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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1885
Page
3
A旧 mix of rural tips covers butter packaging cleanliness, brining, and storage. It notes bee disease in the West, packing apples, lime in cellars, potato and fruit drying, pasture management, pruning, mulch after frost, proper poultry care, and the value of a home workshop for farm repairs.
A guide for busy women to renew worn garments through careful cleansing dyeing and steaming. It covers brushing dampening pressing and spot removal with turpentine pipe clay ammonia and a special woolen cleaning fluid, plus techniques for silk velvet lace and nap restoration.
An old method tests leather for belting by placing a cut piece in vinegar. True tannin leather remains darkened only slightly over months. poorly impregnated fibers swell and gelatinize. Also noted is an alum cave discovery in Elks county Nevada where explorers found a large crystallized alum chamber lit by candlelight.
Poetic verse describes a child drifting toward sleep in a dreamlike realm called Slumber-land. Imagery of waters, motherly guidance, and rosy-cheeked dreams paints a gentle transition from wakefulness to rest. The piece ends with the line a kiss on the rosy face and Adelande Samsor credited.
A collection of quips and verses from various papers. The humor spans fashioning puns about postage stamps licked and cushions in games to royal households and gloves. It mixes light verse with satirical lines and a brief cartoonish note on snow and poets.
A judge's garden near New Orleans uses twenty four flowering plants to mark each hour. A clock made of blooms shows 4 o'clock as the hour the plants indicate. The tale blends a fairyland garden with an instructional timepiece using various flowers and times.
The article notes that liquor tea and coffee slow digestion while most stimulate neural and muscular activity. Distilled spirits retard digestion slightly. wines may retard salivary and peptic digestion but aid glandular activity. Effervescent wines offer the most digestive benefit with minimal harm. A dyspeptic case is cited, and Warner's Tippecanoe is praised as an appetite regulator. Tea in any amount paralyzes salivary action. strong tea is injurious. weak tea preferred. Coffee is injurious in excess.
Ben Perley Poore recalls two Grant era incidents. In the first, General Grant invited several Republican Senators to dine, but forgot Judge Taft, leaving him out and depriving many guests of meeting him. In the second, Grant’s son invited Senators to a conference. a mistaken guest, Senator Ell Saulsbury, a Democrat from Delaware, dampened the discussion and left before cigars.
A New York World excerpt describes a morning scene where a housewife pours hot water on the sidewalk to clean it. The ice forms as it cools, creating a slick slide for children while an elderly man, going about his day, curses the spectacle and mutters about a woman’s ways. The piece juxtaposes domestic action with harsh reaction.
A cautionary tale from Puck recounts a boy striking a dog with a heated poker to curl its tail, causing injury and fear. The episode ends with the father needing to buy new clothes a month later. The moral warns that bright ideas are dangerous in reckless hands and urges muzzle discipline before toying with animals.
A dialogue from the Boston Courier features a flirtatious exchange over music preferences. One character loves grand old hymns while the other enjoys secular piano and flute tones, ending with a note of mutual fondness for a certain hymn as the scene ends with a curtain fall.
A traveling man from Chicago asks Will Shields if he believes in ghosts. Willie affirms belief and claims to have seen one. He then offers to show it, producing a pocketbook so thin light shines through, illustrating the eerie claim.
A humorous exchange notes a minister and his wife reading a morning paper. The wife recalls being called a distant clergyman and jokes about whether a sermon was published in full. The dialogue references a patent medicine testimonial and a quack. The Mississippi Valley is cited with a large square mileage.
Artemus Ward while traveling as advance agent for Ossian R. Lorge visited Urbana Ohio to arrange advertising. He joked with editor Joshua Saxton about a boy of good moral character and asked to have him stick up Ward’s bills, revealing Ward’s sly humor. The text also advertises Hostetter’s Almanac, noting its wide availability and promise of health guidance and light reading.
Essay extols country boys as builders of energy, resolve, and success in politics, law, science, and faith. It argues farm life forges character, thrift, and courage, contrasting with city youth. Includes a testimonial about Red Star Cough Cure and St Jacobs Oil.
A widow learns a neighbor’s wife who borrows often tries to repay with three boiled eggs in a bag. The curious exchange ends with a humorous note on egg value and a mischievous collection of odd household items.
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