Indian Corn Planting Tips and Farm Advice
Planting corn before mid May yields little gain. Aborigines planted with lea f of white oak when ripe. Choose good seed and thoroughly pulverize and mix broad-oasted manure into soil. Use two-way rows for easier hoeing and lower costs. compost from muck bone-dust and guano works well. Avoid early seed steeping. artificial stimulants may reduce vigor. Also notes on cow calving care, wartime market signals, and grape vine bleeding methods.
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Somerset
A Sleepless Night With May Stevens at Hyatt’s Farm
A reminiscence recalls a summer five years ago when the narrator visits Hyatt’s farm in Monmouth New Jersey with Horace Slyatt. He schemes to impress May Stevens, meets her unexpectedly after a railroad accident, and ends up sharing a room where May takes charge, directing his awkward entanglements.
How I Met My Wife on First Morning at Cousin Jane
The narrator recalls dressing swiftly after a departed one and meeting May Stevens at breakfast in a formal arrival scene. They laugh at Nettie and Carrie during a ceremonial introduction, planting a thorn of wonder in their sides as they recount the tale.
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Carrie
Notties
Stevens
Nettie
May Stevens
Hyate’s
Yatt's
Bess
Slyatt's
Dons
Hyatt’s
Surace
Horace
Charles Morgaon
Muay Stevens
Lin
Stanymer
Jane
Camp Lire
Washington
Quakers' Moral Heroism Highlighted in War Relief
A writer extols Quakers from Clapham and Kingston for aiding famine victims in Ireland, walking into danger to feed the starving, and questions which cavalry or infantry they would join. Other passages recall camp life, wartime ironies, and letters from volunteers praising homefront support.
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Cubdon
Middlesex
Surrey
Clapham
Kingston
Irish Reguilar Dialogue before Carlisle Fort Bliss
An exchange between Lieutenant A C C and Pat Fletcher of the Second Cavalry at Carlisle near Fort Bliss recalls loyalties under shifting Southern and Union lines. Pat refuses to desert, cites family duties, and questions firing on Irish colors versus American colors amid Civil War tensions.
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Reguilar
Pat Fletcher
Second Cavalry
Carlisle
Fort Bliss
Pat
Twiggs
Scott
Abolition Army
Free South
Sam
Fort Blies
Desartera
Old Squire’s Gluttony and Pork Feast Tale
A rustic tale recalls Old Squire How ard famed for voracious eating. He consumes fresh pork at breakfast lunch and dinner, aided by pies cheese and condiments, until a night of overindulgence nearly ends in death. Neighbor Bullos recalls nearly dying after two roasted apples. The Squire’s political peers tease him for eating too much at a boarding house.
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Errecr
Ile
Bullos
Condyde
Aaid
Squire
Domestic Receipts Uncle Ben Infallible Recipes Page
A Portsmouth Chronicle column parodies common adages offering humorous “recipes” such as keeping fences for pasture, honest prior work for good sleep, a camphor tincture with an axe for dyspepsia, feeding dogs to control their effect on sheep, and advising a cheerful household. It also mentions a Wisconsin trial over whiskey and a joke about an Irish duel report.
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Ben
Portsmouth
N. B
P. S
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Bristol
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Tsaxs
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Branklin Mutual Firetinsurance Company
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Bank of Commerce
Providence
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Amos D. Smith
Joseph £. Gilmore
Earl P. Mason
Daniel E. Carpenter
John F. Chapin
George C Nightingale
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Thomas J. Hill
Alexander Duncan
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Richard J. Arnold
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Slater Mutual Fire Lng. Co
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Guilder
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Corus
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L'Wolf House
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Dosephus Goodial
Draler
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