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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1880
Page
4
The article argues that training a wild heifer to stand for milking requires patience and calm handling. It advises never striking the animal, building trust, and reducing fear. Winter milking should be quiet in a stable, or in a tall fenced yard, with careful teats handling.
The London Live-Stock Journal notes England loses ground to America in dairy methods and cheese quality. It credits improved American science and management, along with favorable soil climate, as the main factors. It argues England must adopt similar advances to compete effectively.
The article urges generous, humane care for cows while avoiding overfeeding. It describes cattle as machines for milk, advocates ample exercise, light, ventilation, and clean stables. It warns against tethering and muddy feeding, promotes fresh water, proper fodder, and practical rack design.
The piece discusses road capacity by the hardest stretch, urging proper use of teams and avoiding underloading. It notes April as a good month for road repairs and improvements to increase hauling efficiency.
A German chemist reports a method to create lasting color washes for cement by mixing equal volumes of dry pigment and burned washed flint with milk of lime and a touch of water glass. The tint is durable when using stable mineral colors, yielding surfaces of beauty with marble and flint and a faint chrome green tint. Apply soon after the cement sets, ideally in one coat. if two coats are needed, the second uses water glass to enhance效果.
An essay describes a method to detect contact in many experiments. In a test with sixty threads per inch the micrometer head divided to 18,000 parts, an iron bar and a telephone joined to a Lelander cell produced a boiling microphone sound when loose contact formed, stopping abruptly when contact was made.
An engineer recommends adding from half to three fourths of a pound of borax to the boiler as a remedy for boiler scale. He says to run the engine for a week after adding the borax and then blow off to scrape the scale from the bottom of the boiler and fire box.
A historic method describes making ice cream using two quarts of milk ten eggs one tablespoon corn starch and one and a half pounds sugar. Cook the mixture gradually to avoid curdling then chill overnight. Add two teaspoons vanilla or strawberry flavor by mashing berries and sugar. Freeze in a pail with ice and salt, break ice, scrape cream, and beat for a fine grain.
A historic recipe describes making Boston brown bread using flour, corn meal, rye flour, two mealy potatoes, salt, brown sugar, baking powder, and water. The batter is steamed in a greased mould for an hour then finished in a hot oven for thirty minutes.
An advertisement extols Hop Bitters as a simple pure remedy curing every disease and keeping blood stomach kidneys and liver in health, claiming thousands have been saved and cured by it and inviting readers to try.
A historic kitchen passage describes preparing lobster croquettes by mincing lobster flesh with spices and cayenne, binding with butter flour and stock, then cooling shaping into corks, breading twice and frying to a golden color. The method emphasizes careful shaping and repeated breading for texture.
An advertisement claims Dobbins' Electric Soap from Cragin & Co. of Philadelphia makes clothes perfectly pure and snow-white, urging readers to try the product.
One quart flour, one teaspoon salt, half teaspoon baking powder, one tablespoon lard, one pint milk. Mix dry ingredients, rub in lard, add milk, form dough. Roll to three quarters inch, cut rounds, place on greased tin, brush with milk, bake twenty minutes.
Instructions describe making milk yeast bread by warming milk with water, mixing a thin sponge with sifted flour, letting it rise overnight, adding butter and flour, kneading, filling pans halfway, allowing dough to rise, and baking in a steady warm oven for about an hour.
Use scalded oatmeal with sweet or sour milk to promote fast growth. Do not feed wet or sloppy portions. only what will be eaten cleanly. Prepare at once to prevent fermentation. If oatmeal is unavailable, fine cornmeal or cracked wheat treated likewise also works well.
Half pound butter with three quarters pound flour and eight eggs. Use one pint water warm. boil with butter, stir in flour, cool, whisk eggs and fold in. Bake in small buttered pans ten minutes and fill each halfway.
A simple baked dessert recipe uses one quart scalded milk, half pint Indian meal, a cup of molasses, a spoonful of salt, and sweet apples. Mix, add chopped peeled apples, stir, and bake at moderate heat for at least three hours.
Scald and trim veal sweetbreads remove strings soak in cold water. Dip in egg and breadcrumbs fry in butter until brown. Rest juices in pan with cream chopped parsley pepper salt and a touch of flour. Boil briefly then pour over the breads and serve hot.
