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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1880
Page
4
Guidance on planning a compact farmer's garden with horse cultivation, row layouts, and crop choices to maximize small plots. Advice on propagating apple and pear trees from seed, grafting, and the benefits of self-sourced stock for cheaper, reliable fruit. Also notes on drying and storing wheat after threshing with lime to prevent dampness.
The article explains that hard shelled seeds like walnuts need moisture to crack shells and germinate. It advises soaking seeds in cold water after improper storage, notes frost dries shells, and suggests fall planting or damp storage. It also mentions tobacco-water dips to control lamb ticks and humorously notes farmers’ lifespan averaging sixty six years with loud neighborly mishaps.
Instructions for turning kitchen grease into soap using drippings boiled with water. Process includes clarifying fat, boiling with sal soda lime and borax, resting overnight, adding sassafras or lavender, and molding into bars to dry.
A short caution explains that people often drink more water than needed. It suggests sipping water slowly to quench thirst and advises chewing food well and not drinking during meals to improve digestion and prevent indigestion.
A Chicago reader cites a case of recovery from alcohol abuse using Hop Bitter. The witness notes the product reduced thirst, removed liquor cravings, steadied nerves, and kept the man sober for over two years with no desire to relapse.
The article defines braising as covering meat with a strong liquor made from vegetables and animal juices in a tightly closed vessel with minimal evaporation. It describes long exposure to heat just below boiling to tenderize tough fibers and infuse the meat with vegetable and herb aromas, making dry or flavorless meat succulent.
A gilding process is described using gold dissolved in murine and nitric acids with iron protoxide sulfate to precipitate. The paste is formed with borax and turpentine spirit, applied to glass, heated to volatilize the solvent and vitrify the coating, then polished with blood-stone and agate burnishers. The procedure mirrors porcelain gilding.
The advantages of circular saws with movable teeth are praised for smooth cutting. Dropped to red, teeth are regular and better than whole-saw teeth, reducing downtime since a lost tooth can be quickly replaced with a cheap movable tooth.
Instructions describe making a Welsh nectar by steeping lemon peel in boiling water, cooling, adding lemon juice sugar and chopped raisins, then standing several days stirring daily. After straining through a jelly bag it is bottled for immediate use.
Instructions advise applying lunar caustic nitrate of silver to the wart, which turns black, or nitric acid which leaves a yellow stain. aromatic vinegar causes little lasting discoloration. The stains fade quickly with time.
Instructions describe rubbing musk with sugar in a warm mortar then macerating a month in alcohol with ambergris and vanilla tinctures. After thorough filtering a few drops of ottar of roses are added.
The World's Dispensary at London extends access to Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and other remedies. Proprietors of Buffalo and London emphasize cures for blood and skin diseases, scrofula, swellings, internal soreness, and bowel issues. They promote Pellets, Favorite Prescription, Extract of Smart Weed, and other products.
A Fourth Ward Elmira gentleman battles potato bugs in vain using all remedies. A visiting young lady explains she has no potatoes, leaving him to laugh at the absence of pests as the final cure.
A quip laden column uses mock science to doubt Carboline as a cure for baldness while weaving humorous vignettes about telephone chatter, a watermelon fed child and dinner fish, and a preacher’s sermon with a plainspoken old man retelling a scene before the stove.
Anyone wanting a recipe to make soap for a cent a pound will receive it free by writing to J. L. Cragin & Co., Philadelphia, the manufacturers of Dobbins' Electric Soap.
An entertainment by the Bric-a-Brac Club featured a boy’s remark that he preferred cigarettes and a quiet chat to the evening’s activities. He criticized the girls as overly flirtatious and boasted a taste for violence, describing his pick of around thirty girls who “knew what was what.”
In a prayer meeting the speaker Mr Barnes boasted of his role in guiding others to heaven. Mrs Barnwell rebutted urging him to stay and point the way long after others are safe in heaven. Barnes seemed surprised by her remark.
A fragment shows a little girl lamenting her name missing from the Bible and declares she will be so good that future bibles will include her. It also includes a dialogue about homeopathic cure with phrases like like cures like and a dismissive insult from a doctor.
A jumbled item list features VEGETINE praised as a gentle stomach tonic, playful Philadelphia picnic scenes with croquet, a lucky old woman with receipts, a cautionary line about a diamond pin, quirky sayings about cows and calves, foggy humor, and a medical pitch for Dr Jayne's Carmina balm offering relief from bowel complaints.
An ad claims after meals dosing with Simmons Liver Regulator cures indigestion and prevents constipation after discontinuation. It is described as mild, vegetable, non nauseating, replaces quinine and bitters, cleanses blood and strengthens kidneys. Also notes milk nutrition and lightning rod tips.
A clergyman from Washington DC denounces public testimonials for quack remedies yet praises Hop Bitters as a meritorious family remedy. An Illinois breach of promise witness describes girls sharing love letters to provoke jealousy. A concise note warns readers to distinguish circuses from their advertising boards.
An advertisement urges readers to use Kidney-Wort each spring to feel well and updated, promising dramatic personal renewal and improved well being for those who feel out of sorts.
Mrs. Mosks of Yoraville New York writes praising Anakesis the external pile remedy. She endured fourteen years of suffering, consulted four doctors, found relief within an hour and remains free of symptoms. She urges sufferers to try Anakesis and notes free samples by P Neustaedter Co Box 3946 New York. Sold by all druggists. Price 1.00.
The Voltaic Belt Co of Marshall Michigan advertises sending their celebrated Electro Voltaic Belts to the afflicted with a 30 day sign speedy cure guarantee. They urge readers to write without delay.
In Toronto on March 8, 1850 Hf. R. Stevens Boston endorses Vegetine as a popular blood purifier. He notes its quick public reception and claims customers speak highly of its benefits for sluggish or torpid liver and related troubles.
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