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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1880
Page
4
An English town lodging house challenged a town missionary with a Bible quiz asking if the word girl appears there. The missionary answered only in Joel iii 3, noting the verse about selling a girl for wine. Impressed by his faith, the group converted, including the man, his wife, and two lodgers.
A rich, beautiful lady to wed a lord falls for a handsome farmer. She disguises as a hunter, loses and finds a glove, proclaims a reward, and marries the farmer after he defeats the lord in combat. The hunt becomes happiness for both in Thule.
The article advises timing manure application to crops rather than annual yard cleanups. Spring work strains teams. fall piles waste through leaching. Top-dressing near planting boosts yields, with manure treated as capital that earns through soil use. It recommends applying to growing crops or grass after mowing and notes continuous fertlizer manufacture from barn cellars.
The article advises year round lettuce, detailing a winter frame setup with coarse boards glass sash and sunny sheltered spot. Plant lettuce sets six inches apart in good ground, water regularly, and harvest large heads in early spring. Best varieties Brown Dutch and Hammersmith Hardy Green. Seeds sown in September with straw and evergreen bough protection for winter resilience.
La Nature reports a biscuit for horses made from oats peas and linseed. One kg equals five kg of oats in nutrition. The product, threaded on iron wire, lets a horse carry four to five days of food. Russia used twenty million biscuits in the late Turkish war and keeps using them.
The text urges removing unprofitable fowls from the flock, culling poor layers and mothers. It notes two weeks of feeding in a coop can fatten them, and suggests keeping a few good old hens for early setting while discarding many unprofitable birds.
The notice advises destroying every potato beetle found as a precaution for next season. When potato leaves are eaten, vine growth stops and tubers suffer if new leaves grow. Kill beetles to protect yield.
The text portrays a landowner with abundant cattle and large estates who oversees them with a liberal, attentive beneficence. It contrasts wealth in livestock with expansive lands and the ease of management by a benefactor shape and tone.
A gentleman keeping ants for study notes their fastidious cleanliness. Ants remove dirt after digging and after meals, help each other with washing, and display joyful, doglike contentment during cleansing. They kneel to request grooming and assume peculiar poses while self washing.
The ad touts Hostetters Stomach Bitters as a cure for dyspepsia and melancholy, claiming it aids digestion, restores appetite, steadies nerves, and wards off fevers. It urges readers to ask users for truthful testimonials and asserts the product conquers biliary and bowel troubles, debility, and rheumatism.
The article notes that present fuel use is highly inefficient with steam and cooking heat often wasted. It explains how damper adjustments can cut losses, citing Count Rumford on cooking for 1000 with ten cents of fuel and a French invention enabling five cents to cook Neal for 1500, highlighting skepticism and innovations.
A sick and miserable mother recounts using Hop Bitters in secret, which led to rapid improvement. Her husband and family marvel at the turnaround, and the mother credits the remedy for restoring health and happiness for all.
The article describes a home cold cure involving rest hot foot baths and only warm liquids for a day, promising relief without medicine. It also explains Normanby cider storage with sweet oil in the cask and cotton bung to prevent oxidation and pests, plus earth to steady bottle temperature.
Improvements in Carboline, a deodorized petroleum extract, make it a premier hair renewer and perfumed hair dressing. The product is highly praised and now available at all druggists.
A compound of borax Persian insect powder and ecolocynth mixed well and sprinkled on infested spots. The blend, when used persistently, is described as an infallible remedy and effective in eradicating cockroaches based on long experience.
Advertisement notes Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup as a popular quieting remedy for infants. It claims to contain no opiates and is priced at 25 cents.
A simple home recipe instructs rinsing one pint of fish in water, reheating, adding a quart of cold water, half a cup of butter, pepper, and a tablespoon of flour dissolved in water. The mixture is stirred into the fish and served over toast with six slices.
For Catarrhal and Throat Disorders Brown's Bronchial Traches are renowned and marvellously effective, giving immediate relief in all cases.
A simple medicinal salve recipe lists Spermaceti two drachms white wax two drachms camphor two drachms washed lard half an ounce pure olive oil half an ounce Melt in water bath and stir with it while cooling two drachms glycerine for skin healing purposes.
Ananesis claimed as the instant relief and hopeful cure for piles. The advertisement says 20 000 grateful sufferers bless this infisible remedy, used by doctors, mailed for $1 per box from P Neustaedter & Co New York box 3946, sole manufacturers.
A prescription notes that scattering caustic potash in rat frequented areas drives rats away swiftly. Small amounts at burrows are said to deter them from reappearing.
Ground Cayenne pepper dusted on cabbage and adjacent vegetables acts as a natural pest repellent, targeting bugs and worms that plague these crops. The spicy treatment is presented as a simple remedy for garden insect problems.
An advertisement proclaims VEGETINE as the superior blood purifier and health restorer. It claims the remedy detoxifies the system by eradicating humors and impurities, invigorating a debilitated body, and restoring vigor, urging voluntary use.
A terse instruction advises washing hair thoroughly in rain water with a generous amount of berax dissolved. The passage presents a simple home remedy style tip without additional context or warnings.
The piece warns that throat or lung weakness can be sparked by a cold which may develop into serious illness. It urges early care with Dr Jayne's Expertoran to soothe bronchia, ease inflammation, and clear irritants from lungs, stating prevention is better than cure.
An orphan boy in Detroit uses a barrel of water-lime to hide by a pile of leaves, luring a milk wagon to crash into the leaves while the boy sits icily observant. The horse and driver are unharmed but the milk splashes everywhere as the boy escapes unseen. The piece blends a comic anecdote with a promotional note for Hop Bitters.
A village swindle tale opens with Squire C- as postmaster and storekeeper, outwitted by a loafer Sam who wheels away a barrel of flour claiming to pay cash. Cadiz Kentucky mentions a drug store staffing tale and a joking mother about a father in heaven, plus a juror’s confused Not guilty plea at a criminal trial.
A dissipated young husband complains of a pain in the head after a night of clandestine revels. His wife quips about sham pain while a friend notes the oppressive atmosphere at one of the season’s first concerts. The male aria is described as dreadful.
Gro W Eas terbrook, dairy manager at Sparta Oregon reports that one gallon of sweet cream churned with Butter Maker at 55 degrees produced 4.5 pounds of butter, with golden color and firm texture in 20 minutes. Without the powder the same cream yielded 4 pounds in 45 minutes, paler and less firm. He recommends the preparation highly to friends and the public.
Retired physician, once in East India missions, claims a vegetable cure for consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and all lung afflictions along with nervous debility. He promises a free recipe by mail in German French or English with full usage instructions to any reader who requests it. W W Sinan 149 Powers Block Rochester New York.
A survey traces the tomato from Peru to Europe in the 16th century, noting early mentions by John Gerarde and Dutch herbalists. It follows its varied reception, from ornamental love apples to widespread American consumption, with regional use differences in Germany, France, Italy, and England.
The Sherman family in Milwaukee faced a startling incident when an eagle smashed into an upper bay window light and roamed the apartment. The bird, likely escaped from a local cage, was captured and kept as a temporary guest before escaping again.
An early 20th century brokerage pamphlet advertises 1425.50 profits in 30 days from legitimate stock speculations on Wall Street. It claims free pamphlets, issued by Hxratu & Co., stock brokers at 1227 Broadway New York, and also promotes HoysKell's Tetter Ointment for skin diseases.
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