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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1882
Page
4
Practical gardening advice shows how to sow seeds in shallow beds to avoid crusting, and recommends alternate watering followed by light raking. It also describes English methods to convert compact clay land into productive soil using drains, frost exposure, and repeated plowings for grasses, clover, and small grains.
Leghorn fowls known as top egg producers with about 160 eggs per hen annually. White Leghorns are prized for appearance and high winter lay. brown and speckled varieties are similar in productivity. The article also notes farming advice on strawberries, oats, and corn by various growers.
The text advises that ashes or potash salts aid grapevines with faulty color. It notes crossing a bantam rooster on hens yields small but good quality fowls. It mentions fowls enjoy milk but may overconsume grain or meat. milk remains palatable and healthy.
A kitchen column offers multiple recipes and tips including a coconut cake with almond flavor and a two layer frost, tomato and vermicelli soups, berry desserts with corn starch molds, and guidance on cooking beans greens and sweetbreads. Additional notes include a varnish style cement for glass repairs and stain removal for marble using benzine.
A humorous scene at a church prayer meeting features a bright child who mishears hymn lines and questions his mother about Dinah Moore and heaven. He inquires if God is out of town while the mother tries to keep him calm as the service ends with a quiet prayer.
The article claims Kidney-Wort has spread knowledge across fifty million people from coast to coast. It asserts the remedy cures ailments of the kidneys liver and bowels and has become a household remedy within less than a year.
An advertisement asserts Bright's Disease diabetes and kidney liver or urinary disorders can be cured by Hop Bitters, claiming it is the only remedy that will lastingly cure you.
Rev A Fulton of Derry relates a tale where a boy names Moses as the wickedest Old Testament figure, explaining that he “broke all the ten commandments at wurst” in a humorous misunderstanding during Sunday School questioning.
Mensman's Peptonized beef tonic advertised as the only beef preparation preserving all nutritious properties. It claims to build blood, energy, and life, aiding indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous exhaustion, debility, and recoveries from overwork or pulmonary illness. Caswell Hazard & Co. of New York market the product, sold by all druggists.
A shopkeeper quotes prices for caramels at ninety cents and twenty five cents each. He notes no golden mean stock available and expects no more until the first of next week.
An old advertisement touts Rough on Rats as a cure all for mice roaches flies bedbugs. It claims the product clears pests and sells for 15 cents per box.
Don Cortes the would be King of Spain and his wife separate amid a dispute neighbors say involved soap stirred with a royal sceptre and an attempted setup with a hen and fourteen duck eggs. A quirky ad touts Lindsey's Blood Searcher as a cure all and offers a circular.
A wry aside notes that a church bell is more affable than a church organ because the bell rings when tolled while the organ would be blown first.
The Providence Gazette notes Vegetine, a patent medicine by H. R. Stevens of Boston, gains worldwide demand. It cites rapid sales, numerous cures, testimonials from high-status individuals, and the tendency for physicians to fail before patients turn to the remedy.
A Chicago area coroner’s office scene features a flippant Illinois girl and a bemused official as she jokes about a local rumor and a circus date while a bogus health tonic ad and a banter about eggs with a hen on them unfold.
A fragmented 19th century advertisement mocks Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and Pellets promising cures for liver and blood disorders. The text alternates with a humorous domestic exchange about keeping things organized and late hours, ending with a quip about shooting cats. The satire juxtaposes medical testimonials with intimate dialogue.
For the year ending December 31, 1881 imports into the United States totaled 85,017,562 pounds of tea costing 21,571,455 dollars before freight. The text notes exceptional import volumes and lower spirits prices, urging the public to benefit. Robert Wells, a New York tea merchant, advertises ten pounds for one dollar as an unprecedented price.
A man who endured two weeks camping and ate half cooked meat smoked fish and stale bread complains at the supper table. He jokes perhaps he carried his appetite home with him.
Physicians tout Kidney Wort as a remedy for biliousness constipation and kidney complaints urging a spring course. The ad suggests feeling renewed after using Kidney-Wort and cites the Indianapolis Sentinel. A separate note humorously questions religious labels and jokes about moving for lower rates.
A collage of ad blurbs and quips on hair restorers like Carboline, Liver Pills, nerve cures by Dr Kline, and home remedies mailed to readers. The piece also lampoons a polite menagerie taunt, a cartoonish Eve reference, debt worries, and a dry jab about cigars named Bulky Horse that won’t draw.
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