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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1873
Page
4
A collage of witticisms and observations on fashion travel and daily life. Jokes about heads weather school commencements opium licenses and census practices mix with playful quips about London fashion and American social quirks. The piece skewers contemporary foibles with light satire.
An amusing Danbury News excerpt mocks the mosquito, calling it the smallest fowl that navigates air and noting its nocturnal concerts. It playfully contrasts its music with avian devoutness, describing tame behavior and social inertia as listeners join in song and “Cheering” the insects’ “ritfle suckers” with affectionate squeezes.
An article in the Savannah News discusses why Native American names often seem crude or mocking. It explains naming customs, annuity payments, and how youths receive names after the papoose period amid treaty-relations history and land pressures.
A collection of pithy reflections on fame adversity love cheerfulness and human weaknesses attributed to Josh Billings. The quips explore ambition decline virtue humor and social behavior with deliberate misspellings and folksy humor.
The guidance warns against uniform feeding across ages and work levels and condemns cheap or damaged feed. It recommends mixing chaff with corn or beans, using hay or grass as base only with added oats for hard work, and adjusting rations by horse condition. It favors chopped hay, salt water sprinkles, and bruised oats for older horses.
A judge resolves a dispute over a will that leaves seventeen horses to be shared as half to the eldest, one third to the second, and one ninth to the youngest. By adding the judge’s own horse and using clever accounting, the brothers each receive more than their nominal share, and the judge retrieves his horse.
The piece argues nursing requires gentleness, knowledge of drugs, and sympathy, criticizing social bias that pushes unsuitable workers into the field. It praises educated women for nursing roles, notes the dignity of paid skilled care, and cites Hearth and Home praising nurses and wages, urging nursing to be recognized with medicine.
Diet guidelines emphasize portion control and meal pacing with no fluids at meals. Avoid tobacco and stimulants, prefer milk for infants, and favor baked potatoes over boiled. Fruits should be eaten at breakfast and dinner, while late suppers and pastry can harm digestion.
The author doubts an average corn yield in 1873 and warns of a poor 1878 crop due to dry, cloddy fields and late planting. He notes price drops tied to a Chicago conspiracy over hot corn and argues city country tensions rise as farmers sell amid scarce supply.
The author argues that poor ventilation harms health as much as foul air, noting risks from carbonic acid and decaying matter. Fresh air should be a top construction priority, with pure air essential for life and not replaceable by clothing or food. He warns about widespread habit of breathing contaminated air and urges improved ventilation in buildings.
A floral columnist advises readers on keeping oxalis abutilon mala koff mesopotamia and Thompsonil in constant bloom. Tips include warm water pot washing hot soil, pot lifting worm checks, bottom heating beneath a box with holes and careful moisture control. Also mentions excitement at Newstead Abbey after a long period without public disturbances.
A collage of old time home cures and advice including wine quotes, poison identity with beer yeast, removing sash putty with hot iron, cooling substitutes for water, wart and corn remedies with beef and vinegar, stain removal using hartshorn, waterproofing wooden pails with varnish, making furniture polish, healing oil from hen eggs, Chinese fish poisoning method, black walnut stain formulation, and dyspepsia guidance on eating habits and regular meals.
In this digest on soup and flavor for cooks, emphasis is placed on deliberate dining and varied seasonings. It urges using beef, chops, vegetables, and rich soups, warns against overemphasized soup, and recommends careful preparation and cleanliness of stock kettles.
An advertisement touts a threefold agency for selling Wealth and Wonders of the Boundless West with claims of steady profits. Hosletter's Stomach Bitters is described as a top restorative tonic for dyspepsia, bilious disorders, and debility, praised by many citizens and endorsed by royalty in Europe.
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