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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1882
Page
4
Dairymen debate post calving feeding with bran gruel and tepid water favored by the author as best after calving. Emphasizes avoiding abuse by workers, hiring practices with wage forfeiture for kicks, and kindness to stock. Includes a statistic table from Indiana on drainage benefits and ancient seeds showing life principles endure.
A varied collection of cooking instructions and home tips includes steamer puddings with berries, Mountain Cake layers with icing, meat preservation by thoracic acid, roast sweetbreads, cleaning cream-colored lace, and Creamer Potatoors with butter and cream. Also covers tests for water purity, hominy croquettes, fowl age indicators, steak tenderizing, stale bread frying, masa turnips, ginger cookies with coffee, tomato broth with rice, and gemstone and hair care notes.
Breeders note that a tendency to gain fat often accompanies weak constitution and reduced milk and fertility. Very fat animals poorly suited for breeding as excessive fat hinders reproductive capacity. For fowl perches, allow six inches per bird and avoid high setups to permit safe down-swoop roosting.
The Rural New Yorker argues for barn cleaning as essential as house cleaning, noting farmers neglect of outbuildings hurts appearance and convenience. It states beet sugar failed in the U.S. with few prospects for revival, while European firms prosper according to Cologne Consul reports.
In Flanders dairy practice varies by season. Summer uses twenty four hours of churn time while winter allows three days before transferring to the cellar tub. If the milk fails to sour, dairymen add a can of warm water to accelerate fermentation.
To control carpet moths, dampen a cloth and place it over the carpet edge, then apply hot irons to release steam through cracks to kill the moths. For weevils in wheat bins, fumigation with burning sulfur before storage and again within a month is advised, with sulfur deemed superior to lime or other methods.
The passage notes that a breeder with several varieties may breed near to another variety he holds, but few breeders have an eye sharp enough to maintain multiple varieties in perfect form color and points as one breed partly follows another.
The Orkney Islands farm laborers rely on oatmeal potatoes fish and milk as staple foods. English tourists note the vigor of elderly locals while cane syrups tend to acidify and convert to sugar more than beet syrups during boiling and lose much crystallized sugar.
A father speaks calmly to his ill son who sat out with a stolen pie. The boy admits sickness as the father, in gentle tones, uncoils a trunk-strap and a chaotic night follows. The tale ends with the boy praying to become a pirate.
Hubbard’s International reports Lydia E. Pinkham’s Compound Business is thriving and expanding. He notes ads run in over 8,000 newspapers on yearly contracts, making her widely known in America. The article praises Pinkham as a sincere, active woman over sixty aiding many families.
A customer waiting for a shave fans himself with a New York Herald. The barber asks why he uses no fan and the customer quips that the paper has more wind, prompting a laugh at the shop.
Rev E R L Warren, pastor and educated physician from Sorito New York, testifies his wife was freed from chronic ailments after more than a year of medical care and using Hep Bitters. He and his wife encourage friends to try the remedy, claiming multiple cures among their circle.
A railway magnate comments that it is principle, not men, to be cared for, acknowledging that freight-handlers face harsh conditions earning a dollar and a quarter daily.
An eight year kidney disease sufferer in Montgomery Vermont notes one box of Kidney-Wort made him a new man and believes it will cure others. The Danbury News reports it is sold in liquid and dry forms. A Sunday School pupil’s reply to how to reach heaven: Die, I suppose.
A clergy man questioned children in Sunday school about the wickedest figure in the Old Testament. A bright boy replied Moses, saying he broke all ten commandments. The exchange amused the congregation.
A Galveston Texas sender returns a testimonial praising Dr Piercy of Buffalo New York for the Golden Medical Discovery Purgative Pellets and Favorite Prescription. He claims his daughter’s scrofulous swellings and neck sores improved and his wife recovered from eight months bed rest due to female weakness.
The Austin woman Mrs McCabb scolds her colored cook Matilda Snowball after discovering a man in the kitchen. McCabb asserts the man is her husband and rebukes Snowball, prompting a tense exchange about trust and propriety.
The ad touts Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for scrofula and skin and blood diseases with thousands of testimonials. It invites readers to send a stamp for a pamphlet from the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo New York. A separate dialogue shows a humorous painting misperception between a sweet girl and George.
A fragment urges women with sedentary lives to use Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as an unfailing remedy sold by druggists. The text includes a dramatic line about a man in the parlor dying if sister Jane would not marry him, and sister Jane declining.
A health note urges people to seek a healthy state by staying content and using a celebrated Kidney Wort remedy for illness. The piece promotes the remedy as a simple, effective way to keep the body's system in good order, citing a large advertisement. A boy observes a bee sting him after watching it crawl on his hand, lamenting the sting more than the bee’s movement.
An advertisement touts Hop Bitters as a popular health aid now common with the American public. It claims the tonic builds vitality, noting it tastes unlike whiskey and resembles old-fashioned bone-set tea. The piece ends with a quip attributed to Josh Billing about attire.
For dyspepsia indigestion low mood and general debility in many forms and as a preventive against fever and ague this elixir by Caswell Hazard Co New York is touted as the best tonic with no equal for patients recovering from fever or sickness and is sold by all Druggists.
In a domestic scene a son rebukes his mother for remarrying, telling her he is too weak to walk away from the situation and thereby exposing family tensions over remarriage. The exchange captures a tense moment as the son claims he cannot oppose her choice.
A Springfield man describes chronic scrofulous humors and catarrh with nightly head pains and dizziness. After using Vegetine on Rev. Geo W Mansfield’s advice, he was cured and reports no relapse after a year and recommends Vegetine for the listed complaints.
The celebrated Vegetable Compound for females by Lydia E. Pinkham relieves suffering by equalizing vital forces and regulating organic functions. It claims to arrest and remove disease only through this method.
An advertisement column promotes L. A. Knight Company remedies for asthma hay fever and related conditions. It touts Knight’s Asthma and Hay Fever Cure as highly successful with testimonials in another column and markets Carboline a deodorized petroleum extract as a premier toilet preparation.
An 1879 testimonial from Jarrettsville Maryland praises H H Warner Co Sia Yoursafe Kidney and Liver Cure for relief and urges others to try it. The fragment also includes unrelated ad copy for medical cures and a coarse historical quip about Fenianism with a Cromwell reply and a separate misleading advert for Wil's Health Review.
The column notes a Gretna Green marriage where the smith charged five guineas, the groom quips about a prior customer paying one guinea, and the smith reveals he has married that man six times. The piece also touches on quack remedies and a marketing line about a nerve restorer and a novel titled Her face Was Her Fortune.
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