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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1881
Page
4
A historical note lists several traditional methods to control balky horses. It describes harness checks, removing a horse from shafts, spinning the animal, and various painful restraints such as tying legs, mouths, ears, and a twine gag to the lower jaw to compel movement.
Annual plan to inspect and rearrange house linen. Save usable linens from sheets to tablecloths, replace worn items with new unbleached options, repurpose kitchen cloths, and ensure ample towels. Replace elder linen for glass wiping, cut dining cloths into towels, and stock a ready supply.
A cookbook style recipe describes simmering an onion in butter, adding chopped white cabbage until tender, thickening with white sauce, then mixing in chopped hard boiled eggs and parsley. The mixture is placed in a yeast raised pastry dish, brushed with paste, dusted with crumbs, baked and served hot.
A historic recipe for Soresis Puppine outlines ingredients: three sweet oranges, three quarters of a pound sugar, half a pound sweet almonds, rose water, sixteen eggs, one pound fresh butter, puff paste. Prepare orange rind, boil and pound with sugar, blanch almonds, beat with rose water, whisk eggs and butter, combine all, line pie plates with puff paste, bake and sugar the tops after oven draw.
A historic kitchen note describes making a yeast starter from hops boiled in water then potato water thickened with flour and cooled. After cooling, add yeast and brown sugar to ferment. one pint suffices for a large batch of bread as the foam rises like whipped cream.
A small onion fricassee method details browning onions in butter then simmering with milk lemon peel white pepper and salt before serving in sauce. The steps include drying dredging in flour and gentle frying for about five minutes followed by a ten minute simmer.
Stewep VEAL. Cut the meat into pieces wash them clean and put into the dinner pot with three pints of water a onion pepper and salt. Simmer one hour then add sliced potatoes and a crust made from sour milk or cream tartar and cook until potatoes are done. The crust may be baked into biscuits. Crumbs of fresh meat may be used in the stew.
Instructions describe layering broiled ham slices and chopped broiled chicken in a pudding dish. Pour gravy or melted butter, optionally add onions or curry powder, then fill with boiled rice to cover and bake for 30 to 45 minutes.
Cloves scattered on shelves can banish red ants, with renewal needed as strength fades. For cow indigestion, give carbonate of ammonia and ground ginger in bran daily for a week, then provide salt and chalk to lick. A coop hay cutter saves costs. chaffed hay aids mastication. Spent tan-bark improves compact clay by mellowing soil and increasing warmth.
The article explains sweeny or wasting of shoulder muscles in horses, noting it often signals chronic limb disease such as navicular or ringbone. It warns cures may fail if the underlying ailment is not addressed and suggests resting the horse, topical tincture of cantharides with oil, and gradual reintroduction to light work with a proper collar.
The article argues that animal and vegetable life depend on each other and that forests provide Earth's moisture, warning that deforestation could alter climate. It urges planting young trees to replace those removed and frames forest protection as both a civic and moral duty.
A local informant touts grated beets as a universal cure for injuries from nails. He cites a horse that recovered from rail-related pain in minutes after beet pulp and a man who eased nail wound agony, with others claimed, noting cooling and anti inflammatory effects.
Mr Bergh of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals warns coachmen not to whip a horse that fears roadside objects. He advises allowing the horse to sniff the stump or log and using a bridge to guide the horse toward the fear rather than striking it.
Advice on marketing young pigs early to prevent losses. Recommends ground oats and corn or corn with wheat middlings, soaked corn for high flesh. Cautions against stimulants when keeping pigs over winter. favors clover pasture plus small grain rations for first summer.
The best cider is made as late in the fall as possible and from clean sound apples. To keep it through winter and for a year or more barrel immediately and remove it to a cool vault or cellar where it should remain until February or March. Then put it in strong bottles and firmly wired down laid on ground or shelves with cool uniform temperature to prevent rapid ripening or freezing. If the cider before barreling is filtered through sand it will keep better and be free from sediment.
The piece notes that small seed seeds are most affected by slight causes. It cites farmers who plant turnips in fresh moist soil versus soil that has dried for a few hours, especially on dry warm days, as producing noticeable crop differences.
The Rural New Yorker reports Colonel F. D. Curtis recommends frequent washing with soapsuds to keep pigs healthy. Young pigs suffer in dirty dens, and unclean dams can cause head and mouth sores in suckling piglets that stunt growth. Thorough washing and oiling are advised when needed.
A home remedy in the article prescribes beating one egg well for about twenty minutes, then mixing with one pint of fresh milk and one pint of water. Add sugar to taste, boil, cool, and drink when cold. the mixture may curdle and lose its usefulness if it spoils.
A tip suggests using a mixture of black pepper powder and cream placed on a plate in a fly troubled room. The dose is half a teaspoonful of pepper and one teaspoonful of cream, mixed and left in the room to drive away flies.
PastupEs that have been fed a few sea sons will generally produce more milk, or more fat, than those which have been newly seceded down.
A pastor from Forsyth County North Carolina credits Hop Bitters with curing years of dyspepsia after six months of use and praises the product to his congregation. A New York recipient also thanks the company for donations to the Home of the Friendless, calling the gift greatly beneficial.
