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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1882
Page
4
Agricultural guidance explains storing beets carrots and turnips in barrels or deep cellars with straw to reduce evaporation. It notes squashes require warm storage above 50 degrees and air circulation, recommends closets by the chimney, and compares varieties. It suggests green tomatoes ripen indoors after frost, and dried string beans and Lima beans make good winter dishes.
Dr Manyers writes that a well planned rotation of crops is essential for high yield. He notes ancient writers from Greek and Roman times advocated succession of crops and that practical rotation rules emerged from experience and experiment.
Farmers often err in preparing land for grass seed. The best practice is deep plowing, thorough harrowing, sowing, then lightly covering the seed and rolling to ensure good seed-to-soil contact.
The goose breeding trade has grown greatly in recent years as geese thrive on coarse grasses and tolerate less favorable conditions. Rearing geese is said to be the least troublesome and most profitable branch of poultry farming.
The passage advises sowing red top timothy and red clover in a specific mix: a bushel of red top, a peck of timothy, six pounds of red clover. It suggests this liberal seeding will yield a fair hay crop by early September.
The editor of the Gettysburg Compiler urges Adams county farmers to broadcast phosphate in fall and plow it in rather than apply in spring for corn. He cites satisfactory results from a past trial conducted several years ago.
The article argues that modern shops rely more on thinking than brawn. It urges machinists to educate themselves to do the brain work and earn more, or risk being left at the level of the machines they operate while others profit from thinking.
The light house board seeks 50000 dollars in its annual report to install electric light at prominent lighthouses. Tested lamps perform better than current lights. They control about 700 coastal lighthouses plus 800 interior river lights and project roughly 3000000 dollars for new work and maintenance next year.
Messrs Galloway and Abel report coal dust as a key factor in mine gas explosions. They show that while coal dust with air is non explosive, a small amount of fire damp makes the mixture violently explosive, and any dust with air containing fire damp forms an explosive compound.
The Seismological Society of Japan locates a chronic disturbance center within a few miles of Yokohama, establishing a stable seismic hotspot in the region.
The article warns hot air baths risk polluted atmosphere when fever or tuberculosis patients breathe the air. It urges frequent air changes and responsible attendants to ensure proper cold water applications and avoid neglect in bathhouses.
The article explains why home killed poultry tastes better when cooked after several days. It advises killing before eating, dressing immediately, using charcoal, and hanging in a cool place. It warns against starving birds more than twelve hours and against undrawn fowl due to gas taint.
A traditional school cake recipe with sugar glaze. It uses two pounds of flour two ounces German yeast tepid water one pound butter six eggs lemon rind grated nutmeg one pound raisins one pound currants half a pound candied peel. mix rise bake two hours in a hot oven.
A vintage recipe snippet details lobster croquettes with minced lobster mixed with egg butter and spices, formed into crescents, breaded and fried, with cold serving garnishes of parsley watercress. It also provides a gingerbread recipe with butter sugar molasses eggs flour and spices baked in shallow tins.
A simple dessert layers sweetened apple sauce with cold rice pudding, then bakes to heat through and brown. Butter and sugar top the dish, with any preferred flavoring to finish.
A simple pie dish is lined with buttered bread slices and layered with finely cut apples, apricot jam, grated lemon rind, and brown sugar. Top with buttered bread slices and bake until the bread browns.
Three gallons of soft water one pound of coarse sugar two ounces of saltpetre three pounds of common salt boiled and skimmed, cooled and poured over the meat. In two or three weeks the ham will be excellent for baking or boiling. It may be smoked if preferred.
A method claims to extract more tea from the same leaf by steaming before steeping. It is said that 14 pints of good quality tea can be brewed from one ounce of tea using this process.
One pint sour milk, one egg, one tablespoon soda, half cup molasses, one quart Graham flour mixed and baked one hour.
Prof. Wideman conducts experiments on cotton-seed oil to aid identification of spurious olive oil. He notes specific gravity changes with temperature, violet color with vitriol, deep brown after 24 hours, and reactions with sulphuric acid, potash bichromate, and caustic alkalies that produce red, blue, and violet hues and color separation.
The passage notes the common house fly beating its wings about 330 times per second and 19,800 times per minute while a butterfly's wings flap about nine times per second or 540 times per minute, highlighting remarkable wing rapidity observed by naturalists.
A witty scene shows a woman finding her husband intoxicated in an alley. She steadies him then pockets his $20, declaring she has the dead wood for a new bonnet and hurries to the millinery shop, while onlookers laugh at his neglect of basic needs.
Mr. Aug Kickbush states St. Jacob's Oil has proven an excellent and most useful remedy in every family that used it. A large majority of cases pronounced incurable have been entirely cured.
