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Washingtonian
James McCafverty
Post Office Department
Take Care of Them The Central N Y Farmer Urges
A Central New York Farmer article exhorts readers to adopt the watchword take care in all farming tasks. It urges careful feeding of livestock from calves to pigs, regular timing, proper shelter, clean yards, drain maintenance, and thorough plowing. The piece emphasizes teaching children responsibility and ensuring stock and crops are managed with consistent, prudent care.
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Ito
N. Y
Training a Young Horse in Humble Practical Steps
The article warns that mistreating horses damages them and outlines halter breaking as the first training step. It stresses establishing human authority, gradual restraint, and cautious movement initiation through guided behavior with companion horses. It also notes light loads, calm introductions to saddles, and discipline before full control.
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Ostler
Churning Butter Remedies from Indian Farmer Aid
A housewife faces trouble turning cream to butter and a female writer in the Indian Farmer suggests a remedy. The Western Farmer notes years of using goda or saleratus for the same purpose and reports success after hours of churning.
Remarkable Hog Fattened Locally by Capt David Lane
Greenville Moon notes a large hog fattened by Capt David Lane, weighing about 688 pounds gross after slaughter earlier this year. The writer invites neighbors to report any larger pigs raised in the mountain district of South Carolina.
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South Carolina
David Lane
Capt. L’s
Greenville Moon
Prayer and Conversion On the Ocean Trial
A captain's profanity during a naval battle ends when a pious soldier cites that God hears prayer. The captain reforms, returns home to Scotland, and persuades his brother Robert Haldane to seek faith. the brother's prayer leads to his own deep conversion.
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James Holdame
Scotland
Robert Haldane
James
Robert
Pious Soldier’s Influence At Geneva Sparks Religious Revival
A wealthy and devout man visited Geneva to converse with students influenced by Voltaire and Rousseau. He shared personal religious experiences and urged against irreligion, leading some youths to embrace faith. Among them, Merle D'Aubigne rose to head a theological institution and educate many toward the ministry. The account credits the soldier with inspiring these changes aboard a perilous voyage.
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Geneva
Voltaire
Merle D’aubigne
S. 8
Treasury
German Lovers Say Farewell At The Levee Wedding Frolic In Store
A Cincinnati Patriot recounts a crowding boat bound for the upper Mississippi where German workers and a seventeen or sixteen year old girl with a sturdy frame share a moment of restrained joy. A bearded youth reappears, no embraces, then helps her onto the shore toward a wedding and a future.
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Cincinnatti
Upper
Mississippi
Broadway
Thief Feigns Hunger To Bait Alandlord In No Load
An unemployed man visits a principal hotel and orders a plain dinner. After devouring it he tells the landlord he cannot pay, claiming seven months without work and a promise to start a job tomorrow. He insists he is safe because he has work lined up.
Coat for a Week Promises and Political Ironies
A hotel keeper recalls lending his coat to a starving man who pledged to pay in a week, a promise kept a year later. Years hence the same man seeks office, and the keeper’s veto blocks him, only to see the generous diner rise to power, showing Providence’s strange mutations.
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Altho
Belleview
Albany
Most perfect Popular Go vernment quoted from ancient sages
Dialogic fragment on ideal government with lines from Blass Thales Anacharis Pittacus Cleoborus Chile and Salon. Reports a steamboat fire Fanny Ellsler from Apalachicola to Albany burned to water’s edge owned by Capt L A Phelps with no insurance. Includes a jest about printers’ pay and a child’s question about right and wrong.
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Blass
Thales
Anacharis
Pittacus
Cleoborus
Chile
Salon
Fanny Ellsler
Apalachicola
Albany
Geo
L. A. Phelps
Home remedies for dental care and skin ailments
The passage describes mixing remedies to improve breath and teeth with pulverized substances and vinegar for tetters and tingworms. It notes sealing powders in bottles, shaking before use, and applying small amounts to the mouth. It also mentions mullen leaf and vinegar as a nail restorative and cautions about diseased nail conditions.
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Maine
Teneriffe
Noah's Weekly Messenger
Ars A
Ian
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