Washingtontar weekly price and advertising details
The notice outlines subscription costs of one dollar per year or five dollars for six, ten dollars for twelve, with post paid mail options and advance payment rules. Advertising rates are listed for various durations, with a yearly discount noted, followed by commentary on wheat cultivation and yielding eighty two bushels per acre in England and related farming assertions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washingtontarill
James McCafverty
Jan
Post Office Department
Reid
Buffalo Advertiser
England
Cholic in Horses Argument on Pain Relief and Opium Use
A letter to the Albany Cultivator discusses the treatment of horse cholic, arguing pain relief is the first priority and opium should be used to quell agony. It notes possible combination with stimulants and mentions saturated opium tincture dosing up to three ounces per twenty minutes for severe cases, with cautious use of bleeding if the abdomen is distended.
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Albany Cultivator
Stevens
Stewart
New England
New Orleans
Minister Averts a Duel in the Ohio Woodlands
A traveling preacher recounts intervening to stop a bloody duel near a quiet grove four miles from N town. He confronts the principals, the seconds, and the crowd, but the younger opponent is fatally wounded before aid arrives, and communal fashion toward violence is condemned. The tale notes the killer fled and a grieving family, including a mother and sister, suffers ruin.
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West
Grafting Techniques for Inserting Scions into Limbs
A practical illustrated method describes preparing a limb with a steel back saw, separating the limb, and inserting two scions into a stock. It covers how to split, wedge, and wax the graft with a beeswax tallow rosin mix to seal wounds and coat the ends.
Hibernian Humor and a White Hall Boat Tale
An anecdote recalls Gen Morton and Governor Clinton joking with a boatman from Ireland during a White Hall crossing. Pat misidentifies Morton and Clinton, finally calling them friends of De Witt Clinton Morton ONeill, in a humorous exchange from the era. The second scene depicts two young men starting sailmaking in Philadelphia, using canvass from Stephen Girard, who offers to take the endorsing note himself.
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Clinton
Morton
White Hall
Emerald Isle
Gen. Morton
Pat
de Witt Clinton Morton O'Neill
O'Neill
Philadelphia
Stephen Girard
Girard
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Agriculture
Cholic
East Windsor
H. Watson
Zion’s Herald and Journal
Japan
Guzerat
Greenland
Persia
Jon
China
Monomotapa
Holland
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