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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1887
Page
4
The article discusses roast beef preparation with old England sensibilities, detailing rib roast selection, rolling, tying, and oven technique. It contrasts genuine roast with counterfeit methods, offers gravy tips, and notes the shift toward braise options. It also critiques domestic labor standards, praising competence and condemning sloppiness, tying merit to pay.
The guide stresses three essentials for fruit storage. First, fruit must be fresh with no decay. Second, jars or cans must be airtight, using proper sealing with wax or putty, while cans with rubber rings may fail. Third, store in a dry cool dark place, using insulation like sand or sawdust and avoiding light or heat exposure.
A columnist argues the term servant is inappropriate for domestic workers in a republic. They note many well born women work as housekeepers and compare them to store clerks, urging fair treatment and avoiding broad labeling of all working girls as servants. The piece condemns snobbery and stresses distinctions between refined workers and coarse laborers.
The Lancet notes the death of tenor Mr Mass and warns of the danger of sleeping in damp beds. It advises airing sheets over a fire, then sleeping between blankets if heating is insufficient, since moist sheets fail to retain heat and can cause severe harm overnight.
An onion odor in breath is cured by strong coffee while preparing the meal and cooking onions. An indigestion from nuts is relieved and cured by salt with nuts, especially at night, per medical men. A carpet moth cure uses turpentine mixed with water to wash and disinfect carpets, renewing as the water soils.
Colonel Chadwick recounts General Grant chasing a gray horse that pulled a meat wagon through Washington streets. Webster confirms the chase and a $5,000 price to secure the animal, bought for $350. Grant kept the horse for ten years, cherishing it until its death on his Missouri farm.
A historical remark describes the rise of bidders in auctions, noting two main methods: bluff bids to frighten competitors and persistent small bids to tire them out. Anecdotes include a bluff that bought a $5,000 property for $3,700 and a dealer who paid others to stay away, illustrating the darker tricks used to secure bargains.
An Algerian lion slayer who killed over two hundred lions receives the Legion of Honor. Government payment per lion is 100 francs. The Mandrake Bitters proprietors boast a motto and offer a large bottle at 25 cents with a satisfaction guaranteed refund. B. F. Morris. Come to the Mai office for all grades of job printing at low prices.
The notes cover crop cultivation for blackberries and trees, soil amendments, and cheap insect killers. Highlights include Mars fertilizer for blackberry bushes, loam as a substitute, ground cleanliness, and potash-water mixtures. It also covers hog feeding, cattle, mules, milk fever theory, water cress, buttermilk for pigs, ensilage for hogs, and tobacco, with various regional observations and practical advice.
An advertisment urges that a cough left untreated worsens and promotes Kemp's Balsam as a guaranteed cure. It notes prices 50 cents and one dollar with a free trial size and is signed by L G Noyes, a local druggist.
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