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Newspaper
Alton Observer
Location
Alton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1837
Page
4
The article from the American Gardiner's Magazine details rhubarb culture and management. It notes rhubarb as a hardy versatile plant suitable for this climate, propagated by seed or roots, with steps for sowing, division, nursery beds, and laying in a deep rich bed with manure. It advises three year rotation and annual renewal to ensure tender stalks.
A Farmers' Register writer reports the tomato as a healthful garden vegetable, noting its use against indigestion and liver lung diseases. Dried tomato preparations are described for year round use, with praise from Rafinesque and others calling it wholesome and valuable to the vegetable kingdom.
The patent of making beet sugar is discussed with confidence that any farmer’s wife from the Penobscot to the Mississippi can craft sugar from beet roots. The piece praises American ingenuity and urges readers to equip their wives with beets and a boiler to produce sugar fit for any table.
Letters and conversation suggest wheat crops will exceed expectations in frost free regions. May and June showers boosted grain growth and spring wheat in the state looks well. overall yields may be lower than in prior years due to seed shortages last summer.
The eighth ward temperance society of the city claims to be the largest local temperance group in the world with over nine thousand members. It marked its fourth anniversary with a meeting at Rev. Dr. Broadhead's church at Green and Broome streets on the 4th inst, featuring addresses by Rev. Professor Mason of New York University and Rev. Mr. Dufield.
The author argues that nature itself is a universal revelation surpassing verbal scripture in clarity. He contrasts material and verbal revelation, noting nature speaks to all minds with constant facts, while words require translation and face dialects, errors, and cultural limits. The piece insists nature’s lessons endure beyond human confines and social change.
The report cites licensing of 2 937 dram shops in the city and 433 000 in taxes for charity and prisons, noting grain diverted to the poor. Since 1830 population rose 33 000 while dram shops declined 203 and paupers fell 3 509, with hundreds reclaimed from drink and thousands aided by charity. The society claims 9000 pledge signatures and 100 000 temperance documents.
The passage argues that language evolution does not alter material truths, noting that African and Asian tongues, American speech, and natural sounds remain constant. It cites birds, insects, and creatures as examples of unchanging patterns, emphasizing universal regularity in nature and the invariance of revelation across eras.
At a late Pittsburgh Methodist meeting resolutions condemned American slavery as sin and oppression. They urged immediate emancipation, urged members to memorialize church authorities, and called publishing the preamble in Christian Witness and the Philanthropist. Joan Mansuart Sr. chaired. James P. Morus was secretary.
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