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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1884
Page
4
A practical fruit grower outlines essential criteria for selecting and planting apple trees. Topics include scion thriftiness, straight trunks, balanced branches, avoiding bad crotches, preferred two year old scions, stocking nursery stock, north facing sides, and near nursery origin. Remedies address sun scald and staking avoidance with simple boards and rocks.
Disturbing ad touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething and digestive relief claiming rapid cures for dysentery diarrhoea wind colic and teething pain. It notes price 25 cents and wide druggist availability. A joke follows about a boy who breaks eggs but saves shells.
Local advertisement promotes Dr. Kessler English Cough Medicine as a reliable remedy for croup and lung troubles with a money back guarantee. Also touts McDonald’s Improved Liver Pills and Celebrated Worm Powders as endorsed by physicians, with trial packages and vegetable formulations. Sold by J. Eisenhuth in Millheim Pa and by Johnson Holloway & Co Philadelphia agents.
A firemen parade moves along with Gus Ceasar lifting a hitching post as the brass band leads. He reads a drum label spelling Pluribus Unum, then clues from a bystander suggest the name is not printed on the drum.
The narrator recalls an encounter at Union Station with an old acquaintance returning from Colorado. Westward life promises wealth and hard living, as the man describes steep prices and high wages, coffee at $1.50 and a jackknife at $4, while noting the relentless pace and dangers. A final quip about a dog chasing its tail closes the reminiscence.
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