Domestic recipes and home life notes from Good Housekeeping
A collection of household tips and recipes including Graham Breakfast Cake and a Washington church fair recipe by Mrs. Frances Folsom Cleveland. Patent grants to women in 1887 are listed. Practical advice covers canker cures, using chicken skimming fat for shortening, and oatmeal baby feeding. The section also reflects on women adopting masculine dress and the joys of owning a home, with letters from readers about settling in and paying taxes.
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Frances Folsom Cleveland
United States
Washington
Katie W. Eubank
Rutherford
Cal
Clementina J. M. Hayna
Louis
Furnace
Mary Jory
Salem
Amelia H. Lindsay
Pittsburg
Nannie M. Showman
Newark
Mary 8. Snow
Sacramento
New Yorker
Wiothers and the Schools
A call for parental involvement urging mothers to inspect classrooms and surroundings without waiting for a ballot. The piece argues inspections would reveal damp, ventilated conditions and foster sympathy between parents and teachers, reducing early friction that harms children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiothers
Arran
Home of Our Own in a Frugal Dream Realized
A landowner writes from a life of thrift about building a house with own roof and land. He notes seven years since marriage and the wife Shavé sharing the hope of this day as they save and scrimp to achieve a home of their own.
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Bowed
Xen
America
Good Breeding and Ill-Breeding Subtlety in Speech
The piece discusses good breeding as a subtle unseen force best measured by tone and word choice. It contrasts ill-breeding as a discernible absence of refinement and notes harmony and discord arise from nuanced inflection rather than explicit meaning.
Farming Tips and Agricultural Notes From Early Journal
Practical farming guidance on sow feeding and forage, cloth making for wagon coverings, and field experiments including corn hill counts per acre. Reports note a large apple orchard in Leavenworth County Kansas, with 427 acres and 50 000 trees of several varieties, plus last year’s 40 000 bushel potato crop impact from drought. The tone is practical and regional, reflecting daily farm concerns and crop yields.
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United States
Fairmount
Leavenworth County
Kansas
Ben Davis
Pepe Penerens
Saving of Fodder Through Severe Drought
A rural editor urges practical winter stock care during the drought. The piece emphasizes frugality endurance and prompt planning to preserve fodder and sustain farm livestock through hard months. It calls for prudent measures and thoughtful action in crisis.
Stock Feeding Wisdom For Hard Times In The Farm
The article urges farmers to store fodder and reduce waste to survive shortages. It recommends preserving hay, corn fodder, straw, and grain, feeding surplus stock before prices rise, and building a year round fodder supply to avoid costly borrowing during scarcity. It stresses cautious handling and prudent use of bran mixed feeds.
Shelter the Cattle and Build Stock Barns Now
The piece urges ample shelter and ventilation for cattle, arguing a sturdy barn and wind breaks save more than grain in winter costs. It advocates keeping stock from chilling, clean stables, and green or root foods as essential for health and profits.
Proper bedding for hogs to prevent illness and injury
A historical note explains that dry warm housing with modest straw prevents rheumatism and lung or bowels inflammation in hogs. Overly wet or dirty bedding causes filth and udder sores in sows, harming piglets. suggests tar treatment once a sore forms to deter nursing pigs and aid healing.
Dehorning Calves Described as Humane Practice
A Live Stockman argues dehorning calves in infancy is less painful than lamb tail docking, since embryonic horns lack nerves. The process uses a knife to lift the embryonic horn under skin, skin is replaced, and a dressing seals the wound. The practice prevents horned injuries among herd mates and protects owners.
Greatness of London and Its Vast Population
A fragment reflecting on London’s population and scale, comparing it to Iowa and Illinois. It notes London’s population, street length, number of pubs, and massive consumption of food and drink, then remarks on charity, pious work, and the city’s moral contrasts.
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London
Personal Items and Anecdotes From Our Era
A collage of short notes mentions Vice-President Wheeler of Jothia Life Insurance in Hartford enjoying a tropical plant. John Gruddy of Philadelphia rising from marble cutter to alderman, then a drunk rag picker. his wife becoming blind and poor. General William Raymond Lee at 80, a West Point graduate and Civil War hero. Alfred Fairbanks loses his bride after a warning from her mother about pipes. W R Hearst aims to boost Examiner circulation to 50 000 in six months. Private William J. Shepherd of the Twenty-ninth Pennsylvania gains pension and back pay after a 23 year fight totaling over 10 000. Clarence Lamb and Louise Bodimer wed at Hast Aurora fair with festive support and odd wedding provisions including fertilizer and a small gale.
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Wheeler
Jothia Life Insurance Company
Hartford
Conn
John Gruddy
Philadelphia
William Raymond Lee
West Roxbury
Mass
Lee
Bay State
West Point
Alfred Fairbanks
W. R. Hearst
California
San Francisco Examiner
William J. Shepherd
Twenty
Pennsylvania Volunteers
Washington
Clarence Lamb
Louise Bodimer
Aurora
New York
Louise
Oldest Prussian veteran grants a royal favor
An 106 year old veteran meets King Frederick William IV at Wesel and requests only to be allowed to smoke his pipe along the ramparts. The king grants the wish, noting the veteran’s simple request and contentment with his life.
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American Register
Paris
Diogenes
Frederick William IV
Prussia
Rhine
Wesel
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Avery
Jackardevn
Minois
Iowa
Scott County
Shore
Illinois
Rome
Dublin
Judea
San Francisco
Britain
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