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Newspaper
Bellevue Gazette
Location
Bellevue, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1856
Page
4
Fragmented poem recalls a mother’s memory and a beloved companion as the speaker vows to keep the departed close. The speaker addresses a moonlit figure guiding a path beyond days of sorrow toward an eternal resting place. The lines reflect love, loss, and the desire to preserve a cherished heart.
A Missouri Democrat correspondent records the Iowa State Fair at Muscatine. The fair drew guests from Illinois and Missouri, with large displays in farming implements, machinery, and domestic crafts. While horses, sheep, and swine were praised, feeding practices and home industry were critiqued, and several patented devices and mills were shown.
The Ohio Farmer columnist argues that natural checks exist when species overrun ecosystems. He cites Hessian fly and bee-moth threats, praises wrens and other birds for insect control, and notes humans destroy these allies. He mentions the garter snake and a toad preying on insect pests near verbena beds.
A column discusses pests affecting crops and gardens including worms, beetles, and nematodes, urging study and protective measures. It notes a tale about aging horses based on facial wrinkles after age nine and cites agricultural fair results in White Plains New York with prizes won by A P Cummings for several livestock categories. It also states Ohio’s 1855 corn yield prize and comments on population cycles of pests.
Instructions describe scraping sanding and grain raising with water and pumice stone to smooth Honduras mahogany. Repeated wetting and polishing or varnishing may improve the surface and durability, suggesting oil treatment with linseed oil for a finer finish.
The recipe instructs stuffing the chickens with forcemeat, layering on bones and trimmings in a stewpan, adding bacon onions mace and stock or water with sherry. Simmer two hours then strain, boil the braise to glaze, brush on the chickens, and brown them for an appealing finish. Fowls may be bruised in the same method.
Take small ripe tomatoes and stem them then wash and mash. Strain through a linen rag then add two and a half to one pounds of brown sugar per gallon. Put into a cask and ferment and fine as raspberry wine. Water can be added per bushel to improve quality.
The Journal de Saint Quintin reports a remedy for stomach fermentation from clover and greens. A spoonful of ammonia dissolved in water is given and altered to the animal, with the cure working within an hour.
P A Sarpy a wholesale and retail merchant at Main and Gregory Streets ST MARY IOWA reports a large new stock of dry goods fancy goods clothing groceries hardware and medicines. The ad lists fabrics prints cottons shawls blankets linens shirts boots shoes sugar molasses tea and more with emphasis on low prices for a growing river town.
Tootle and Jackson forwarding and commission merchants offer warehouse on the Levee at Council Bluffs Iowa to receive and store merchandise and produce and to handle freights so steamboats are not detained. References include Livermore Coote Davis Humphrey Pat Tory St Louis and J Cheneworth Cincinnati and Coulbough Burlington.
A curious traveler asks for discounted stamps, arguing for bulk buy at lower prices. Clerk refuses, noting the price cannot be reduced even for a million stamps, and the man leaves muttering threats. The piece blends humorous vignettes of ordinary folk and colonial-era anecdotes.
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