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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1882
Page
4
This article outlines blackberry planting and care, recommending fall or spring set out in a dormant state, shading late plantings, and keeping roots moist. It emphasizes light soil, well drained compost soil, deep plowing, and posts with wire for support. Rows six to eight feet apart, plants three feet in row, about 1800 per acre.
An old poultry note warns against cornmeal for chicks saying it causes illness and high mortality. It recommends stale bread or crumbled dry, scalded and cooled, or moistened bread with abundant milk. A Chester County breeder reportedly raises large, healthy birds by feeding mostly milk and careful care.
Professor Scott of the Royal Agricultural College notes clover sickness may stem from clover fungus with other causes possible. Beet sickness traces to soil parasites and the turnip club root arises from a parasite vegetable feeding on starch in root cells. Remedy emphasized is good cultivation and a complete change of cropping.
Professor W J Brat asserts an acre of red clover yields 5000 pounds of hay with 2822 pounds mineral matter 97 pounds potash 96 pounds lime 34 pounds magnesia 28 pounds phosphoric acid and 108 pounds nitrogen. Plowed under the clover supplies nutrients for future crops, supporting multiple grain and crop cycles.
The article advises landowners to cut back bushes in neglected corners now, smooth the land, sow abundant grass seed, and cover with ground bone and ashes or compost manure. If soil is not dry or poor, this treatment will boost grass growth and choke out bushes.
A new six rowed barley called Tux Measury, developed by the Department of Agriculture four or five years ago, originates in Canada. It has long heavy heads that hang while filling, strong straw that resists lodging, and has been tested for malting with superior results. Ripening is slightly later than common six rowed types, with a reddish beard when heads appear.
The text notes that squealing hogs do not fatten as well as quiet ones. It suggests that breed may influence growth but that regular feeding three times daily with ample amounts keeps hogs content and in good growing and fattening condition.
The article argues that a diversified farm raising wheat, corn, mules, and pork at home succeeds more than a farm focusing on a single product. It emphasizes practical variety to balance risks and improve overall income.
The text notes oats grown on clay land yield the best meal, store long, and fetch high prices. It adds a belief that withholding food from sheep twenty four hours before slaughter improves meat flavor.
A historical collection shows steps for veal soup with beef bones, tapioca, and eggs to create a light palate with a jelly fat skimmed. It includes recipes for tongue preserves with spices, mayonnaise base, Robert sauce for beef, omelet and barley pudding, and preserved vegetables.
Gilhooly enters Mose Schaumburg's Austin avenue shop and asks for beer and fried fare, noting the sign promises service if not visible. Mose retorts his store is not a restaurant as the quarrel ends with Mose in deep contemplation before the sign.
Asn BurNHAM Massachusetts January 14 1880 A woman recounts two years of severe illness with lung and heart distress and credits Hop Bitters with a full recovery after using two bottles She notes many local sick people also used it and were cured expressing gratitude for the medicine.
An old letter from Apram to Eve describes a search for a ranch and a new home. He details hardship and hunger, notes raw cold weather, and promises to return once he strikes a claim. Cain is praised as strong and he asks about Cain’s tooth.
Some buyers prefer dry medicines to verify they are vegetable while others want ready to use remedies. The Kidney-Wort proprietors now provide that well known remedy in both liquid and dry forms for each class. Sold by druggists nationwide.
A visitor in New Hampshire remarks on a man’s death from smoking and offers a cigar to a reporter who, unfamiliar with newspaper offices, jokes about past fatal exposures from arsenic wallpaper chicory coffee canned goods and sewer gas. He uses a Victoria and speaks of a natural death for a writer famed for sensational health hazards.
An 1881 Austin letter to J W Graham recounts a severe bronchitis case lasting a year and a half. After hospital failure, Dr William Hall’s Balsam for the Lungs gave six hours relief and three days’ cough reduction. The writer warns sufferers to try the remedy. A Lewistown jab at a lumberman follows.
For dyspepsia and indigestion among other ailments the Ferro phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya by Caswell Hazard & Co New York is promoted as the best tonic. It is sold by all druggists and claimed to prevent fever and ague and aid recovery after illness with no equal.
A former inmate recalls starting as a two dollar a week worker and rising to a state legislator, speaking from his Auburn prison home during an interview. The tale highlights a dramatic social ascent within a prison setting.
Advertises Vegetine as a great remedy for skin conditions. Claims it cleanses the blood and purifies it, causing humors of all kinds to disappear.
A dialogue sketches a proposed dowry split with Adele and a playful twist about depositing 100 000 francs, while a series of patent medicines and spurious claims flood the scene. It notes deodorized carboline, Beecher’s honesty quip, and restore-all nostrums, ending with a Philadelphia mail-order nerve cure.
A light pun compares Germans to tonics quinine and gentian, noting a perceived medicinal or restorative quality in a tongue in cheek quip. No broader context or factual event is presented.
The Providence Gazette proclaims Vegetine by H R Stevens of Boston as the premier blood purifier and speedy healer for catarrh cough stomach weakness dyspepsia rheumatism and other serious ailments. It cites rapid cures and endorsements from well known and respected individuals across the country and abroad.
A father explains to his son that a pessimist harms newborn kittens with chloroform while an optimist allows them to endure a harsh life and die in the streets from abuse and neglect.
A collage of medicinal claims for Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pellets claims to purify blood and aid liver function. The text contrasts health with sedentary life and includes a jab about jury fitness based on ignorance. It references a lodge-room odor and a juror stereotype with colorful dialogue.
An old advertisement touts Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a remedy for female weakness and derangements, claiming it strengthens the limbs and back and restores facial color. The text includes a rustic cartoon dialog about Harrow, adding a regional flavor to the product pitch.
An advertisement urges Kidney-Wort as a cure for chronic diseases caused by torpid kidneys and constipation claiming thousands cured and urging readers to try it. A testimonial from Rev H Ferebee praises Hop Bitters for treating years of dyspepsia and accompanying congregation notes. The text also includes a humorous exchange about a fare and a salmon price.
This Pottsville item lists H. H. Warner and Co. crowing about Safe Kidney and Liver Cure with patient Joan D. Foster claiming relief after years of indigestion. A separate text echoes Lydia E. Pinkham’s health guidance for women, and there are assorted moralizing quips about fashion, married life, and social gossip.
An ad promotes Allen's Brain Food as a cure for nervous debility and weakness of generative organs priced at $1 and available from Allen's Pharmacy at 313 First Ave New York. The piece notes meat prices and includes a comic quip about a man whose wife jokes about his half baked state and giving him a warming at home.
An ad promotes Wells' Health Renewer claiming a husband becomes three times the man he was. It includes an offer to send a pamphlet from E. Wells in Jersey City New Jersey and advertises Seiler's Liver Pills as a quick cure for constipation biliousness sick headache fever and ague malaria.
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