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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1882
Page
4
Wisconsin farmer reports spreading yard manure in corn hills yielded more vigorous growth and two extra plump ears per stalk. He measured 4,000 hills per acre with 4,000 pints of manure about 623 bushels, asserting the practice boosts final crop value and soil nourishment.
The article praises growing sunflowers for seed as a hardy, useful poultry feed. It notes the seed proves valuable for fodder even if the flower itself is not attractive. With minimal space, a keeper could yield 3 to 5 bushels of seed, boosting the winter chicken food supply.
The piece notes bulbs are affordable and easy to grow. Plant tuberose from May to June in warm rooms or greenhouses with staking as blooms develop. Gladiolus is nearly hardy with a wide color range and shows best in a showy bed. plant mixed bulbs cheaper, space one foot apart, and replant in two week intervals through early June, staking to prevent wind damage.
A good permanent pasture near the barnyard is essential for well regulated farms. Fertilize with fine manure in winter or apply 50 to 100 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre before showers. Avoid overstocking and ensure ample water via a windmill well to maximize grazing through the season.
The passage notes time users apply ten to fifty bushels per acre, ashes at the same rate, salt from two hundred to four hundred pounds, and plaster at about one hundred pounds per acre.
A column of home cooking notes covers corn bread batter and steaming methods, frugal storage ideas, French omelets, orange and lemon jellies, peanut candy, orange water, oat meat pudding, macaroons, hash, roast pigeon with bread sauce, a fish sauce, beef warming with onions, gateaux Manonneres, prune puppine, codfish stew, eggs in shells, and orange apple preserves.
A Gotham magnate faces a newspaper scoop and tests costs to buy the Daily Plaster and to start an opposing paper. The quoted prices—700000 and about 500000—lead him to abandon direct counteraction and instead send a symbolic bouquet to the editor, concluding revenge is too costly.
Advertises Hop Bitters as a cure for kidney and urinary problems and claims proof at home. Describes a social scene in Austin where Mung Seabury boasts of his horse, rebutted by Gilhooly with a joke about a swallow.
An old newspaper snippet markets Kidney Wort as a kidney and liver remedy priced for dry or liquid use and urged for immediate use. A magistrate questions a prisoner about keeping his word to seek work, and the prisoner explains fear of striking if he returns to work.
A July 2 1880 notice from Wauppayy New Jersey highlights Rev D McGrre Bardwell praising Warner Safe Kidney and Liver Cure for Mrs Bardwell s chronic bladder inflammation. A Montreal paper mixes Africa mission progress with a bizarre ketchup recipe involving mission children.
For dyspepsia indigestion low spirits and debility the Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya by Caswell Hazard & Co New York is promoted as the best tonic. It is recommended for fever recovery and prevention of intermittent fevers with wide appeal to readers of patent remedies. A lighthearted aside notes a mother remarking on a future husband and a daughter wedding. Also mentions Lindsey's Blood Searcher as a meal aid and a mule in Arkansas calmed by the Lord's Prayer.
An eclectic OCR extract shows an advertisement for sensational elixirs and a dialogue about burial prayers. It includes stray phrases about health cures and a suburban restaurant bill listing items in odd phrasing.
An old advertisement touts Allen's Brain Food as a cure for nervous debility and weakness of generative organs with a nationwide price at druggists. The notice invites readers to send for a circular from Allen's Pharmacy.
An ad claims Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer cures all nerve diseases and ends fits. A Philadelphia address appears while a toast about life and death is quoted. Mention of Erin’s son Lindsey, a reference to Mason fund, and ex President Hayes is noted.
Two Leipsic chemists claim a method to render sugar liquid by adding a small amount of citric acid to purified sugar solution, preventing crystallization. They also note capaine from tropical trees aids digestion, while opium induces sleep. Swiss wheat culture declines, producing only two-fifths of annual needs with imports mainly from the United States Russia and Austro-Hungary.
A humorous piece from the Brazos Independent compares the Brazos River to a legislator noting a crooked course a muddy flow and unclear origin while suggesting it should be open wider at the mouth and even seeks election to the Legislature for its own benefit.
A jumble of testimonial clippings promotes Dr. Pierce remedies including Favorite Prescription Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets. Letters claim cures for various ailments and blood purification, with accompanying quips and anecdotes.
A sensational patent medicine ad claims Hop bitters destroys the germ cause of Bright's Disease and related ailments. It urges trials and cites neighbor cures, ending with a fictional anecdote about a character named Fitz frizzle who jokingly fears turning gray before dying.
A miscellany of ad copy and pseudo medical tips touts Kidney-Wort and Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as cures for constipation piles and female ailments. Promotions for Carboline hair products and Strawbridge & Clothier fashion issues circulate alongside quips about doctors and social anecdotes.
After flowering, treat housegrown hyacinth bulbs by planting the ball of earth in the garden for summer. The bulb regains strength and multiplies year to year, improving vigor for next cycle.
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