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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1885
Page
3
In a garden note Cultaye Leath explains how a double flowering abutilon was pruned to foster multiple shoots, turning a single stem into eight by encouraging branching, with guidance on cutting back fuchsias and geraniums to promote a stalky, bushy growth and using cuttings for rerouting growth.
The Miller notes successful Pennsylvania and Maryland growers favor seed from fields with strong straw over full berries. D. M. Good of Washington County Maryland found shriveled grain from a plump seed sown from a heavy lodging field. The theory: straw strength predicts future yield. farmers seek seed from exceptionally heavy fields, a practice echoed by New England rye seed buyers. Short straw means lighter heads and yields even if kernels are plump.
Practical agriculture and food notes cover fodder, ensilage, beekeeping quieting, and stock shelter for winter. It cites a US wheat deficit and advises on rennet use for milk, barley and beans aftercare, and barley as hog feed. A lengthy profile of James Wormley describes his beef tea method for Garfield and Sumner, his hotel wealth, terrapin cooking, and influence on diet and diplomacy.
A reader notes that trying to push the last acre with extra inputs yields poor returns. They suggest skipping overfeeding winter wheat and using the interim period for underdraining and manuring. Then sow spring grain now for higher profit and, if desired, plant wheat next year with better prospects.
A collection of practical tips and recipes. Crackers and temperance cake show basic baking with simple ingredients. Linens get whitened with borax and ants kept from cupboards with fur under feet. Glycerine treats delicate fabrics and milk stains. Home remedies cover husk bedding and care notes.
The article extols bamboo’s versatility and usefulness for fencing houses furniture vessels fuel and food in various climates. It notes bamboo thrives from near the equator to latitudes up to 30 or 40 degrees and cites successful naturalization in Nice France as evidence that latitude and winter severity are not prohibitive for acclimatization. It also discusses bamboo’s ornamental value and the need to test its acclimatization across California.
A reporter visits a third floor room on South Street where a man nicknamed Professor marks women with India ink designs. He claims over 1,000 women tattooed, notes religious and patriotic motifs, names for identity after death, and high prices from 50 cents to 3 dollars for designs.
A collage of humorous quotes from various papers recounts witticisms about wages, schooling, domestic life, and social mores. Light jabs on philosophy, marriage, canning Pompeii, and rural outlooks appear, ending with a farmer’s amused reply about the country’s prospects.
A newly discovered and authenticated Burns poem titled Youth appears in the Dramatic Review of London. It contrasts morning light with advancing storms, linking youth to fleeting beauty and the onset of care, sorrow, and mortality.
A Rochester physician outlines cocaine’s dangers as a new anesthetic used for hay fever. The piece describes insomnia, intense cravings, weighty hallucinations, moral decline, and social deterioration as users become cocaine slaves.
Temperance supporters note a new medicine found by Dr. Burroughs in the Therapeutic Gazette that may substitute nitro glycerine for brandy in many diseases. Two drops of a one per cent solution equal an ounce of brandy and act immediately without causing cravings. It is cited as valuable in shock from accidents, post operative faintness, heart failure from chloroform, opium poisoning, asthma, and fever collapse.
Edward Hanlan a renowned oarsman and former world champion praises St Jacobs Oil for muscular pains in arms and limbs. He credits the product with beneficial results and personal experience endorses its reliability to readers.
The article notes Mexico’s congress as a stable institution with a Senate of about sixty and a House of Deputies around two hundred twenty, meeting in historic venues. It highlights their cultured, dignified, non subservient demeanor and professional composition unlike common stereotypes.
Visitors to New York are urged to save baggage and expressage with carriage prices starting at one dollar per day. The Grand Union Hotel opposite Grated Craisal lepot promises elegant rooms and improved service, aiming to attract riders and travelers with affordable European style dining and transportation options.
Commentators of standing claim Cleopatra may be imagined and that the historic Cleopatra did not exist, while noting women named Cleopatra. The text then extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a fast acting liver remedy, claiming it cures disorders from impure blood to bronchitis. It mentions two tons of gold valued at 1,400,000 lost yearly to commerce and wear.
A colonial-era collage of ad copy touts Dr Herve for female nervous weakness and debility plus Huxleyan physique ideals. It promotes Ely creams for catarrh relief, Livs Cream Basin cures, and an ammonia beef tonic for general debility. Also notes Reeson’s Aromatic Alum Soap for skin care and Dreydoppel ads. Concrete addresses include Buffalo NY and Boston MA.
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