Curing Pork and Ham Techniques From Onetime Expert Advice
The article details traditional meat curing methods for pork and hams, including salting with evaporated white sugar, repeated rubbing and air-drying over several days, and optional smoking. It explains pickling mixtures, quantities per 100 pounds of pork, and steps to prepare sides and whole hindquarters. The writer notes variations for family use and emphasizes careful rubbing of all meat surfaces and draining before smoking or drying for long storage. It also mentions smoked beef as a market comparison and urges farmers to try home curing.
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Pichia
If a Young Man Wants To Engage In A Business
The article argues for farming as a stable calling but warns against other paths. It promotes independence, temperance, and a clear conscience, urging young men to avoid lawyers and doctors, seek leisure in midlife, and aim to improve society before death. It also references political turmoil and border issues influencing public opinion.
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Louisville
Campaign closes as Barstow influence eyed in Grant County
A partisan note from Wisconsin counties condemns Know Nothings and Barstow backers for alleged corruption and foreign influence. It praises local editors, reports on Manston and Mauston events, mocks whiskey-linked votes, and recounts celebrations and candlelight displays amid price challenges.
Sauk City Fights and Saloon Talk Causes Newt Newport Demolitions
A row at Sauk City ends with beatings and a chaotic aftermath including a demolished whiskey shop at Newport. The scene prompts readers to await fuller reports and notes a string of local happenings from saloons to new furniture and temperance talk, with political chatter about the Missouri Compromise and Kansas admission.
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Sauk City
Paart
Newport
Treaty of Peace Ends Kansas Conflict After Lawrence Stand
Report from Kansas details a peace treaty at Lawrence council last Friday and Saturday. Missouri troops dispersed after a night of storms while Free State forces maintained arms for defense. James Barker was the only fatality in the skirmish, and Shannan and Atchison faced criticism as Lawrence residents asserted their right to arms as law and order supporters.
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Louis Dumeotat
Shankland
Kansas
Lawrence
Alchisten An Bhinnon
Missouri Woops
Missouriane
Wakarusa
Westport
Lecompton
Kansas River
Free State
Sharp
Rourmure
Shannon
Wold
Indiana
Kansas City
Miller
James Barker
Fe Waw
Major Richardson
Jubalt
Lawrence Dragoons
Kansaw
Chicago
Mre. W
Tad
Avery
Richardson
Franklin
Lecomptin
W. Barber
Waikatasa
Lawrence Dragoone
Barber
Pany
Atchison
Missouri
Branson
Brancon
Pramiar
Enogh
Fuol
Aged Conspirator’s Speech Before Judge and Crowd
The document records John Jones’s speech at his Burlington murder case, confessing to a fatal land dispute killing H W McCardle, describing his past, his family ruin, and belief in shifting laws and times. He pleads for impartiality, cites Civil War campaigns, and laments his wife and daughter’s fate while claiming victimhood by societal vices. The piece also notes political notices, Know Nothing conventions, and marriages of doctors Miller and Walker and local election results.
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John Jones
Burlington
H. W
McCardle
Jones
Bond
Swent- L
Lockland
Maen
Jackson
Emugta
Taledega
Horseshoe
Tim
Eall Jones
Joan Jones
Early American settlement milestones in a war of history and poetry
A compendium lists early settlements and state admissions to the Union with errors and odd spellings. It notes Virginia in 1607, New York 1614, Massachusetts 1620, New Hampshire 1623, New Jersey 1624, Delaware 1627, Maryland 1636, Rhode Island 1636, North Carolina 1660, South Carolina 1670, Pennsylvania 1682, Georgia 1739, Vermont 1791, Kentucky 1782, Tennessee 1796, Ohio 1803, Louisiana 1812, Indiana 1816, Mississippi 1817, Maine 1820, Missouri 1821, Michigan 1836, Arkansas 1836, Florida 1845, Texas 1845, Iowa 1846, Wisconsin 1848, California 1850, with numerous misspellings and misdates.
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New York
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Roger Williame
Caroline
Pennsylvania
Wm. Penn
Georgia
General Oglethorpe
Vermont
Kentucky
Tennessee
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Warner's
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Mieh Score
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Hanpen
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Free States
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Pittsburg
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Know Nothings
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Albert B. Miller
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Esuaby
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Oyster Saloon
Martin Lowell
B. L. Purdy
Insurance Agen
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Madiaun Matus
Madison
Franklin Fue & Marine
Fand du Lac
City Imaurwice Company
Cleveland
Stray
Gime
Nd Barahoo
Hains
Chia
Roedaburgh
BOV
Delton Academy
Delton
Hascalt
O. A
OL. Purdy
Mills & Cowles
Excelsior Drug Store
Harriet B. Wheeler
John C.wheeler
Fanny Fern
Rose Clars
Fanny Flrn
Ruth Hall
Ruth Mall
United States
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Ruth Hallt
Mail Post
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Merrimack
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