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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1881
Page
4
An agriculture note discusses fall versus spring planting for trees. It advises buying in fall, storing in trenches, cutting diseased roots, and planting in spring once roots heal. Grafted stock is preferred for easier form and growth.
The article notes potatoes are wild in the Chonos archipelago and common at Valparaiso, with home in Peru and South America. It credits Sir Walter Raleigh’s colonists for introducing potatoes to Britain, mentions Herbst's early travel account, and recalls early doubts about the vegetable’s safety for the poor.
In Aroostook County Maine twenty two starch factories operate daily using from 1500 to 2000 bushels of potatoes. With a 90 day run the total reaches about 3 million bushels. Farmers earn roughly 600 thousand dollars at 20 cents per bushel. Some 40 acre fields yield up to 400 bushels per acre. Factories accept large and small potatoes, with one pound and three quarter varieties common.
The text argues that beef benefits active workers more than sedentary people. It states beef is muscle and nitrogenous, and excess nitrogen is excreted by the kidneys. Sedentary individuals should limit beef to once daily, as overconsumption may burden nitrogenous waste, with appetite guiding personal limits and laborers tending to regulate intake.
A good clover stubble run benefits pigs and yards should be clean. Copperas sprinkled in pens deodorizes and disinfects cheaply. Push young pigs for early markets, aiming for rapid growth. If stock lacks quality, procure a pure-blood boar of a good breed to improve the herd now.
Rail travel between Philadelphia and New York has sped up with two new express trains joining the schedule, while the Camden and Amboy Line once transformed stagecoach trips. Forty years of rail improvement have boosted speeds to 45 60 mph, added comfortable cars, telegraphic signaling, and a daily roster of about forty trains serving over eight thousand passengers in both directions.
An 19th century guide urges using dried grasses for winter parlor decor noting the pampas grass as a refined option. It warns against dyeing plumes and stresses gathering grasses at full flower and drying them dust free for best shape and color.
The article explains that iron kettles accumulate lime due to iron’s affinity for lime, unlike copper or tin. It recommends coating the inner surface with tannic acid and iron by boiling a new kettle with oak bark to form a tannite layer that resists lime, noting to avoid overheating and that old kettles can be treated similarly with longer boiling.
Melt resin and pitch to form cement, add brick dust until test drop hardens. Mix may require water and a touch of tallow. Cement fastens wood to a chuck during work and releases with a sharp stroke. Benzine removes any residue from the completed job.
A historical cooking note describes making a rich cream dessert. It instructs to heat milk, add grated chocolate, then mix in egg yolks with sugar and vanilla. After cooling fold in beaten whites, pour into cups, steam boil for half an hour, then serve cold.
One cupful sugar and butter with one egg and molasses mix stiffly. Add saleratus, roll thin, bake quickly not browned. Lift cookies with a knife to cool on paper, then store in a dry room or pantry shelf after cooling.
The recipe instructs mixing two parts finely ground litharge with one part very fine land and one part quicklime slaked by air exposure. The resulting mix stores well. To use, blend into paste with linseed oil or boiled linseed oil, applying quickly before it hardens.
Moderately boil one pint of molasses for several minutes then whisk in three eggs and boil briefly with lemon or nutmeg.
Butter the pie plate and dust with yellow Indian meal to form a paste. To one quart of pumpkin add one cup of boiled milk and three eggs or two eggs and one soda cracker rolled fine. Prepare and bake as a traditional pie filling.
A historical farming note explains cows require ample water but differ in drinking behavior. Some drink quickly from troughs, others sip multiple times first. cows respond to individual care. Observations include varied water intake from pails and hay with prior breath.
The St Chamond Seel Works in France claims the world’s largest lathe, made by Sir Joseph Whitworth & Co. of Manchester. It has been set up in France to turn 100 ton guns, highlighting British metalworking prowess in military scale.
A humorous scene unfolds as a dapper visitor asks for free ear treatment at the St. Louis Dispensary. The doctor cites the law limiting aid to paupers, prompting the man to resist the label. The exchange ends with the visitor slipping away to avoid ejection.
A Galveston shoemaker spots a fashionable customer at a restaurant enjoying a banquet of delicacies including a green seal bottle and two canvas-back ducks. The tradesman accuses the well dressed man of not paying for boots, while the man warns not to lose confidence and admits no intent to pay for the feast.
A Cincinnati judge visits a courthouse librarian, finds a red headed worker and learns the man shifts roles. The janitor claims to be the librarian, clarifying the mix up with hours and titles. The anecdote ends with the man declaring I am the librarian.
Jones and Brown discuss a young preacher named in doubt over his earlier preaching. Brown asks what Jones thinks and he replies the man did better two years ago, implying he did not preach then.
An excited Celestial in Vicksburg describes a poker game with Melican and Mushee. He claims he won twelve dollars in small bets as opponents allegedly clumed and clum never arriving, then cleaned out the pot after five and fifteen dollar plays.
