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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1880
Page
4
The Agricultural Department and Professor J F Elsom invite farmers and others to use the wintering, housing, field care, and livestock support services. No charge for answers unless expenses arise. readers are urged to write or call the Agricultural Editor Ledger, Warren Pa.
The article explains bread making from wheat flour and yeast, detailing vinous fermentation, gas vesicles, gluten role, and alum use. It compares bread textures, notes moisture uptake, and mentions potatoes in dough, plus a lab test of a sample loaf. It also extols fresh fish markets, summer fruit, and beverages like cold tea and lemonade as summer health tips.
A historical advisory notes that drinking large amounts of ice water weakens digestion and won’t quench thirst as well as fresh spring or river water. It also condemns cooking with butter, claiming it destroys vegetables’ delicate flavor and is an abomination.
A letter from Dr. Fenner's ads extols Blood and Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic as curative for skin eruptions, swelling limbs, coughs, biliousness, and chronic ailments. Sample bottles offered. several related products promise rapid relief from pain and nerves. The piece also criticizes civil law and lynching, arguing for reform and acknowledging historical Denmark's remedy.
An 1880 advertisement describes Dr Swayne s All Stealing Ointment as a pleasant sure cure for itching piles moisture nightly irritation and rectal crawlers. It promotes other skin eruptions and offers three boxes for 1 25 mailed to any address with 60 or three cent stamps. Also contains a political note about Republican factions and Daniel R Goodloe praising Lincoln era journalism.
A long advertisement extols London Hair Color Restorer as a non sticky formula that thickens hair, restores gray, cures dandruff, and promotes regrowth without staining. Sold by druggists at 75 cents a bottle, six for one dollar, with supplier details in Philadelphia. Other content includes local notices and miscellaneous items.
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