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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1881
Page
4
The article argues for saving heifer calves only from the best milking cows and culling the rest, stressing pure bred bulls from strong milking strains. Over ten years this selective breeding can create a unified bloodline, improving future progeny’s milking ability. It also notes the need for skilled feeding using nitrogenous foods and supplements like skim milk and oil meal to develop frames and muscles.
A correspondent explains an improved jumping cattle yoke using a wood bar across the horns and sharp nails to deter head lifting. The device weighs under three pounds, stays out of the travel path, and keeps the animal aligned while feeding.
A reflective piece on small daily costs and routines. It argues that tiny choices in chores and maintenance save time and risk later. The author notes water for horses, wood cutting, nut tightening, and fruit trees as examples of prudent attention to details paying off over a lifetime.
An old remedy describes a dairy cow treatment using a warm water massage with Epsom salt treacle and ginger. It advises frequent milking, gentle udder rubbing with flour or lard, ammonia and iodine applications, and avoiding strong stimulants. If abscess forms a lancet incision and zinc sulfate wound dressing are recommended.
Curr dirt drift hay from marsh edges and refuge matter form a valuable mulch for orchards. Mulching offers plough like benefits without damage to roots or trunks, suppresses grass, invites earthworms, improves soil texture, and helps retain moisture to mitigate drought. It reflects Nature’s method to manure and enrich trees.
Pies fed milk grass clover tubers and roots until they weigh 100 or 150 pounds are generally healthy and in good condition to fatten.
Beets of all kinds show injury from a hard freeze with visible damage to roots and foliage. growers report reduced vigor and potential yield impact as temperatures drop.
A seasoned farmer remarks that securing a mortgage is the hardest task on a farm, requiring superior cultivation and the richest soil to back financing and growth.
EXGLiIH data indicate wheat below average barley above oats and beans slightly above while peas run a little below.
Herr E. Schone argues in the Berichte that ordinary potassium iodide paper tests have no scientific value for ozone measurement. He notes moist air with small ozone yields deeper color than dry air with larger ozone and cites the paper material’s hygroscopic nature as a major factor. He even claims atmospheric ozone presence remains an open question.
The director of a German insane asylum believes much of Germany's insanity may be attributed to overwork of children in national schools.
A renowned restaurateur advises a wealthy, non connoisseur diner on a famed vintage. The bottle proves a dusty corked relic as a fly escapes, while the sommelier’s ritual is comic in its solemnity. The piece also recalls waiter replies of endless dishes and a sphinx a la Marengo gag.
A Galveston shoemaker asks Mr Guhooly when payment for ten dollar boots will arrive. They joke about political timing and a partial payment plan with ten dollars, five on account, while noting concern over fraud in returns.
The piece complains that New York transit lines offer danger and crime with riders being robbed or maimed. It contrasts street cars and elevated railroads where criminals enter cars, rob passengers, or jump out and harm riders, claiming the city mixes pleasure with danger in its transit system.
A defendant brought before the Galveston Recorder denies guilt and even denies being present when asked. The exchange features a defiant reply and a demand to be awakened if he slips up.
An Irishman named Pat asks an overseer for a job at a Tyne shipyard. The foreman repeats that no work is available and tells him to leave. Pat insists he will not move until the man using the anchor finishes his task, declaring his resolve with a cheerful oath.
A horse jockey touts a horse at the market claiming it can travel a mile in two minutes and twenty seconds. An Irish buyer doubts the feat joking that the horse was likely on a railroad train during timing.
An old backwoodsman ready for his first Mississippi steamer voyage chooses cabin passage, noting he has always lived in a cabin and accepts the rough life aboard as suitable.
A historic note describes a recipe by Maky Janz for preserving hair. Use white sugar and water to make a heavy syrup, add the hair and four ounces oleomar garine, boil, strain, and jar in glass or stone containers.
A Galveston elder explains that distinguishing malaria from yellow fever is unreliable by symptoms alone. He notes that only by testing can you know, and if you are not alive, it is likely yellow fever.
A quoted exchange argues the difficulty of earning an honest living in a corrupt age. The thief defends his crime by blaming the era, while the other questions the honesty of the man.
He admitted bashfulness and blushed as he asked her to spell it. She offered b a s h t o o l in a pinch, leaving him to wonder if she was ignorant or sarcastic.
A brief dialogue defines landscape painter as a painter of land scenes and animal painter as a painter of animals, with the inspector praising each description and calling for sharing the explanation. A final note urges telling the lesson to others.
A reader asks why railroad companies do not offer tobacco chewing cars as well as smoking cars. The reply notes tobacco chewers are less particular and an ordinary passenger car suffices for their needs.
