How to Make Soft Soap According to Country Gentleman
A detailed practical guide on producing soft soap. It covers leaching ashes with lime, layering straw, using about half a bushel of lime per ten bushels of ashes, soaking time, and how to prepare grease by boiling and cleaning to ensure proper amalgamation with lye. It notes lye strength varies and advises increasing with lye rather than water, reflecting old domestic soapmaking methods.
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Pentonville
Maxy
Gazetta
Essex
mAgsa
Rush County
Fragmented Civil War Narrative and Verse Mix
Readable excerpts recount moral verses and poems, battlefield notes, and a military draft suppression incident. It covers wagons near New Market, Lincoln’s arrest by a Union lieutenant, and local draft riots in Indiana with troop movements and hospital conditions.
Questions on the Tax Law Clarify Peddlers and Dealers
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue answers inquiries from W A Bradshaw. It explains licensing rules for peddlers, auctioneers, and dealers, including where licenses are required, how many licenses per business, and when stamps become effective.
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Indianapolis Journal
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
W. A. Bradshaw
D&e
Fragmented OCR: cheeky chatter on weight and looks
Humorous disjointed passage mocks talk about women's bodies and weight. Characters discuss meat and fat in a coarse, slang filled street scene with truncated phrases and garbled dialogue.
Wounded Soldiers Note Unspoken Thanks To First Union
A speaker recalls a First Union soldier hearing many stories from wounded by our army hospitals over a year and notes no words of praise from the injured ever expressed.
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Virginia
Maryland
Carrick
Green’ ‘Briar
Port Republic
Middletown
Cedar ‘Creek
Royal
Slaughter
Mountain
Rappahannock
Thoroughfare Gap
Manassas
Bull Run
National Gap
South’ Mountain
Antietam Creek
Alexandria
Thomas B. Lincoln
Texas
Virgil H. Lyon
Doubleday
New Market
Col. Johnson
12Th New Jersey Infantry
Lyon
Lincoln
B. Lincoln
Hooker
Litttom
Cincinnati
Ora Jer
TPO Senate
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Rat Trap From The Sunday Times Draws Curious Notice
A Brooklyn resident cites a contraption recommended by the Sunday Times to trap rats using a partially submerged barrel and a tipping head to drown the pests. The account describes rats clustering for the dry end of a log as the device tips and sinks them.
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Brooklyn
New York
Sunday Times
Rules for Home Education and Emancipation Proclamation
The piece surveys strict childrearing rules urging instant obedience and calm discipline, with maxims on punishment and behavior. It then shifts to Washington reporting on President Lincoln weighing an immediate emancipation proclamation, influenced by Robert Dale Owen’s letters to Cabinet members to preempt Confederate moves and appeal to European powers. It includes National anecdotes and brief witticisms from the era.
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Washington
New York Commercial Advertiser
Robert Dale Owen
Jeff. Davis
Owen
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