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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1886
Page
4
Practical tips on choosing a residence, with Duryee advising a year’s trial in the country. Reports cover the City of Buffalo Mammoth Cheese, saltpetre cation for cutworms, extreme wheat yields, winter dairying advantages, and humane horse care and driving guidance.
An exchange preserves tips on horse care and driving. The piece warns bad handling risks fatally injuring a horse after a few miles and urges keeping a creature fresh by skilled driving and careful journey pacing.
The author argues fattening pigs early is most profitable with October and November feeding costing half the late feed. Soft unripe corn, green corn stalks, and old grain stock improve fattening, milk production, and horse and pig weight gains. soft corn is most digestible and economical.
L D Bullis of Cascadia suspects grass smut on grama rye and heading grasses poisons horses causing stiffness breathing difficulty and weakness. He notes recovery after winds blow smut away and offers a remedy of linseed oil laudanum spirits of nitre adjusted to size of horse.
A Farm Journal correspondent weighs mules against horses for farming work. Mules are described as longer lived, hardier in cold, less prone to disease, and tolerant of rough feed, with steady road sense. Horses are implied more tractable but require more care and specific drivers.
Discussion notes uncertainties in naming milling products used as animal feed as the roller process changes terminology and understanding.
The article explains how the shift to roller milling changes terminology for wheat byproducts. It notes that bran remains a name for the coarse portion, middlings lie between flour and bran, and terms like No. one feed Millstuff and millfeed describe the residue. It also links shipstuff to a Southern usage with a similar meaning.
The text describes M offers a home made tonic using Peruvian bark soaked in diluted alcohol to curb alcohol appetite. The regimen starts with a teaspoonful every three hours, with tongue moistening first days, then gradually reducing doses over five to fifteen days, up to thirty in extreme cases, claimed as infallible by good authority.
A detailed look at professional cleaning methods for fine fabrics. Lace renewal involves pinning around a bottle in soapy water, careful drying, and gum arabic finish. Velvet care remains secret, with steam and cautious handling cited as key steps.
A Household note on refined table manners emphasizes taking time to savor dishes as works of art. It argues meals should not be rushed, allowing gastric juices to function properly and ensuring the dining experience remains deliberate and enjoyable.
The passage urges temperance in eating to rise above base instincts and maintain health and happiness. It links indigest on to bad temper and irritability, warns that haste at meals causes dyspepsia and gloom, and notes worn years can drive apart even loving couples.
Dr. 8. A. Brown reports in the Journal Record that bromine dissolved in olive oil cosmoline or glycerine offers a specific cure for poison oak and poison ivy eruptions. In 40 observed cases, applying 10 to 20 drops of bromine per ounce of oil three to four times daily, renewing the solution every 24 hours, ends the eruption within a day if continued.
The medical editor urges isolation of any sore throat with children present, noting diphtheria may follow a simple quinsy. It emphasizes parents must not delay precaution and should trust physicians' sanitary reasons even amid fear or misinterpretation.
The article credits Henry Wonde with guiding Mary Anderson toward theater, recalls her early training at home, a pivotal night watching Edwin Booth as Richard III, and notes her rise to European acclaim before a New York engagement on October 8 and a subsequent ten month tour.
A Chicago Herald anecdote recalls a engineer's struggle with tobacco. He describes near madness from chewing too long and a deadly wreck that could have harmed many, then notes a brief abstinence and relapse before accepting the habit.
A Cornhill Magazine observer admires the tranquil Dutch crowd at Scheveningen near The Hague. He notes neat beach huts, painted villas, and orderly behavior, contrasting with a lively seaside mood and finding the silence unsettling yet distinctly proper.
Charles R Chandler of Concord New Hampshire has reached his first century and begins a new decade with strong vitality and unimpaired mental faculties. He says he still feels as young as he did 25 years ago.
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