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Newspaper
Democratic Enquirer
Location
Mcarthur, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1870
Page
1
A fragmented page shows advertising rates and column notes for the Enquirer, including postage, legal notices, and display ad pricing. It also repeats public health guidance on eye care from Hall's Journal of Health, urging proper lighting, avoiding eye strain, and safe practices for waking and washing the eyes.
A fragmented verse scene in a rural field with clover and yellow bloom, birds singing amid a sunlit landscape. The garbled text references nature’s beauty, ripening season, and pastoral imagery, though many words are unclear.
A reader shares a vintage instruction for butter making. It prescribes one pint of milk per pound of butter and the yolk of two eggs beaten into the mix, with hot-water cleansed churn and careful temperature control around fifty five degrees Fahrenheit. The guide promises doubled yield and solid, table-ready butter after chilling and resting.
The article warns farmers against letting cows roam early in spring as it injuries ground and future crops. It urges keeping cattle in the barn or yard until pastures recover, then turning them out with a daily hay feeding to protect grass roots and maximize long term profit.
Prepare perfectly ripe currants as for jelly. For each quart of juice add two quarts of cold water and three pounds brown sugar. Stir, ferment undisturbed overnight, skim, and set in a cool place to ferment. Keep uncovered and fill daily until fermentation ends in six to eight days, then cork closely. Optionally add brandy. Bottle when clear for winter wine.
James Gordon Bennett and Horace Greeley lie gravely ill with dangerous conditions. Bennett, 75, suffers neuralgic gout and declines a son’s visit to avoid affecting an ocean yacht race. Greeley remains very ill, barring visitors. Thurlow Weed is reported unwell at his New York residence.
A Michigan man separated from his wife for years advertised under an assumed name seeking a wife. A responding woman led to letters and a meeting, producing mutual surprise. They chose to forget the past and renew their union, determined to be happy together.
An open letter from a new Gallipolis resident urges local shareholders to fund the Gallipolis McArthur Columbus Railroad. The writer argues rail access will boost minerals, coal, agriculture, and trade, urging wide participation and warning against reliance on distant capital.
Samuel Ketcham pleaded guilty at arraignment in the Coshocton county embezzlement case and was sentenced to five years in the Ohio Penitentiary with a $44,072 fine. The sheriff escorted him to Columbus the same day, and Brown was dispatched a week earlier. The St Clairsville Gazette notes this as the end of the matter. The Californians prepare to ship apples and pears to China.
Washington Banka, a about thirty year old man, entered a First Precinct cella after posing as a minister to swindle a mother out of five dollars. In St Marys Market area he christened a dying child, then fled with the Bible and promised a funeral, later robbed the mother of five dollars under the pretense of funeral expenses. He was captured after a warrant for larceny and obtaining money by false pretences.
An old joke reappears in a new guise about two men hunting possum who find a bear cave. They spy three young bears inside and a trap ensues as one man ventures in while the other watches. The tale shifts with a dramatic misadventure and a startled escape.
The excerpt describes two blackberry wine recipes: one uses a quart of boiling water per gallon of fruit, with sugar and a day resting period before fermentation, and the second fills a cask with ripe berries and molasses, stored in a cool place for winter fermentation. The text also mentions Paraguay having fifty women for one man.
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