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Newspaper
Troy Herald
Location
Troy, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1873
Page
7
A quirky, OCR noisy page mixes kitchen directions for cakes jams jellies and pickles with a strange pest control invention. It includes household tips on bottle jelly onions and minty things, plus a dubious claim about a patentable mosquito catching device using a broomstick and kerosene. The tone mirrors an old local column of miscellaneous advice and curiosities.
Reports from Hospital La Pitie describe Lassize's trials using warm baths for chest diseases. Temperatures kept three degrees below patient, baths 20 to 45 minutes every other day, improving cough, expectoration, sleep, and night sweats. Among thirteen patients, two with pneumonia and two with pleurisy showed no adverse effects, with overall noted benefits in many cases.
A writer laments patents against agricultural implements noting a 19th century device to prevent cows from switching tails. The piece recounts two devices a neck-tie spur and a central-holed block, tied to tails to stop movement, paralleled with Don Quixote and Sancho’s hay-loft episode.
Farmers know rotten posts rot quickly in damp soils. A French method suggests boiling a mix of pitch and charcoal dust, painted on dried posts before planting. One report claims wood treated this way lasts longer, with anecdotal notes from Boston laborers and a claimed cost near thirty dollars per worker.
An advertising 19th century pitch extols Walker’s Vinegar Bitters as a purely vegetable remedy from native borba in the Sierra Nevada. It claims to purify blood, invigorate the system, treat fevers, dyspepsia, liver and stomach issues, skin diseases, worms, rheumatism, and female complaints, with numerous U.S. river basins named as areas of fever prevalence and wide medical acclaim.
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