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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1880
Page
4
Mark Twain debunks romantic myths about Swiss chamois in Lucerne. He describes the animal as sociable and not shy, notes that hunting it is easy only with experience, and argues that scarce-chamois lore and chamois skin frauds are romantic exaggerations. He pledges honesty to readers.
Grizzly Dan, a Montana fighter, is famed for a drink fueled escape from pursuing Indians. He leaped a 700 foot cliff, fired his Winchester mid fall, and felled seventeen attackers with shots to the left eye, while one survivor earned the name Man-with-a-hole in-his-nose.
The piece compares Hungarian and Roumanian attire along the Danube. It notes Hungarian men as stylish with embroidered shirts and Hessian boots while Roumanian men are dirty and poorly dressed. Women’s attire reverses the trend with Hungarian women worse off than men and Roumanian women described as markedly better dressed.
The text notes that many women waste rose leaves while dry them make a delightful filling for sofa pillows and pin cushions, preserving their fragrance for a long period.
The article argues that historic large cider mills served many farmers efficiently while new small mills fail economically. It notes small presses yield little juice, are costly to run, and risk poor quality, urging towns to support a single well managed mill or cooperative rather than many scattered operations.
The article explains how weather influences dairy output. Bright days boost vital forces, raise casein formation, and increase cheese yield, while muggy conditions raise albuminoids and reduce butter yield and overall cheese percent.
The article explains a simple method to construct a concrete wall using 3x4 joists, planks, and a cement mix of cement sand and gravel. It details spacing, wall thickness, and a filling process with stones to create fireproof, durable walls that require little maintenance.
The text jokes that farmers are slow to accept guidance and know their own land best after dealing with army worms, weather, and harvest, leaving decisions for the following year's plowing and crops to their judgment.
To keep cut flowers from fading avoid overcrowding the vase. Remove water each morning, pick off decayed leaves, and cut stems ends as soon as they show decay symptoms.
A tense scene unfolds as a customer compliments a performer for a tableau while a deadly longing simmers within the Madame. Her sweet smile masks a perilous life force that could spell the customer’s demise if wishes prove fatal.
A witty remark about an unpopular author declares he is color blind, arguing his works seem read only by himself while others see they are not. The quip reflects a journalistically sharp, period tone.
A woman with four sailor sons likens herself to a year because she has four seasons.
A newly described glue blends common glue with acid chromate of lime in gelatine to form a permanent, water resistant adhesive. After light exposure, items mend with this glue resist warm water, making it suitable for glass and sails while not ideal for flexible fabrics.
The piece extols outdoor activity for factory workers to restore health and energy, praising Hop Bitters as a remedy to counter pallid faces poor appetite and weakened organs. It urges use of the tonic and promotes its cost as trifling, citing the Christian Recorder for reference. It also provides a recipe for Liver and Bacon with steps to fry liver and bacon, make a flour-based sauce, and serve with soup stock.
A correspondent praises Sopa Biscuit as a pleasant hot cake for occasional use. The method lifts three pints of flour with soda and two cream of tartar teaspoons, salt, butter or lard, sour milk, then a light mix, no kneading, roll to half inch, cut, and bake in a very quick oven.
Cut two pounds mutton neck into ten pieces, layer with eight potatoes and four onions in a pan. Season with pepper and salt, cover with water, bake slowly for two hours, then stir and serve. Add extra water at start to ladle out a broth cup halfway through.
Dissolve half a pound of leaf sugar in one quart of water and boil slowly. Add two drachms of acetic acid four ounces of tartaric acid. When cold stir in essence of lemon and divide one sixth into each bottle. Add thirty grains of carbonate of soda and cork immediately for use.
To four quarts water bring one pint rice and three quarts boiling water with half teaspoon salt. Boil seventeen minutes after boiling starts, drain completely, then steam fifteen minutes with cover off. The first rice water stiffens muslin and should be reserved.
