Forbes Ride After Ulandi Battle Drives Lone Horseback Dash
Forbes recounts a perilous night long ride from the laager into the bush after the Ulandi engagement. He tests a chestnut horse across moonlit tracks, dodges Zulu fires, and reaches Landman’s Drift after about 110 miles and 20 hours with six horses, then presses toward Pietermaritzburg dodging fatigue and a leg contusion.
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Mr. Forbes
The
London News
Ulandi
Zululand
Evelyn Wood
Laager
Butodgeneni
Umfaloosi
Upchor
Scott Douglass
Corporal Cotter
Lancers
Fort Marshall
Collingwood
Landman’s Drift
Lord Chelmsford
Guy Dawnay
Dawnay
Landman
General Marshall
Marshall
Wolseley
Chelmsford
Port Daurnford
Pietermaritzburg
Cavernous skulls of France’s murderers studied in museum exhibit
A Paris museum display of thirty six guillotined criminals draws Dr Broca’s analysis showing large skull capacity and parieto occipital expansion. The study compares these to Solutrean skulls and prehistoric types, suggesting a link between intellect, impulse and evolutionary history.
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Paris
France
Broca
Syrup from Sweet Corn as a Potential Sugar Source
The piece notes sweet corn’s high saccharine content suggesting it could yield syrup, with a man reporting 150 gallons per acre from green-state corn. It discusses market effects on green corn pricing, potential farm profitability, and the broader idea of using syrups in animal feeds and condiments, including speculative health impacts.
Feeding Young Stock Drives Profits in Stock Raising
The article argues that maintaining strong digestive systems in young animals yields greater profits. It warns against early starvation or restrictive feeding, noting that top feeders pay high prices for animals with intact digestion and steady growth from birth. Proper early nutrition prevents future losses and ensures profitable weight gain.
Balky horses and humane tricks for urging motion
A society for the prevention of cruelty to animals offers humane methods to start balky horses. Advice includes patting and calming the horse, inspecting harness, and giving the word go. A Maine teamster suggests circling the horse after removing it from shafts.
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Balky Tsorsks
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Maine
Seedsmen’s Regular Seed Advantage and Saving Best Specimens
The piece argues it is cheaper and more convenient to buy regular seeds than to save them, but if seeds are saved they should be the earliest, fairest and best specimens available.
Corn charred into charcot for poultry feed
It states that Indian corn charred into charcot will make a valuable condiment for poultry. It will improve the health of hens and cause a general tonic up of the system resulting in more and better eggs.
Manure Decomposition Rates Among Farm Animals
The article notes that cow and pig manure resist decomposition longer than sheep and horse manure. It states sheep and horse manure are drier and break down more readily in soil, affecting soil conditioning and fertilizer behavior.
Fertilizer Tips For Pear Trees And Fruit Crops
Wood ashes make an excellent fertilizer for pear trees. Mixed coal and wood ashes may also be applied with advantage. Ground bones are better for fruit trees of all kinds than fermenting manure.
Lime for Chickens Near the Hen House
Advice on placing lime near the hen house to help hens in summer runs, noting that lime is useful for chickens when they roam outdoors.
Camel Breeding in Texas Promises Profit and Easy Rearing
A Texas camel breeder argues camels are as easy to raise as horses or cattle. Young calves require care for a few days but soon join the herd. They feed on cactus and grasses, with females producing a colt yearly. A well-broken camel can travel 100 miles daily, and climate suits camel traits.
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Desert
Texas
Lantear
Subduing and Avoiding Fever and Ague With Bitters
The article promotes a vegetable anti periodic remedy to root out fever and ague and touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a safe effective preventive against malaria. It urges travelers and residents in miasmatic regions to stock up to avert intermittent fevers and related digestive issues.
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Hostetter
Flowers as a Disinfectant in Air by Floral Experiments
An amateur chemist reports that vegetable perfumes create ozone in the air, purifying it. He finds cherry laurel cloves lavender mint juniper lemon bergamot most ozone producing, with many fragrant flowers contributing. The article urges cultivating these scents in marshy or foul areas for healthier atmospheres.
