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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1881
Page
4
In a courtroom exchange Jasper White, nearly sixty two, admits drinking led to trouble and contemplates dire options. His Honor cautions, White agrees to return to his farm, vows to stay away, and thanks Squat for saving his life as he departs toward home with a carload of apples and popcorn promised by Squat.
A Victorian vignette shows Adolphus and Angelina courting under an apple tree. He proclaims lifelong devotion and protection while she grows wary of constant attention and ends the scene by crushing his coy ideal of perfect companionship.
The article highlights copper color as a current fashion demand, best paired with brown or black. It suggests copper flatters brunettes but can suit blondes with careful mixing. It cites velvet gowns, copper lace trims, and copper beads with black satin, plus Venetian red and old gold amber combinations for evening wear.
An agrarian moral stresses pacing and calm over summer fatigue. It urges keeping cool indoors, airing mornings, moderate cooking, and light foods, noting women indoors have advantage in heat and urging quiet routines for parent and household harmony.
For renewing worn grass land, break up the sod after the day is cut and manuring, harrow, and reseed. Sow grass seed in compatible mixes such as herd’s grass with red top, or sow orchard grass separately. Use about twelve quarts herd’s grass and three pecks red top per acre, or a bushel to two bushels per acre for good results.
The text explains how milking traits come from human refinement. It contrasts natural milk production with artfully bred cows, noting Durham and Hereford strains, and describes difficulty in turning butter and milk producers into heavy beef cattle. It cites Ayrshire Jerseys and Guernseys as not easily converted to beef.
The article notes butter from farm production spoiled by atmospheric odors. A veal stock in a cellar leaked blood and caused spoiled tasting butter. A nearby pond of filthy water emitted an offensive smell that tainted milk and cream until the pond was drained, after which butter quality returned to normal.
The article advises that sweeny in young horses results from unsteady pulling with a ill fitting collar. Relieve work and apply a mixture of equal parts tincture of canthandes and turpentine once or twice daily, shaken before use. Outdoor pasture time aids recovery. Then resume light work in breast harness with a soft padded, well fitting collar until accustomed to pulling.
The note describes how strychnine acts faster and more powerfully in strong, well fed, exercised frogs compared with fasting or resting ones. It also finds timing differs by hanging method and limb, with leg suspension reacting sooner than head, and right-side frogs reacting quicker than left.
A veteran farmer advises that when facing quicksand or unsound ground drains be cut wide and sometimes deeper. Sods are trodden down along the bottom before tiles or stone conduits are installed. This method allows water to pass freely and the subtratum soon becomes solid.
It has been well demonstrated that in the case of all livestock a clean and open condition of the skin is conducive to health and economical feeding, and no labor in the barns is more profitably expended than that which is employed in thorough cleaning not only of horses but also of cattle.
When wheat is cut young it becomes lighter and ferments faster. Late harvest yields the least flour but the strongest and best quality grain.
A columnist argues that an appetising repast does not require costly ingredients. With careful planning, a couple with limited income can serve soup from ox cheek, beans, and inexpensive cuts. true economy combines skill, discipline, and culinary art rather than relying on expensive roasts.
In Chillicothe Mrs. Schwarzler buys St. Jacob's Oil for her husband Ludwig Schwarzler a grocer on Station Road He suffers a rheumatic headache and finds relief after the second application of the remedy The case is cited as an example of quick acting treatment deserving public patronage.
A cook instructs braising a venison breast with vegetables, herbs, salt, and slow heat for four hours. After browning vegetables and building a stock, the meat is braised until tender, then finished with a currant jelly port wine sauce and served with French beans. Fresh venison is recommended for braising.
In Fort Wayne Indiana a well known merchant tailor Mr John G Fledderman of Union Block testifies after years of neuralgia and rheumatism he found relief using St Jacobs Oil. He reports two bottles fully cured him.
The article describes making a Moroccan style pin cushion in lemon or red morocco with a six pointed star leaf design. Colors for leaves include red yellow white green prune dark blue violet. Edges are finished with gold thread and two matching sides are sewn together with a silk strip to join circles. Stuffing uses wool scraps or silk ravelings.
Kanoka Mo February 9 1880 A farmer testifies his daughter with years of illness improved after using Hop Bitters from Bishop Co. The letter claims remarkable cures and strong sales. W H Bisnor & Co.
Cut the plum pudding into finger pieces and soak in brandy. Arrange cross barred in a mould, make custard from milk five eggs nutmeg or lemon rind, fill mould boil or steam for an hour. Serve with custard and brandy.
Proponents of Kidney-Wort offer a concentrated liquid variant for public convenience. The product promises the same kidney liver and bowel benefits with a smaller dose for those who dislike preparing it themselves. A separate note discusses Devon cattle and other fine breeds thriving on suitable forage rather than rank coarse grass.
A vintage promotional passage extols Vegetine as a powerful tonic for all ages and both sexes. It claims to boost nervous system strength, improve blood quality, energize overworked individuals, and aid women facing childbirth related hardships. It asserts lasting benefits without tomorrow’s injury.
Reverend O T Walker of Providence R I at 164 Transit St endorses Vegetine as highly valuable for nervous debility and as an invigorating tonic. He notes his family has used it for two years and recommends it to all in need. He is identified as former pastor of Bowdoin-square Church in Boston.
The piece praises Mormon leadership and contends followers would prove strong soldiers in conflicts with Apaches. It caricatures government resistance and touts a petroleum-based baldness cure called CarnoLINE as a bold, deodorized remedy.
A Chicago editor hears of a New York man described as born drunk due to both parents’ heavy drinking. The tale claims he has lived in a state of continual intoxication without ever drinking, prompting the Chicago man to remark that some people have “dead loads of luck.”
The advertisement touts VEGETINE as containing top vegetable ingredients from Nature's dispensary. It claims the juices are extracted to preserve medical properties and presents VEGETINE as a premier blood cleansing remedy.
A late poem praises a street smile that brightens a sad heart though crowds invite talk. The speaker warns a man should not give such smiles in public and suggests retreating around a corner or alley with a bottle and a pistol pocket to banish gloom.
A hurried passenger aboard a Nova Scotia railroad learns the engineer’s signal to pull down brakes twice. The conductor replies both times a cow is on the track, prompting the passenger to exclaim they should have caught the cow by now.
A garish slice of historical newspaper advertising parades patent medicines and humorous vignettes. It touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female health, Hop Bitters for vigor, and Warner's Kidney and Liver Cure, interwoven with quips and short literary notices.
A pest control note highlights a box product named Rouzh on Rats that repels flies mosquitoes bed bugs roaches rats and mice. The ad emphasizes indoor use and effective pest deterrence for households.
A reader finds the display line Proposals for sewers in the newspaper and ponders the nature of newspapers, thinking them horrid yet intrigued by civic topics.
A Michigan woman travels to England to obtain three hundred servant girls. She estimates the hire will last about eleven days, per common practice of the era.
The celebrated remedy Kidney- Wort can be obtained in dry vegetable form or as a concentrated liquid for those who cannot prepare it easily. It acts with equal efficiency in either form. Read the new advertisement for particulars in the South and West.
A quirky note compares wigs to toupees to reveal a case without parallel, declaring such a printing press mishap as plainly nonsensical and unmatchable by ordinary cases.
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