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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1875
Page
6
A compact verse urges sowing seeds at first light and diligent daily work. It emphasizes immediate tasks over distant plans, urging steady labor as the path to eventual reward and rest in labor's prize. The tone is exhortatory with pastoral imagery of furrows and morning light.
Green Bay Wisconsin market gardener J M Smith asserts you can raise profits by heavy spending per acre. He reports fourteen acres with $3986 spent, yielding a strong balance despite a drought, and claims targets of 1000 bushels onions or 12800 quarts strawberries per acre may be reached with planned investments.
A correspondent describes tying strong twine around tree limbs to induce fruit. He reports a pear tree that had never bloomed bore fruit after a tight wrap, with blossoms appearing above the cord and none below. He claims the method works better than root cutting and advises repeating yearly then removing the cord in winter or spring.
A column of home recipe directions includes Mr Brown s Muffins Cream Candy Rusks Guess Cake and Sponge Gingerbread with steps for eggs milk flour yeast butter sugar molasses lemon nutmeg cream tartar ginger and saleratus.
A column notes an inventive mouse trap passing mice through three boxes to a central bait, praised as highly effective. It also retells city anecdotes about a boy losing a whisky bottle on Monroe Avenue and a boy misled by a woman’s call, plus old iron age references and a grave-side gag with a palm leaf fan and thermometer in a newspaper deadbeat’s unpaid subscription.
The Jacksonville Union notes the state faces air filled with dust and sand, while the piece remarks a preference for mud over that dusty condition, contrasting regional meteorological drawbacks.
Testimonials from Medical Faculty and patients in Plattsmouth and Atlanta Illinois praise Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription. A Nebraskan physician reports a long-term patient improving rapidly after treatment. An Atlanta physician notes many locals began using the medicine after hearing of its benefits. A Missouri Valley note mentions a sister improving after other doctors failed.
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