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Newspaper
Bellevue Gazette
Location
Bellevue, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1856
Page
5
A rural verse extols the farmer’s abundant holdings and steady toil. It lauds preserved goods from orchard to dairy, bees yielding honey, and cattle well kept. The speaker champions a sturdy farmer’s life as rewarding and ample for all.
The New York Tera reports Chinese sugar cane seed distributed last spring shows promise in Bucks County. Plants reached ten feet, green at maturity with high grain yield and a saccharine stalk. If juice sugar aligns with ordinary cane, northern farming could expand dramatically. Even as forage, stock fatten well. seed can be ground to fine white flour.
A farmer should keep oil handy to dip cut-nails before driving into seasoned oak timber. This prevents bending or breaking and aids in mending carts and plows made largely of oak. Straighten old nails on wood with soft blows to avoid iron breakage.
The article describes an improved engraving system for currency plates, detailing dies, a geometrical lathe, and methods to interweave denomination and design to hinder counterfeiting. It also notes an English inventor's boot and shoe construction featuring a removable heel seat and adjustable sole with perforations for air and comfort.
Gas manufactured from peat in Paris shows illuminating power of 342 versus coal at 100. Peat gas production is described as simpler, yielding a mix of permanent gases and vapors that condense into an oleaginous liquid. The oil distills again producing permanent gas and hydrogen rich in carbon.
A novel washing machine uses a slatted cylindrical cage with oblique corrugated end boards. As the cylinder rotates the boards urge clothes to tumble from end to end, aiding cleansing. A suitable printing press also enters public notice with a rotating reciprocating cylinder and a catching fly for sheets. The machine aims for simple, low cost, reliable construction.
The artificial stone is made by mixing the tid siliem of soda with sand and other materials to form a thick paste. It molds easily into shapes and hardens as water evaporates. In a kiln the water exits quickly and the mass becomes a solid product with particles cemented by silicate of soda at high heat.
Antificial teeth are now made as hard as natural ones from flints quartz rock and feldspar. Quartz and feldspar are hard substances and even harder when fused. A measured mix of feldspar and mint is ground to a fine powder and formed into the desired tooth shape.
An improvement describes combining an endless chain horsepower with paddlewheels to adjust wheel depth as a boat sinks, producing a proportional work output to the boat’s weight. The arrangement aims to enhance efficiency by syncing paddle action with varying water depths.
A process coats plaster of Paris with two parts steraine and two parts Venetian sap, plus 20 to 30 parts cold caustic potash solution, then adds one part peartash and enough cold leg to achieve perfect flexibility. The text notes sagacity in word choice and courage to honor it in deciding degree of condure.
An advertisement notes the Forty-Second Volume of the Knickerbocker Magazine with pricing, circulation gains, and subscription details. It touts wit and articles, lists literary endorsements, and promotes clubbing offers with terms and agents. Samuel Hurston at 548 Broadway, New York, is cited for remittances.
A nineteenth century prospectus for a weekly illustrated magazine offering original tales sketches poems and foreign news with engravings of cities ships events and notable figures. It promises elegant typography satin paper and a mammoth sixteen octave pages per issue and six month volumes of 416 pages with about a thousand engravings. Subscriptions offered with a bonus copy of related works for sending twelve new subscribers. Published Saturdays at 22 Winter St Boston Mass.
A fragment lists numerous individuals and firms with street addresses in New York Philadelphia Balti more Cincinnati Detroit Louisville St Louis Chicago and London agents for Great Britain and Europe. The scattered names include S. French A Winch Neary Taylor A C Bagley J A Bovys FE K Wood Samuel Ringgold Wallace Rewton Hoel and Trabuner Co among others.
The firm announces receipt of wall and winter goods praised for price and durability in Mills and adjoining counties. It notes a full stock of groceries and other items, presenting the store as a desirable destination in Glenwood Iowa.
An old advertise ment text describes The Flag of Our Union weekly paper and its offerings. It promotes travel of agents not employed, lists pricing for twelve subscribers with a free thirteenth copy, and notes M M Tallou at 22 Winter Street Boston Mass.
A fragmented list shows wholesale agents with partial addresses in New York Cincinnati Louisville Detroit Chicago and Baltimore. Names include J A Rowe Samuel Ringgold and K Woodward among others with scattered street lines.
The Ballou's Dollar Monthly offers twelve hundred pages per year for one dollar. It features writings from popular authors and a record of notable events, with no sectarian content. A Humorous Illustrated Department is new, sample copies available, Boston at No. 22 Winter St.
An old catalog-like notice lists Life Illustrated Water-Cure Journal and Parenological Journal with subscription prices and praise from major newspapers. It highlights large size typography and broad coverage of science, health, phrenology, and human progress, urging readers to subscribe.
In Potowatamie county Iowa the firm Greene Weare Benton and associates are noted as tax collection agents. Collections made and taxes paid details appear in the Lewa area records with references to Fort Bea Wuinea and Cotar Rapids.
The new Cosmopolitan Association outlines extensive plans for American art promotion. It lists sculptures and paintings from prominent artists, including statues of Clay Webster and Calhoun, Apollo and Diana, and other bronze pieces. Distributions to subscribers are set for January 28.
The payment of four dollars grants a three dollar magazine or engraving plus an Art Journal subscription and a ticket in a Works of Art distribution. Multiple memberships yield additional engravings or magazine access and distribution tickets. Addresses for Derby CA and Sanducky Office are provided. readers urged to remit with full post office details.
A promotional piece extols the Cosmopolitan Art Association offering magazine subscribers a chance to receive an engraving or art work by annual distribution and a free Art Journal. It cites endorsements from multiple papers and urges readers to renew subscriptions to spread art nationwide.
An on hand lot of extra family flour is offered by Clarke forwarding and commission merchant in Detlerue Ces, as stated in the advertisement. The notice emphasizes availability and delivery terms for customers seeking flour from the Waverly Mills source.
A quirky mixed-page vignette features Old John a temperate man with rye flavored drinks and a stoic mood. It includes a plantation preacher Cesar losing gifts to cardplaying slaves and a sharp Social Statistics quip about married men fined for smoking at home.
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