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Newspaper
Daily Liberal
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1881
Page
1
A verse on local women reshaping attire as Mrs Primrose and Mrs Poppy transform with crimplines fringes and furbelows. The Yuchela sisters and Pansy family ride fashion waves while old reputations fade. The poem wonders who drives these trends and if they labor to dress in the latest style.
A young articled clerk visits Abbey Grove for breakfast at Mr. Robertson's invitation. He arrives at the wrong villa, meets a charming young woman, and discovers the host is the unsuspected man in the room, prompting an awkward but humorous mix up that ends with a warm welcome and shared breakfast.
A narrator recalls mistaking a breakfast invitation, meeting Mr. Robinson and family, receiving a rosebud, and a gradual courtship that leads to marriage four years later. The local milkman receives a wedding-day tip amid grateful reflections on the kindness of all involved.
The article warns that cockle burs are a severe prairie weed, spreading by wool, fur, feathers, and water. Young plants poison stock, causing cattle and hogs to die after grazing bottomlands. Extermination requires multiple seasons of grassing, careful field rest, and vigilance against reemergence.
A Springfield Republican reader recalls German chorals played from church towers in Stuttgart and other towns. Musicians perch on an octagonal tower near a 1808 church to perform sacred pieces twice daily, funded by a noblewoman’s legacy.
A sufferer with kidney trouble quotes Kidney-Wort as his final dose after it cured him. He now urges others to try it, warning about ordered urine and recommending the remedy. The Yokohama Dispatch notes this testimonial and a related cooking tip.
A family writes of their daughter’s eleven years of illness treated by various doctors with no relief. They credit Hop Bitters as the simple remedy that restored her to health after years of misery. They urge others not to suffer as they did and to try the medicine.
A farm advisory piece argues that constant access to salt and wood ashes improves health and output in cattle horses sheep and swine. It warns against forcing salt into feed and suggests troughs or staked shelters for year round free access, noting fewer diseases and no bats colic or worms where ashes and salt are provided.
Harpers Magazine excerpt recounts a January mountain gale tearing the engine house and shutters at the signal station. Wind peaks at 186 mph, temperatures plunge, lights fail, and occupants brace with iron bars and blankets. They survive, reflecting on the horror of solitude.
In the dairy Cary Henry Stewart advises farmers to raise their own cows, use a young bull to ensure heifer calves, and keep the bull active but moderately fed. He warns against luxury and suggests a tight six foot fence for exercise and a snap-attached lead line with a ring for safe handling.
A Herkimer County correspondent reports on cream agitation to maximize butter. Prof Arnold tested dashers in a West stock-creamery churn and found that enlarging the dasher to cover all the cream increased butter output by 125 pounds daily, arguing improper agitation leaves substantial butter in the buttermilk.
Thomas Wright, an English farmer, argues farmers should raise more acres for swine. He advocates limited corn, oats as main feed, and gradual feeding after farrowing. Sows get four days on wheat bran then increased rations. pigs until 100 to 195 pounds on same food, then more corn carefully. Emphasizes grass over grain, warns against overfeeding and confinement, notes dangers of cholera.
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