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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1883
Page
6
The article stresses starting a moderate grain feed before winter and increasing gradually to keep sheep in good health. It covers best feeds, feeding schedules, water and housing needs, lamb and ewe care, and the value of manure, urging careful, steady feeding and avoidance of overfeeding for profitable, healthy wintering.
The American Agriculturist urges Western farmers to combat weeds spreading from Eastern rail lines. It notes April to August displays of weeds from dandelions to thistles, and highlights that Eastern farms spend a third of their labor on weed control. It calls for persistent, early effort to keep hedge rows and roadsides clear and warns that laws and public opinion push weed eradication.
A five year old boy pleads with a police sergeant to release his father who was detained for begging. The boy defends his “splendid papa” and promises they won’t be caught again, winning the sergeant’s sympathy and the pair’s release. The scene on Chestnut near Fifth endears officers to the child and contrasts hardship with paternal affection.
In a Colorado town the coroner and city marshal are estranged after the marshal saved a man near death on the railway. The coroner, in a sharp remark, expresses personal grievance saying no friend of mine takes the shingles off my roof.
Mexican papers protest Chinese expansion in Chihuahua with claims of hotel and factory development and displacement of locals from business. They express concern over foreign influence and economic competition.
The New York Sun explains how two time tables—public and employee—guide trains and keep schedules precise. The New Jersey division adopts half minute timing, revised pages, yellow Sunday leaves, and track diagrams to aid engineers.
Contemporary Review recalls how English is taught as Aryan and Indo European. It notes Sanskrit’s kinship with Greek Latin and Anglo-Saxon, and describes scholars resisting the idea of a shared origin.
A Pall Mall Gazette tale recalls a dramatic contest where a British Governor staged a hundred yard chess battle against the Thugs to settle a deadly feud. The board used elephants as castles and living pawns, with the Governor ultimately capturing the conspirators and sparing the rival queen as a display of magnanimity.
The New Haven Register questions if publicizing a Connecticut inventor’s rat trap is a disgrace to the state in a brief editorial note.
In a hill village famed for temples, a tiger protected by the goddess Camackria tormented villagers’ cattle. Two friends built a machan, waited for the beast, and were seized by a paralyzing trance and coma after a midnight encounter. They awoke in the village headman’s house and questioned their beliefs in the goddess’s invulnerability.
A Boston Post report quotes the father saying his son, a bank cashier, was caught stealing. He laments the dishonor to his family, claims he would have hidden the misdeed if older, then breaks down in tears.
Fashion notes miniature imitations of kitchen items worn as jewelry by stylish women. The piece humorously suggests a lady could hang rolling pins and heavy kitchen tools as gold adornments, including sad irons, brooms, tongs, and shovels.
Use one cup cold boiled rice one pint flour two eggs one quart milk one tablespoon butter and a pinch of salt. Beat thoroughly and bake quickly.
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