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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1880
Page
4
The guide explains harvesting apples as perfectly dry before storage, avoiding sun and frost injury. It recommends using dry airy cellars with cemented walls and floor, cross-ventilating windows, and clean conditions. It warns against covering apples with straw and stresses sound fruit selection and orderly bin handling.
The guidance urges generous humane care for cows and other animals. It emphasizes exercise, light, ventilation, clean stables, and ample water. It advises avoiding confinement, feeding on clean ground, and using proper racks to improve efficiency and welfare.
The text discusses leg weakness in birds caused by body weight, recommending general strengthening treatment. It advises iron supplement dissolved in ale added to food, modest increased nourishment, cold baths with a towel wrapped and legs submerged, and noting lime absence and old age as contributing factors. For horses, it prescribes six ounces of iron filings split into twelve balls with flax-seed and molasses, one ball daily fasting, a physic ball after finishing, and a schedule of soft foods or steamed oats with bean and flax-seed meal.
The article states corn is good for horses to build strength but not for fast driving. It notes that once a horse adapts to corn there is no risk of internal disorder. A diet starts with three or four ears of flint corn.
Advice on moving hens to new nests. Cover them after dusk to keep them hidden and gradually expose them by day. The hen will grow familiar with the surroundings and likely settle for a few weeks in the strange quarters.
Iris advises agricultural practice to suppress sorrel by plowing the land in early summer and sowing buckwheat in July. The guidance emphasizes soil disruption followed by a quick cover crop to manage weeds.
A brief observation notes that feeding bran to stock yields a return nearly equal to its cost, reflected in the active quality of the resulting manure.
Ten bushels of spent tan bark mixed with two bushels of guano create an excellent compost for octanes as described in the agricultural note.
A note states that Cooxre coda dissolved in water to saturation acts as a lethal poison to potato bugs, comparable in effect to Paris green.
Housewives prefer a cake that takes only fifteen minutes to make and bake. Beat the yolks of four eggs with three tablespoons sugar and the same amount of flour plus two tablespoons milk and lemon juice. Fold in stiffly beaten whites, pour into a buttered pan, and bake in a quick oven.
A reader extols making tea with cold water in a pitcher for warm days. Start with just enough water to cover the tea, then top up with cold well water at mealtime. Claims the tea tastes better when not steeped on the fire, avoiding hot, scorched tea after fieldwork.
To revive wrinkled silk, sponge with a weak gum arabic or white glue solution, then iron on the wrong side to regain a smooth appearance.
The notice asks who is the man attempting a forty day period without alcohol, framing it as a personal abstinence test while inviting public inquiry or support. It names no specific individuals or organizations in readable text.
Advice on airing beds and bedrooms to prevent odors and keep lungs healthy. Emphasizes opening windows in morning, airing ticks, avoiding stuffy rooms, and maintaining warm, dry, pleasant sleeping spaces for better rest and immunity.
Drop one egg and a pinch of salt into a pint of milk. Stir in gradually a pint of flour then beat until light and lump free. Let stand a few minutes, bake in hot buttered gem pans and finish in the oven. Cornmeal or graham may be used with extra flour. For dessert bake batter in cups with melted butter cream, yolks, sugar, and stiffly beaten whites.
Truth and honor present Hop Bitters as the best family medicine to regulate bowels purify blood and aid digestion. A column promises its purity and perfection and notes further reading in a companion column.
The narrator describes making a plain dark calico dusting cap using a 22 by 18 inch oval, bound with gray plaid, a narrow ribbon edge, and rubber cord beneath. It protects hair from dust during morning work and hides roughness, with easy draught protection for neural nerves.
To clean lace lay on a clean table mix one teaspoon borax in a quart hot water. Brush gently to remove grease, rinse with warm water, then place lace damp between pieces of old silk and cashmere. Press with a warm iron until dry. Do not use a hot iron.
A small black satin table cover features three to five parallel velvet strips in maroon, dark blue, or black. Between the strips are embroidered floss silk fans in blue, green, and red, arranged in regular vertical succession.
Boil two chickens until tender, debone and mince meat, season with salt pepper and butter, return to the original water and cook until nearly dry. Press in a deep dish with a weight, cool, then slice to serve as a firm cheese-like dish.
A fragment from a poem notes a charming black-eyed maid described as a royal queen, with enthusiastic anticipation that her sighting will bring rejoicing and a nod to CARBOLINE.
