of flour, then boiling briefly. Serve on buttered toast pieces with breadcrumbs, browned by the fire and eaten hot.
A recipe describes lining a steak with pigeons, coating with parsley onion and lemon zest, butter and flour, then stuffing the birds with parsley lemon juice rind butter and flour. The dish is laid on the steak and topped with ham, chopped herbs and sliced hard boiled eggs.
Mince a pint basin of undressed mutton with a little fat and finely chop two small onions and some lettuce. Add a pint of green peas a teaspoon of salt pepper to taste four tablespoons of water and two ounces of butter. Place in a stew pan closely covered and simmer for two hours.
A recipe instructs shredding a head of cabbage and scalding it with water in a stewpan. It adds salt pepper and sugar, then a sauce of two thirds teacup vinegar one third teacup water one egg and half a teaspoon flour mixed and poured over the cabbage to boil before serving.
In Police Court Thomas James Brown argued through a thick dialect that he had wandered from Awange to the ferry and was jailed by mistake. He claimed to be heading back to Awange to work, shouting defiant farewells as he bolted free.
A streetcar scene shows a man prompting nine adults and a girl to stand up over failed clothing purchases. He targets men who were cheated by tailors and women who faced dressmaker deception, ending with the little girl apologizing she cannot visit her aunt due to fare lack.
Miserable dull feelings and sluggish nerves ruin work and sermons. The ad claims Hop Bitters can easily and cheaply remove these symptoms, urging men to use it for better performance in work law and writing.
A farmer visits a shop with an elevator and jokes about riding up saying he came up on the cellar door. A store son joins the scene as the farmer explains the joke, while a mother contemplates pulling a child from Sunday school due to fever and blistered feet.
A notice offers a soap recipe gratis to anyone who writes I. L. Cragin & Co. in Philadelphia, the makers of Dobbins Electric Soap. The advertisement promotes a low cost method and names the company behind the product and its reputation.
A young woman writes that she would rather spend an evening at home with a pleasant book than attend balls or theatres. The remark notes how lacking a beau or new attire leads to choosing home reading, though the joke suggests she is too mad to read the book.
A candid middle aged man considers the poem Burial of Sir John Moore and recalls a favored passage. He notes the line Few and short were the prayers we said as a concise and somber reflection.
The fragmentary text presents mixed dialogue about an old oak tree and childhood memories, a remark on George’s life, a casual reference to a friend’s sighting, remarks on sales and products, and a quip about oleomargarine naming. It reads like a collage of unrelated snippets.
A riot broke out in Cork Ireland as groups clashed escalating tensions. Police urged calm as misdirected anger threatened shops and public safety amid ongoing unrest.
A warrant for arrest is described as an old coat, worn thin by time and use, suggesting its swearing and authority have faded.
Advertisements claim Dr. Jane's Calminative Balsam cures Asiatic Cholera Cholera Morbus Summer Complaint Colic Sour Stomach Diarrhoea and other bowel afflictions for both children and adults. It soothes irritation and calms stomach action and is pleasant to taste, suitable for the youngest family member.
The Oxford Professor who turning away to avoid the wind while snuffing forgot to turn back walked six miles into the country. The ad argues Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets are a safe cathartic, sugar coated and effective for stomach liver and bowel irregularities, sold by druggists.
The piece argues that endurance events favor older competitors. It cites Brown and Weston in England’s six days race, both around forty, showing primes extend beyond thirty. It compares human runners to trotters, noting maturity and practice yield steadier, longer-lasting power than youth. If forty marks prime, fifty should still be near the peak.
A perfectly formed hand, likely from a fourteen year old boy, is on display in Gould's cabinet Mill City Nevada. Found near the sulphur beds at Rabbit Hole by a sulfur workman, it appears petrified with a crushed back and intact palm fingers and a longer thumb. The owner’s race and how it came to be buried in the sulphur remain unknown.
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