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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1884
Page
4
In a Rural Independent piece Plato Johnson reflects on wealth and poverty using a dialect tale. He compares money to a hill built from dirt and asserts nature ensures everyone gets their share through toil and luck, ending with a pledge to endure until fate arrives.
A Chicago Inter Ocean report from the Treasury Building reveals Secret Service HQ room 35 detailing counterfeiting methods, engravers, rogues gallery portraits, and the dangers of film and photography when documenting offenders. The piece notes bills, coins, and detective efforts, plus quirks of the roguish trade and gallery ethics.
Winnipeg welcomes eighty new Icelandic immigrants joining a community of about five hundred. The newcomers hope to begin life in Manitoba farming and settle into the local congregation.
A circus ground tale recounts a boastful jumper from Washtenaw County who bragged of leaps and riches before a prankster with a diamond pin stole his mock pay. The Jumpist vows to pursue the swindler, promising two-year-old steers as reward. He laughs at the ruse while lamenting the loss and calls out Jumpin Creek as his domain.
A collection of advice from exchanges and journals covers dairy profits from milk, using suds as fertilizer around trees, poultry aims for egg and carcass output, prune fruit relations, and general farming wisdom. Tips include weed control, board cover fixes, and roasting beef with milk mixture.
Dr. N. H. Paaren argues for lighter harness and elimination of winkers bearing reins and collars. He urges breaking horses without winkers, discouraging bearing reins due to strain, and replacing collars with breast-straps to improve comfort and performance in draft and saddle horses.
London Magazine describes New York City of 1761 as a booming port with about 2,500 brick and stone buildings on an emnence, a large harbor and quays, diverse markets, and a fortified rectangular fort. It notes various churches, the City Hall with adjacent wings, a seven ward government, and militia of about 2,300 men with 1,000 more in reserve.
A description details bat wings with a large membranous surface sometimes folded by foliation and large ears. The nerves and air currents are sensed as a new kind of perception, guiding the bat through rooms with precision even when sight is blocked.
Sam Small of Atlanta keeps eighty odd scrap-books accumulated over forty years. He adds to them as items come in. The Potomac flats in Washington were reclaimed after years of costly work and are now firm and dry.
The San Francisco Chron tele reports discovery of twelve petrified clans at a depth of two hundred and Hillyeet while drilling for oil near Puris aima California.
A Mennonite company of about eighty traveled through Berlin recently heading toward the United States. Their leader is an aged, silver-haired man of ninety five, recently married to a sixteen year old girl, and fitting the period’s curious anecdotes.
George Home of the Columbia River Oregon alleges seven-year rheumatism struggles with stays at Arkansas Hot Springs and Paso Robles with no relief. He reports success after using Jacobs Oil the claimed great pain cure and rapid disappearance of joint stiffness and soreness.
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