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Vick
Cologne
Washing Flannels From a Lady's Practical Tip
A correspondent shares how Italian practice yields better flannel wash. She learned cold or lukewarm water, no boiling, and generous stretching before drying. Watching Italian women wash by a stream, she notes softer, whiter results than hot-water methods.
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Italy
Corn Cake Recipe Instructions with Substitutions
The excerpt gives measurements for corn cake batter using meal and flour with optional substitutions. It details adding cream of tartar, saleratus, milk, eggs, and a batter preparation sequence before cooking on stove irons and finishing in the oven.
Recipe for Ricu Seed Cake with Spices and Caraway
A dated kitchen directions card describes a cake recipe using one and a quarter pounds flour one pound butter one pound sugar eight eggs two ounces caraway seed one grated nutmeg and cinnamon. Cream butter with sugar add eggs beat in flour spices seeds bake two hours in a hot oven.
Dr Bull's Baltimore Pills Offer Relief for Nerves
A brief health note extols Dr Bull's Baltimore Pills as a remedy for nervousness and indigestion, claiming such afflictions stem from a morbid body condition and noting the pills provide relief and benefit to both business and pleasure.
Floripa Brunswickk Stew Detailing Frugal Cornish Recipe
A historical recipe describes a stew using two slices of middling chopped fine boiled with water, two squirrels, onions, squash, okra, butter beans, Irish potatoes, tomatoes, corn, salt, pepper. It thickens with cracker or bread crumbs and finishes with butter.
Royal Cream Dessert from Historic Recipe
Made with one quart milk one third box gelatine four tablespoons sugar three eggs vanilla. Dissolve gelatine in milk then cool. Beat yolks with sugar and mix into milk. Place kettle in hot water and stir until it thickens to a soft custard.
Jelly Roll Cake From Basic Kitchen Method
A simple jelly roll cake method uses four eggs one cup sugar one cup flour and a quarter teaspoon salt. Beat eggs and sugar until light, fold in flour, bake in a bread pan, spread jelly while warm, and roll. cool before slicing.
Dossins Electric Soap Promoted by Philadelphia Firm
Cragin & Co. of Philadelphia markets Dossins Electric Soap as perfectly pure and economical, claiming it requires less soap for washing. Consumers are urged to ask grocers to stock it.
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Cragin & Co
Philadelphia
Buttermilk Pancakes From Rice Flour Batter
A quarter pound of rice flour and a small teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda mix into a light batter with buttermilk. Pour into the pan at once with little butter or lard and fry as pancakes.
Farm GEBES Boiled Buttermilk Porridge
Boil one quart of fresh buttermilk then add one beaten egg a pinch of salt and a heaping tablespoonful of flour. Pour into the boiling milk stir briskly and boil two to three minutes. Serve warm with sugar.
Graham Muffins Recipe Summary
To make Graham muffins use two eggs one quart of sweet milk two tablespoons of melted butter a light salt one half cup of home made yeast or two tablespoons of brewer's yeast and Graham flour to make a thick batter bake as soon as light.
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Graham Mountains
Beaubriaas Advertises Hop Bitters Beauty Claim
The column praises Hop Bitters as essential for fair skin rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes, claiming cosmetics cannot replace health and strength. It notes a trial is proof and refers readers to another column for details.
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France
Gingerbread Molasses Recipe From Old Cordial Table
A simple old recipe uses one cup molasses a spoonful saleratus one of ginger one tablespoon butter or lard with a pinch of salt mix stir add boiling water and flour to form a thin batter bake one inch deep in a sheet until done the method reflects period cooking notes for gingerbread batter and bake depth.
Potato Fritters From Old Recipe
Grate six cold boiled potatoes and mix with one pint of cream or milk. Add flour to form a stiff batter, then yolks of three eggs and beaten whites folded in. Salt to taste and fry in sweet butter.