Boil rice until soft then dry. Mix half cup rice with three spoonfuls sugar a piece of butter the size of an egg and a pinch of salt. Add one pint sweet milk one cup yeast and two quarts flour. Let rise overnight. If sour in the morning add a little soda in milk and bake in muffin rings.
A recipe directs lining a pudding dish with broiled ham, adding chopped broiled chicken and gravy or butter, optional onions or curry, then filling with boiled rice to cover. Bake for 30 to 45 minutes.
A diapered household guide describes using a water-soaked towel over the head to breathe in smoke during a fire and lists a simple method to soften hard water for ablution with borax. The note claims borax is effective, harmless to skin, and suitable for daily use.
A kitchen note describes a cake method: two eggs and one cup sugar creamed, then one half cup butter and sweet milk added. Add one teaspoon soda, two teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, two cups flour, and lemon flavor for a versatile warm or cold dessert.
One and a half cups sugar and flour with eight eggs separated, juice of one lemon or cream of tartar plus lemon rind grated for flavor. Whites beaten stiff and folded in, bake to light sponge cake.
A recipe lists butter and sugar creamed with flour and eight egg whites, two teaspoons baking powder folded in, plus milk. Use egg yolks to make custards with one quart milk. This item preserves a domestic baking method and ingredients from a past era.
When chopping suet for cooking, sprinkle flour over it to stop pieces from sticking together. This simple technique helps keep chunks separate during preparation.
A brief recipe item lists ingredients for rolls: one quart flour, two teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, two eggs, half cup butter, two tablespoonfuls sugar, one teaspoon soda, with sweet milk to form a batter baked in roll irons.
A strong oxalic acid solution softens and removes dry paint effectively. The technique suggests applying the solution to the painted area and wiping away for clean results. Safety precautions should be followed when handling acidic cleaners.
A brief travel advice item promotes Dr Bull's Cough Syrup as the only remedy to halt a hack while on the road. The promotion cites quick relief and simple availability for travelers.
A humorous exchange traces how different regions pronounce prairie and its variants. The sad passenger reflects on crossing plains while a chorus of travelers debates language and a painted Indian tale, hinting at a longer story to come.
A girl left in charge of the house by her mother disobeyed a warning and entered a press containing good things. On return, the mother asked who tempted her. the girl said Satan. The mother advised quoting Get thee behind me Satan, but the girl claimed Satan pushed her into the press.
A Punch cartoon caption shows a customer offering a chair to a tired shop girl as she sits while the man asks to sit. A reading of the scene notes the idea of taking the law in one’s own hands and a polite, weary exchange.
A fragment notes a patient feeling poor appetite and languid with a miserable mood and rosy cheeks observed. Details are sparse, but the terse description suggests a health concern requiring further clinical context.
Dean Swift called at a house in Cavan where the lady offered multiple pies. She repeated pies like apple goose berry currant cherry plum and pigeon pie. He grew weary and replied any pie madam but a magpie.
A woman in Lenoir North Carolina was hugged by a female relative with force strong enough to break her ribs. The anecdote wryly notes that women should not use men’s strength and that such pressure is best left to male arms.
A Watertown Mass girl peeped under her bed before sleep and saw a man’s boots. She cried for help. her father returned with a gun and club and seized the thief’s feet, exposing his boots.
A bashful suitor asks Eva if her father is home to hear a proposal but learns papa is away. The sweetheart offers to hear the proposal herself, and the lover proceeds with a successful request in her presence.
A woman at White Sulphur Springs, when asked to describe her dress, said she does not wear a handsome costume but has the nicest husband and two of the sweetest children in the room, drawing a parallel to the mother of the Gracchi.
An old bachelor, once jilted years ago, became a lifelong woman hater. Before his death, he ordered that no women attend his funeral, a harsh act described as terrible revenge.
A conversation depicts SomrEBopy pushing sympathy by labeling a venerable Black man as stone blind. Guibollard counters with a cruel remark about racial illusion, noting the man’s blindness would shield him from discovering he is not white.
