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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1882
Page
4
The article describes malaria as a malarial poison from decaying vegetation and stagnant water. It links disease to swampy air, poor drainage, and low wells, listing symptoms and urging early treatment. It promotes Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure as the cure and cites patient testimony.
The Austrian Military Geographical Institute employs sun engraving on copper to produce ordnance maps. Paper drawings at 1 to 60 000 are photo reduced to 1 to 75 090, then transferred to copper and printed. A sheet can be produced in nine months versus 46 months by engraving.
A lighthearted exchange features a lady asking an old servant how many children he has. He replies fourteen and notes his family’s luck in the churchyard, remarking that all his children lived. The retainer reflects philosophically on his unusual brood in a period-voice vignette.
A Times cited study fed seven high-milk cows on green rye along with clover Timothy hay and cornmeal. Milk output rose from 112 to 168 pounds daily and butter from 48 to 65 pounds weekly as rye matured. butter efficiency shifted from 16 to 18 pounds of milk per pound of butter.
A planter recounts applying unleached ashes and chip manure around tree roots in clay soil after turf removal. He loosened the soil to six to twelve inches and filled a saucer-shaped cavity, watering with ashes and manure. The results revived plum peach and cherry trees, boosting foliage and fruit size.
An unusual milking technique involves snapping a ring to the kicker cow and tying a half inch cord about a dozen feet long around her with the knot resting on the gambrel joints. A helper holds the cord taut at shoulder height to prevent slipping while milking. The method claims to calm even obstinate kickers without struggle or harness.
Lemons and oranges grown from seed usually take eight to twelve years to bear fruit in citron groves in the South. Plants kept in pots flower sooner due to root confinement and dwarfing. Regular pinching of young shoots accelerates flowering, with ten or more years as a probable average under typical care.
A speaker explains a hay stacking technique to maximize stability. He advises treading the middle hard, level with the edges, then not treading the center further. Stacks are kept low with four tight piles topped with partly cured hay and secured by wires and weighted blocks.
Young sheep show brain affection called turn or gid due to a hydatid in the skull cavity. If the animal is fleshy it should be slaughtered promptly. The skull piercing operation to destroy the hydatid has sometimes been performed with safety.
A cautionary note warns farmers that excess nitrate or sopa fertilizer can deceive with green color while mildew appears. It urges concurrent subsoil phosphate application to prevent poor yields and long term losses in crops.
Estimates show shrinkage and offal reduce a fat steer by about one third. A 1225 pound animal would yield roughly 660 pounds of quarters 80 pounds of talon and 85 pounds of hide, totaling about 825 pounds.
A horse’s head naturally aligns with direction when moving. Experts note the head acts as the guiding portion, more important than tying or bracing the tail during tack.
The only certain way to secure seed that will germinate is at harvest time to select a load or two, or at least a sufficient quantity for next year's setting, from the ripest or best developed portions of the field, keeping it separate from the main crop when hauling and at thrashing time.
A English mechanic invents a three layer cowhide shoe pressed in a steel mould and chemically prepared. It lasts longer than ordinary shoes and weighs only a quarter as much. The shoe does not split hoofs, needs no cask storage, and is very elastic.
Newly weaned pigs need five or six meals in twenty four hours. In about ten days one meal may be omitted, in another week a second, and then they should receive three regular meals daily.
A column debunks mustard plasters and offers safer home remedies. It cites an old physician's endorsement of egg white to avoid blistering, plus quick tips on neuralgic toothache relief with quinine, dried potato preparations, and various domestic hacks for food preservation and cleaning.
An English visitor in Austin argued with a local about hunting dogs after claiming he won a London show prize. The pug nosed newcomer proudly states he won the dog show, prompting the Texan to quip and provoke the Briton to notify the British Consul at Galveston.
Thousands suffer from kidney and bowel disorders and Kidney Wort is claimed to act on both, freeing toxins and renewing health. Hundreds testify to the remedy's effects in restoring proper function. Source: Pittsburg Post.
An Austin couple debated baby names for their infant. They learn the uncle went to Kansas for health and used a number, 283, as his name in the penitentiary, leading to the humorous notion of baptizing the child “Number Two Hundred and Eighty Three Beezumbee.”
A household medicine pitch claims Hop Bitters can swiftly cure a bedridden wife sister mother or daughter turning health into a picture of vigor. The ad asks readers to stop letting loved ones suffer and try the product.