Dr Shrady recommends burning wounds be treated with a paste of gum arabic gum tragacanth carbolized water and molasses applied with a brush and renewed at intervals. Four applications suffice with granulating surfaces treated by cerate or zinc oxide ointment.
Instructions warn to use a perfectly dry sauce pan when melting brown sugar for sauces or puddings. A wet pan will cause the sugar to burn and spoil the pan.
The organ rolled from heavy diapason to flute as the congregation coughed softly. They had not heard of J Bull’s Cough Syrup, whose wonderful efficacy is implied.
A humorous vignette features a Brooklyn man courting a Denver guest with grand talk of the West. A tramp mockingly praises the West’s greatness, and Baroness Berthe laments a debt while Count C departs. A mother tests home life by observing her two sons at a dicey Euchre game upstairs.
A husband named Middlerib tests his wife with a secret. She eagerly claims secrecy while he notes his own memory lapses. Across a meal he doubts himself as salt flavors his sugar and his steak tastes of sand, yet he fears asking for clarity.
A Western damsel exits a refreshment room frustrated by a full program at the dance venue. A young man asks if the program is full and she quips it has only cake and ice cream, not filling the planned dances. The daughter of the Setting Sun adds a playful response about the sparse lineup.
A jockey touts a horse as having traveled a mile in two minutes and twenty seconds to an Irish buyer. The offer is met with a sharp retort suggesting the horse was likely aboard a railroad train, highlighting wary humor at a market.
A sales pitch notes a trial of Dookins Electric Soap by J. L. Cragin & Co. of Philadelphia. It urges readers to try the product and mentions grocers stock or can obtain it.
A lively mix of banter and misheard remarks fills a social gathering. A dandy proclaims himself head flower of the family while a guest counters with a playful number. Artful mispronunciations and playful exchanges echo a lively evening.
A young man to town complains of a shabby umbrella and plans another prayer meeting on the first rainy night. The piece then notes Arkansas punishment by bath as an ironic, humorous observation about local discipline.
In a terse kitchen exchange, Mary and her wife urge completion of a half finished apple dumpling with requests to finish the dish promptly. The exchange centers on domestic routine and affection.
Distressing stomach cramps colic and other pains relieved by Dr Pierce’s Compound Extract of Smart-Weed or Water-Pepper. Prepared from French brandy Jamaica ginger smart-weed and water pepper with anodyne gums. Useful for diarrhoea dysentery bloody flux cholera morbus soothing warming and stimulating. Sold by druggists at fifty cents.
A Faucheese family medicine touted for infants and adults to correct acidity, cure colic, regulate bowels, and act as a purifier and tonic. The ad claims it relieves sour stomach and restlessness after heavy meals, with user testimonials from Ovip G. Sparks ex mayor of Macon Georgia praising its effectiveness in diarrhea, colic, headache, indigestion, and post supper discomfort.
An English physician claims the raw oyster is eaten because its liver-like tissue, a fawn colored mass rich in glycogen, contains hepatic diastase. He notes cooking spoils this enzyme, but admits most people eat them raw simply because they prefer them that way.
A Rochester couple celebrate a child’s cure from a dangerous bowel ailment using Hop Bitters while the mother regains health. The column mocks Niagara Falls visitors, a ball scene, a telegraph misfire, and humorous fashion quips. It also advertises Vegetine as a purifier and gives a home portrait silhouette guide.
In Walpole and nearby towns letters extol Vegetine as a powerful blood purifier and treatment for humor in the limbs. Mrs. David Clark of Walpole calls it better than gold and a blessing, while Newmarket and Toronto correspondents report strong patient benefits and customer praise.
A concentrated solution of silicate of soda is prepared and mixed with powdered glass to form a paste. This simple compound provides an acid resistant luting suitable for laboratory use where fumes are corrosive.
Mulford Rich Jr of Wellfleet Massachusetts writes in April 1876 praising Anakesis for piles and proposing exclusive county rights to distribute the remedy. He notes wide local use, plans to purchase boxes to give away, and asks for a sole right to Barnstable county. The ad states price one hundred dollars per box and samples mailed free from P Neus aedter & Co in New York.
An 1890s advertisement claims Kidney-Wort saves doctor bills by acting on kidneys and liver. it purports to cure disorders caused by their derangement and urges immediate use.
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