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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1883
Page
4
A farm and home note explains lifting and holding a pawing horse's foot using a saddle and ropes to teach that standing on three legs is tiresome. The method aims to show the horse that its foot is controlled by a higher power and should not paw. Patience and steady practice are required for success.
A friend asks about scraping trees and the practice is supported if needed. Old bark scales provide shelter to insects while removing them improves beauty. use scrapers or an old hoe, avoid damaging healthy bark, recoat with thin soap after scraping, and expect the trunk to look like mahogany later in the season.
A Cincinnati Gazette writer argues farmers waste labor and manure on excessive corn acres. He says reallocating effort from twenty to ten acres could yield equal or greater corn by better feeding and multiple plowings, plus ample pasture for yearlings.
Recipe notes describe potato chops fried to a golden brown after mashing with milk and butter, minted loin chop, and mint watercress garnish. Egg Pie layers hard boiled eggs with butter, breadcrumbs, pepper, salt, and cream, baked brown. Green peas are boiled in salted water for ten minutes.
The text lists resting pulse rates for horse forty, ox fifty to fifty five, sheep and pigs seventy to eighty. It explains where to feel pulses on each animal and notes variations signal fever, inflammation, blood loss, brain disease, or heart trouble, stating pulse as a principal health test.
At a lunch table two men discuss a new confidential clerk, a hard looking case whom one man doubts, only to learn he is his oldest son. The conversation ends in tense silence.
Production data show the United States produced 10 gallons of beer for every person in the country over the previous year. This figure highlights per capita beer output amid industry trends and consumer demand.
A medley of events from July includes a dynamite find near Cork and police seizures, four Irish conspirators convicted in Sligo, royal births, and attacks on European fronts. Reports cover riots in Vermont, prison leases in Tennessee, a fatal house fire, shipyard fires, and a spate of crimes across Ohio Kentucky and Michigan with multiple fatalities and arrests.
London reports tone of sympathy for capsized Daphne victims as Queen Victoria sends dispatch. Australia shows great dissatisfaction over England's refusal to annex New Guinea. A Nationalist meeting denounces Karl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Treasury rules import dutiable on ships not entered by July 1 under old tariff. W J Burt of South Washington arrested for selling lottery tickets from his store. Postmaster General Gresham upholds Key order from 1879, lifted only temporarily in 1880. Indians under Gen Crook to stay under War Department at San Carlos. US Corea treaty ratified. Northern troops defeated by Indians near the border. Major Farquhar dies in Detroit. Lottery mail dispute begins before Postmaster General. Gen Crook to meet with War Secretary on prisoners.
German chemists cited by The New York Herald show skimmed milk carries as much nitrogenous matter as meat, yet lacks fat. An American physician notes raids spilling skimmed milk waste a valuable food. For certain patients skimmed milk is preferable. calls for legal rules to allow fair sale at fair price without substitution for richer milk.
J B Henton M D recounts a near death from Brights disease and chronic kidney failure in 1881 Rochester. He credits Warner Safe Cure for dramatic recovery after years of misdiagnosis and tells readers to seek early kidney care.
An advertisement notes a probate dispute over a will and promotes a cure for rheumatism and related ailments from Dr. Emore at 105 William St New York, urging readers to request circulars.
An amended proverb notes the medicine’s success in severe coughs weak lungs and early Consumption. It claims to strengthen the system purify the blood and aid recovery, with Dr Pierce’s remedy sold by druggists.
The report cites Dr. Pierce of Buffalo declaring his Favorite Prescription cures women’s ailments and weakness. It notes widespread use by thousands of ladies and claims rapid cures, with the New Orleans Picayune remarking that good teeth permit an open mouth with a poke bonnet.
A compassionate appeal urges neighbors to share hope with mothers of ill children, claiming consumption is curable. It cites Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as surpassing cod liver oil and hypophosphites, sold by druggists. The notice ends with a stray line about a sailor sent to a leaky boat.
Mr C H Duarrr of 223 Main Street Worcester Massachusetts testifies to the kidney medicine Hunt's Remedy after purchasing from D B Williams of Lincoln Square. He claims it works effectively for kidney and liver disease and urges others to use it, dated April 11 1883.
Worcester resident Mr Grovex A Bunpvert reports after buying Hunt's Remedy at Jannery's drug store that his health and that of his wife and son improved. The note dated April 17 1883 cites universal ailments and positive results from continued use within the family.
A Troy druggist cites Hunt's Remedy for kidney and urinary ailments in broad use among trade and friends. Dr. James Beecher of Sigourney Iowa testifies to long term success with Dr William Hall's Balsam for the Lungs, from Civil War era to present practice.
The notice promotes Henrys Carbolic Salve as the best remedy for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. It also reports that fifty six thousand coconuts have been planted this season in Monroe county Florida.
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