A Boston philosopher who loved pumpkin pie buys pumpkin but the landlady serves pudding instead. He asks where the pie is and learns no pie can be made from mock oranges, prompting a gentle lesson on wisdom and expectation.
A customer letter from Scranton dated September 12 1881 praises H B Warner Co Kidney and Liver Cure. W P Bennett of 5 Dodge Ave testifies the remedy cured a painful kidney trouble and states no fear of its return.
An Austin teacher asks a large boy about George Washington and the boy wonders if he is dead. The exchange notes Washington’s birthday celebration months earlier and mentions an ailment from unsuitable food as the casual cause of his demise.
The ad claims Vegetine renews lifeless blood caused by weather changes or poor habits. It purports to remove putrid humors cleanse the stomach regulate the bowels and impart vigor to the whole body.
A family new to Austin avenue prompts concern when the oldest son asks to summon a doctor after hearing shrieks and hysterics from the neighboring home. The singing family has yet to contact the newcomers.
An ad extols Carboline as a deodorized petroleum extract improved by Bow. It promises clear, spring-water like clarity, a delightful perfume, no staining of linen, and claims it promotes hair growth on bald heads.
A prominent Austin politician woke his colored man and sent him to search the house for a burglar. The servant hunted the premises and reported that the only suspicious character found was the politician himself, claiming no one else was there.
Ad lists a patent remedy for nervous debility and weak generative organs priced at $1, available from Allen's Pharmacy New York. A letter from a Massachusetts boarding school pupil mentions boys using bear's grease on hair, prompting a joke about oil-silk capes for girls.
An advertisement proclaims Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer as a miracle for frail nerve diseases and claims all fits stop. It directs readers to send inquiries to 931 Arch Street in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
A caustic note in the Hotel Mail argues a dog should never be allowed in the dining room. The piece jokes about the shock if the dog recognized a former friend in fried sausages, highlighting playful social snobbery.
An old classified style note promotes Rough on Rats for clearing out flies roaches bedbugs rats mice gophers and squirrels. The short line cites a 15 cent price and lists pest targets in a practical sweep.
Violet Templeton and Vivian Gray exit an ice-cream saloon venting relief that summer ends. The two girls speak of looking forward to autumn while noting their paths may diverge, signaling a change in plans and friendship.
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for female weaknesses and related disorders. It claims quick transformation from a pale dispirited woman to restored health and beauty and prompts readers to send three stamps for a 96 page treatise.
A Den ver man warns a friend clergyman to slow down on fast horses and varity shows. The clergyman replies approvingly that the scandal rumor will bring audiences, highlighting a clash of reputations and public attention.
A terse notice urges the bilous, dyspeptic or constipated to address the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo New York with two stamps for a pamphlet.
A railroad engineer and an Irishman joke over a killed cow and bell ringing. The ad claims torpid liver or biliousness causes dullness and poor appetite and promotes Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as the swift permanent cure.
A wry note on police sleepwalking as a daily duty, suggesting the act once strange now blends with wages and routine, implying fatigue or indifference in law enforcement. The remark frames sleepwalking cops as a metaphor for dulled diligence.
TIM BURCH praises Hop Bitters in a July 14 1879 Gotham New York notice. He credits the remedy with curing a palsy tremor after years of shakiness and writes that his right hand now writes clearly. He urges continued honest manufacture to bless mankind.
A troublesome belle provokes a tense scene in the hotel parlor as she bursts into an operatic aria. Spicer tries to hush the unrest while onlookers witness the dramatic moment.
A health notice promotes Kidney-Wort as a purely vegetable remedy for the kidneys liver and bowels. It urges using it instead of vile bitters or drastic pills and notes it is prepared in dry and guid forpang forms.
A modest Vincennes Cemetery grave marker bears the legend His neighbor played the cornet. The brief inscription notes a neighborly connection and memorializes the deceased in a simple, evocative phrase.
Men s Man s Peptonized beef tonic claims to preserve its full nutritious properties. The product is described as blood making force sustaining and vital, useful for indigestion dyspepsia nervous prostration general debility and enfeebled conditions from exhaustion overwork or acute disease especially pulmonary complaints. Caswell Hazard Co New York proprietors. sold by all druggists.
A playful query ponders wordplay about a dog losing a paw and a rooster losing his maw and whether that makes them orphans. The playful phrasing invites linguistic humor rather than factual reporting.
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