The poem like prose depicts endless night vigils with a colic crying infant. Dr Bull's Baby Syrup claims to prevent such scenes by its unfailing influence on the baby.
Recipe notes a eggless cream by mixing spare cream with new milk to desired amount. Sweeten and flavor to taste. If needed a little arrow root or corn starch may be cooked in milk and stirred in to thicken.
A historical note details dissolving one pound sugar in two quarts cream with one tablespoon extract. After mixing, drain water, repack with ice and salt, and cover with a woolen blanket to stand two or three hours.
A warning against contracting another illness after a coup and urging use of Dr Jaynes Expectorant as an effective cure for coughs chest bronchitis and lung healing influence warning readers to take prudent action now.
A drunken man staggers toward a river and declares his plan to drown his sorrows. A police officer detains him and, in a humorous exchange, offers a ten dollar bill and a counterfeit twenty to appease him. The man refuses the money, showing gratitude while the officer decides to return the note if the man sends his address.
A juror holds out against eleven in a Western trial. The judge demands unanimity and berates the lone holdout. A small voice then reveals the juror is the only man on the judge’s side.
The Salem Post quotes a claim that Mr. Godfrey was entirely cured of illness by Hop Bitters after doctors had given him up. The exchange notes a neighbor planning to obtain Hop Bitters for another patient, George, as the remedy is praised for its supposed efficacy.
A group gathers around a stove in a grocery as an old sailor recalls a right whale that damaged boats and killed the second mate. A quiet man jokes that they tackled the wrong one, provoking a mad, booted ending with the mariner kicking a saw-horse and wounding his shin.
A northern Vermont county states attorney, noted for legal ability, stumbles in court and admits the state is not prepared to proceed because he is drunk. The anecdote ends with a humorous warning about child care and a 25 cent bottle of Jr Bull's Baby Syrup for baby illnesses.
A collage of quirky quotes and oddities from a bygone era. A teacher recounts David, a cherub is amused by memory, and a sermon on Christianity is humorously tempered. Advertisements tout VEGETINE, mischief with suspender math, a Denver shooting, circus sparks, and chuckles about corn cures and steam valves.
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a premier pectoral and alterative for severe throat and lung ailments. It claims to cleanse and enrich the blood, curing pimples, blotches, eruptions, and even large ulcers, though it notes it cannot raise the dead or cure advanced consumption. Sold by druggists.
An advertisement extols Simmons Liver Regulator as essential for bowel regularity and liver health. It claims constipation is a root disease and recommends half a tablespoon after meals, citing personal testimony from Hiram M. Warner, Chief Justice of Georgia, that the medicine provides benefit when used as directed.
Four eggs and one cup sugar mix with one cup flour one teaspoon baking powder and a pinch of salt. Mix well roll onto long tins bake then spread jelly and roll while hot for a candy roll style cake.
The text lists vanilla lemon strawberry and chocolate flavoring amounts for two quarts of cream and notes a deodorized petroleum extract called Cariboline as the only hair growth dressing trusted by cultured people. It promotes the product as the proven remedy for baldness.
A comical remark about kings and queens draws a reply from Commodore Nutt. A bystander teases him about kissing many girls, and he concedes it loses its charm due to fatigue. The exchange captures light social humor of the era.
Quotation notes a baby’s protest to pin him is likened to a cat barring a pull. The humor pivots on discomfort versus restraint, suggesting the pin method as the cheaper option.
In Corronwood Chase County Kansas W W Jones promotes Anakesis a pile remedy as the only permanent cure cited by William Barton who tried all remedies. Free samples available by request to Anakesis Depot Box 3946 New York and sold widely at one dollar per box.
A vintage patent remedy claims Klidney-Wort cures liver and kidney diseases. It promises six quarts per package made with pure water and no poisons. An offer from Joseph H Inman of Station D New York invites readers to write for a free cure.
A free publication titled A Valuable Gift Free describes a book on the liver its diseases and their treatment. It includes treatises on liver complaints torpid liver biliousness headache constipation dyspepsia malaria and related issues. Address Dx Sanford Broadway New York City New York.
The Voltaic Belt Co of Marshall Michigan offers a long trial to prove their Electro Voltaic Belts. Readers are invited to write for details and to begin the 80 days period of trial and potential benefits.
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