The Husbandman and Farm Advice Echoes of Whittier
An 1840s era Germantown Telegraph column blends poetry by G Whittier with farm guidance on sowing corn for short pastures in late summer, cutting grasses at bloom for nutrition, and cautions on experimental methods. It cites English practices, department analysis, and farmer prudence amid a note from Des Moines Register on Baron Leibig and agricultural experimentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heaven
G. Whittier
Germantown
England
Potatoes Raised With Deep Soft Soil Method
An Ohio Country Gentleman correspondent shares a method for raising potatoes. Apply well rotted compost in fall, incorporate thoroughly in spring, and plant seed midway between soil surface and bottom of the furrow. Plant depth promotes root spread, yields large white tubers, and high market value. Seed potatoes are large or medium with strong eyes, cut to single-eye pieces, stored to prevent sprouting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Country Gentleman
New Corn Culture System Widens Rows for Bigger Yields
Montgomery Alabama farmer Mr. Winter experiments with 12 foot wide rows and 12 inch drills on twenty plus acres. He reports drought despite, the crop yielding twice the typical output on rich lands and greater stalk development due to better sun exposure and ventilation. He argues the method uses one fifth of the space yet boosts productive force and urges broader adoption and supervision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. I
Montgomery
Als
What a Menagerie Costs
A catalog of animal prices from elephants to kangaroos, with values per specimen. Elephants range from 10 000 for untrained to 45 000 for performing, lions 2 000 male 1 000 female, tigers 2 500 female less, hyenas 500 to 200, panther 100 to 200, sea lions 100 to 200, seals 300 to 400, polar bear 1 000, bears 100 each, hippo 5 000 to 8 000, giraffe 25 000, camels 300 to 400, sacred cow 700 to 800, zebra 700 to 800, gazelle 1 000, nylghan 3 500, eland 3 000, hartbeest 3 500, oryx 1 000, hama 500, yak 1 000 to 1 500, blesbok 3 000, outlode 600 to 800, kangaroos 500 to 1 000, ostrich 2 000 to 2 500, birds 5 to 100, snakes 200 to 500, monkeys 50 to 200, some large menageries worth 1 000 000, small one from 50 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hindoostan
Hama
Siberia
Tartary
Africa
The perfect strengthening medicine without after effects
The piece praises avoiding stimulants and favors a fruit and vegetable diet. It endorses Yellow Dock, Sarsaparilla, Juniper, Iron, Buchu, Celery and Calisaya as strengthening remedies, and presents Dr. Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla as a superior compound with broad health benefits. It urges readers to ask their druggist to obtain it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guysett
Young Married Couple Parting Scene From Detroit Post
Neighbors witness a playful breakfast table farewell as a newlywed couple jokes about housekeeping and meals. They plan a simple shopping trip, a ready-made store visit, lobster and strawberries, and a long visit from Charley’s mother to enjoy their happy new life. The piece blends light humor with customer notices and distant ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charley
Pet
Elaseu
Beker
Detroit
How a Woman Would Manage the World
A quotation attributed to Mia Jane Gray Swisshelm outlines a harsh, punitive plan for societal control. It advocates wage labor for the able and a plantation workhouse for the unwilling, with execution for felons and a blanket removal of criminals by dangerous means. The speaker mocks the idea that the meek inherit the earth while endorsing severe expedients to purge crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mia, Jane Gray Swisshelm
Advice to Consumptives and Other Health Remedies
A compact ad column promoting Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a superior blood purifier and tonic for consumption and weak lungs, with notices for Favorite Prescription for women and Burdock Blood Bitters for dyspepsia and skin tone. Includes humorous quips and a ledger-like exchange about Vanderbilt. Public notices of health products and a joke segment conclude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guysett
Yektow Dock
Sarwaparilla
Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Wornip’s
Dispensary Morphan Association
Buffalo, N. Y
After Eight Years and Odd Tidbits From a Buffalo Fragment
A garbled column notes G C G Jacobs of Buffalo cured of piles after eight years by Tuomas Eclectric Om. A Sunday school anecdote urges kindness to sisters. Bardock Blood Bitters advertised as a blood purifier. A New York reporter jokes about Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress entry with a door fee.
