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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1881
Page
4
An article explains how beef fat is refined into oil and oleomargarine, then emulsified with milk to resemble butter. It notes two refining steps, pressing, and shipping of oil abroad, with Holland buying oil but not locally produced butter.
Farmers may plant climbing or creeping species on old stump piles along wool lands to enhance home life rather than earnings. The Passage notes Passi flora flowers open loudly, Weli moon seed shells resemble half hazelnut husks, and Periploca bears a pipe like flower appendage nicknamed Dutch man's Pipe. Loasa bears stinging hairs.
The piece advises baking to keep sugariness and tenderness, turn pieces often in the pan and oven, use a knife rather than a fork to avoid juice loss, remove skin, slice, and season with butter pepper and salt, or pickle by slicing into cold vinegar.
The notice advises taking Yome stock to the barn before nights turn cold. It warns against keeping nongaining animals in pasture as profits fall. It notes cattle may decline in pasture as early as October and stresses regular gains as essential.
Farmers should note that the average yield across cow breeds is about six pounds of hay or its equivalent per one quart of muk.
The article describes date palms thriving in Algeria with feet in water and heads to the sun. It explains male and female trees, pollination in April, fruiting in October, and methods of cultivation, including suckers from female bases, tree height around forty five feet, and a two hundred year lifespan. It notes uses of sap for wine, heart eaten, roots for fencing, leaves for mats, and many varieties with Zibas yielding seventy named varieties. The date is praised as the King of the Sahara and a staple food for Arabs.
A reader recounts a simple brook trout recipe praised for flavor. Clean dry fish, dust with flour, fry quickly in a hot spider or pan with fresh batter and sizzling butter. Salt lightly and serve when skin browns and flesh looks done.
This rice pudding proves exceptionally good and inexpensive due to long slow cooking. Soak rice and milk early for a six o clock dinner, simmer on low in a double kettle until thick and creamy, then bake to a jelly like consistency. Salt, sweeten, flavor if desired, and serve hot or cold.
Prepare two pounds of small eels by boiling then picking flesh from bones. Simmer the bones in liquor with mace pepper salt and onion, strain. Make force meat from eel flesh anchovy parsley lemon peel truffle breadcrumbs and butter. Layer bass shad or white fish with the force meat, rub with salt and pepper, pour gravy, cover with paste and bake.
Shape meat by scoring fat every four inches to avoid contraction and increase tenderness. Use bright gridiron heat and flip to prevent burning. A 1.5 inch steak takes seven to ten minutes. Serve with melted butter and pepper and salt after cooking for juiciness. For browning start with butter or lard, cook quickly, and never salt until after cooking to keep tenderness.
Dr Peuteves in La France Medicals recommends mixing a tablespoon of cod liver oil with the yolk of an egg and adding peppermint essence plus sugared water to create an emulsion. This masks taste and odor, improves palatability, and aids absorption as the oil becomes fully miscible with water.
Six pounds of clean grease, six pounds of sal soda, three pounds of stone lime are mixed with water to form a lye. Lime is slaked and combined, then four gallons of soft water added. After dissolving, water is poured off and grease melted, boiled, and combined. If needed more soft water is added until honey-like, poured into a tub to cool, then cut into pieces and dried. Use an iron kettle at all times.
The text prescribes iodine twelve grains and spermaceti ointment half an ounce to rub on the bunion two to three times daily. If not inflamed, apply diachylon plaster with oxide of lead and oil, then cover with thick leather cut to fit the bunion.
Take one cup of molasses three quarters of a cup of sugar one tablespoonful of ginger and a teaspoonful each of powdered cloves cinnamon and allspice. Add melted butter beat in soda and flour to form dough roll thin cut shapes and bake in a hot oven.
Beat four eggs with sugar and flour then stir into a quart of milk. Boil while whisking, fold in stiff whites, cook briefly, top with nutmeg, then cool before serving.
Advice urges cleaning and mending winter garments before storage. Use labeled bags for each family member to keep stockings and items organized, saving time when redistributing outfits for use. Maintain neat, labeled storage to simplify retrieval.
The article notes that dry saw dust or spent tan bark, well dried, is a cheap filler to deaden sound between rooms in lath and plaster walls. Sand can be used if the lathing is strong enough to support it.
If clothes are absolutely dry before they are folded and laid away they will not mildew. This advice emphasizes ensuring complete dryness to prevent mold growth during storage.
