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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1889
Page
6
A global miscellany reports on scavenger crows in Omaha, slave era remarks, a Birmingham prophet, New York demolitions and brick trades, a Missouri catfish tale, guinea pig farming plans, Asheville sunflowers, St Louis telegraph writing machines, a giant Illinois farm girl, and naval electric weaponry.
The piece surveys birch twigs bark leaves and their supposed medicinal and industrial values. It describes birch oil wintergreen oil and the alleged processes to extract oils, with assorted anecdotes and jokes interwoven from a miscellany of notes and cartoony vignettes.
The largest ox in the world recently displayed at Bourbon stock yards in Louisville. He measures eighteen hands high, eleven feet in girth, five feet from brisket to top withers, and three and a half feet across the ramp, weighing 4,000 pounds. He has appeared at all nearby fairs.
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