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Newspaper
Birtle Observer
Location
Birtle, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 27, 1885
Page
2
The article warns farm owners about risks to young colts from improper feeding and inadequate hoof care. It stresses balancing grain with forage, careful monthly hoof trimming, and ensuring hooves stay level to prevent lameness and protect value at market. It highlights costs of feed and the need for practical dirt-and-straw management on country farms.
Farmers debate the best time and methods to sow red clover seed, with spring sowing in light snow cited for reliable germination. Advice covers seeding rates, soil condition, and combining clover with timothy for meadows. Additional tips describe building a small stone smokehouse, using corn cobs, feeding corn to pigs and cows, and mixing rations for young stock.
The Baptist Missionary Magazine notes the rise of world religions and missionary activity. It cites Carey’s numbers for 1784, 73000, 000 and 1,440,000 figures, with Protestant societies raising about 12 million annually, mainly from Britain and America. It lists 2,900 ordained missionaries and about 5,000 laborers from Europe and the U.S., plus 30,000 native converts engaged in Christian work.
The article surveys spring fashion, noting velvet and lace gowns, embroidered veils, tulle brims, and gold and silver braids. It highlights hats, etamine and beached velvets, organza details, watered silk fabrics, and capes or jackets like the Eton and cutaway styles. It mentions colors heliotrope, ecru, rose, browns, blues, Bordeaux, greens, and fawns with bold spring bonnets to return.
Textile notes describe petticoats finished with narrow flounces and heavy tucking, front and sides, with back fullness. Wool dresses gain internal padding over a saddle spring. Embroidery rises in cotton and linen underwear, and all over needlework fabrics are used widely for sacks, jackets, draperies, and dresses with massed fullness at the back.
The passage urges mothers to spend less on copying and denting and more on thoughtful design for children's dress. It notes the expense of dress details and advocates prioritizing practicality and comfort for youngsters.
The piece argues against mothers withholding warm undergarments to force thin dresses for balls. It favors practical health over fashion, suggesting handmade woolen combinations and durable hose as cost effective, warns against poor quality fabrics, and notes seasonal sales and remnant stock, urging sensible choices for children's comfort and health.
The London Times lauds Brazil’s new warship Rischuclo as the most perfectly built afloat with unmatched speed coal endurance and gun fire. A six thousand ton twin screw turret steel vessel measuring 305 by 50 by 30 feet capable of fifteen knots and four thousand five hundred miles without re coal. Armament includes five nine inch twenty ton breech loading rifles in two turrets six six inch breech loaders fifteen Nordenfelt guns and Whitehead torpedoes.
The publication remains popular selling about a million copies annually. The book’s enduring appeal endures beyond fiction, delivering a potent affective impact on readers through its spelling guidance.
In the Anthropological Institute lecture Johnston describes the Wataita of Taita and Akamba north of them as unprepossessing but varied in features. He notes clothing adornments, skin color, hair depilation, bead culture, and limited religion with belief in forest spirits. Marriages are by purchase, with abduction briefly described. The Wataveita and Wachaya tribes' traits, languages, and smithing skills are outlined, including intermixing, manners after marriage, and farming practices.
Christopher Colombo has been arrested for selling Italian stale beer without a license in New York. He laments discovering the country. A railway train scene and a dialogue between a married couple unfold as a humorous interlude with satirical chatter about editors and opium smoking.
Warner, trapped by a steel device, dies after a gun discharge wounds him in the side. Earlier that day friends visited and shared cider, then attempts to harness a horse led to the fatal accident when he stepped into the trap.
A miscellany of health cures and moral anecdotes notes Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy and Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, with testimonials from Henry Whiting and others. It cites 1884 Philadelphia divorces, dental extracts, and puffery for Putnam’s Corn Extractor and Nerviline. Also mentions Voltaic Belt Co. trials and Dixon catarrh treatment in Toronto.
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