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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1880
Page
4
The article discusses stall sizes and loose boxes for valuable horses, diet with oats and bran, and progressive exercise to harden muscles. It also offers tips for calla lily care in a glazed container and oleander pruning to produce abundant blossoms.
An ad touts CaRB LINE as a deodorized petroleum extract that stimulates new hair growth. It claims the natural product is uniquely effective and offers a pleasant grooming experience.
The article explains heaves in horses caused by over feeding and dusty fodder, notes possible relief methods like moistened feed and timing meals before work, and warns of relapse. It then argues sheep lose value after age six, with reduced wool and lambs, suggesting not keeping sheep beyond six years.
California growers report Beyrtian corn yielding exceptionally with little care. It forms dense heads of thousands of seeds rather than ears and grows shorter with more branching. Climate likened to Egypt, promising value. one grower reports four crops at eighty bushels per acre. White variety tastes like rice when fresh. brown tastes acrid until fully dry.
A board of eminent physicians and chemists announced a combined remedy that could cure many diseases, claiming the medicine renders other treatments unnecessary. Despite initial skepticism, trials prove its efficacy and the discoverers Hop Xitters are celebrated as benefactors by the Democrat.
Practical tips from a 19th century source describe using tallow candles, benzine, and melted tobacco to deter or kill moths in carpets textiles and furniture. Methods include wrapping carpets, spraying furniture with benzine, sealing garments in boxes or brown paper, and using alcohol barrels to suffocate pests.
A Detroit man recalls his wife’s decade of illness with no cure until he tried Hop Bitters after seeing a U.S. flag advert. He claims two bottles cost two dollars and restored her health, calling the move a profitable folly.
A detailed recipe for preserving flank beef for a meal or picnic. It describes salting with four tablespoons of salt two of brown sugar and one tablespoon each cloves mace and ginger. The meat is rubbed daily for a week then soaked twelve hours in cold water and finally boiled steamed pressed and cooled before serving.
Simple mixed fruit dessert recipe calls for strawberries raspberries red and white currants ripe cherries with stalks and stones removed. Sprinkle lump sugar then add pale French brandy and toss until sugar dissolves. Serve promptly.
The method instructs peeling and slicing onions, juicing them, mixing with half an ounce of fine white soap, two ounces of fuller's earth, and half a pint of vinegar. Boil the mixture then spread hot coal over the scorched linen to dry before washing and boiling out. The spots should disappear unless the fabric threads are broken.
A historical pamphlet argues that thousands of young children die from common diseases of early childhood, and that Dr Bull's Baby Syrup could have saved their lives if used in time. The text emphasizes dramatic numbers and immediate action.
A method describes making yeast from bruised split peas. Boil one pint water, add to a large cupful of peas, cover to exclude air, and keep in a cool oven or by the fire for 24 hours until a froth forms. For warm climates, one tablespoonful of this water to one pound of flour serves as the yeast.
The method uses a barrel and a bushel of lime covered with boiling water then topped with cold water to form a whitewash. Dissolve in water and add one pound of zinc sulfate and one quart of fine salt. The result sticks like paint due to the vitriol hardening the wash.
A health notice argues against ignoring remedies for chronic illness. It compares a failing machine to the human body and urges immediate use of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets and Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for liver trouble skin ulcers scrofula and general debility sold by druggists.
A speaker recalls his past athletic prowess in many fields and warns a youth to avoid conceit and bragging. He claims to have led in lawn tennis, cricket, fencing, boxing, running, jumping, swimming, diving, riding and dancing, and to be the county’s handsomest and best dressed, all tempered by a claim of modesty.
Advertises Dobbins Electric Soap from Cragin & Co. Philadelphia as a remedy that lightens women’s home duties and urges readers to try it to verify its merit.
A reader questions how to tell if a cake is made in a defective style and describes odd symptoms after eating it. The piece notes dreaming of a three headed tree climbing dog and waking with a sense of internal machinery, implying bad quality.
A Reno public school teacher working with a student on simple division recalls a classroom moment. The pupil Johnny responds to a division problem about sharing an orange with his sister by saying “A suck,” a humorous mispronunciation that turned the lesson into a lighthearted incident.
A four year old boy Ned explained his reason for keeping a dead house mouse. He buried the creature and left its tail sticking out to mark the grave, showing a curious mix of curiosity and mischief in the household.
An New York engraver produced a flawed wedding announcement with a garbled line reading Mr and Mrs respectfully request your presents at a marriage of their daughter. The error highlights the fragile nature of printed social notices and the need for careful proofing.
A gentleman amid a steam boiler explosion jokes that he is used to being blown up by his wife so steam has little effect on him. The remark reflects a grim accident with injuries likely minor to the speaker.
Two men examined a plough fragment in a market place and bet a guinea on identifying its use. One declared the object for sale, the other claimed he knew its purpose. The bet was won and the wager paid.
A collage of verse lines jokes and brief product pitches. Items note wedding plans for musicians and military bands no names or dates, a playful moonlight line, medical tonic claims and a baby syrup advert, plus Dr Jaynes Carminative Balsam praised as a cure all for bowel ailments.
The advertisement portrays drunkenness as a disease and claims Simmons Liver Regulator activates the liver and revitalizes the system. It asserts the tonic removes craving for alcohol, calms nerves, regulates bowels, and lifts mood to aid recovery.
The passage catalogs historic eruptions by Cotapaxi Tunguragua Etna Vesuvius and Sumbawa, noting lava volumes ash distances and impacts. It cites 1733 Cotapaxi rockets 3000 feet above crater 1754 distant roar 600 miles 1797 Tunguragua mud torrents dammed rivers 600 feet deposits 1000 feet wide 1733 Vesuvius ash and lava spread 33 000 000 cubic feet 1793 Torre del Greco destroyed 45 000 000 cubic feet 1760 Etna flood 84 square miles 1 000 000 000 cubic feet 1810 lava flow nine months moving at a yard per day and cooling for 10 years.
An English legal journal reports a Washington dispute after a surgeon kept and displayed a patient's amputated legs in a museum jar, arguing they were his perquisites. The patient sues for recovery, with potential broader issues if inheritance of rights in a dead body is unsettled.
An early 20th century health blurb touts the kidneys as nature's sluice-way to cleanse the body. It warns that kidney trouble is felt everywhere and urges readers to use Kidney-Wort at first signs of disorder.
A promotional notice extols Anakesis Dr Silsbee external pile remedy as an infallible cure for piles. It claims 95 percent success over 20 years, with half a million users and doctors prescribing it. Offered at 1.00 per box with samples by mail via P Neustaedter Box 3916 New York.
The Voltaic Belt Co of Marshall Michigan offers their Electro Voltaic Belts with a 30 day trial period. The firm promises Speagy cures and urges potential customers to write promptly for details and to avoid delay.
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