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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1880
Page
4
The author urges readers to plant pecan groves, arguing they are a profitable legacy like olive groves. Pecan trees germinate from seed, prefer low rich land, tolerate various soils, and can thrive as far upriver as along the Mississippi above St. Louis, suggesting widespread suitability and value.
The article explains pear blight is caused by a tiny bark-invading fungus. It recommends annual washing with linseed oil sulfur wash to kill spores, acknowledges possible failures in crevices, and notes compost heap ingredients and use for corn soil with water and potential bone dust or artificial fertilizers.
After age nine a horse gains one eyelid wrinkle each year. The number of wrinkles equals age minus nine, so three wrinkles mean twelve years old, four wrinkles thirteen. Add wrinkles to nine to obtain the age.
About 250 years ago the Tschuktschi were noted as brave warriors and a Russian expedition led by Col. Pavlovski suffered heavy losses against them. They lack formal government and religion, fish and hunt for subsistence, and their wealth is shown by a lone boat.
A health advertisement praises Hos teters Stomach Bitters as a renovator for laborers and sedentary workers. It asserts the tonic boosts energy, aids digestion, stimulates the liver, improves appetite, and supports restful repose with safe ingredients and broad endorsements.
The excerpt offers several dessert sauce recipes including a lemon sugar sauce with wine, a dumpling sauce with brown sugar and egg yolk, and a hard sauce with butter sugar and brandy. It ends with a promotional aside mentioning Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup for children.
A jokey, lurid summary riffs on a sensational novel formula. The heroine faces repeated peril from a black-hearted villain, swallows strychnine, and is saved to marry Claude Edgar Fitzelarence Montmorenci, who learns he is another man’s son and heir to 2 million after an uncle’s Australia death. The father blesses them as the villain exits in custody.
Truth and honor states Hop Bitters as the best family medicine to regulate the bowels purify the blood remove costiveness and biliousness aid digestion and tone the system. The editor notes to see another column.
A detailed home recipe for glycerine ointment suitable for apothecaries. Melt Sweet Almond Oil, Spermacetti, and White Wax, mix with glycerine then scent with Oil of Roses. Store in small jars and keep corked in heat. For chapped hands, rough skin, moistening coins, and hemorrhoids, apply nightly to soften skin and aid healing.
A German doctor claims to color human eyes at will with Ocular Transmutation enabling blue green silver or gold hues while not improving vision. The report notes the step is not sight enhancing and hints at costs. The piece closes with a quip about a tramp who changes trades with seasons reflecting a broader social humor.
The advertisement notes Browen's Bronchial Troches introduced in 1850 and praised for relieving throat troubles from colds. It claims lasting success for coughs asthma and bronchitis and urges every household to keep them on hand.
A boisterous man clashes with a rival in a quarrel over civility. The bully denies insults while the other asserts gentility, prompting a terse exchange about character. The exchange ends without further incident or agreement.
A historical note outlines a soap recipe using soda ash lime water grease and borax with boil time and molding tips. It warns against excess cracklings and mentions using meat trimmings as waste. Also asserts opium risks in children and claims Dr Bull’s Baby Syrup contains no opium with teething use price 25 cents.
A humorous exchange about photography shows an old lady claiming near vision issues affect her ability to pose properly. In Baltimore Maryland and Pittsburgh notices, certificates about hair restoration and carboline products are mentioned as daily samples received at offices.
A recipe fragment lists mixing one teacup sugar three quarters cup butter one tablespoon flour one beaten egg. Cook over heat then stir in three gills of milk and season with nutmeg for a sweet custard hint.
The piece advises gentle carpet sweeping to avoid dust and wear. It favors a carpet sweeper over brooms for Brussels carpets, suggests moistening a broom for fine threads, and cautions on room suitability and carpet color to minimize visible dust and soiling.
A collage of quaint exchanges and oddities from a bygone era. A boy cannot locate a drug store, a sunset prompts a child’s mishearing, a Tory’s statuary inquiry yields a risqué misinterpretation, and a Baby Saver touts Hop Bitters for infant bowel relief alongside parental recovery.
A fragmentary column contrasts rheumatism and gait with satirical lines on newspaper ads and old price soap schemes. It mentions Des-Bins' Expectric and urges buying now at old prices for a prudent purchase. The piece plays with a green Christmas, plumbing, and a draw game metaphor.
Summer's heat threatens health and invites diarrhea and cramps. Dr. Pierce's Compound Extract of Smart Weed, made with French brandy Jamaica ginger smart weed and water peeper, soothes and heals inflammation. Sold by druggists at fifty cents for household use.
An advertisement claims improper digestion causes numerous ailments from bad breath to headaches and lists many symptoms. It promotes Simmons Liver Regulator as a mild vegetable remedy that can prevent and relieve these issues. A testimonial from W C Supers of Bainbridge Georgia says his wife recovered in three days after using the product following directions.
Advertisement asserts early modern medicines cure melancholy and languor from stomach disorder or liver issues. It claims D. Jayne's Sanative Pills stimulate liver and stomach, remove biliousness, and ensure regular bowel evacuations.
Four years after acquiring Lee and Walker, J E Ditson & Co the Philadelphia arm of Oliver Ditson Co announces a major expansion. They add G Audre & Co catalogue bringing 4800 music plates to a reshaped Chestnut Street complex with retail on the first floor and piano department on the second. The firm now markets 80000 sheet pieces and over 2000 music books, with Novello Ewer Co English publications and broad foreign and American music merchandising.
Oatmeal is praised as a strong nutritious food suitable for growth and brain work. It highlights health benefits from milk, notes oats vary by region, and outlines porridge and bannock cake recipes with practical cooking steps and serving ideas.
W P Kittrell principal of Dayton Academy Dayton Ala writes to P Neustaedter Co enclosing one dollar and requesting one box of Anakesis with a return mail. He praises the sample as a great boon to the suffering and notes free samples are sent to all sufferers by the manufacturers in New York Box 3946.
An old advertisement promotes Hoofland's German Bitters as a cure for liver disorder, constipation, and general health improvement. It also touts Saturday Evening Post ads from Philadelphia and Werbung for Tetter Ointment by Hieskell to treat pimples and facial skin issues.
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