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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1881
Page
4
The article argues taste governs horse-raising choices from heavy draft to sleek roadsters. It favors serviceable business horses as a reliable, profitable specialty, noting careful sire and dam selection and avoiding indiscriminate breeding to avoid nondescript offspring.
Horst Crippine describes cribbing, its uncertain causes, and how a low manger with a front plank can reduce feeding trouble. He notes possible infectious spread and offers a stall design to prevent wind and droppings, allowing natural feeding and comfortable lying.
A guide to hardy balcony and window box plants. It lists geraniums including Zonales and scented varieties, Lady Washington, dwarf roses, Bengals and Bourbons, Chinese primroses, cyclamen, and Solanum like Jerusalem cherry. Trailing options include Kenilworth ivy and petunias. parlor ivy, moneywort, spiderwort, and running saxifrage suit partial shade.
Horse diseases favor low cold damp areas while dry warm soils with good drainage reduce risk. Clean airy stables prevent lung affections, and fresh water plus proper feed guard against disease. Impure air and water worsen breathing and blood aeration in equines.
Small circular hand screens are described as plaited cream lace with a stiff foundation. A cluster of variegated flowers centers the design. They are used at teas and at the theatre.
The method relies on tanning the gelatin surface to render it ink receptive where writing occurs. Copy is made by writing with nutgall ink plus tannin and logwood extract onto a level hectographic pad, then transferring with printer's ink. After each impression the pad is re inked, yielding 300 to 400 copies on dry paper. A zinc plate, roller, and pressing roll complete the setup.
An Austrian chemist reportedly devised a rapid acting soporific named bandiger or tamer. He offered it to the Austrian Government, which refused to buy it and ordered police to stop his experiments and forbid sharing the secret under criminal penalties.
The blackberry juice is touted as a tonic for nervous exhaustion. Prepare by boiling and mashing berries, straining the juice, then adding brandy or whiskey per quart, boiling with spices, straining, and bottling.
The article gives practical cake making tips including using sweet butter free from buttermilk and beating butter and sugar, preferring powdered sugar, beating egg whites to stiff froth, rolling fruit in flour, adding last, pulverizing soda into flour, and baking with an oven that heats promptly but does not brown cake immediately. It favors a wooden spoon for mixing and advises not to open the oven door often while baking.
Milk heated far above 100 F loses sweetness and density, yet a tumbler after fatigue provides prompt cordial relief. Digestive uptake appears rapid, offering a lasting, satisfying substitute for alcoholic stimulants.
The text links night sweats to various causes and remedies. Malaria is treated with quinine and arsenic. debility with tonics and nutritious food. consumption with sulphuric acid diluted in water. zinc oxide and hydrocyanite extract pills. atrophine sulphate starts very small. Dr Nairn suggests sponging with tincture of belladonna, but warns it is too powerful for non physicians.
Soiled Rispons can be cleaned with ammonia in water and will appear nearly new after washing. Use half a teaspoonful of ammonia per pint of water. Some ribbons need no ironing. fasten flat to a board and dry without pressing. If wrinkled, cover with a damp cloth and press lightly. Black silk freshens with cold coffee and ammonia, and dust on silk should be removed with a flannel cloth.
Three pounds sugar, one-fourth pound butter, cream of tartar, and lemon extract prepare a fondant. Add cold water to dissolve sugar and boil until brittle in cold water. Stirring avoided, pour into a buttered pan, chill, and cut into squares for a frozen like candy.
Three pints milk and four to six eggs with sugar to taste. Crumble two thick bread slices finely and mix with fruit if desired. Bake half an hour, then fold beaten egg whites with sugar and top with pink sugar sand until lightly browned. Delicate and handsome dessert.
Select very tender carrots and boil till tender, slice thinly, and place in a glass bowl. Sprinkle with sifted leaf sugar, add the juice of a large lemon, and a wine glass of olive oil. Garnish with ultra thin onion slices along the edge and small bunches of fresh green salad leaves.
A French surgeon states raising the arm of the affected person stops nasal bleeding. He explains the physiology and calls it a positive remedy. A strong alum solution snuffed into the nose may cure many cases without further aid.
Using syrup or molasses keeps mustard plasters soft and flexible and prevents drying hard. Place a thin paper or fine cloth between plaster and skin. Vary plaster strength by adding more or less flour.
The text mixes a German recipe and a hoarseness remedy. It describes dissolving licorice in alcohol, mixing lamp black with cod liver oil for leather care, and a hoarseness cure using egg whites sugar and nutmeg in warm water to be drunk several times. The tone resembles old household formulas and remedies.
Cooks err by boiling foods too long. after reaching a boil meats should simmer. Simmering breaks down tough cuts, making them tender and palatable.
A home remedy advises cutting a slice from a raw potato and rubbing the warted area each night. Let the water dry on the skin. repeat for a few applications to see effect.
