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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1876
Page
7
A compilation of domestic recipes and pestilent farming notes includes starch and zinc glue uses for sealing metals, a cheese pie recipe, and a lemon juice remedy. It also covers washing calicoes, diet generalities, biscuit pudding instructions, and rural irrigation on corn pollen and silk revival after drought.
A correspondent from Connecticut shares an English influenced plan for a front yard under thirty feet square. It favors straight walks, a broad front path, a central lawn, and sparing ornamentation. A circular or oval bed with caladiums or petunias, shrubs along the border, and a climbing vine near the house are proposed. Emphasizes patience and future improvement with practical, affordable planting ideas.
A long excerpt discusses improving gardens and self among farmers, favoring sowing grass and clover on fresh seed beds or among growing crops. It argues partial shade helps, cautions against thick sowing smothering tender plants, and promotes mellow fertile ground, plowing, manuring, and rolling before sowing for best catch. It adds aphorisms on honesty and human nature.
A collage of maxims and anecdotes reflecting moral inhibition, social critique, and personal philosophy. It laments lack of restraint in law, praises self-control, notes the Foolishness of vanity, and contrasts happiness with inner peace. It also contains scattered quotes and humorous asides about politics, gardening, and travel.
An old advertisement extols Dr J M Schenck of Philadelphia and his remedies for lung disease. It claims Mulmonfe Syrup and Mandrake Pills with Sea Weed Tonic cleanse the stomach and aid expectoration, while Sci Tenck’s tonics purport to loosen phlegm and restore health. It urges consultations at Bixtit and Ane Streets and notes wide sale by druggists nationwide.
An item notes Moc of the bea furniture from the famed Holton and Hildreth of Chicago at 225 and 227 State Street. It praises their reliability and competitive pricing. A testimonial claims Simmons Regulator cured liver disease and chills and fever for a man, his wife, and daughter.
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