A fragment describes a husband angrily warning his wife while tallying figures. He asserts love but threatens a clip to the eye if she interrupts. The passage captures a domestic dispute moment with tense language and a blunt threat amid accounting.
A persia mocks a newcomer for pushing in a crowd, arguing there is no one behind to press. The other retorts that there may soon be someone behind, questioning the purpose of crowding if one may not shove.
Monsigur Provpitomme extols gymnastics as healthful and strength giving. A pupil counters ancestors did not practice it, prompting Peaudhomime to note they are dead, asserting the risks of neglecting exercise.
W T Lee of this paper says he is convinced of the efficacy of St Jacob's Oil in curing rheumatism and has no hesitancy in recommending it.
Lorp X whose popularity was limited in a Scottish town renewed her applications after refusing an important beggar. She pleaded, Now, me lord, if ye'd just give me one little sixpence, I could treat every friend ye have in the toon.
A college tutor laments the pupil’s vices will sadden the father, who, the student retorts, wears a wig. The exchange showcases wit about appearances and parental concern.
Eminent physicians recommended Kidney Wort as a remedy for biliousness constipation and kidney complaints. The Indianapolis Sentinel notes that nearly everyone benefits from a thorough spring course and that feeling out of sorts can be cured by a package of Kidney-Wort.
A compendium of witticisms and anecdotes includes a police remark about an actress, a New Mexico citizen on a panther attack, praise for Dr. Pierces Favorite Prescription, a girl and corn silk mishap, a mastodon ark reference, a remark on mosquito wisdom, and an ad endorsing Sellers Liver Pills.
A new six foot diameter nine foot high first order dioptric revolving electric arc light by Chance Brothers of Birmingham is shown for South Head Macquarie Harbour Sydney. It claims 12 000 candle focus and 12 000 000 candle luminous intensity. The beam rotates every sixteen minutes and is visible forty to fifty miles. It is touted as the largest and most powerful light in the world.
Julius Vanderbergh of Portsmouth England tested a three and a half foot copper sea messenger vessel lined with cork and composition to resist pressure. It carries 60 pounds inside to convey letters from wrecked ships. Thrown overboard, it drifted 25 days and 1420 miles before being recovered off the Jutland coast, yet remained uninjured.
A defense of Dr Bull s Cough Syrup noting it has stood the test of 34 years of popular use and remains highly regarded.
An auctioneer born in the Green Isle printed on his handbills a line promising that every article sold goes to the highest bidder unless some gentleman bids more. The wording suggests a competitive sales approach at a recent auction event.
Little Johnny visits a neighbor and accepts bread and butter but refuses thanks, quipping that it ain’t cake. The exchange leaves the lady prompting politeness as Johnny’s stubborn remark closes the moment.
This clipping promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy for anemia and related conditions. It claims the tonic enriches blood, surpasses cod liver oil, and is harmless yet powerful, with patent medicine language aimed at improving health, especially in children and mothers.
The piece extols Kidney-Wort as a universal remedy for kidneys liver and bowels claiming fifty million readers have adopted it. It also mentions Carboline hair treatment as a cure for baldness and notes a coroner appointing an African American deputy. A Colfax Indiana reader touts Lindsey's Blood Searcher curing a neck tumor.
A fragment discusses fashion origin from advertising to sales, then shifts to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound claiming cures for female weakness. It notes pamphlet requests to Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts.
A Cure Yankee has devised a nest with a trap-deer at the bottom. As the egg is laid it drops through the trap, and the hen, seeing no predator, lays another egg. The device aims to conceal the nest and ensure continued nesting.
Sugar coated pills sealed in glass bottles preserve virtues, remain fresh in any climate for druggists to sell. No wooden or pasteboard boxes.
A legislator acuses a fellow member of not opening his mouth during the session. The reply claims the other yawned through the entire speech, prompting a sharp exchange in a light parliamentary moment.
A Hore. on the European plan depicts scenes involving Asiatic laundrymen, African waiters, and a North American clerk who has a South American diamond visible in his shirt front.
Battle Creek resident Thos G Knox testifies that after years of indigestion and general debility he used Hop Bitters on his doctor’s advice and received almost instant relief, expressing gladness to testify in their behalf.
A playful note suggests revising birth dates in family records of the Bible to appeal to maidens of uncertain age. It humorously contrasts ancestors described as educated in higher branches with the idea of modern readers.
A fragment notes a Christmas gift featuring the Mass Organ Co. Harpettes to delight children at home during long winter evenings. Another line mentions a man injured by applause recovering. A question asks if a horseman who scoured the plain used soap.
box Rough on Rats keeps a house free from flies bed-bugs roaches rats and mice G MESSRS MuxGAN HEADLY Mutual Life Building Tenth and Chestnut streets have on hand a superb stock of extra fine quality diamonds offered at low prices as stones of first quality perfect in color and shape
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