Letters from Delevan Monroe Bradford Evansville Bay City and others praise Hop Bitters. Citizens claim restored energy cured ailments and improved digestion. Doctors and patients endorse its benefits and urge others to try the remedy.
Leonard Whitbeck of Superior Wisconsin recounts long term relief after using Hop Bitters for fifteen years of neuralgia rheumatic complaints and kidney trouble. He notes several local families now rely on Hop Bitters as their medicine and cites one bedridden woman who recovered after three bottles.
A New Haven woman learned nitro glycerine was a toothache remedy. Her husband brought home a small can and when opened a sizzling noise created a blast that left both people hairless and clothes shredded, yet the toothache stopped.
An anxious exchange shows the eldest daughter asking if she has spoken to her father about a pony phaeton. The indulgent mother replies that the father is busy with creditors and cannot think of ponies or russet harness. The father works to compromise debts before any turnout is provided.
The column notes extensive use of St Jacob's Owl as a rheumatism remedy with many reports of relief. It emphasizes the external nature of the treatment and its growing sales as more people try it beyond the usual avenues.
An Indianapolis Daily Sentinel vignette mocks gossip as St Jacob’s Oil becomes the daily topic replacing gossip. An old lady rebukes a boy offering to carry a satchel for five cents and the lad replies he belongs to the Tontine Base Ball Club with pride.
A dialogue shows Toa Wioower admitting plans to remarry. When asked who, he replies he will marry his dead wife’s sister to avoid changing mothers in law, prompting disbelief and a final ironic justification.
A Marathon boy carried a pistol in his coat pocket and it discharged while he was swimming last week. He suspects no one and has no idea who took the weapon.
William P. Cleaves of Beverly Massachusetts writes that a cancer on his face spread and bled until Vegetine cured it after sixteen bottles. He praises the blood purifier and notes his age and improved health. Several local residents testify to the cure and endorse Vegetine’s effectiveness.
In a Pittsburg notice dated July 25 1878 Giaitano of the Peoples Advocate reports positive effects from Hop Bitters. The writer expected nausea and bitterness but found a mild taste. Mrs Corssell and Mrs Connor also praise the medicine for building strength and toning the system improving appetite and health.
Mrs Topnoody arranges a rainbow of colors while Mr Topnoody teases her fashion sense. He suggests a black dress as becoming, then Mrs T jokes about pleasing a late husband, ending with her freely choosing colors as she desires.
An exchange reports a man losing sixty five dollars and later receiving twenty five with a note stealing back part of it. A mourner questions a wreath inscription in a flower shop. A carriage scene yields a joking price for time and a franc tip, ending in a sharp rebuke for fraud.
A Providence, R I woman over 70 reports long neuralgia and nervous prostration eased after three months with Hop Bitters. She states no physician or medicine helped before, and now feels young again.
A repeatedly convicted inmate asks to delay his case for a week as counsel notes illness. The judge questions the defendant after remarking on the apparent theft accusation and the defense’s response. The exchange highlights procedural delay and accountability concerns in a barroom courtroom scene.
A woman guides her intoxicated husband home by using endearing pet names. A bystander remarks on a wife’s patience, while she whispers that her plan will work once he slips into the front passage, where she will be ready.
A fragmented ad-like note urges health through constant moving from east to west and north to south. It praises learners to be commented and to use Kidnes-Wort when ill as a simple but effective remedy for the whole system.
In New York last week Jenkins sought a theater visit and foundry insight. A manager praised his actors as unique. A Lady mocked a bald lover with clever words. Vearring promotes iron-therapy claims, while other ads tout Carboline hair treatment and Lindsey's Blood Searcher. Reports note a New Zealand mineral vein worth $200 a ton, Cremation progress in Italy, cess-pool air toxicity studies, and Sellers liver pills. Phylloxera defenses in France include submersion, insecticides, and hardy vines. Lupia Pinknam’s compound aids female diseases. Sitting Bull is described as despondent, with rumor of possible self-harm.
A pasted assemblage notes health claims for outdoor inactivity and Hop Bitters as a remedy, plus a classroom anecdote about grammar rules and a prank at Glen Mountain House where a brick bat is displayed in a cage with a misleading notice, and a quick quip about lilies of the field having a different kind of exertion.
The Hygiene of Infancy commission prizes advise against artificial feeding when the mother can nurse. If hand feeding is needed, use fresh cow or goat milk with mild water additions in the first week, then reducing water as the child digests. Use glass or earthenware vessels. avoid rubber mouthpieces and lead-containing vessels.
A local dealer from Mutual Life Building offers an extensive selection of extra fine diamonds at low prices. The ad promises stones of first quality, perfect color and shape, aiming to attract buyers with competitively priced jewelry.
An advertisement claims Kidney-Wort treats kidney and liver diseases piles and constipation. It asserts sediment in urine signals disease and that Kidney-Wort purifies the blood and restores sluggish organs. It also mentions relief from headaches bilious attacks dizziness and loss of appetite.
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