Floors for Poultry Houses in Earth
An article argues that dry earth floors are superior to wooden or solid surfaces in henhouses. It recommends an earth floor raised above ground level, weekly scraping, and storing droppings in barrels or spreading on land, with moisture and odor minimized by loose earth. The piece also recounts a Berkshire County tale of martins and sparrows disputing a nesting site, ending in a peaceful two-story martin house division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Poultry Journal
Berkshire County
Massachusetts
Martin
Court of Common Pleas
Athens
Ohio
Preparing for Winter Farm Advice and Dakota Bonanza
The article advises early morning fodder for livestock to endure winter, with careful spacing to prevent crowding and injuries. It highlights managing young stock separately and ensuring reliable labor. It then reports on Bonanza Farming in Dakota Territory at the Grandin farm, detailing 1880 yields and acreage, and notes driving horses with light wagons as preferable. It ends with a brief mention of a treatment for chills and fever.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dakota Territory
Fargo
Dakota
Red River
Mayville
North Dakota
America
Surprised Farmer Driver Collides With Train at Belfr y Crossing
A farmer who had been to Philadelphia fell asleep at the reins on the Bel fr y railroad crossing. The train could not stop in time. the wagon overturned, the horses escaped, and the farmer awoke unharmed though shaken, asking what mashed the wagon so badly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Belfry
Remarkable 200-Year-Old Clockmakers Family Alarm System
Darious L. Goff of Providence Rhode Island owns a nearly two centur y old clock that controls the household. The front door winding, hall lights dimming with night, and bells in back and front halls summon servants and family to rise and breakfast. A second clock in Goff’s sleeping room rings in unison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Darious L. Goff
Providence
R. I
Legend of the Chinese wine drinker at the Emperor’s table
A Chinese tale tells of a famed wine drinker who could sit at a table all day and rise sober after drinking cups that filled a bronze image’s head. The Emperor invited him to dine to test his powers, pouring successive cups into the hollow statue until it overflowed while the guest remained perfectly sober.
Stop Eating Fish and Eat Butter Says Dr Cutter
Eminent physiologist Dr Cutter argues that modern flour refining harms health causing nervous disorders weak teeth baldness and weak bones. He advocates unbolted flour eggs milk and butter and denies fish as brain food and cites butter as a superior brain food.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cutter
Agassiz
Sign Promises Every Requisite for Funerals at Undertaker
A New York undertaker displayed a sign promising full funeral provisions. An emaciated tramp entered last week asking if the notice covered a coffin. the coffin was selected swiftly but the man escaped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Day's Kidney Remedy Promises Noted Medical Value
The article extols Day's Kidney Worky Pap as a valuable vegetable remedy for kidney disease. It praises its reliable character desirable qualities and masterly curative attributes as an accidental discovery in medicine and chemistry.
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Sarsaparilla
Stillingia
Mandrake
Yellow Dock
St. Anthony’s
Aven
Ayven
Quotations and moral sayings fill a 19th century page
A collage of reflections on silence and restraint, noting proverbs from Italian Germans and American anecdotes. It includes a brief financial figure detailing the 1880 fiscal year revenue and mentions literary opinions on George Eliot alongside a medicinal cough syrup promoting Dr Bull’s.
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Carlyle
Mana
Pottery Gazette
George Extor
Adam Bede
J. C. Ayer & Co
Lowell
Mass
Navy
Sheriff’s Sale
Leonidas Jewett
Joseph L. Kessinger
Order of Sale
Athens Co. Common Pleas
Athens Co
Marietta and
Cincinnati Railroad
Tim. B. Warden
DeSteicgurr & Jewert
L. Gorslene, M. D
Washington and & Streets
J A. Frame, M. D
Court Street
Norton
Attorneys AT Law
Athens, Ohio
First National Bank
Chas, Townsend
L. Sleeper
Attorneys
LAW
Ohto
Yu & Welch
Supreme
U.S
John Welch
Welch
J.M. Welch
G. A. Dille
Phoenix Block
D. J.E. Edmundson
Main Street
FE. R. Lash
Phenix
Daniel F. Beatty
Washington, N. J
Horace
Mason Hamid
A. Nortox
E. H. Moors
T. H. Suxipox
the— State Bank of Ohio
United States
Europe
D. C. Cornwell
Perkins Drug Store
Hprhencing, &c
Canaan Ville Railroad Station
N. Warren
Crenaanville
Athens County
George R. Walker
Cornwell & Thomas
Perkins’ Drug Store
Mount Auburn
Young Ladies’ Institute
Cincinnati
H. Thane Miller
Prest
Emma Parkesmith
ALT
Sitters Jhetry
Malt Bitters Co
Boston
T. M. D. Pilcher
T. M. D. Pilcher & Co
Union Street
Carter
Carter Medicine CO
Hannah M. Wyatt
Joshua Wyatt
Hannah Wyatt
Lucy A. Wyatt
Daniel Fulton
Rebecca Penrod
H. D. Mirick
H. B. Mirick
Thos
L. Minton
BENT
Grafton
Halbert EF. Paine
Story B. Ladd
Patents
Attorneys At Law & Solicitors
Firru Street
Washington, D.C
Patent Office
Circuit Courts
Po Stable
L. D. Wilson
Warren
All-Y
Stinson & Co
Portland, M
Buchtel Tron Company
Buchtel Iron Company
Thornton K
Lathrope No
Sree
The
Hwo
S.ohi
Home Factory
Fouts & Mason
Court House
Bet
P. K. Scott
Rob'tair
Fuas Tyson
Guysville
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