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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1882
Page
4
Domestic guidance covers preserving rind sweetmeats with alum-water steps, making syrup and candied ginger, and charting weekly potato dishes. It adds care tips for fabric washing, basket ornamentation, carrot salad, and fruit syrups, plus useful notes on meat drying and turnip boiling.
The piece warns farmers that copper and brass kettles can release toxic acids into foods when cooked with acidic ingredients like apples or cranberries. It explains formation of metal salts such as acetate of copper and lactates, notes risks from malic and sorbic acids, vinegar, and spoiled milk, and warns of lead pipes and tin oxide poisoning.
English farmers cultivate rape on fen and peaty soils as early autumn feed for sheep. Sown from April to June with superphosphate, the crop is hoed between narrow rows and ready for stock about three months after sowing. Rape also yields up to thirty bushels of seed per acre when grown for seed in rich alluvial soils.
The guide explains how to open a horse mouth by inserting a finger beside the lips to reveal the nippers and grinders for age estimation. It notes risks with sulky or vicious horses and advises lip restraint for safe handling. For cows, it describes nose hold methods, lifting the mouth, and drawing down the lip, with cautions about resistance and safe pressure strategies.
Report on grape seedling trials noting accidental seedlings outpacing deliberate plantings. Dr. Miner bred 1500 seedlings and selected top specimens, but overall selections show promise only in parts and face ongoing challenges.
The history notes that small flocks perform best due to superior attention and care, with fewer accidents. The argument highlights that smaller herds thrive more reliably and suffer fewer incidents, shaping a favorable view of compact practices in sheep management.
Proesia operates seven agricultural colleges fifteen agricultural schools twenty five farm schools 253 country agricultural schools and about forty special gardening schools totaling 358 agricultural institutions across the region. The numbers indicate a broad network supporting farming education and related crafts.
Unnees land is very wet. Prof. F. Fars ky finds that potassium salts exercise a very beneficial action, but they are best as manures when in combination with phosphoric or nitrogenous substances. Chloride of potassium turned out to be of greater advantage than a mixture of bran and meal.
Keep all stables, pens and sleds in perfect cleanliness. They should be well ventilated and not too warm, which is unhealthy. Filth causes disease. Sickness is rare when stock are well fed with clean skins, pure air and dry beds.
Be careful about permitting cattle to drink from ditches or ram pools in which they stand or where droppings are deposited. Such impure water harms stock health and can spread malarial and typhoid fever to people drinking milk from cows watered there.
Two or three old cattle will add one third of a pound more per day to their weight upon prepared hay and roots than upon the same materials unprepared.
FigN manure carries less water than stable manure but more nitrogen and organic matter. As to potash and phosphoric acid there is a great similarity in the constituents of both materials.
A 6coD hog may be produced by crossing the Suffolk and Chester White. The text notes that two small hogs maturing early yield higher profits than a single large hog.
In a Swiss dining room Monselet and Jundt share a pie with a rival Teuton table. Junot cuts the pie and praises it while Monselet warns it is month old yet eats it, declaring the Prussians die for it out of patriotism. The scene blends humor and national rivalry.
A humorous excerpt describes a doctor diagnosing years of constipation and kidney disturbances in a man and endorsing Kidney-Wort for relief. The piece then shifts to a caricature of New York snobs touring via the Texas and Pacific line to California, mockingly debating can sizes and Southern paper reliability.
A dated letter from Mion January 81 1879 reports relief from indigestion and debility after using Hop Bitters. The author, THUS. KNUX, writes in praise of the remedy and signs as a testimonial. The text also includes a humorous aside about a boat race and women voting at a club.
In Pittston Pennsylvania on September 9 1881 H H Warner & Co advertises Safe Kidney and Liver Cure with testimonial from C W Carr praising its family benefits. A separate revival meeting scene features a gaunt man joking about paying half price for beer and asking for a back seat on envy.
Abeolats care for nervous debility with claims of mental or physical decline. Price listed as $1 for a sample, with $125 penalty express option. Address given as Wews in Jersey City New Jersey.
A party of American tourists dines in Southern France at a French inn. A Chicago girl educated at a fashionable seminary orders in English. The waiter admits ignorance and jokes that he will fetch a garçon who understands Russian better than he does.
