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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1886
Page
7
The Chicago Tribune discusses farm guidance on gathering fruit to protect soil, disposing of potato haulms to prevent rot spread, and best crop rest strategies. It then argues for practical horse shoeing, advising on calks length, shoe design, and the need to educate owners drivers and shoers for safe winter and road work.
A historical note on horse management stresses water timing, feeding, and labor limits to prevent digestion and respiratory issues. Guidelines include hay and oats balance, avoid heavy water after meals, and gradual cooling after work. Additional advice covers field water for teams, swine digestion, ensilage, loco weed treatment, and swine disease prevention with a mineral trough.
A reformer notes that dry earth thoroughly absorbs stable odors. The author claims absorbent value rises with clay content and that a few shovelfuls over the floor after cleaning will purify the air. Adding earth to the manure heap also improves heap quality.
A Philadelphia Record note discusses how solitary apple trees thrive more than crowded orchard trees and covers orchard layout, root space, and borer risks. It details peach and pear care, recommending clean cultivation, specific fertilization, pruning, and weed control, plus disease prevention with blue vitriol and careful timing.
A snapshot of German dairy practices describes cows treated like machines, with winter dairying, rich rations, and stable housing. It covers feeding from beet sugar refuse, common use of creameries, temperature-controlled milk handling, butter production and transport to Hamburg and London, and coastal island methods with long chains for grazing.
The passage notes butter sold as soon as made and not washed on the island. Cows yield about 225 to 250 pounds of butter yearly. Butter is drawn from the churn through a fine wire sieve, worked, salted, and set aside to rework the next day. Source: New York State Dairyviews Association report.
Mrs. B. B. Dunville of Suffolk VA shares experiences raising Pekin ducks with cross breeds, egg counts, and losses. A veterinary note by W Vail discusses roup causes, stages, and treatments including copper sulfate pills and tar water as a preventative in poultry care.
A range of home washing directions from a Ladies Journal correspondent. Instructions cover washing woolens and flannels to prevent shrinking, using borax and soft soap, temperature control, rinsing, wringing, and drying. Additional tips include bran for print dresses, milk starch substitutes, and whitening with borax.
A vintage recipe for tomato soup without meat. It calls for a quart of tomatoes, a quart of milk, a cracker, a teaspoonful of soda, a small piece of butter, and salt. Cook tomatoes, add soda and cracker, then butter and salt. Heat milk separately, combine, and serve as soon as it boils.
A traditional method describes preparing a macaroni dish by boiling pasta until soft yet whole, then adding butter and grated cheese, pouring in rich strained tomatoes, and baking until brown. It also covers tomato catsup with peppers, cloves, allspice, and vinegar, plus a veal stew using rice, butter, salt pork, onion, and tomato simmered slowly for an hour and a half before serving.
The article discusses the domestic fly as a hotel and house parasite, noting its need for drink, methods to deter it with closed pitchers, drafts, and darkness, and the belief that light draws it out. It then covers a soap-on-face theory with a physician endorsing daily lathering to keep facial pores open and prevent acne, citing Good Housekeeping guidance.
Rochester New York based Rural Home Co promotes a subscription offer for $1 with a sample 2 cent postage paid card. The deal includes 150 bound dollar volumes such as Law Without Lawyers Boys Useful Pastimes and Popular Histories. References Mayor C K Parsons Rochester.
A Chicago speculator laments the last wheat break ruining his fortunes and contemplates selling the marble palace for cheaper apartments. His wife asks about the move, he agrees, and the plan involves retirement for a few years with the desire to wear No. 5s. The dialogue centers on housing and social circles during hard times.
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for many humors and diseases, including scrofula, Salt rheum, ulcers, and lung consumption, claiming it purifies blood and strengthens the body. The excerpt also includes a dialogue fragment about a wage strike and cost-cutting fashion items.
Recruit 500 canvassers to market the Weekly Wisconsin across 2000 towns in Wisconsin Minnesota and Dakota. Earn from 5 to 100 dollars per territory by spending a small amount of time. Send one dollar for premiums and a circular of instructions. Addresses CRAMER AIKENS CRAMER Milwaukee Wis.
A collage of brief 19th century quips and ads mocks courtship norms. A knight in eight hour days faces family limits while jokes about dreams, rheumatism cures, death jokes, and a parade of patent medicines fill pages. Sellers tout Red Star Cough Cure Piso’s Cure and Hull’s Hair Renewer amid jokes about dandruff and skin complaints.
An old city notice extols the Grand Union Motel opposite Grand Central Depot with cost details and elevator service. It touts rooms, pricing, and accessibility to depots, claiming better living costs than other first-class hotels, while including humorous society gossip and a medical ad for pile tumors and fistulas.
A Georgia court heard a female fortune teller claim she knew cotton would fall two or three points a month ahead, saying she earned about $20 daily from a ring predicting wheat would jump. The contrasting remark about a sure thing ended with her quip that she had a sure thing and would invest if possible.
Health remedy advertises ScOVILLS SARSAPARILLA AND STILLINGIA OF BLOOD AND LIVER SYRUP as a strengthing blood purifier. It claims to cure Scrofula syphilitic disorders kidney weakness erysipelas malaria nervous debility biliary complaints and other diseases signifying impure blood liver kidneys stomach. It alleges to improve indigestion and exhaustiveness impacting brain and nerves.
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