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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1880
Page
4
The article extols white beans as highly nutritious rivaling meat and essential in thriftier nations. It notes beans yield many people per land unit, require little seed cost, minimal labor, and can be sown broadcast in May without cultivation, though soil should be dry and uniform for uniform ripening.
Recommendations for growing sweet potatoes emphasize moderately productive fresh grey land and freshly plowed soil. Plant after rain but better to wait for workable soil. begin cultivation soon after planting and repeat at short intervals. Use potash-rich manures and ashes, prefer superphosphate with potash, and avoid overcrowding rows or plants.
An 1860s style guide shows half an acre of currants can yield profits over years. Plant twelve hundred bushes at four by five feet costing about $60. First year interplant potatoes, second year beans, third year 1.5 pounds per bush at six cents equals $168. After maturity yield about three pounds per bush worth $216, with steady annual labor and manure costs similar to potatoes.
The Pennsylvania Railroad undertakes a major project to build an elevated line from West Philadelphia depot to Fifteenth and Market streets. It will carry two passenger and one freight track, use brick arches and iron pillars, and include a new depot facing the Public Buildings. Over one thousand workers are employed with total cost estimated at three million dollars.
Instructions describe using Kor macrame lace or fine string for a pale brown pillow. Create a firm pillow from an old wooden box filled with bran, sealed, and covered with ticking. Add a small side pocket for pins and hooks. use pins to secure Solomon knots for a sturdy even pattern.
Tar market overflows with various compounds for hair rejuvenation yet Carboline remains the leading petroleum hair renewer and dressing, now improved and perfected, offered to the public as the top preparation.
A simple ointment preparation using sweet almond oil spermaceti white wax glycerine and rose oil. Instructions cover melting stirring cooling storage and usage for dry rough or chapped skin including hands lips and feet. Also noted as helpful for hemorrhoids or piles with cautions on application and cleanliness.
For Corsus CoLps CaTarra and throat disorders, use Brown's Bron chial Traches, having proved their efficacy by a test of many years.
A Missouri traveler describes turpentine applied to a dog’s bite easing pain and swelling, claiming cures for snake bites and bee stings. He claims similar successes in Arkansas Ozarks with outward and limited internal use, carried by hunters.
The traveler notes that crying babies disturb a bachelor’s night at a married friend’s home and claims Hlop Bitters can calm any cross infant, urging young men to remember this tip.
Fresh stable manure with ample litter is best for this method. Add at least one third litter, mix with leaves or tanbark if needed, moisten, and form a compact heap to ferment for a week. Then work it over, add water if dry, and, if ground is dry, dig an eighteen inch deep space, trump in manure, cover with sash frame and rich earth, and in four days drill seeds after mixing earth to destroy weeds.
Advertisement promotes Dr Bull s Baby Syrup to stop irritability in infants and calls it the surest cheapest remedy. It notes a 25 cent price and lists Everson Tarry confection instructions and a recipe for a lemon flavored brown sugar candy. It also endorses Dobbins Electric Soap by Cragin Co Philadelphia as an economy driven by quality.
A recipe advises curing hams with seven pounds of salt seven pounds per hundred weight, saltpetre three ounces, pearl-ash two ounces, molasses one quart, and five gallons of water. Hams are repackaged after a week with the same pickle. A digressive quip compares courage in donning a straw hat to storming a battery, and a remark about Dr. Peters finding an asteroid ends with a humorous mispronunciation and a preference for a horse over a ride.
A Constant Coven with Shortness of Breath Failing Strength and Wastin of Flesh signals lungs are seriously affected. The remedy Dr Jayne’s Expectorant is offered to avoid or palliate severe outcomes.
A seven year old comments on his mother’s kitchen work. The mother replies in gentle humor that she would wear out her harp before eternity ends. The exchange showcases a playful moment between mother and son.
A woman who buried four husbands contemplates their portraits as a child asks which is the father and whether the others are burned. The exchange reveals a grim family moment without resolution.
A street car scene unfolds as a lady questions propriety of a phrase while a friend and Kate debate politeness. The exchange ends with Kate remarking about feeling cold in her ear from the air as the conductor faints.
A girl excitedly shows an egg without a shell found under currant bushes to her aunt. She declares she will return it to the nest and let the hen finish it, believing she knows the hen who laid it.
A doting father considers naming a new business with his twenty one year old son. The youth proposes John A Samplin & Father, prompting the elder to ponder the originality before deciding not to adopt the idea.
The piece argues that a $3.00 per visit fee would cost a bedridden person over $1,000 annually for medical attendance. It claims Hop Bitters could save the entire year's sickness if used in time.
A New York stone cutter received a German epitaph for his wife reading that she is dead and would have been dead two weeks if she had life till next Friday. The quip ends with a saying about a tree and a stump. The bizarre note reflects linguistic mix ups in a memorial context.
Malherbe, after dining with the bishop of Rouen who planned to preach in church, declined the request to adjourn to the church saying he could sleep well where he was. The scene captures a witty clash between a poet and a bishop over proprieties and comfort.
Claims that the VEGETINE purifies blood to remove pimples and various humors. Describes the remedy acting directly on the skin condition by cleansing the blood to eliminate impurities and associated eruptions.
A collage of lines and jokes features a door metaphor with a tall hat, Arabella shrieking about a mouse, and Bridget's wry reply. A barefoot boy mocks a poor hound’s life with an uncle, while ads tout hair restorers and baldness cures. A Washington hotel note and a rabble of quips close the item.
An advertisement extols Simmons Liver Regulator as a universal family remedy for dyspepsia sick headache constipation biliousness colic sour stomach and malarial fevers. It cites testimonials including W J McElroy of Macon Georgia praising its effectiveness and broad life improving claims.
A reviewer cites experiments and a British journal article advising spreading coal ashes on heavy soils. Mixing ashes with soil lightens texture, improves drainage, and can act as a modest fertilizer, with repeated applications over years until soil becomes drier warmer and more fertile.
An ad-like note touts Kronty-Wonr as a great spring medicine said to cure biiousness, torpid bowels, and a lame back. The text presents a single product claim without clinical details or sourcing.
A book on the liver its diseases and their treatment offered free by Dr. Sanford of 1 Broadway New York. Includes treatises on liver complaints torpid liver jaundice biliousness headache constipation malaria and more.
The Voltaic Belt Co of Marshall Michigan offers its famous Electro Voltaic Belts on a 30 days trial with speedy cures guaranteed. They invite immediate correspondence to begin the trial.
Anakesis, a pile remedy by Dr. and Silsbee, claims instant relief and an infallible cure for obstinate piles. It cites 20,000 users and offers free samples from Anakesis Depot in New York. Also offers a free cure recipe via a self addressed envelope to Rev. Joseph J. Inmaw in New York City.
A Boston correspondent writes from Bacerorrt Illinois on September 27 1873 praising Vegetine as a superior general invigorator and blood purifier based on personal use and high regard for the remedy.
A 1878 testimonial from Verona Mississippi praises Vegetine as a remedy for skin eruptions chronic sore eyes and general debility. The letter credits the medicine with saving a child’s sight and life and notes wide local recommendation in the section.
A testimonial from West Blue Mound Wisconsin dated March 8 1879 praises Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery and Pellets for liver complaints and skin eruptions. The letter from Mas S. Stagner describes months of illness and rapid improvement after using the remedies sold by the World's Dispensary Medical Association Buffalo New York and London trade.
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