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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1880
Page
4
The article discusses whey value in cheese production and methods to feed whey to stock, noting whey’s limited nutritional value. It covers cooling milk for creaming, preferred vessels and systems, and cautions against overbearing young trees, linking early fruiting to reduced future yields. It emphasizes proper dry cow feeding and the shift to deep-setting dairy methods.
Farmers without sap houses or large evaporators will benefit from placing a deep dripping pan on a covered stove to boil maple sap. Metal sap-spouts prevent sour sap, and cleanliness and sweetness remain essential in the maple sugar business.
The first crop of peas Extra Early should be sown as soon as the ground is fit with follow up crops by their production period. Onion crops are among the earliest to be planted and should be set before the end of April. Vegetables are highly nutritious and deserve wider use in every home.
The advertorial piece promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as an indispensable travel companion. It claims the tonic enables drinking brackish water without stomach issues, neutralizes foul air, and counters fatigue, seasickness, and climate and diet changes. It emphasizes its preventive role for emigrants and travelers facing hazardous conditions.
Hard boil three eggs and cool them. Wash six anchovies and clean them. Mix egg with mayonnaise and chopped lettuce. Layer bread with egg slices anchovies and salad. Assemble thin sandwich squares on a napkin covered dish. Large loaves ensure proper sandwich size.
A mold cleaning method uses Spanish whiting and washing soda rubbed into a paste with minimal water. Apply to grease or smoke stained marble with a flannel, keep moist for hours, reapply as needed, then wash with hot soapy suds, wipe dry and polish with chamois skin.
A Times advertisement asks readers if they know anyone ill without stomach liver or kidney inaction, or well when obstructed, and claims Hop Bitters would cure all such cases. It challenges neighbors with the same question to reveal experiences with the remedy.
When ink spills on a carpet or woollen item act quickly while the stain is wet. Blot up as much ink as possible with blotting paper or cotton batting, then apply a little sweet milk and blot again. Repeat with fresh milk and cotton until the stain vanishes, then wash with soapsuds and dry. If the ink has dried in milk remains longer and repeat steps.
Dr Marks offers a cleaning method for wallpaper marks caused by resting heads. Mix pipe-clay or fuller's earth with cold water to a creamlike paste, apply softly without rubbing, and leave overnight. It should dry and brush off by morning, fading grease stains. repeat if stains are old.
The article urges nervous disorders and general debility linked to blood disease. It asserts Nervousness can be alleviated by improving blood condition, achieved through VEGETINE. It claims VEGETINE is a nerve medicine with controlling power over the nervous system.
A detailed historical formula describes melting batts with pitch gutta percha orange shellac and white lead to form a hard homogeneous composition. It notes casting into pool balls and coloring with aniline dyes dissolved in alcohol bleached shellac.
When velvet is wet and spotted, steam the underside and gently run a warm iron over the wrong side. Two people are needed one to lift the iron and one to pull the velvet across to finish the treatment.
Advertisement touts a home remedy claiming thirteen cents buys five gallons of soft soap from one part Dobbins Electric Soap and Cragin & Co Philadelphia. It promises the soft soap lasts longer than a dollar worth of common soap and invites trial.
A tablespoonful of butter added to a quart of sour apple sauce greatly improves it. Much less sugar is needed. A little lemon peel adds fine flavor.
To brown sugar for sauces or pudding, put the sugar in a perfectly dry saucepan. If the pan is wet even slightly, the sugar will burn and spoil the pan.
A high London authority advises sleepless people to drink a breakfast cup of hot beef tea made from half a teaspoonful of Liebig's extract instead of stimulants. It is claimed to quiet brain excitement and restore calm.
Ivory that looks spotted or yellow can be restored to a clear fresh appearance by rubbing with fine sand paper and then polishing with finely powdered pumice stone.
The opinion of the people has been fully confirmed by wide-spread experience that Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup is the best and cheapest remedy for coughs colds sore throat asthma and related ailments.
Cut kts and steaks may be fried as well as broiled but they must be placed in hot butter or lard. The grease is ready when it throws off a bluish smoke.
The notice touts Simmons Liver Regulator as superior to travel induced ailments. It claims digestive upset, constipation, headache, and nausea from travel are soothed by the regulator’s gentle, nongriping action and mild bitter taste that freshens the mouth.
A gentleman tells the hostler to extricate a quadruped from a vehicle and provide nourishment and lodging, promising monetary rewards when the morning light returns. The wording mirrors a humorous old fashioned vignette.
Jones quips that an oyster could be a rhinoceros of the sea and warns against lavish gifts. The piece satirizes costly fried oysters and imagines how their extravagance would drain editors' purses and empty a town.
The fragment touts Carboline as a perfected remedy that cures all skin diseases of limbs and head with no baldness or gray hairs feared. It presents confidence in a universal cure and uses assertive language to assure readers of its efficacy.
A lecturer on optics described how looking into a spouse’s eye reveals one’s own smallness, then paused as smiles spread among listeners. The remark sparked a moment of amusement before the talk continued.
A scrap-book anecdote recalls a boy noting chickens were out of their shells because they feared being boiled. It also humorously explains how to tell male from female wasps by whether they sting, calling the stinger-bearing one female and the other a gentleman.
An assortment of medical advice and humorous vignettes from a period newspaper. It discusses Brown's Bronchial Troches for throat illness, snippets from classroom scenes, a child’s pun filled dialogue, family anecdotes, and a note on East Boston society printing visiting cards with small photographs priced at one dollar per hundred.
An odd exchange line and a Palestine Texas weather mention appear among period advertisements. The piece promotes the World’s Dispensary Medical Association publications, including the People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser, and lists medical guides and treatment items with postpaid pricing and stamps.
The article advises that meat and poultry will lose flavor and become soft if left soaking in water after cooking and warns that fish may break apart. It also notes that when sauce boils up the side of the pan, flour or corn starch is ready.
A Rochester mother reports her father’s recovery from a long illness deemed incurable after using Hop Bitters. She thanks the remedy and endorses its curative effects in a Utica Herald reader letter.
Anakesis described as a medical miracle by advocates and doctors alike claims to relieve pain, support swollen veins, and cure blind or bleeding piles. The advertisement touts a 40 year practitioner behind the remedy and notes precautions on price and availability from P Neustaedter & Co New York.
A New Hampshire woman reports her mother suffered years with kidney disease and a severe spring decline with pain and numbness. Kidney-Wort is claimed to have greatly helped and completely cured her.
An old advertisement offers a free book on the liver and its diseases including jaundice biliousness and headaches. It provides Dr Sanford 162 Broadway New York as contact and promises cures for youth disorders via a mailed recipe from Rev Joseph T Inman New York City.
The Voltaic Belt Co of Marshall Michigan offers their Electro Voltaic Belts on a thirty days trial with speedy cures guaranteed. They urge potential customers to write without delay.
A sensational ad touts a cure for scrofula and cancer with thousands of testimonials. It promises positive results and markets a proprietary remedy, urging readers to act now.
Advice warns not to melt lard when making any crust as it harms texture. Separately, paint splashes on window glass can be cleaned with a strong soda solution for easy removal.
Weak lungs are gradually weakened by a persistent deep cough. The advertisement claims Dr Jayne's remedy can cure this cough and benefit those with asthma or bronchitis.
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