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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1892
Page
10
Illinois farmer G M Rice describes a redesigned corncrib with a taller, narrower plan holding 2 500 bushels. The new structure uses an elevated driveway, high center roof, and two walls to maximize usable corn room while minimizing lumber. Ventilation via driveway and cupola aids drying. a wagon box elevator lifts corn to the top, with a rope and door system enabling quick discharge.
A fragment describes feeding rats with bran and water in a barrel to create a stiff racque-like mess, then repeating the process with another batch to observe effects. This report appears as a concise note on an experimental feeding method.
A Malden Mass inventor Willis Mitchell patents an electric heater and a professor Edwin Houston publishes a dictionary of electric terms. The text also notes German patent activity, coin counterfeit concerns, and various curiosities from astronomy to folklore including a mind reading feat by A W Scott and sea goblin legends.
The readable lines reference a budget expenditure of 2.00 dollars and a claim about South Carolina being the only state with a certain tax or record. Mentions of diseases and a Swedish parliament are present but details are fragmentary and not coherent.
A mix of demographic and economic claims is presented, noting marriageable age for women from fifteen to seventeen, U S food costs per family, a massive farm in Louisiana, fencing cost, a deep tunnel hypothetical, air density at depth, and a constitutional courtesy toward the lieutenant governor.
A fragment lists plant yields: Turkey corn 8000 seeds, sunflower 4000, poppy 32000, tobacco 70320. Mentions a carnivorous butcher plant near Wilkington North Carolina and scarlet sage for a vivid piazza border. Also notes a large camellia tree at Plintz near Dresden and a tall 50 foot plant from Japan with 40000 yearly blooms.
A Tribune correspondent extols Southern California for fertile land and mild climate. The piece argues streets stay clean when residents avoid throwing waste, praises orange production, diverse fruits, and minerals, and notes housing costs, livestock, and long growing seasons while comparing Lombardy and Holland.
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