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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1876
Page
7
This piece offers guidance on compost heap management using stable dung and muck mixed with straw, plaster, and proper covering to minimize ammonia loss and improve soil. It also extols the use of pepper, especially bird’s pepper, to boost poultry health, with anecdotes about canaries and hens, plus a brief method for drying pumpkins for future use.
The Denver News recounts fierce Sioux assault at Rosebud with riders in deadly horseback maneuvers. Crow and Snake chiefs led bold charges while soldiers and friendly tribes fled and fought. A Crow hero rescued a dismounted mate and a Sioux hand to hand clash ended with a disarmed warrior beaten.
An English clergyman comments on Rev. Beecher's summer plans at Peekskill noting a temporary tent pulpit project at Twin Mountain Home and regular Plymouth pulpit coverage. He cites admiration for Plymouth Church and expresses honor in preaching to the Plymouth congregation.
English clergymen praise Henry Ward Beecher for liberal thought and steadfast witness to the truth. The speaker hopes Plymouth Church will be thanked by Christ for its strength. A separate anecdote recounts M Knott’s comic seasickness prevention tale aboard a voyage to Europe ending with a quip about the Atlantic’s fate. Paris gas firms buy 400 million kilograms of coal in Germany, prompting patriotic French commentary.
Through tickets are available at principal ticket offices or by writing to Colatabas De ve Lee Gun. Passenger and B.W. Caldwell, General Manager, ToenlT, Brien, Ticket Agent.
Railroad time table lists trains going west and east from Greenfield Loveland and Cincinnati with stops at Byers Athens and Parkersburg. It notes departures at 4 00 p m from Greenfield and 4 15 p m from Parkersburg, with various connections to Columbus Cleveland Pittsburgh Chicago and other points. Tickets sold by Mills and agent GEO R CART.
The Cleveland Columbus Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway announces May 2 departures from Columbus with through connections to Belaware Springfel, reaching New York City with through tickets. Morning and evening trains link Columbus to Cleveland Harrisburg Pittsburgh and other eastern points, with agents Ford, Patterson, and Flint handling through tickets and connections.
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