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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1886
Page
7
The article discusses using apple pomace as a soil amendment, methods to improve manure quality with corn fodder, and the efficiency of older potato varieties versus new seedlings. It covers potato disease resistance, American Rose lineage, and advice on dairy farming, hay, pig feeding, and general farm management with notes from New York Tribune correspondence.
The article argues calves should learn diverse foods early to boost health and appetite in cattle and warns against overfeeding horses, noting how hay quality affects intake. It also critiques pig feeding, advocating less corn in the first six months to prevent cholera and emphasize building bone and muscle over fat.
The Forester reviews hardy fast growing trees suited to pasture shade. Basswood and sycamore are prized for dense summer shade and hardiness, while silver poplar provides rapid growth but sprouts from roots. Cottonwood offers modest shade and ornamental value. maples and elms may yield better shade but take longer to establish. Planting from seed or cuttings accelerates shelter from heat.
Poultry notes advise ample milk for chicks and use of plaster of Paris to control odors. Nest care, clean bedding, and straw over hay improve hatch rates, with tobacco straw to curb insects. Rice cited as promising for young chicks, and building size tied to flock numbers with division and darkened nests to prevent eye-eating.
Poultry World notes that fowl critics may object yet certain birds prove useful on isolated farms as scarecrow guardians against chicken enemies. Ducks lay one egg nightly in cycles, though not all eggs are hatched. they should be fed well and watered regularly during the laying period.
A vintage home remedy column recommends glycerine for mosquito bites to ease irritation and swelling. It also advises abstaining from tea coffee tobacco and acids, daily sponging baths, brisk towel drying, and consuming oatmeal porridge with milk. For sour stomach change diet to milk and lime water ثم adjust lime water quantity.
A guide explains two fruit preserving methods using brandy or vinegar syrup without heat. Details cover fruit prep, sugar ratios, daily stirring, jars, and storage for eight months. It also outlines general canning steps, jar preparation, air expulsion, sealing, cooling, and a time–sugar table for different fruits.
An assortment of practical kitchen tips and recipes using leftovers. Beef mince over pasta with tomato sauce, tomato soup from tomatoes, tongue sauté with eggs, lemon water ice, orange water ice, Swiss roll with jam, pot roast of beef with gravy, and a note on the boomerang’s enduring force.
The America's Cancer Institute at Aurors Hl presided by Dr F L Pond touts remarkable cancer cures. Mia D Ta Shaw of Dakota describes a four year scirrhus cancer treated by Pond with a five pound tumor removal and rapid improvement. Testimonies and letters describe hundreds of similar recoveries. free circulars with details are offered.
Mrs Simpkins accuses her husband of withholding letter from Cousin June. He feigns shock then secretly retrieves a crumpled letter from his pocket, pays a boy to post it, and walks away relieved, in a Petalburg Dispatch style vignette.
A Chicago man told physicians he must die two years ago. After taking Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery he recovered and now lives. He escaped a freight-car hiding place and asked a policeman if it was safe to reach a hotel before slipping away. The piece ends noting Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy as a trusted 50 cent treatment with numerous testimonials.
A fat passenger boasts of a breakfast table trick to win a weekly allowance from his wife by flipping a coin and turning the edge to up. The anecdote ends with the wife returning to the kitchen in humiliation as the scam succeeds. The piece also touts St Jacobs Oil and Red Star Cough Cure with brief testimonials.
A collection of quoted vignettes and notices including a witty remark about cold feet at a dinner, a humorous hospital jab at bathwater, a health advertisement for Ayers, and a royal bride gift report. It also notes Princess Jouriewesky leaving Paris for Switzerland with her children and a lengthy toothpaste of nostrums for health and vitality with dubious claims.
Berlin papers report Friedrich Siemens of Dresden has developed cast glass rivaling cast metal in hardness and transparency. The material, produced by rapid cooling, could withstand atmospheric effects and may be tested for railway rails at the Siemens Glass Foundry in Dresden. The Grand Union Hotel advertises 613 rooms, with high-end amenities and economical family stays near Grand Central Depot.
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce's favorite Prescription as the best remedy for female frailty and weakness. It touts a reduced price of one dollar and urges women to try the tonic as a restorative. The odd quotation from Hamlet frames the product as a solution to bodily frailty.
A stern traveler asks about a son’s habits and learns the child is only two months old. A newspaper ad touts Dr Williams Hall’s Balsam as a remedy for lung diseases, claiming it cures consumption and pleuritic complaints through Dr Robi Newton’s endorsement.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt covers a lawyer challenging a witness about a friendship with Jones. The exchange questions reliability and the reality of backing a bank note, highlighting trust, years of acquaintance, and observed fairness.
In a Philadelphia Call anecdote, Isaac insists he never failed despite creditors compromising for cents on the dollar and a mistaken question from Mr Meyerbeer about a word. He recalls being briefly embarrassed but maintains his financial history.
A compact ad style snippet touts Dr Isaac Thompson’s Rye Water for sore eyes with druggists selling it at 25 cents. The entry includes repeated mentions and a humorous aside about lumber prices and political platforms from a Pillsbury Chronicle clip.
An engraved crayon portrait of President Cleveland and his bride is offered exclusively to Weekly Wisconsin subscribers. The 1x24 inch piece matches earlier Garfield and Grant portraits in style, not for sale, postpaid for $1 with a new or renewed subscription. Postmasters can display a sample upon request.
An Estelline student arrived half an hour late after claiming he was at a horse race down at the track. The teacher admonished him, noting the race could have been mentioned to secure an excused dismissal, and promised stricter standards to improve the scholars’ minds. He warns the boy to communicate next time.
A Nashville Journal joke depicts a jocose farmer asking his wife why his deceased grandmother resembles a threshing machine. The punchline: because she is dead and you cannot move with a threshing machine, led by Mrs Pikrust in a lively conundrum exchange.
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