13 Jul 1878
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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1878
Page
1
A fragmented antique digest discusses horse endurance, urging steady pacing to prevent exhaustion, and emphasizes careful feeding to sustain stamina. It also covers plant and animal nutrition basics, soil content, and the importance of calm poultry handling for profitability, alongside scattered culinary and household tips.
The item blends sewing instructions for assembling a garment with a dubious home remedy for catarrh. It details arranging ferns and leaves, attaching scarlet braid, and pressing muslin, then shifts to a writer in the Tribune praising a smoked berry remedy for nasal congestion, sore throat, asthma, and offensive breath, claiming a month’s use cures obstinate catarrh.
A compilation of superstitions links magpies and ravens to luck or doom across Silesia Tyrol Prussia and Hesse. Beliefs include nine magpies signaling a switchblade trait, magpie screams foretelling famine or trouble, and white to black feather enchantment tied to an emperor’s fate with Barbarossa.
The Lewis family of Virginia offers Washington relics to the Government for 12000 dollars. Items include the General's chair used shortly before death, a double brass candlestick, a farewell address inscription, a field glass used in the Revolution, a silver dipper, knives and forks, plated buckles, a Washington portrait, the christening robe, silver lamps, china set, and several surveys made by General Washington.
The article describes suits with vests and muslin jackets, young ladies garments, and the new silhouettes of the season. It highlights back cuts, basques, draped skirts, polonaises, and princess styles, with lace, beading, silk, cashmere, and summer fabrics as decorative emphasis.
A fragmentary aphorism piece cites a German proverb about armies of cripples, documenters, and thieves, arguing truth and cruelty, the cost of empty promises, and the link between effort and life success. It urges labor, energy, and simple honor to avoid poverty, disgrace, and disappointment.
Fragmentary OCR presents a jumble of archaic phrasing about thriving, rising early, and nature. It hints at a proverb urging balance of thyme and reason, suggesting success comes from rising early and orderly living, though text is garbled and hard to interpret.
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