An item touts Dr Kitmes great Merve Nestorer as a marvel for nerve diseases. It notes a location at 961 Arch Street in Philadelphia Pennsylvania and mentions a claimed free step or test.
Two railroad men argued on Austin avenue over business when one claimed the other never lies. The rival proposed a twenty five dollar reward and chrome to anyone who would affirm the claim before they reconciled and shook hands. Vegetine touted as a panacea for the elderly in the passage.
Fen derson declares a man has made him as Fogg questions the claim. The exchange hints at influence and ambition shaping characters in an unfolding scene.
Advert says the general tonic Tindseys Improved Blood Searcher is for all, with druggists selling it and customers urged to try it as the remedy they want.
Two friends discuss theatre stage width at Music Hall. One recalls an approximate measure, “the width of a Gainsborough hat.” J F Davis of Portsmouth Ohio sold fourteen thousand boxes of Seller’s Liver Pills in a year, claimed to cure malaria.
Jones notes that small changes yield big differences in phrasing. He points out dinner for nothing is good fun, but nothing for dinner lacks the same charm and impact.
A French physician tested heat treatment by heating underclothes worn by four scarlet fever patients to 203 Fahr for two hours and had his four children wear them for several days with no illness. He notes vaccine matter and smallpox virus likely destroyed by similar heat. Yellow fever and plague contagions reportedly destroyed at 212 Fahr.
An old advertisement promotes a cure for nervous debility and weakness of generative organs priced at $1. It urges readers to send for a circular and lists Allen's Pharmacy at 5138 First Ave, New York.
A historic device uses a rubber bag and a glass tube filled with mercury placed over the chest to record heart pulsations. Each beat moves the mercury, captured by a photographic setup with moving sensitive paper, yielding a precise record of pulse rate and amplitude.
A rarer issue from Blackwell's Island notes editors who once served in the sanctum yet turned mad by spring poets and visiting instructors who taught them how to run a paper.
Advertisement advises young and middle aged men with nervous debility premature old age memory loss and related symptoms to send three stamps for Part VII of pamphlets issued by the World’s Dispensary Medical Association Buffalo New York.
The Czar will pass the summer in the cellar and the Scoville family will spend the season quarreling. James Gordon Bennett aims to keep away from the North Pole. Government will spend the summer and much of winter testing Star routers. Hubbell to assess, government aides to resign if unpaid, and many playwrights to write the great American comedy.
A compact notice offering a large treatise on successful self treatment. It directs readers to address the World's Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo in New York for more information.
A telegraph head proclaims A circus Man Killed and Injured suggesting sensationalism. The note argues journalism should respect the dead and avoid unfair advantage from such headlines.
A pamphlet from the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo offers epilepsy treatment notes. A domestic verse about a tax girl singing to an admiring company reflects a childlike mother figure waking to provide breakfast and warmth in a parlor setting.
An old advertisement touts Kidney-Wort as the best cure for piles claiming it both relieves constipation and restores bowel health. It is sold in dry and liquid forms by druggists. A separate quip shows a New Haven tea comment about party affiliation and generational views.
An intelligent lady asserts mothers should dose children with Hop Bitters for health to curb uncouth wilful behavior. An exchange notes a man who met his wife, proposed, and lived with her all amid storms, implying a lifelong stormy romance.
The article extols Mrs Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a leading remedy for women's diseases, cites a city pharmacist naming it top among proprietary medicines, and notes strong public use and trust in the product. It also mentions cosmetics and tonics from Caswell Hazard Co and advances in electric candle technology, along with hair care products and claims of superior quality.
A new hair hygrometer uses a sheet metal framed hair stretched by a small German silver spring. A cloth covered frame moistens and is inserted into the back wall. the pointer reaches 100 quickly and can be exactly set to 100 with a watch key. Removing the moist frame then shows ambient moisture.
C G Williston argues danger from rattlesnake bites is overstated noting many wounds from snakes or larger animals without fatal outcomes. He cites 11 human cases with 3 deaths, blaming ignorance or improper care in two, and reports no direct fatality among horses or cattle. May, mating season, sees increased venomous activity.
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