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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1875
Page
7
The article urges farmers to prevent weeds from spreading by maintaining clean cultivation. It recommends turning rows with grass strips, planting a hedge line with grass, and using surfaces for shrubs, flowers, or fruit. Early cultivation, thick seeding, and pre-winter plowing help reduce seed banks and protect yields.
Dr Kingsbury urges NH Board of Agriculture readers to choose good sheep breeds suited to cold weather with thick dry coverings. Emphasizes exercise, humane treatment, careful shearing, clean feed and pasture, and avoiding mud. Warns against washing sheep and scarred wool admits no regrowth.
The article notes a civilizational advance through growing flower culture, with widespread displays in village homes and a surge in city trade. It highlights Pennock & Co. in Philadelphia, employing twenty to twenty-five workers seasonally in bouquet manufacturing.
The article notes rapid growth of flax culture in the West and predicts a record Screnge year. It emphasizes seed as the key, and cites cotton bagging and cordage as main needs with about 24 million yards of bagging cloth required annually, half produced domestically from imports.
The Ohio State Journal editor argues that Democratic control has damaged the Central Lunatic Asylum Building Fund the Soldiers' Orphans' Home the Reform Farm and the Ohio Penitentiary. He cites corruption resignations inflated running costs reduced net proceeds and partisan interference across multiple state agencies. The piece condemns a stamp signature governor a fractured Democratic party and a rejected platform.
A married woman on El Paso's east side witnessed a couple's bold on street affection near her gate. The man fled after a startled sneeze while the girl clung to a fence and cried out to a man named Quincy, who urged silence. No lasting harm reported.
The death of Lady Franklin widow of Sir John Franklin is noted as a sorrowful event. Born 1802 she married in 1828 and after 1845 led a polar expedition to find her husband whose body was never found. A 1848 record on King William's Land stated his death on June 11, 1874.
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