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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1879
Page
4
A German boy Hans cannot go to the circus but watches tumble-bugs and a huge elephant near his house. The elephant spots him on a fence, then is led away by handlers to perform, as Hans rushes in with his tale to his mother about the exciting sight.
The Great Duke of Bridgewater famed for canals and frugal taste showed kindness in war aid and daily care. He funded miners houses schools and markets and once helped a coal porter unaware the buyer was his own son. The anecdote highlights eccentric habits and generous acts.
A damaged snippet references reduced bowel issues and medicine reach. It mentions ch iera and affec tion bowels and prudence. No clear patient, date, or treatment details are identifiable.
The writer recalls keeping two hundred hybrid bee colonies with minimal losses after a cool winter. He notes a long beekeeping season from February to December and stresses the importance of continuous pasture for nectar. Mignonette tops the list for bee pasturage followed by sweet clover and the American bee plant, which blooms in sand and yields honey but with less refined flavor.
In England J B Lawes summarizes experiments showing mineral lime phosphate boosts crop yields over thirty years when used alone. He notes crops high in nitrogen and phosphorus benefit from soluble phosphoric acid and nitrogen manures. Potash needs vary by crop, with root crops and hay benefiting from potash-rich manures. He argues form differences in fertilizers matter, and standard analyses misvalue such materials.
A gardener explains his method to raise cabbages after cabbage worms appeared. He previously removed worms by hand for two weeks but found it too laborious, so he mixed soft soap and salt in water and sprayed about a gallon per forty heads daily. The result was robust, marketable cabbages sold at ten cents each.
A narrator describes being detained and taking a 20 mile detour by buggy. The horse balked repeatedly until an Adams express wagon driver gently touched the animal with a whip, after which it moved forward each time.
The burdock is biennial and seeds in the second summer before dying. Let plants fully mature, then cut and burn before seeds shell. If cut early, heat prompts continued growth and seeding. Allowing two-year growth reduces remaining plants after a two-year cycle.
A print notes a method to protect seed corn by dipping a sack of four bushels in half a pint of gas tar, one pound of vitral, and a gallon of hot water twelve hours before sowing. The treated seed deters rocks and birds, reducing crow maintenance costs.
Advice on switching cattle from hay to pasture. Move cattle to a home pasture for several hours daily over two to three weeks while feeding hay. This builds grass readiness and habitual walking, helping cattle adapt and drive more readily to pasture life.
An infallible cure for piles promoted as a scientific poultice instrument and medicine. Dr Sirspeg endorses it as a modern greatest discovery used in thousands of cases. Sufferers urged to try with instant relief and permanent care. Anakesis mailed on receipt of $1.00. samples offered by P Neustaedter & Co. Box 8046 New York.
Melt two ounces of chocolate in a shallow pan then stir in three tablespoons milk or cream and one of water. Add sugar, boil five minutes. Spread the hot mixture between cakes as they cool, top with another cake, then bake briefly to set. A satisfactory method for chocolate eclairs.
A step by step lentil soup method instructs soaking the lentils overnight then boiling in three quarts of water with six sliced potatoes. Add smoked sausage, salt, pepper, onion, parsley, and celery then simmer. If thin, thicken with flour. if thick, dilute with water. Serve with browned bread cubes.
To create a dry coating for basement walls mix fifty pounds pitch thirty pounds resin six pounds English red and twelve pounds brick dust. Boil and blend then add about one fourth the volume of turpentine until the mixture flows. Apply thinly with a brush. walls become damp-proof.
A dated recipe mixes two pounds pulverized sugar with one pound butter then adds eight eggs and hart horn. It blends in four and three fourths pounds flour with milk and flavoring then bakes without soda or baking powder, a note that bakers favor hart horn.
Boil one pint shelled peas in just enough water until tender. Mash finely, mix with two pints sweet milk, strain and return to heat. Season with butter pepper and salt. Boil and serve with crackers like oyster soup. String beans can be prepared similarly.
A recipe instructs placing a little less than one teacup of rice in one quart of rich milk with one teacup sugar half a teaspoon of salt and grated nutmeg. Bake two hours until the rice is soft and the pudding is stirred frequently to prevent burning. Add more milk if dry and serve cold.