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G. CG. Jacobs
Folsom Street
Buffalo
Bardock Blood Bitters
New York
Bunyan
Removal Methods Feature In 19th Century Ads And Quips
An 1881 notice by Norra Topena presents Safe Kidney and Liver Cure claims with patient honores and testimonials. It also advertises Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya as a tonic for fever and debility. The page includes a humorous aside about ending a sentence with a preposition and a classroom quip from a Boston school examiner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norra Topena
Ken
H. H. Wanner & Co
Henry Sanders
Calisaya
Caswell, Hazard & Co
New York
All Drugpista
Monkeys Banned in Philadelphia Streets Questioned
Wecline of Wan. Nervous Weakness, Dyspepsia, Impotence, Sexual Debility, cured by Welle? Health Re newer. $1. Druggists. Send for pamphlet toK. 8. Wexars, Jersey City, N. J. 'Twe Aldermen of Philadelphia have forbid den the appearance of monkeys in the streets of that city. In passing each an ordinance, did the Aldermen consider the question of self abnegation.
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Wexars
Jersey City
N. J
Philadelphia
Ana
Buffalo
N. Y
Pur nants Paintess Corn Extractor and other remedies
An assortment of patent medicines and household tips, including Pur nants Paintess Corn Extractor claimed to cure corns without pain, Carboline hair restorer advertised, Brucat’s Dartienr Liven Pints praised for health, and Uncle Sam's Harness Oil for leather care, with other humorous notes on weather and boarding-house stews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Purnant
Putnam
Lord, Stoutenburgh & Co
Chicago
Osage Indians See Attractive Yet Troubling Portraits
A Providence Journal correspondent praises Osages as nearly ideal in appearance with six foot tall men, cocklike shaved heads, red ocher facial streaks, and centaurlike riding. He contrasts this with a jail scene where a drunken Indian is hauled in and clubbed by police. The Breckenridge News notes Arizona male fashion shifts from pistol belts in summer to rifles in winter.
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Providence Journal
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Winter
Iowa
Baron Leibig
Des Moines Register
Young Love
Ofc
Mr. Vanderbilt
Grand Central Depot
Lake Shorestock
Brooklyn
Bridget
Brooklyn Eagle
Warld
David Dale
Nancy
Onipren
Boston
Winchell
Ewena
Uncle Sam
Duke of Albany
Queen Victoria
Texas
Howe
Borden, Selleck & Co
Shakspeare
Spring Tobacco
Bayou
Arizona
Winchester
Breckenridge News
Ard
A. G. Bassett
Rochester
Valentine Bros
Janesville
Wis
The
Great American Tea Co
VESEY
HHS
Lydia E. Pimkham
LHR
Mass
Perry Davis
Burns
Scaids
Magneton Appliance CO
State St
A.reed & Sons’ Organs
Sa Os Ae
Sheridan
Johnson & CO
Bangor
Ming & Share
Flemmin Merriam
LaSalle
Sughet
Mantiner
Spanish Sear
J. Martinez
Mont
Bose
Maas
On.u
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Pbtense
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia & Pinkham
Western Avene
Lynn
Mase
Alan
Lydia K. Pinkham
Maplewood
t sample /ree
Jay Bronson
Mich
New
Harris Iron Bwoxes
Titusville, Pa
Ceca
Aultman
Taylor
Manaii
Boripeman
Paul
Boox Free
Loomis & Nyman
Tiffin, Ohio
U.S
Alexander H. Stephens
Addrens National Publishing Co
Music Conservatory OF Arts
Elocution
E.tourjee
Mall Foe
Jatier Atari
Bon ‘Fo. Beaton
Finmerte Angor
Chicago Weekly News
Ag & Newspaper
United States
Victor F. LA W.son
Fifth Avenue
Italy
Esposizione Musicale IN
Milano
Sotto Il Patrocinie di
S. M. le Regina
Palazzo Dei R. Conservatorio
Milan
Arssaufacture
Y Reed Instrum
Mason & Hamlin
Oan
Jason & Amiin
Saueton
Sopaciht
Adee
Boral Court Ucl
Rom
Fondos
Orb
Mason Amlin
Riecet
Bobton
Hans 16Th Street
Ates
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