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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1883
Page
4
A cattle leading method from Southern Australia uses a rope tied to the base of the near horn, crossing the animal’s forehead, looping behind the horns and under the near ear, then rising between the ropes to a forehead hitch. When taut the ear is caught, and gentle pulling prevents the beast from hanging back.
Green crop acts as a gatherer of plant food, enriching soil not only from the air but also from subsoil minerals. Best green manures are light feeders, rapid growers, ground cover, with deep ramifying roots. Also notes on light egg mixtures for cooking and turkey soup from bones.
A veterinary treatment outline from a Western Agriculturist style guide describes urgent steps for hors es with severe bowel inflammation. It advocates quick humane euthanization if needed, heavy opium and belladonna use, linseed or castor oil, repeated cold water injections, and careful dosing of aconite with quinine, followed by opium suppositories, and fever control. Ice administration is praised as beneficial, with cautions on mustard and no proven benefit from mustard.
Mix one third plaster with two thirds corn meal to kill rats while sparing chickens. Manure layers affect soil temperature. salt for cattle should be available daily. blindfolding a horse can train it to work. Evaporating sweet corn becomes an emerging industry. Russia favors sunflower oil for cooking and lighting. butter cake recipe begins with milk and egg yolks.
The article offers practical household hints such as using alum to prevent whitewash from rubbing off, starch paste to remove stains from bed ticking, and advice on cooking sausages without bursting by avoiding holes. It also describes tar removal by rubbing with lard and washing with soap and warm water for hands or clothes.
A 72 mile Phoenician route to Damascus via Coelo Syria and Anti Lebanon. The Descriptions span Abana and Pharpar gorges to the great plain around Damascus with 15 000 houses and 60 000 fountains. The Contemporary Review notes Edenlike sight and orchards surrounding the pearl city.
A New York stage伦Salmi Morse offers a Camel themed Passion Play with a full dress rehearsal and private performance to win mayoral approval. Reporters note blasphemy fears and urge Mayor Edson to resist licensing an outrageous dramatic showing.
Street railways in the United States and Canada employ about 35,000 men, operate 18,000 cars and over 3,000 miles of track. They carry more than 1.2 billion passengers annually, with capital exceeding 150 million dollars and sustaining vast horse usage, feed and equipment needs.
The article notes Sir William Thomson and Dr Thomas Reid arguing man has six senses: force heat sound light taste and smell. It cites various scientific topics including smoke yield from wood, population trends in France England and Germany, diet and infection studies on rats, sound conduction in gravel, and pollen and fungus spores linked to hay fever and sheep cough.
A Cincinnati streetcar conductor saved Nellie Dell during the Brooklyn theater fire, fled with her to safety, and married her. Her father vowed the hero would never want, yet the now bell-punch operator is earning only $2 a day, illustrating harsh city life.
The passage discusses how sun and moon genders vary by language. In German the sun is masculine and the moon feminine, while Romance languages differ. It notes Shakespeare and cultures like Egypt and Peru view sun and moon as related beings, sometimes as siblings or spouses.
A broad sweep of items includes Charles Luke's attempted hotel fire in Buffalo, a jewelry store theft in Springfield valued at 18 000 to 20 000 dollars, and telegraph wires lit in Chicago and Milwaukee over law Circumstance. Also noted are corporate losses, anti adulteration measures, pension approvals, a fatal traffic incident in Mobile, and bank and factory troubles. Additional items cover a large Monongahela city fire, steamboat Yazoo sinking, tariff discussions in Pittsburgh, a bank bond theft in Philadelphia, a star route trial contempt ruling, money order reforms, and Germany appointing Bronsart von Schellendorff as minister of war.
The Tennessee House passes the debt bill from the democratic caucus setting payment at fifty cents on the dollar with three percent interest on most state debts and educational bonds at par with contract rates. Fires in Lynchburg rise amid incendiary suspicions. Governor Stephen dies at 71. A man is shot in Texas court. Mail bags stolen in Towanda. Over 20,000 visit Stephens' remains. Floods devastate Memphis to Mississippian shore, Austin, and St Francis river region.
The piece cites a New York Tribune report on a sharp rise in kidney related deaths in 1882 and warns of Bright’s disease. It notes hidden early symptoms and urges doctors to find remedies while promoting Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure as a proven treatment. The column also mentions Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and social commentary on courtship via postal cards.
An editorial fragment argues if women could vote they would back Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for female ailments. The second snippet humorously notes a fish beneath the ice speaking to a fisherman above as he attempts to break through.
A physician from Buffalo endorses the Pleasant Putative Pellets for chronic stomach liver and bowel disorders noting they are unmatched in his practice over four years. A separate San Leandro snippet recalls a professor’s lecture titled After Man What and a listener quips about the sheriff or a woman being typical.
Asst. Chief Engineer Matthew Brady reports a four year chest pain with no relief until two weeks of using St Jacobs Oil. He says it cured him after failed medical treatment. The piece notes limited female representation in Arkansas penal society, with 18 women among 588 convicts.
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