Cooking guidance advises avoiding salting meat before oven placement to prevent juice loss. Salt added later helps retain moisture and flavor during roasting.
The document orders a full weekly inspection of all rooms and closets. It specifies thorough checks for safety and organization, emphasizing routine, consistent scrutiny of every space in the home.
Mrs Adam Grubb of 231 Walnut street suffered years of foot pain including rheumatism coins and bunions. After two weeks of using St Jacob's Oil she experienced immediate relief with pain and inflammation easing, enabling her to walk visit her husband’s shop and see her children without pain.
A Cambridgeport salon scene shows a weary citizen complaining about church rhythms being "work." Two prominent locals retreat to a saloon for five hours of pedro and beer. A curious exchange about John Fairchild follows, ending with a door in laughter.
A Philadelphia man charged after a saloon keeper supplied watered whiskey argues that while he was willing the spirit was weak. The case centers on intoxication and alleged impropriety at a local saloon.
A small boy tells a farmer admiring a tobacco field that it will soon have plugs, while a man urges saving on clothes and food and avoiding quack doctors. The speaker promotes Hop Bitters as a cheap, effective remedy for better health and prosperity.
An advertisement claims Dr Bull's Cough Syrup is the most reliable remedy for coughs and colds, urging immediate use to avoid neglecting business and promising swift relief.
The article argues that poorly bred stock waste feed due to limited digestive capacity, causing lower meat yields. It urges farmers to improve breeding quality, noting the long-term cost of stock that fails to utilize feed efficiently and suggesting investing in a better sire to reduce annual waste.
The cotton seed oil industry grows with about 410000 tons of seed processed yearly and a 35 gallon per ton yield. Each ton leaves 750 pounds of valuable oil cake. Much oil is exported to Italy and other nations where olive oil dominates, now competing as both food and utility.
A newspaper observer recalls a horse that keeps trying to rise after a fall. A woman steps from the sidewalk, places a blanket under the horse, and the animal finds footing, enabling it to stand and lift its body with relief. The note ends with farming advice on soil and nourishment for roses, stressing rich soil and manure-laden loam.
Card collectors purchase seven bars of vintage Dob bins electric soap at auction. Readers note a quirky trade item and potential novelty value. The stand showcases unusual soap packaging and retro branding. The event draws curious bargain hunters and collectors.
In Bay City a Tribune reader criticizes patent medicines while endorsing Hop Bitters as a worthwhile remedy. The writer notes using the Bitters in the local climate and finding them first class and reliable as claimed.
Dr. Smart notes widespread adulteration in ground pepper cayenne mustard and cinnamon samples. Of four pepper tests one pure, others mixed with baked flour sand and rice. Eighteen cayenne samples only two pure. Twenty one of twenty three mustard samples adulterated. Only one of thirty six cinnamon samples genuine. Common adulterants include colored clays roasted wheat beans rice and sawdust.
H R Stevens offers a 120 page cloth bound manual on ensilage with practical experience from 25 farmers. The book explains preserving green forage in silos, priced 50 cents by mail 60 cents. Send orders to Boston Mass.
The Medical and Surgical Reporter cites Swiss law banning tobacco sales to youths under fifteen and criminalizing their smoking. It notes enforcement is strict in Geneva and Bern and urges similar action elsewhere to curb juvenile smoking. The piece ends by asserting Lydia K. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female illness.
M Daubree studies vitrified forts in France and Europe and suggests heat was applied inside the walls to create a natural draft possibly aided by forced air. He notes the thick walls required intense heat to vitrify.
Asphalte defined by M Leon Male as chalk infused with bitumen. Merian the Swiss engineer first used it in roadwork in 1849. Paris trials occurred in 1854 on Rue Bergere. An ad touts Carboline deodorized petroleum renewer and dresser with strong sales and broad approval.
Paris excavations at the Place de la Republique reveal abundant native sulphur in the subsoil. M. Daubee argues the sulphur formed from organic substances and gypsum present together, and disputes a link to gas mains escapes.
Advert says Kidney-Wort in liquid form is a concentrated, easy to take alternative to the dry powder, claiming it cures diseases of the kidneys and liver and has wide public support in the United States, per the Louisville Post.
M Ctappuis suggests the blue tint of the sky when ozone is about to condense may be due to ozone in the upper air, noting atmospheric coloration linked to ozone levels.
Mr Wrightson and Professor Chandler Roberts determine the density of fluid bismuth as 10055 units. Their measurement notes precision and potential implications for related experiments.
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