Poultry notes on diseases care and nutrition
The article reviews a common fowl ailment called stone bruise or roup with swelling at the foot, outlines causes from perches to hard surfaces, and details treatment steps from iron tincture to syringed carbolic acid and caustic applications. It covers flock management, housing, cleanliness, and feed recommendations including barley meal and shellfish byproducts for eggs and flesh production.
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Poultry Monthly
I. A. Felelh
Poultry World
Properly season and dip shingles for lasting roof protection
Guidance on treating shingles with petroleum and paint to extend life. Advice covers dipping ends before laying, using a trough and slant board to reduce dripping, and cautions against coating roofs after installation. Costs and sourcing notes include oil at eight cents a barrel and paint three to five cents per pound.
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Pat
Otl Wells
Tartar Breakfast Amid Stony Recesses With Rustic Pottage
The narrator observes Tartars at a stone-built retreat preparing a morning meal. They boil a weed-like pottage from barley and water in a dirty copper vessel, tear raw meat onto the fire, then drink from wooden cups. They finish with suttoo mixed with water and salt, eating noisily and independently from wooden bowls.
Women Who Eat Tea Ends In Court Rumpus
Two Boston servants faced a police court on a charge of causing a disturbance. They denied drunkenness, saying tea caused their behavior and that they only ate it. The judge noted tea cannot intoxicate, while the pair admitted chewing tea leaves from the caddy.
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Boston
Dexterous Bangkok Dancers Show Astonishing Flexibility
The Bangkok dancing girls train in a royal gymnasium described in a Zigzag volume Journeys in the Antipodes. Young girls ages five to twenty bend, balance and pick straw with their eyelids, perform cup dances, and execute precise, rapid movements while preserving a cup on their heads.
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Bangkok
Royal Gymnasium
Antipodes
England's Expensive Chapels Royal Under Scrutiny
The chapels royal in England are costly public luxuries with a large staff and annual expense of 350,000. Lord Sydney urges the Queen to reform the civil list as congregations are small and services scarce, noting royal chapels at Buckingham Palace Windsor Hampton Court and Kensington remain funded though inactive.
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England
Lord Sydney
London
Chapels Royal
Buckingham Palace
Windsor Castle
Hampton Court
Kensington Palace
W York Gi Apleec
Cigars a Recent Addition in World Tastes
The article traces the origin of cigars to Cuba or the West Indies and notes their late introduction to Europe and the United States. It highlights global production, mentioning Seville and Hamburg and cites Manila as home to large factories employing thousands of workers.
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Cuba
Inecia Islands
Europe
Sremen
Hamburg
Seville
Spain
Manilla
Phlippine Islands
Doctors and Dentists in Ancient Egypt
The article notes advanced medical practice in ancient Egypt with specialized physicians and skilled dentists who used gold to treat cavities. Doctors could be punished for untested methods, while government-funded professors also earned fees for extra services. Post-mortems aided disease understanding though magic and charms persisted.
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Egypt
San Francisco Chronicle
New Digestive Aid Diamond Vera-Cura Promoted by Vogeler Co
The Charles A Vogeler Co Baltimore proprietors of St Dakots Oil introduce Diamond Vera Cura a remedy for Indigestion sour stomach heartburn and related stomach troubles. It can be mailed for 25 cents with boxes at 1. Sample offered for two cents stamp. Endorsed by Candrede users noting lasting benefits.
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Charles A. Vogeler Co
Baltimore
St. Dacots Oil
Drucgist
Sampie
Candrede
Nevada Statehood Timeline Abridged
Nevada covers 109740 square miles and was settled at Washoe in 1860. It gained admission to the United States on October 31, 1864.
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Nevada
Washoe
Clergyman Cures Catarrh with Secret Recipe
A clergyman long plagued by catarrh, after failed remedies, found a prescription that cured him and saved his life. Send a self addressed stamped envelope to Prof. J. A. Lawrence in New York for the free recipe.
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J. A. Lawrence
N. Y
Michigan Landmark Facts Prompt
Michigan covers 57 450 square miles and was settled in 1670 at Detroit. It joined the Union on January 26, 1857.
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Michigan
Detroit
Positive remedy claims for a disease cure in letters to editor
A reader advertises a cure for a disease called Friteptic Fits offering a free sample bottle and treatise to recipients with a P O and express address. The page also lists states Missouri and Iowa with settlement and admission dates and promotes Dr Isaac Thomson's Eye-Water for sore eyes at 25 cents per bottle.
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Respy
H.G. Root
M. C
Pearl St
New York
Isaac Thompson
Card of Thanks Promoting Kemp's Balsam Samples
Card of Thanks suggests publishing thanks for Kemp's Balsam healing throat and lung issues. Advises readers to visit a druggist for a free sample bottle to test its power. Mentions large bottles priced at Ge and $1.
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Kemp's Balsam Shoun
Lim
Animal Hospitals in London and Paris Provide Care
Humane institutions in London and Paris treat all sorts of animals with medical and surgical attention, offering care across species in urban centers.
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Hospitals For
London
Paris
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