High Authority declares Hop Bitters not an alcoholic beverage and not for sale for drinking but only to those seeking medical bitters as stated by GREEN BRAUM U S Com r Internal Rev.
A Washington letter urges obtaining a certificate from Col. W H W of Baltimore testifying to his cure of drunkenness with Hop Bitters. The writer notes W H W is well known in Rochester Cincinnati New Orleans and New York and claims his card could attract many buyers and convert drinkers in multiple cities.
Milton Delaware February 10 1880 Reverend Mrs J H Ellgood endorses Mop pitters the noted remedy for debility nervousness indigestion and similar ailments calling it an excellent medicine and a truly tonic bitter for general use signed respectfully by the reverend author.
Rev. John Seaman editor of the Home Sentinel at Afton New York praises Hop Bitters as a valuable medicine. He states both he and his wife were greatly benefited and expresses pleasure in making the remedy known despite previous reluctance.
Reverend E R Warren, pastor and physician, testifies from Scipio New York that his wife improved under Hop Bitters after Albany doctors could not fully help. He claims continued use aids cure and urges friends to try the remedy.
A Chicago railroad official vouches for Hop Bitters curing a young man’s insatiable thirst for liquor. He states the remedy stopped the craving, steadied his nerves, and kept him sober for over two years with no urge to drink again. He also cites others cured by the product.
A collection of testimonials extols Hop Bitters as an effective family remedy. Rev Washington of New York says it cured kidney trouble and neuralgia, while a Baptist clergyman from Bergen NY and a Methodist pastor from Mexico NY praise its benefits. A Wayne County lawyer and temperance orator also vouches for its quick relief from gravel and kidney illness.
A Bridgeport man dropped his five dollar watch down a well ten years ago. During last week’s well cleaning the timepiece was recovered still running. The limestone water’s chemical action on the governor reportedly protected the safety valves and affected the piston rod and flywheel, enabling the watch to air out of the well.
A mass meeting report recalls St Jacob’s Oil as a remedy for rheumatism and features an elderly man claimed to be 97 who is cast from his son and seeks help near the Central Market. A bystander jokes about street work until age 150, offering Brice a daily twelve shillings.
John Stein praises St Jacob's Oil to a News representative claiming family use and satisfaction. A Vermont champion boy reportedly broke his drum to see the drum core his father mentioned, illustrating child curiosity and entertainment.
Tuerr was the sole passenger aboard as the captain and mate devised a scheme to dine well. A roly poly pudding with sweetmeats in the middle prompts the captain and mate to split the pudding ending in both eating their portions.
A reading blends praise for Hop Bitters as a pure effective remedy with humorous asides about fashion and a minister’s service. Dialogues include a punchy exchange about borrowing a shawl and a comic misreading of a baggage check as money.
An ad extols Kidney-Wort as a vegetable remedy for kidneys liver and bowels offering a mild effect as a superior health measure over drastic pills. It comes in dry and liquid forms and is sold by druggists nationwide.
Joe Cook warns that anyone who pulls his ears will have his hands full. The crowd snickers at the defaner's ears during the encounter.
A contractor guides his marred daughter's walk to his latest labors. She marvels at riverbank cottages and longs to spend summers there. He replies with restrained emotion that the villas were never built to live in but to sell, revealing a banker of ambition.
In a girls’ school examination a pupil answers who makes government laws. When asked how Congress is divided, a confident little Sallie replies with three groups: civilized half civilized and savage.
An elderly man recounts chronic kidney troubles and blood issues, saying Hop Bitters renewed his strength and vitality. He claims his blood and kidneys are fine, and he feels as active as a much younger man. He recommends the remedy for others of his age.
An embittered humorist died after impaling his joke on his wife during a washday. She struck him with a stewpan during the frugal supper, and as he fell he uttered Stewpandious joke before dying with a triumphant gleam in his eyes.
Maryland Medical Journal reports nicotine exists mainly as salts with picoline base and notes other compounds form during smoking. Pipe use produces diffusible narcotic pyridin while cigars yield more calcium related compounds. The only cure is abstinence from tobacco, despite smoker prejudice against this remedy.
A young man sends a large Japanese parasol covered with pastoral art to his beloved as a sign of asking to sit in the shade this afternoon. She usually accepts, reflecting a quaint courting ritual of the tense age.
Thousands suffer with a mix of diseases as kidneys and bowels torment them. Kidney Wort acts on these organs to purge poisons and renew the body. Hundreds testify to its effectiveness. Regulate the secretions.
Mrs Jones joins a quiet early morning picnic with four children to manage and ten lunch baskets. The long day in the heat wears her out and she needs two days of washing afterward to feel rested.
A column of quirky clippings reports odd notices and quips from era life. Aged man laments never witnessing a divorce, while ads tout hair regrowth remedies, sea resort gnats, a mock trial verdict, and varied medical and commercial pitches. The piece mixes humor with advertisements and brief local notes.
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