Locomotive tales and county manual labor debate
The item mixes a publication rate schedule for Freeman and Messenger with agricultural advice on summer fallowing and weed control. It includes lore on Jabez Doolittle and a Knickerbocker piece about a locomotive tale, plus various rural curiosities and a proposal for a county manual labor school championing practical farming and temperate schooling.
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the Freeman and Messenger
COUNTY MANUAL LABOR SCHOOL
Hints for Farm Practice from Genesee Farmer
Practical advice on farm discipline and efficiency including sheltering ploughs and implements, timely work by farmers, careful budgeting of hogs and poultry, using hens to control pests, reducing complaints through honest labor, improving butter quality by removing buttermilk, keeping fences secure, and favoring summer fallowing for wheat. It emphasizes planning, innovation, and steady industry as cures for hard times.
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Genesee
Napoleon
Missionary Hymn to a Foreign Land
A poetic plea of longing for homeland and duty to spread the gospel abroad. The speaker resists farewell but chooses to depart for heathen lands, lauding sacred peace, Sabbath joy, and the Saviour’s redemptive work. The verse alternates between affection for natives and resolve to labor on deserts and mountains.
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The Dreaming Girl in the N Y Literary Gazette
From the New York Literary Gazette a verse piece about a dreaming girl adrift on mist and memory. Infantile innocence gives way to an unearthly pull as a crimson blush fades to a dying flame. A sudden waking spills fear as lunar light floods the prison of ivy and quiet halls.
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St. Joseph
Anaxander
New Orleans
New York
Cape St. Blas
Apalachicola
Columbus
Beauty and Time in a Myrtle Shade
A summer scene follows Beauty wandering in pleasure through flowering lanes and discovering Time deeply sleeping beneath a myrtle shade. She notes his closed eyes and resting posture, gently covering him with roses as she pauses to observe the scene. The verse centers on the paradox of beauty amid time’s quiet slumber.
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Tony
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Beauty
Montreal Transcript
Charles
Jessey
Timu
dominions
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BEAUTY AND TIME
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