Snooks returns home in a gossip column style joke about double vision. He stares at Mrs Snooks then jokes about two sisters or twins, reflecting a light humorous domestic moment.
An Illinois man recalls a fierce gale in which a white dog faced the wind with mouth open and was turned completely inside out, a vivid and unusual weather anecdote from the storm.
A recipe describes picking cooked fish from bones, making a thick sauce from fish bones liquor butter and egg with essence of anchovy lemon juice salt and cayenne. The fish and sauce are layered with mashed potatoes in a tart dish or bright tin dish and baked until done.
To Creanse Drirpines A great saving can be made by saving fat from meats. Boiled fat forms a top layer you can lift for broth. Collect fats to a quart or more, boil with cold water, chill, lift off sediment, and you have clean rice shortening for frying doughnuts or pie crusts.
A Boston woman cured of a fourteen year sick headache and neuralgia praises Hop Bitters after a single effective dose. She persuades twenty two fellow families to adopt it as their regular family medicine, per a Standard quotation.
The article advises against frying oysters in hogs lard, urging use of the finest sweet oil. It warns against overfrying to dark brown and recommends aiming for a rich golden color to keep oysters tender and flavorful.
Three gallons of martinas are cured in a strong brine for ten days, washed in cold water, then placed in vinegar for ten more days. A separate spiced vinegar mix heats three pints of vinegar with horseradish, allspice, black pepper, ginger, mustard, cloves, onions, red pepper, and three pounds of brown sugar to pour over the martinas before sealing in the jar.
A recipe instructs to scald and trim calf tongues, cut into thick slices, coat with flour, and brown in dripping. Simmer with onion thyme and parsley in soup or gravy, then finish with lemon slices and a brief boil before serving.
The guide suggests removing wall grease marks by making a paste from pipe-clay or fuller's earth mixed with cold water. Apply gently, do not rub, leave overnight, and brush off in the morning. Fresh stains should disappear, while old stains may require a second application.
Instructions describe steaming velvet until damp then pulling the wrong side over a warm iron. Two people are required one to lift the iron and the other to guide the velvet across for best results.
The method uses turpentine to dissolve paint on cloth or wood. Apply a few drops to dry paint, let stand briefly, then rub. If paint remains, repeat the process until fully removed, then wipe with alcohol to finish.
A remedy notes washing carpet grease with hot soap suds and borax, using a clean cloth, then rinsing and drying. For furniture stains from heat or alcohol, rub with sweet oil and turpentine. For spots from ink or liquid, wash with milk warm soap suds, dry quickly, and polish with chamois skin.
A recipe style note describes beating two cups of apple sauce with three beaten egg whites to form a mound in a glass dish. It is covered with ladyfingers or small sponge cakes arranged neatly and served with sugar and cream.
The excerpt contrasts cruelty arising from business and cowardice with a fawning world, suggesting moral decline and social satire as the tone shifts from stern to indulgent. It implies critique of public propriety and collective behavior.
An odd rebranding of Dr Bull's Cough Syrup claims wide success across many bronchial conditions. Sold everywhere for 25 cents a bottle and promoted as a universal remedy.
The piece defends women’s insight in selecting Hoy Bitters for family health and argues against a dated stereotype. It also reports Prof Thurston’s experiments on yellow pine elasticity, noting modulus ranges, effects of sustained loads, and recommendations for engineers to use moderate modulus values and quality control.
A Boston physician declares VeaETINE superior to all rivals as a blood purifier. He claims it cures many ailments after other remedies failed, citing laboratory verification and a blend of barks roots and herbs as the source of its effectiveness.
A French entomologist J H Fabre publishes Souvenirs Entomologiques noting insects nest finding abilities. Experiments with ants and wasps show limited memory for unfamiliar regions and a possible topographical sense. The piece mentions Carboline deodorized petroleum extract for hair loss and Dr Julius Schmidt's Jupiter rotation claim needing confirmation.
W. P. Kittrell of Dayton Academy writes to P. Neustaedter Co. enclosing one dollar and requesting a box of Anakesis external pile remedy. He praises the sample and notes relief for hemorrhoidal suffering, with samples sent to all sufferers by the manufacturers in New York.
A brief notice touts Kidney-Wort as a cure for Jes and kidney disorders, claiming it strengthens the constitution. It is described as acting gently on the bowels to expel harmful elements and improve health, per the Republican.
Advertised as a universal remedy claimed to purify blood and restore health. The text touts testimonials from patients cured of rheumatism prostration and other ailments, urges testing Vegetine manufactured by H K Stevens, and cites Springfield Ohio testimonial letters.
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