A Detroit man writes that his wife, bedridden a decade with vague ailments, recovered after trying Hop Bitters. He spent two dollars for two bottles, claiming the remedy worked where doctors failed and calling it folly that paid.
A market gardener warns that hot water will kill cabbage worms but cautions against scalding cabbage. He recommends a mixture of twenty parts superphosphate of lime, one part carbolic powder, and three parts air slaked lime, with a small handful scattered over each head.
A poker game ends in a melee when a green stranger boasts four queens while Smith holds four kings and Jones four aces. The stranger declares four queens, Smith counters kings, and Jones admits bluffing as a punch flings him into another room. The loser storms off muttering about cold decks.
Eminent doctors and chemists announced a new medicine Hop Bitters formed by combining well known remedies. They claim it cures a wide range of diseases, reducing the need for other remedies. Initial trials impressed skeptics and led to widespread praise for the discoverers.
A man enters a conservatory where a woman trims a rosebud to adorn his buttonhole. He compliments the rose and a shy exchange leads to a blush and near intimacy as he wraps his arm around her waist. The dialogue captures a delicate moment of evolving affection.
A gentleman who wears eye-glasses for the first time explains to an old friend that his eyes remain as good as in boyhood, but lighting conditions now feel different. The exchange highlights how perception changes with aging and illumination.
A man enters an Irish shanty and is asked what he wants. He replies nothing, then is told he will find it in the jug beyond where the whisky was.
An old miser recalls a powerful charity sermon and jokes that it almost compels him to beg. The quip highlights the sermon’s impact on his views despite his frugal nature.
Readers are urged to test Dobbins Electric Soap made by Cragin & Co Philadelphia as the best and cheapest option promising true economy over low priced rivals.
A Texas man shot five men without notice but was later hanged after stealing a mule. The fragment teases rough justice in a small-town scene while noting citizens’ quick tempers and a jab at vaccination.
Boils should be brought to a head with warm poultices of camomile or white lily root or onion root, or by fomentation with hot water or stimulating plasters. When ripe they should be destroyed by needle or lancet, but only after they are fully proved.
The instructions describe preparing Picxie beans by stringing and breaking, washing, boiling until they burst, cooling, salting for storage, and packing in a stone jar with a light brine to ferment into sour beans after a few weeks.
Instructions describe simmering beef then returning chopped meat to tenderize. Add potatoes mace cloves cinnamon parsley thyme celery seed and ten hard boiled eggs. Season with pepper and salt, thicken with flour, then add brandy and wine.
A recipe lists ingredients for a coconuts cake using one cup butter two cups sugar three cups flour four egg whites cream of tartar one half teaspoon soda and half small coconut stirred in at the end.
Open the fish wash and dry rub with salt then bake in a pan with a little butter and water for thirty minutes in a hot oven.
A German man, mourning his wife, visits an undertaker to buy a coffin. The price is two hundred dollars, which he cannot afford. He asks about secondhand coffins, but the undertaker explains he never uses them. The German, perplexed by the language and price, finally leaves without a coffin.
A 19th century warning urges prompt shelter at the sight of rising storm clouds. It highlights dangers of exposure on porches or near open windows, notes how dry indoor air conducts electricity, and advises against chimneys, bell wires, and metal fixtures. The piece urges shutting doors and windows and using stoves to reduce risk.
A foreign technical journal praises soapstone powder as a lubricant for machine axles. It is ground to a fine dust, washed to remove grit, treated with dilute muriatic acid to dissolve iron, rinsed, dried, and mixed with oils or fats in about 35 percent powder content.
The notice touts Oolie bitter eructations and gastric distress as signs of dyspepsia or obstruction and urges Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a quick remedy. It claims single wineglassful stops pain and repeated use provides complete relief, with doctors calling it pure and free of objectionable flavor.
The record notes that 103 earthquakes occurred in 1878 with thirty nine in Winter and twenty six in Autumn indicating a seasonal distribution of seismic activity.
A promotional item advises ladies to cultivate roses as a metaphor for beauty and health. It endorses the People's Common Sense Medical Adviser for sale at $1.50 and urges readers to contact R. V. Pierce M D at the Grand Invalids' Hotel Buffalo NY. It also promotes Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription for female ailments.
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