A guest questions the restaurant owner’s whereabouts while the waiter replies with hush and humor. The exchange implies the proprietor frequents the establishment and knows more than guests. The brief vignette captures a moment of restaurant hierarchy and informal wit.
A dramatic line from a confrontational page features a bishop scolding a delinquent with the exclamation Wretched boy. The response from the page echoes a rustic outburst The missus my lord highlighting tension between church authority and familiar figures in a charged exchange.
A traveler notes the devastation in the West after a recent cyclone. A local confirms the storm took the place, speaking solemnly while smoking. The exchange highlights the scale and impact of the event on the community.
A youngster joyfully told his mother he had located where horses are made and seen a man finishing one by nailing on the last foot, describing the scene with childlike certainty.
A brief cartoonish exchange shows Uncle Bob advising young Charlie on riding manners and turf prospects. Charlie counters with papa’s caution about turf, revealing family hopes and tensions over racing paths.
The clipping reads a playful exchange as a wife chides her husband at 2:35 a.m. for watching the clock, joking that he acts as if in church. The line captures a lighthearted domestic moment.
Promotes attention to cholera morbus diarrhoea or bowel complaints and urges prompt use of Dr Jaysne Carminalve balsam to avoid suffering and danger. Claims the medicine has established merit and is widely recognized as a standard curative.
An advertisement claims the vegetable compound relieves constipation dyspepsia and headaches for sedentary workers. It promises prompt digestion liver and kidney benefits with half a tablespoon after meals and asserts long lasting habit formation without hindering work. The testimonial from Ephorial Telegraph praises the remedy as best and cures prior to tried alternatives.
A Philadelphia inventor describes a mercury sealed water trap for drain pipes. The outlet pipe sits in quicksilver with a cap and flanges forming a tight seal. Elevating the lid shifts the cap to a side chamber to allow waste to pass, then reseals to block gases.
The Veggetine cleanser and blood purifier is described as highly successful with many users receiving immediate relief and remarkable cures after taking it.
A London paper notes a process for making soap from petroleum by melting stearic acid and mixing it with the oil at about 15 to 100, then saponifying. An improved product may be made by adding animal or vegetable fat before saponification in a 2 to 3 ratio of acidified petroleum to fat. Both soda and potash may be used, with hardness dependent on the alkali and proportions.
Doxisins Electric Soap by Cragip & Co. Philadelphia claims purity and efficiency, needing less than common soap. Advertises the product as economical and urges buyers to ask their grocer to stock it.
The Clifton S L marine railway was operated for the first time, hoisting a large brig high and dry with success. A wheeled car anchors about five hundred feet of heavy chain, sinks partway to admit a ship, then raises and drags it ashore by steam power. The project cost thousands of dollars to build.
The article notes that electricity is the primary method physicians rely on to revive someone suffering the dangerous effects of chloroform. It emphasizes that a shock from the battery is widely known as essential for recovery.
The deodorized petroleum extract eliminates dense oils by a novel process and retains tonic curative and vivifying elements. Marketed as a true cure for baldness and scalp diseases, it is described as a delicate hair tonic that will not stain hats and contains no minerals or artificial colors.
A farmer in northwestern Arkansas posted a gate sign that reads This farm for sale subject to mortgages taxes and cyclones signaling a wary seller stance amid natural and financial pressures.
The Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo, the largest private sanitarium, was founded by Dr. R V Pierce, a former state senator and congressman. The half million dollar complex serves chronic diseases with a full medical staff and therapies, and operates a London branch under the World’s Medical Association.
A reader quotes medical professionals from the United States and Europe endorsing Kidney-Wort as the greatest cure for kidney and liver troubles, as well as piles and constipation, highlighting broad expert support.
A letter from Newmarket Ontario dated February 9, 1880 commends Guricy Vegetine saying it has done more good than all medical treatment. The writer notes a delicate 17 year old girl benefited greatly and her parents report it surpassed prior doctors care. The note is signed H. R. Stevens of Boston Massachusetts.
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