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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1886
Page
3
A 84 year old reader from Wer ren County Illinois shares long tested home remedies for farm and garden use. He praises tobacco preparations for livestock and poultry health, grape protection with sulfur and lime, grafting basics, and simple plant propagation methods.
Henry Stewart notes that poultry manure benefits corn cabbage and garden crops by rapid uptake and green growth. He compares nutrient content of manure, bone meal, plaster, and other sources, explaining availability and disproportionate effects from different mixes.
Waldo P Brown reports twenty five years of turnip farming with yields from 100 to 1500 bushels per acre and occasional sales highs. He notes turnips can out-earn most crops, cites a 400 bushel sale at 1 3 cents per bushel, and discusses drought resilience, tillage, and crop care. He also offers farming tips on cabbage planting, squash, beekeeping, and pest control including a soap carbolic spray.
The Society Islands lie in the South Pacific between sixteen and eighteen degrees south and 148 to 155 west. They comprise thirteen islands with Tahiti as the largest, about 120 square miles, and a total area near 5 square miles for the group. Population around two hundred thousand. Most islands are under French rule. agriculture is backward. exports include coconuts, oil, oranges, lime juice, arrowroot, and shells. Tahiti visited by Spaniards in 1606 and by Captain Cook in 1769 who named the group. Missionaries arrived in 1797, with Christianity spreading after 1845. religion now generally tolerates both Romish and Protestant factions. Native king exists as a French vassal with tensions between missions subsiding.
A quirky portrait lists a fish vender as selfish, a stove dealer as mettled, and a conning man as clever at taking people in. It describes a hard laboring lawyer, a perpetual grinder grave digger, a miller, and a well bred baker within a playful social taxonomy.
A column of practical tips and recipes for domestic tasks and cooking. It includes floor cleaning with petroleum water, peach custard, Graham puffs and other batter ideas, lamp wick care, bran water for matting, lemon jelly cake and beefsteak cooking methods, a fruit layer cake recipe, and notes on blueing use and ammonia for washing.
The article lists folk health tips including a lime antidote for poison and sugar water to neutralize lime in eyes, nail biting linked to superstition, and foot care with warm salt water baths. It notes cautions about eye injury and advocates thorough cleaning and drying, plus neuralgia relief through daily foot soaking and rubbing.
Andrew Low of Savannah died abroad leaving three or four million to heirs and smaller sums to favored charities. He and partner Green built wealth by shipping cotton to Liverpool through blockade running. They kept distant offices and were jailed after the war for their illicit trade.
A collection of brief notes on engineering feats and natural phenomena. It includes M Estrada building a forty ton locomotive aiming for seventy eight miles per hour with eight foot driving wheels, a survey of tornado directions and times, wood elasticity rankings by region, a speculative solar system theory, friction and lubrication debates, hair growth myths, a long storm track from Pacific to Atlantic, a curious landslide event in Dubois Washington County, and a sinking channel revealing a large earth formation.
Eyewitness account by E. Livingston of the 75th New York Volunteers describes finding General William Barksdale after July 2 at Gettysburg. Livingston details medical aid, a heavy injury, and Barksdale’s final messages to his wife and children, plus the recovery and delivery of his watch and belongings.
M. von Keller & Co., successors to Keller & Ruhl, at the old Cloth House corner Annan William Sts New York City, expand a costly business by supplying complete seasonal style samples to merchants nationwide. They notify customers when styles sell out so tailors can offer accurate options without maintaining large stocks. Free sample sets are available to merchant sailors upon request.
A reminiscence describes the early Washington hotel scene after Congress began meeting here. The Indian Queen Hotel, on the site of the later Metropolitan, stood out for its host Jesse Brown who greeted guests curbside and presided at meals with a theatrical carving display and personalized service.
Indigestion constipation and biliousness dull the brain and cloud judgment. Hostetter's Stomach Hitters is praised as a peeress alterative that cheers refreshes and invigorates the brain and nerves while regulating digestion and bilious secretion. It expels morbid humors and exerts a mild progressive cathartic action without irritation. It is touted as an appetizer and aid to aging infirmities and female ailments, building up a healthier physique.
The United States Navy Department tested an echo fog-signal at Fort Carroll using a Darrel breech-loading rifle with a speaking trumpet. The rifle produced distinct echoes from the fort and passing vessels, with two echoes when a boat stood between tug and fort, and a distant steamer yielding an echo as well. The plan aims to aid fogbound navigation near ships and icebergs.
A London lapidary explains how he makes imitation stones by splitting pale stones and recoloring to intensify hues. The piece mentions St Jacobs Oil, Avignon pendulum, Dr Cox Red Clover Cough Cure, California fruit tree counts, and Lyon's Metalic Stiffeners with brief notes on Piso's Remedy for Catarrh.
A fragmented page exposes several patent medicine pitches and cures for scalp dandruff fever ague and general ailments. Mentions pane ae Renewet cures, Cod Liver Oil claims, Kilmer’s Preparations specifics, Castwell Hazard products, and stillingia blood purifiers with broad health claims. The text mixes promotional language and cross-examination dialogue style excerpts.
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