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James McCafferty
Post-Office Department
Cornstalk Molasses Innovation Tested by Mr Thompson
Mr J H Thompson reports experiments turning cornstalks into molasses after harvesting ears. His domestic mill uses three 18 inch cylinders to press juice, yielding superior molasses and potential new profit for planters. A related note discusses odor control and a cooperative 100 acre land-right trial in the South.
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H. J. Thompson
Thompson
Salt as a proven remedy against the cutworm
F J Betts of Albany argues in the Cul t ivator that broadcasting two bushels of common salt per acre last year protected his field from cutworms and again this spring before plowing kept all plants safe, claiming salt is a certain remedy for the pest.
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F. J. Betts
Albany
Seasoning Posts and Timber and Dry Sills
The piece advises not setting posts in the ground while green as they will decay quickly even in wet soil. It notes the sap fermentation accelerates decay and urges drying sills and other building timbers before use for longer life.
The Fory of Crime and the Foolish Deceiver Saunders
In a moralizing critique from the New York Commercial Advertiser a young man named Saunders is portrayed as a fooled criminal whose rapid career in forgery ends in capture. The piece emphasizes the all reaching power of criminal justice, the temptation of self deception, and the misery of crime, urging restitution and confession.
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Saunders
Charity
Honest Duke and the Cow Trade Lesson
A Scottish duke buys a cow and a farm boy helps drive it. The boy’s joke earns him a penny, but the duke learns a butler stole the reward. The duke replaces the money, dismisses the butler, and upholds that honesty is the best policy. The tale ends with the boy realizing his error and the duke’s lesson.
Slaves Return to United States After Escape to Canada
The Sandwich Express reports three U S escaped slaves who worked near Sandwich Ontario left with a pledged master’s word not to sell or punish them. They returned to Windsor and crossed back to slavery, one noting Canada’s hard labor. Major William Buchanan, age 96, arrives in Washington for his eighteenth government pension draft, recalling Marion’s raids and Civil War service.
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Sandwich
Canada West
United States
Windsor
Canada
Wm. Buchanan
Washington
Marion
Carolina
A Self-made Man
Willis discusses Albert Pike of Arkansas in a National Intelligencer letter noting his move from Boston to Little Rock with sixteen dollars, his status as a leading Western lawyer, and his hope Pike will publish a volume of poems while still young.
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Willis
National Intelligencer
Albert Pike
Arkansas
Blackwood
The
Astor
Little Rock
West
Boston
Hudson
Cunning of a Cobbler Across an Offshore Widow
A London style tale tells how a Buckinghamshire widow avoids losing her late husband’s estate by employing a neighbor cobbler to pose as the deceased. The ruse hinges on the cobbler dictating a will leaving the widow half the estate while another half goes to the neighbor shoemaker. The widow probes for answers, but the cobbler reveals the plan, prompting moral and legal questions. In a Pittsburgh anecdote a bachelor pockets a thimble and pities its beauty as a woman rebukes him. He faints after a passerby retrieves the thimble from his lips.
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Buckinghamshire
Queen Street
Pittsburg
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Urday
Agriculture
Bommer
Mr. Russell
Columbia Planter
N. Y
New-York Commercial Advertiser
Scotland
Nazement
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