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Newspaper
Somerville Weekly Critic
Location
Somerville, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1881
Page
4
Farm and Home notes offer kerosene as a parasite killer for mealy bugs but warns it harms plants. it blends with milk to mix with water for safe use. Also outlines duck plume processing, potato storage, butter keeping, colt breaking, and various household recipes with practical tips and anecdotes.
A tale from Apple's Journal recalls a king visiting a mad-house. An intelligent youth debates when sleep and enjoyment occur, turning the monarch toward temperance by offering a paradoxical toast. The king initially drinks but soon renounces alcohol, choosing abstinence.
A fragmentary San Jose Mercury item discusses mensuration and foot size with odd asides about a Roman cubit. It mentions a Po lander in Sater4 Tuolumne, and boots measuring 17 inches long with various arounds. The passage also notes a Bullock county scene and a pack of utensils.
An analysis shows gold’s value relative to silver rising and falling despite varying production. From antiquity to the nineteenth century, silver output surged while its price did not fall. gold often rose in production yet kept or increased value, challenging the idea that precious metal values depend on production. Laraleyc cites Gardin: prices in commerce regulate themselves by gold at the mint.
A Green County man confronts seven wolves in a swamp while guiding sheep. He shoots with a musket and clubs the animals after they attack, killing all seven wolves. He sustains severe injuries including torn clothing, bites, and the loss of part of an ear.
Prof Wiliams explains a swimming lesson focused on balance and buoyancy. He notes the method involves keeping the ribs down and gazing upward while the shoulders are drawn back, enabling floatation and breathing. He emphasizes practice and physical and cerebral training to master treading water and related moves.
A Woodbury New Jersey paper notes Mrs Tos of Louisville Kentucky was cured of rheumatism by St Jacobs Oil as reported in a contingent Sunday Argus account. The item connects Louisville society to medical remedy claims and widens cross state mention.
Misunderstandings arise from informal talk in business matters and each side interpreting the conversation differently. Most disputes end up in law and courts, but four fifths of the country could be saved if people wrote agreements and signed them. Writing fixes ideas and avoids costly lawsuits.
Report of a Palmer clan reunion in Stonington Connecticut with about four hundred registered attendees. Gen Grant, a descendant of Walter Palmer’s daughter, planned to join for part of the day but could not attend due to a bereavement. A special NY train was arranged to fetch him.
A Indiana family moving into Detroit quickly borrowed tea sugar eggs milk and kerosene from several neighbors. They settled with one, then a boy asked to borrow tacks to lay carpet. After losing a tack hammer, more requests followed ending with a desperate tale that the mother had pulled her teeth and needed help moving the carpet through doors, while the husband was missing.
A Long Island woman was stung by a hornet after a fishhawk sighting. The hornet entered her open mouth and stung the root of her tongue and throat, poisoning her system. She remained in danger for days but recovered and will likely keep her mouth shut in the future. Cann scourt recalls Spotted Tail. A government commission once met him at a point he dictated, saying if you have something to say you must come where Sam is. Spotted Tail met President Hayes in autumn 1877 and insisted on sitting and speaking as an equal.
Father reports long kidney complaint and low energy cured by Hop Bitters. He says blood and kidneys restored, regained vigor equal to a 39 year old at age 72 and predicts it may help others. Also notes Sahara desert maps showing fertile districts contrary to flood dreams.
A traditional method combines one and a half pounds of flour six ounces of sugar three ounces of butter one teaspoon each carbonate of soda black pepper cinnamon cloves and Jamaica pepper with one pound treacle and three eggs. If the mixture is dry add sweet milk or buttermilk and let it rest overnight before baking in the morning.
Aboard a boarding house scene a new guest orders beef soup and hen with apples while Madame laments hard times and the absent cooks. The column shift then to medicinal ads praising Hop Bitters and a cautionary mining fortune tale of Johnny Shae’s collapse. It closes with notes on consumption and climate, citing Dr. Goopans’ long railway career.
A historic sap canal across the Maryland and Delaware peninsula, designed to cut water distance from Baltimore to the Atlantic, is set for rapid advancement after securing the necessary eight million dollars.
Ellis and Co of Bailey Springs Alabama announce genuine Rock Spring Water with rates for ten and five gallon anti corrosive cans and nine gallon glass bottles. Water touted as cure for dyspepsia kidney bladder dropsy scrofulous bones or skin and a thirst eliminator. Freight via railroads. Postal request costs one cent.
Indigestion and general debility relief claim a tonic made by Caswell Hazard & Co. New York. The product highlights beef as its sole nutritious basis with purported life-sustaining properties for exhaustion overwork and illness including pulmonary complications.
An old advertisement touts Henry's Carbolic Salve as the best salve for cuts bruises sores and various skin ailments. It claims it cures fevers and cropies and warns that others are counterfeit. Price is 25 cents.
An advertisement extols pM. Green's Oxygenated Bitters as the best remedy for dyspepsia biliousness and digestion and blood diseases. It also promotes Durant's Catarrhal Snuff for nasal and throat membrane ailments and Dr Mott's Liver Pills as a cleansing tonic.
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