In a hushed theater scene two women watch Clara Morris. A bystander gossips through her opera glass noting the dress trimming as Hamburg edging. The remark adds a sharp, incongruent moment to the performance.
A quip on belief in gravitation notes that confidence collapses when a chair vanishes beneath a sitter, prompting a humorous reflection on everyday physics.
A Toledo man confesses a quirky habit of preferring public embarrassment when he falls, hoping the crowd will share in the humor. The remark reflects a playful tolerance for mishaps and the social aspect of laughter among onlookers.
A collection of short, humorous lines about a mild pastor, a boastful expe rience teller, aging and vinegar like women, a nose bound singer, a grandchild’s joke about marriage, angels and fences, and an auctioneer’s blues reflecting bid tastes.
A sorely wounded aspiring gunman was transported to a hospital where he reportedly became a dangerous shooter, raising concerns about the incident and the possible progression of his actions inside the facility.
A fragmentary antique line compares a dangerous man with a clove in breath to a severing fate, followed by a quip about scissors and sorrow. It remarks that youth flourish in love yet expressively laments separation and sighs in a bittersweet tone.
A collection of light verse and puns notes flattery as Cologne to sniff not swallow and compares a young lady to a music box full of airs. It mentions The Custom House as a duty call location and jokes that Honest tea is the best policy for tea dealers with a motto style.
The note explains stain removal by boiling water for tea and iron stains and milk soaking to lift ink. It clarifies chamois skins come from sheep, processed with lime water, sulphuric acid, fish oil, and potash. It also describes waterproofing cloth with linseed oil wax and litharge.
An advertisement urges readers to treat torpid liver and bilious symptoms with Simmons Liver Regulator. It recommends a half tablespoon after meals, adjustable for daily bowel action, claiming rapid, permanent relief and cites Hon. R. L. Morris of Columbus Georgia endorsing the remedy.
The article notes that armor and underground vaults offered little protection from storms, while emperors sought shelter in iron vaults and laurel crowns offered no shield. It warns that lightning rods must be properly connected to earth and that water, stone, and cement can undermine grounding, citing French experience with faulty installations.
In a Barnaby Rudge scene a locksmith’s daughter is described as good humored and beautiful. The text touts Carboline a deodorized petroleum extract as a hair renewer with glossy hair described as abundant and hanging over her shoulders. Sold by all druggists.
The design places vertical tubes within a rectangular flue box bolted to a collar around the rear wall opening of the fire box. The rear end of the box rivets to the back boiler head. Joints resist strain while flame and combustion products pass around the tubes to rapidly generate steam. For high pressure, stay bolts may reinforce the flue-box.
A vintage sales pitch urges readers to cleanse and strengthen before spring work. It promotes Hop Bitters as a remedy to prevent ague bilious fever or spring sickness, claiming one bottle will save time sickness and expense for the household.
An invention describes concentrating solar rays to heat and dilate a metal strip to close an electric circuit and ring a bell. It notes sun exposure remains effective through clouds and ponders lunar influence with a powerful lens. The device could be used to study solar radiating power and calibrate dilation response.
The text describes V Fgetine as nourishing and strengthening, purifying the blood, regulating the bowels, quieting the nervous system, acting on secretions, and arousing the whole system to action.
The Warner Astronomical Observatory in Rochester will soon host the United States third largest telescope. It will be 22 feet long with a 16 inch diameter lens. Professor Swift will use the instrument to widen his observational field.
A reader extols Dob pins' Electric Soap made by Cragin & Co. of Philadelphia as essential in family life, praising its purity and efficiency and urging others to try it as a dependable washing aid.
On October 18 a crewman aboard the Czar's new yacht Livadia was asked to hold an electric lamp before installation. He diverted current from a candle and received a fatal electric shock, dying instantly.
The Concord Nashoba Patriot urges housewives to protect family health in spring by cleansing the body with blood purification and stomach and bowel regulation to ward off malaria and miasma. It promotes Hop Buyers as the purest and best medicine.
In a tender moment a child named Augustus picks the larger of two toys but explains he gives it to his sister because it is broken. The scene captures a youthful, gentle rationale and a mother's delighted reaction.
The notice claims Awaken a scientific blend of poultice instrument and medicine by Antinspee a regular physician cures piles instantly and permanently used in thousands of cases endorsed by physicians as the greatest modern discovery Apakesis mailed by man for 1.00 per box samples available from P Neustaedter Co Box 3946 New York.
A dated claim asserts that indoor work harms health by inactive liver and kidneys and promotes Kidney-Wort as the remedy to keep these organs in healthy condition. The text reflects historical beliefs about medicine and disease prevention.
In the Wimmera district, Victoria, a bore reached 250 feet and a tree was passed through after six feet. The cup yielded several stones resembling park nuts and some were crushed, though kernels were not identifiable, suggesting a grove of trees at the site.
An 80 price claim extols Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup as a fast cure for cold and coughs, promising relief in less than a day. The ad notes the product costs 25 cents and is sold everywhere.
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