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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1881
Page
4
The article outlines a method to cure bulkiness in horses using a short strap or halter strap placed below the fetlock. Two handlers alternately pull to lift and advance the forefoot, repeatedly until the horse moves forward and realigns. After twenty five yards, the strap is removed and the horse started without it. if needed, reapply briefly.
The article advises saving small seed potatoes this fall for planting next year and discusses pricing, planting, and storage. It warns against using tiny tubers in dry seasons and suggests when to plant or delay fruit trees, plus a note on replacing old hens to improve profits.
The piece argues nourishment equivalences between beans and potatoes, corn fodder and hay, and includes a test by Mr. Lewis Leigh of New Haven to judge silk purity by comparing weights. It notes honesty in trade, cites conscience as a guiding rule, and briefly explains coral hardness and carbonate of lime as coral’s chief constituent.
A peddler tests the doorbell and misreads the householder. The woman bluntly clarifies she is the lady of the house and not a servant or kin. The exchange ends with the peddler selling goods and walking away pleased with both the encounter and the money earned.
Reported in a local item a young husband asks about breakfast and the baby with a brief reply Buckwheat Cakes and the Measles. The article notes J Dawson druggist suffered sciatic rheumatism from December for four weeks and used St Jacob's Oil, now able to return to work.
Squibbs boy proclaims I am bigger than you are to Miltiades Marrowfat. The remark sparks a family feud as both households repair knot holes in the back yard fence to sever communication.
A simple minded Chicago man apologizes after delaying a Cincinnati merchant by noting a dark parlor. The disappointed pork-packer chews him out, saying it was only one of his girls receiving company. The exchange highlights a dated yet vivid social dynamic.
A teacher quotes a biblical moment about Hezekiah rending his garments as a class stirs with a student's humorous misinterpretation. A boy with an older brother adds a modern, edgy riff about letting someone borrow belongings for money, comparing it to a past incident with his brother and sister.
Walter, proprietor of the London Times, argues newspapers overload with local sensations. He favors concise editorials on topics like Agnostics and Agnosticism, while noting American readers may seek a milder, sleep inducing approach to such material.
In Monroe Michigan a rheumatism sufferer named Louis Hope, who found relief with St. Jacob's Oil, returned home drunk and tried to light a faucet with a burning match. His wife woke to find him, and he admitted overwork affected him.
A front yard fence without a gate is claimed to be invented by an old maid the class jokes about. The teacher and head boy discuss explorers while a mother-sly remark about pocket-poking papa arises.
An advertisement claims Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cures female weakness as tested by top physicians. The notice invites readers to request pamphlets from Mrs. Lydia E Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
A clergyman once quarreled with a country Squire who mocked his gown calling it protection. The parson agreed yet vowed it shall not be the Squire’s. He then thrashed the Squire soundly in a tale reflecting on self knowledge and moral restraint.
A child tells of learning to operate her grandfather's crush hat, but when he arrives with a plain silk hat the girl complains the stove pipe hat is hard to shut. She reports sitting on it to close it, yet can only manage half shut.
Disjointed OCR snippet repeats tonic claims Hop Bitters cures, cites Leroy Brewer claim, notes local centennial, jokes about oysters and baldness serum, plus political jibes and quips about landlords and sport. Contains diverse irrelevant lines, no cohesive news event.
The article promotes Warrixs as a breakfast or tea dish using eggs butter flour and baking in gem pans. It also touts Veerring as a blood purifier claimed to cure diseases from salt rheum to pimples, describing its “wonderful” effects.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound advertised as a positive cure for female complaints including ovarian troubles hysteria and nervous debility. Claims relief from bearing down uterine tumors and general weakness with options to mail order pills or lozenges at $1 per box or six bottles for five dollars. Mrs Pinkham invites inquiries and a pamphlet by mail from 23 and 235 Western Avenue Lynn Massachusetts.
The advertisement touts daily Through Trains between Chicago and several western points with direct connections nationwide. It highlights Pullman palace sleeping cars dining cars reclining chairs and first class smoking cars. It promises luxury travel, through tickets, and free county maps upon request from Percival Lowell and T. J. Potter in Chicago.
A brief reflection notes that money can corrupt men who chase wealth, while a hound dog pursues scent with relentless greed, implying stronger instinct over rational pursuit.
Mrs Eliza Ann Poole of Rockport Massachusetts writes that VEGETINE cured her long standing canker humor and stomach trouble. She praises the remedy for restoring appetite and overall health and endorses it for others suffering the same condition citing a testimonial dated March 31 1876.
Water glass serves as a binder in artificial stones and cements sands and clays, acts as a detergent in soap manufacture, and aids scouring. It enhances plastic mass formation and stone hardening while nicotine salts form in tobacco fumes. The only remedy for chronic tobacco poisoning is abstinence.
Crooked era newspaper blurb notes high demand for Kidney-Wort from Maine to California. Proponents offer liquid form for easier preparation, claiming identical effect to the dry compound with a smaller dose. Produc ers advertise availability at druggists.
Prof Alexander Wilson of Dublin calculates sugar in calyces of flowers and honey yield by bees. He finds 125 blossoms give one gram of sugar and each blossom has about 60 calyces, implying 7 500 000 calyces per kilogram of sugar. To produce a kilogramme of honey, 5 600 000 calyces are needed.
A collage of short items includes health patent claims for Kidney Wort as a tonic, a note about a mistaken ticket for Othello at Booth's theatre, praise for Dr. Lixpsry's Blood Searcher, a boast about Sellers' Liver Pills, and a recipe for Roast Turkey with onions bread sago leaves butter egg pork and spices.
Abbey and Munger publish a 160 page song collection with about 160 tunes. Suitable for Sunday schools and prayer meetings, following their successful White Robes. Priced at 85 cents.
Samuel Freach & Son offer free catalogs listing readings clubs amateur theatricals temperance plays drawing room plays fairy plays Ethiopian plays guide books speakers pantomimes tableaux and more with full descriptions and prices from 385 East 14th Street New York.
A historical testimonial extols Dr. Silsbee external pile remedy Anakesis as simple, quick acting, and curative for piles. It claims instant relief and a combination of poultice, supportive instrument, and medicine. Half a million users are cited. samples mailed free by P Neustaedter & Co in New York.
Druggists are urged to obtain Rough on Rats to combat rats mice roaches flies and bed bugs. Messrs Maxdan Headly of Mutual Life Building at Tenth and Chestnut Streets advertise a superb stock of diamonds offered at low prices with first quality color and shape.
A Baptist clergyman from Bergen New York long deterred by fear and prejudice against Hop Bitters suffers kidney trouble neuralgia and dizziness. After years of illness he tries the tonic and credits it with a cure. He expresses intense affection for his companion and urges trust in Hop Bitters.
A Sycracrust maiden has promised to marry five different men. The papers refer to her as a promising society belle.
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