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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1896
Page
4
Mrs. Jeannette Robinson Murphy of New York, a composer, discusses why Negro songs resonate with audiences. She recalls childhood in the South, learning from a mammy singer, and notes the distinctive cadence and breath control in plantation music that preserves a somber, wavering tone.
A colonel observes recruiting sergeants at a station as a red faced sergeant admits forcing recruitment. The scene shows a country lad resisting and the sergeant claiming forced methods are the only way to obtain volunteers. The piece also notes commentary on divorced couples and a planet Mare's distance.
Fragmentary notice notes self serving remedies and doctors in St. Louis promoting tonics and anti toxin treatments for stomach troubles heartburn and respiratory concerns. It references dubious claims about curing consumption and diphtheria.
An old advertisement page touts cures for deafness and consumption. Claims include canal remedies and nerve restorers, with promises of paid rewards for cures and free treatises. Names referenced include Dr. Cheney Toledo and Dr. Kite. Public notices urge mail orders for medicines and pills.
Profitable poultry and egg production is achievable with attentive care. Green bone meal and greens boost yarded fowls, while penned birds need meat food and greens. European wheat crop trends keep prices low, aiding farmers.
The article lists household poultry remedies for cholera roup and diarrhoea using carbolic acid tincture Jamaica ginger and boracic acid in feed. It also discusses rhubarb cultivation demanding high manuring and nitrogen. recommends well rotted manure or nitrates, noting rhubarb’s low market price despite early harvest profits.
The Western Plowman notes that a ration of one-fourth sheaf cut green improves balance and storage. Wetting with bran in spring yields a feed comparable to silage and aids early gathering.
Practical remedies and home hacks are listed from Odde and Bada. Advice covers removing white spots with heat, nervousness relief for women through diet and baths, starch whitening with borax, vinegar and turpentine tweaks, browning meat with a milk gloss, cleaning jars with carpet tacks, draining a wet ome, swallowing a fish bone to push it down, reducing onion tears with a steel needle, and using a heavy iron for pressing clothes.
Mr H B Watkins of San Francisco a railway postal clerk recalls the Truckee wreck and years of rheumatic agony before Pink Pills for Pale People brought relief. He cites improved sleep and mobility, urges others to try the remedy, and notes physician claims and local pharmacy use.
An old soldier recalls not being at Gettysburg and explains that not all valor lies in major battles. The piece muses on how people overemphasize great battles while acknowledging every combatant faces danger.
A geology excursion near Lincoln Peak ends in a bear encounter. Phil risks his life to save a classmate, striking the grizzly with an ax to kill it, though he sustains chest wounds from the bear’s claws while Blinker calls for retreat.
The Agriculture Department warns seedsmen against selling packets bearing the departments name or implying government distribution. No seeds may be mailed free except by congressional order or direct department mailings. The 1875 act limits franked seeds to those received from the Agriculture Department for distribution.
It is claimed the perfume of flowers disappears when the starch in the petal is exhausted and may be restored by placing the flower in a sugar solution. The formation of starch and fragrance resumes at once. It notes that every thoroughbred can make his own salad dressing.
A temperature of 4 000 to 5 000 de grees can be produced only between the carbon points of an electric arclight. The next hottest place in the world is in the crucible of an electric furnace.
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