Favorite Holiday Dishes From A 19th Century Table
Recipes for Cajar Roast Turkey and Puarn fruit cake with candied fruit and raisins are described, plus a vanilla or lemon flavored quince or pupix dessert. A French study shows potash in wood ashes is essential for grape vines and potatoes, with trials from 1860 to 1876 demonstrating full manure benefits and potash indispensability.
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Misa Carson
Puppixes
Revue Horticole
M. Ville
Vincennes
Ataing
American Institute Farmers’ Club
A. Heath
Advice on manure management for farmers this season
The doctor urges farmers to collect and compost all waste materials from weeds to bones, ashes to offal, and even manure from every source. He warns neglect of manure leads to poorer soils and smaller harvests, urging use of everything that can boost grain and potato yields and fodder stock.
Potomac Flood Scenes Sweep Washington Area
The Potomac Rose in flood from Virginia up, mud laden water and floating timber and pumpkins. Bridges and houses wrecked, piers strained, trees broken, canal boats broken near Long Bridge. Debris and crop loss seen on river farms as houses and roofs collapse downstream.
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Washington Star
Potomac
National Capital
Virginia
Niagara Falls
Georgetown
Strange Angler Fish Sighted Off Norwalk
George Whitney captured a rare goose fish or angler on Cockenoes bar near Norwalk. The four to five foot flat fish had a large mortar shaped mouth and two small webbed legs with five toes. It drew crowds for days, but the Palladium notes it is a worthless bottom-dweller.
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George Whitney
Cockenoes Bar
Norwalk
New Haven
Millions of butterflies cross Falle County in Texas
A vast swarm of butterflies, numbering in the millions, swept through Falle County in Texas, drawing astonishment from residents and wildlife watchers as the delicate insects moved in dense, shimmering formations across fields and towns.
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Falle County
Tex
Old Man Jumped To Death From Cat Bridge in St Louis
An elderly man aged about sixty leaped from the railing of the cat bridge into the river below in St Louis. He left a letter for a friend in East St Louis, carried his outer garments, and sought a final act amid domestic troubles with his son in law John Girard. The body was recovered later several hundred yards downstream. The deceased, George Hickson, had formerly traveled with Barnum's circus showing his son, a noted dwarf.
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St. Louis
East St. Louis
Third District
Nixon
Dixon
M. O. Brown
Pleasant Hills
George Hickson
John Girard
Hickson
Barnum
Proverbial Talmud Wisdoms and Ethical Maxims
A compact collection of Talmudic proverbs on speech, discretion, charity, and study. It emphasizes reflective speech, prudent charity between men and women, reverence for teachers, the value of learning, and divine accountability at judgment, with concise maxims from Rab and Rabbah.
Singular Freaks of Nature Exhibition Mystery
Our old friend Dr. 8. Haly shows a two inch hair lock cut from his son at eighteen months, kept in the family Bible. Now sixteen, the lock has grown to six inches with its original lustre and beauty. The doctor insists on identifying the strand, while we note that hair and nails of corpses may flourish briefly but this lock has no nourishment to feed.
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8. Haly
Colorado Stone Man Tale From Pueblo 1875 Mining Camp
An assayer from Colorado relates the origin of the Colorado stone man with a tail. In August 1875 near Pueblo five prospectors commissioned a stonecutter to sculpt a petrified Aztec with a tail for $135. After burial two feet deep the crew dispersed, later recalling the incident as it was chronicled in papers.
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Denver
Colorado
Pueblo
Cardiff
Saunders
Muldoon
New York
A Lady's Long Trance Moves to Fort Madison Asylum
Mr and Mrs Shadle of Guthrie county travel to Mount Pleasant with attendants to transfer Mrs Shadle, once in a near constant trance since June, from a sister's home to the Fort Madison asylum. She woke briefly in October then sank back, nourished by forced feeding, with a four year old son bidding farewell as she was carried to the cars.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Asylum For the
Fort Madison
Ingenious Parisian Pickpockets Use Grain of Shot
Lucy H Hooper describes a clever theft in which a thief on a crowded omnibus hides a tiny grain of shot on a silk thread. He waits for a fare payment, tosses the grain into a pocket-book, grips the thread, and, as the vehicle jolts, pulls the thread to seize the pocket-book while the book remains in the neighbor’s pocket.
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Lucy H. Hooper
Virginia counties refuse liquor licenses in twenty five counties
In Virginia twenty five counties have refused to grant licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors. This broad local resistance signals widespread curbs on alcohol distribution across rural areas amid ongoing licensing debates. Local officials contend the move reflects public sentiment and regional control over alcohol policy.
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Virginia
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