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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1873
Page
6
The article urges prairie farmers to store water for droughts, suggesting cisterns wells and earth dams to hold large supplies. It discusses using permanganate of potassa to clarify water, warns against overuse, and stresses regular cleaning of cisterns and troughs.
Rev. L. L. Langstroth cites Columella and ancient Egyptians on using dried cattle dung to fumigate hives. The smoke is penetrating and largely odorless, burns slowly when dried, and can last hours. Dung can be dampened to improve lighting. buffalo chips are noted for cooking on the plains.
The Germantown Telegraph advises spreading stable or barnyard manure over all land including fruit tree plots rather than around trees. It urges regular application every three years, plus pruning, borers removal, and careful cultivation, noting autumn or December as ideal if ground isn’t frozen.
A neat clean air dwelling influences inmates toward peaceable conduct and consideration for others, promoting respect for higher duties beyond law. In contrast, filthy squalid homes foster selfishness, sensuality, and disregard for others, leading to reckless brutality.
The method uses a supply pipe attached to the cistern bottom. Fresh water heavier than stored water forces stale water upward for use while preventing offensive odor. It notes organic matter can impair cistern water and suggests eliminating vitality to sediment impurities.
Fourth Revenue District of New Jersey turns apple crop into 159000 gallons of jack. Texans kill cattle for hides. premium corn yields cited from Easton Farm Club. Orange County NY man claims 100 bushels corn in 10 hours. London Board of Trade shows 8105105 dollars paid for eggs to UK in 1872. Willamette Valley crops praised by Portland editor. Jam es E F Serank resigns. F Watts Jr named. Vermont Dairymen’s Assoc to meet Jan 22 with several speakers. Pear varieties exceed thousand. apple varieties around 2500, few grower need more than a dozen. San Francisco markets stocked by local farmers with beans peas asparagus green corn. lettuce 25 cents a dozen cucumbers 15 cents.
Garvey the plasterer testifies to widespread corruption in Tweed’s era. He says sixty five percent of his bills were fraudulent and funneled to Tweed Watson and Woodward. Abstracts show bills inflated, county due sums far lower, and Tweed’s name appearing on some entries.
The report that Josie Mansfield lost her fortune via Bowles Brothers is contradicted. She now lives in Paris in gay style, partly on her own means and partly on funds from a wealthy English admirer. She drew attention at Fra Diavolo at the Opera Comique, wearing loud diamonds, prompting a spicy Vert-Vert biography and a saber duel with editor M. Dupont, who sustained a dangerous arm wound.
An Oxford graduate rebukes a New York paper’s sympathetic tale of Disraeli. The article notes he owns Huguenden, an inheritance of £40,000, an annual pension of £2,000, and cites precedents of Canning and the second Pitt for leading a party without funds.
Debate over Harlan’s alleged 1866 cash aid to his re election surfaces in Iowa and national opinion. The piece links Indian agent Wright, Harlan’s ring, and a planned press network aimed at molding public opinion while critiquing Republican governance and calls for Congress to deny illegitimate state seats.
The excerpt condemns Southern state governance after the Civil War, noting the rise of absolutism in Louisiana, riotous rule in South Carolina, and widespread corruption. It cites expenditures by legislators, illegal erasures of state order, and the failure of elector groups while urging Congress to reject fraud and uphold legitimate government.
The Courier-Journal argues against rapid constitutional amendments after the Civil War. It cautions that the war eroded reverence for the Constitution, warns of a surge of proposed changes, and favors leaving the document intact for now. It suggests patience, avoiding centralization, and delaying further federal edits until wave of amendments subsides.
A proposal for an international silver coinage to serve America and Europe advances in Congress. Samuel B. Ruggles proposed plans cited by the National Board of Trade, with Senate Finance Chair John Sherman backing amendments setting the half dollar at twelve and a half metric grams. Female clerks run Portland and Fort Wayne pension offices. Lian EpGarton asserts education cures gossip.
An 19th century note discusses the first white woman executed in Minnesota, plus other hangings. It contrasts a poor, mistreated German woman near Philadelphia with the criminal cases of Mrs Sugart in Pennsylvania and Mrs Grinder in Pittsburgh, highlighting public fascination and evolving views of justice.
The piece warns that impure air in hot, poorly ventilated rooms and workplaces damages the heart and shortens lives. It urges fresh air via filtered incoming currents and rapid removal of carbonic gases, applied to homes, theaters, schools, factories, pits, and any crowded spaces.
The elder Bennett favored a London daily modeled on American papers and the son reportedly backs the plan with investments of 500 000 to 1 000 000 dollars. The project aims to bring New York or Chicago journal features to London.
The immense Chicago waterworks pumping engine is claimed to be the largest in the world. It is rated at 1 200 horsepower and the fly wheel turns seven times each minute. The pumps raise 28 000 000 gallons daily and the works consume 10 000 tons of coal annually costing about 70 000 dollars.
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