Dr Jaynes Sanative Pills Remedy
A historical notice touts Dr. D. Jayne's Sanative Pills as a mild and certain remedy for disorders including bruits, liver complaints, and costiveness. The advertisement claims rapid relief and safety regardless of exposure, with sales advertised as available everywhere.
Humorous Town Store Rules Post a Local Gibe
A local newspaper notes humorous town shop rules posted in a storefront. The list teases the proprietor’s absence and odd policies including no lending, banning repeats of Gilbert and Sullivan, flat disregard for pencils, and odd touches like coffins for canvassers and a cellar bulldog.
Birds at Boston estate Stir debate over macaws
A visiting party questions a Boston businessman's country estate about macaws. A laborer, resting from work, says he recalls no such birds but mentions two McGinnesses working in front of the barn, prompting a moment of confusion.
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Boston
Erin
McCaws
McGinnesses
Reverend Willits and the bird's time to die
The Rev. A A Willits of Philadelphia is described as a skilled shooter and preacher. A Quaker confronted him about shooting birds, and the Doctor replied that the bird's time to die comes when his gun is trained on it.
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A. A. Willits
Philadelphia
Willits
The Cotton String Man at Washington Market
A venerable, agricultural looking man in fast New Jersey fashion stands on a street corner near Washington market. He holds up three strings tied to his fingers and muses aloud about reminders for spool of cotton calico and not getting drunk again.
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New Jersey
Washington Market
Glorious Hop Bitters touted as invaluable remedy
A column extols Hop Bitters as a strong ailing cure claiming many men women and children have been raised from sickness by its use. The writer invites readers to see another column for more on this remedy.
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Dregsta
Hop Bitters Mfg
Rochester
N.Y
Wholesale Solution to Tail Trouble
A gentleman told old Banister a malicious person cut off his horse tail to hinder a sale. Charles replied you must sell him wholesale. The man asked how so and was told because you cannot retail him.
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Charles
Whimsical Bits and Wry Observations of Everyday Life
A collage of pithy, humorous observations on manners work ethics and society. Seemingly random quips touch on courtship weather lightning superstition consumer products and common sense with a light tabloidy tone. The phrases preserve period voice and local flavor without graphic details.
Anakesis Pile Remedy Promoted in Kansas Issue
In Cottonwood Kansas W W Jones reports the remedy Anakesis as a permanent cure after trials. William Barton confirms it cured him. Samples available free from Anakesis Depot Box 3946 New York and from druggists nationwide. Price one dollar per box.
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Cottonwood, Chase Co
Kansas
W. W. Jones
William Barton
New York
NEW York Markets Index
Wnt
N.Y
Fulton Street
New York City
Postoffice
Widow Bloomsbury’s Husband Seeks Burial Permit in Funny Farewell
A cheerful widower, Dorothy Ann Bugsby’s husband, visits the Health Office asking for a burial permit and physician’s certificate. He jokes about losing his dog, praises her wit, and describes the coffin and memorial plan while awaiting the required paperwork. He leaves to obtain the certificate.
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Dorothy Ann Bugsby
Mr. Bugsby
Dorothy
Herrin
Hrecke s Tetter Ointment and Mendelssohn Pianos
The notice lists Hrecke s Tetter Ointment claiming cure for sore eyelids nose barber's itch and grocer's itch with mail order pricing. It promotes Mendelssohn Piano Co. pianos from $140 to 600 with five year warranty and praised organs and sales through New York headquarters. It also endorses Lone Jack cigarettes as superior and urges readers to try them.
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Hrecke
Johnston, Holloway & Ee
Phila
Frank Leslie
Times
Mendelssohn Piano Co
East Fifteenth Street
New York
Warran
Mendelssohn Piano Company
The
Independent
Indian Depredation and the Threat of Consumption
A historical pamphlet tone compares frontier dangers from Indian raids to the stealthy threat of consumption. It urges government action for settler protection while praising Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy that has aided many consumptives after other treatments failed.
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Fair
Death
Pierce
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