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Newspaper
Daily Liberal
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1881
Page
1
Verse fragment contrasts seasons and innocence with looming oppression. It invokes girls at a hearth and guests in grand homes admiring fruit while warning that aging branches cast shadows as fraud and force threaten the weary. The speaker ponders mercy's tasks amid tolls, strife, and tears.
A Narrator recalls a lost brother, Douglas, a naval hero unseen for nine years, and his sister Jenny who finds him as a homeless, alcoholic man. The sisters’ love reforms him, while the narrator confronts his own cowardice and pride, concluding with a vow to seek forgiveness and honor their bond.
This excerpt details historical levee construction methods. It describes clearing a flood space, digging a muck ditch to anchor the levee, building with external earth, and shaping the top and base by ratio. It explains a seep water ditch, linking drainage to swamp outlets, and finishing with Bermuda grass to strengthen and stabilize the levee.
In Boston a young woman frets over her mother’s shopping delay and fears an odd arrest over a cloak button. A recipe for Spice Cake is given with ingredients and method, including brown sugar molasses flour spices and a two step mixing process.
An old advertisement promotes Kidney-Wort as a remedy for kidney and liver diseases. It urges the sick to learn of the product and notes it is sold by all druggists in dry or liquid form via Fendon Times.
Poem argues against death, stating there is no true death as souls and memories live on. It envisions stars, flowers, and leaves returning or transforming into an immortal life. An angel carries beloved ones away, but they reappear in bliss in a world of light alongside immortal spirits.
A verse portrayal of a social climber who trades daughters for wealth and status. It exposes the marriage market's mercenary nature, showing women and their mothers using jewels and smiles to barter for power while Mephistopheles approves the sordid exchange.
Holitor's Easy Chair recounts the Boston Corner Bookstore on Washington and School streets. It honors James T. Fields, the curried desk, and the famed literary circle that made the shop a magnet for Hawthorne Dickens Tennyson and other American and English writers.
A tipsy 19th century style note urges quick fattening of fowls using abundant milk fed with grain. It argues milk enhances tenderness and juiciness, contrasts with poorly fed birds, and claims darkened, sparing milk feeding yields superior table fowls.
The article states that when milk is fed to fowls, no water is required for fattening. It presents a concise agricultural instruction focused on diet and hydration implications for poultry.
An Indiana farmer argues against skimping on feed for growing chickens. He urges consistent, nutritious feeding during growth to boost size and egg production, noting young chicks are vulnerable to cold and wet springs. The goal is a vigorous constitution, prolific breeding stock, and greater overall profit from proper feeding.
In Country Gentleman I Browent argues over cropping weakens orchards. Premature bearing costs vitality, leading to dieback, dull fruit, and poor yields. Trees show sickly foliage and limp growth after heavy crops this season.
A compact meditation on speech and belief as social forces. The text notes opinion as a agency shaping external arrangements, urging fearless utterance while recognizing individuals as products of their time, and as part of the unknown cause driving change. It cites farmers misled to seek wealth in the Rockies and hints at medical discoveries praised by contemporaries.
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