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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1872
Page
3
A jumble of names, places, and odd facts fills a fragmentary page. Notes mention Paris resident Niasson and Gen Sherman homeward, Jennys in poor health, and ventures from Saratoga winnings to ecclesiastical plans. The piece blends anecdotes, antiquated opinions, and dramatic vignettes without a single clear narrative.
A correspondent describes Native American tanning of buckskin using deer brains or calf brains. Skins soak in water, hair removed, brain paste heated to blood heat, skins stretched on a frame, rubbed to expel water and fat, then smoked over a pit with rotten wood. They are finished by chalking or gypsum, scraping, and beating.
James Gordon Bennett plans a grand monument in New York's Greenwood Cemetery to honor his father. The white marble shaft would bear the inscription James Gordon Bennett and mark his birth place and title founder of the New York Herald, with the cost rumored near 200000.
An article urges abundance in fruits and promotes home canning as healthful and economical. It gives a simple rule of one pound sugar per four pounds fruit, water to prevent burning, and sealing methods with wax resin cement. A statistical table shows boil times and sugar amounts.
A Lycoming Gazette correspondent reports carbolic acid as an effective shoe fly remedy. Mix two to three ounces of crude carbolic acid with a quart of water and sponge the horse lightly before riding to deter flies. A small amount sprinkled in stalls also drives flies away.
Farmers in Kentucky report abundant harvests of corn wheat oats tobacco and fruits including apples peaches and pears. The season features high quality produce and strong yields across the agricultural sectors statewide.
A Frenchman proposes treating political unrest by placing young politicians in hospitals where they receive large doses of political economy and speeches on rights and wrongs. Disturbers of the peace would be kept inside until thoroughly disgusted with politics, with limited admission for a few red hot sectarians who would discuss topics until exhausted.
In Alamo Tennessee a woman who shared coffee with two traveling peddlers died after they fell ill and perished. An inquiry found a box of matches had fallen into the pot, with sulfur and other poisons making the drink fatally toxic.
Shipbuilders debate the torpedo threat and urge devices on or off the hull to deflect or shove torpedoes away before impact. The discussion notes growing explosive power of torpedoes and the difficulty of true torpedo proofing. HotaNnbd has ten thousand wind mills.
The piece describes rolling mill workers starting at 4 AM, with 125 to 135 degree heat near furnaces and rolls. It contrasts the myth of machine all work with human toil, noting sleepless hours, sweating clothing, and intense physical strain justifying high wages.
The East India firm Gledstone & Co. which lately failed was founded sixty years ago and had a large capital. Five years earlier it had a capital of $3,000,000. Losses came from a drop in Manchester goods sent to China and from East import trade. No England failure of this size, about $10,000,000, has occurred in fifteen years.
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