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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1879
Page
3
Practical advice warns that neglectful stabling causes thrush and grease, with instructions to keep floors clean, wash and treat affected feet, use pine tar, chloride of zinc, and glycerine as appropriate, and to attend to wounds or calking promptly to prevent serious outcomes.
The Rural New Yorker discusses butter versus cheese value, urging strict dairy sanitation and curing controls. It notes England’s cheese prizes show American quality, calls for dedicated curing vaults, and stresses feeding, milking, and handling milk to ensure first quality raw material. It also surveys drying off cows, breed choices, and practical dairy care for optimal butter and cheese.
An extended guide on profitable sheep keeping with proper feeding and pasture practices. Emphasizes supplementing rough grazing with bran and oil meal, improving herd through winter rations, and using straw and stalk fields for forage. Also covers breeding birds, egg and meat production, and care to avoid deformities in fowl stock.
Winter care guidance urges shelter for Leghorn and Spanish cocks as freezes approach. Boundaries, embankments, and calking protect against zero temperatures, while high ground stays warmer. Careful confinement and flock grouping prevent fights, injuries, and loss of plumage. preserve breeding stock by spring.
Dr Graham, fifty years on, urged bran as food and unbolted Graham bread. Public bias against dark bread and coarse bran kept outer grain coats underappreciated. These coats are a legitimate grain part, akin to skin, containing valuable constituents amid skepticism.
From a Salt Lake City Tribune excerpt this critique argues expansion of the Mormon Church increases tithing revenue and priestly influence. It claims rapid membership growth will boost political power, with a projected 150000 voters and threats of social or financial ostracism for dissenters.
Frederick Eckert, a private in the Second New Jersey Volunteer Regiment, was wounded at Bulitunio in 1862 when a bullet lodged near his spine. He later died after years of pain as the bullet slowly moved within his body. A post mortem located the heavy conical bullet at the original wound site.
The article recalls Robert Jnyior Taylor, a 28 year old fiddler nominated by Democrats in a North Carolina district once Republican stronghold. Facing Pettibone amid revenue-backed opposition, Taylor campaigned on straight Democratic principles, using fiddle interludes and a carpet bag prop, and won by about 15600 votes, securing a congressional seat for the party.
A Newark report describes Antoine Bergmann a 32 year old Prang publishing worker who died by his own action after a failed match with Pauline Staab. Neighbors recall threats to shoot himself and uncertainty surrounds a possible arranged marriage with a Bergmann uncle's niece.
A Boston man posing as Hopkins rented a Pine street room in St. Louis, paid five dollars in advance, then demanded more. He and two associates used threats to force the proprietor to surrender, stole items, and sent a hollow package containing stones valued at over a dollar to the widow, a tactic described as a means of getting even.
Gath in Philadelphia Press notes Leyland as the world's most successful shipping magnate. He started as an office boy in a Liverpool firm, now operating twenty North Atlantic steamers and a Mediterranean fleet. His edge lies in vessel choice and efficiency, contrasting with high-cost passenger allocations and slower, cattle and produce focused ships. Boston and Albany piers support his station with Hoosac Tunnel and Central Road favors aiding Europe traffic in 1878.
A Washington letter discusses House debaters led by General Garfields and others, noting diverse oratorical strengths. It mentions Massachusetts Republicans defending Governor Rice over the Kimpton matter, and GOP fear of repercussions from Van Zandt’s refusal to honor a requisition related to Patrick Kenney, a swindling charge.
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