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Newspaper
Freeman And Messenger
Location
Lodi, New York, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1840
Page
2
Reverend A W Hare urges reflecting on Sundays as a rich gift from God. He argues every seventh day forms a year of Sundays and questions what a person has learned of God and heavenly duty. He notes four primed decades of life prior to adulthood and ten more years in which to devote to holy study.
The account portrays Louis Philippe as an early rising ruler who reads diplomatic dispatches and secret communications, hosts ministers and visitors, and focuses on trades and manufacture topics. He holds six o clock dinners with simplicity, attends to family, and ends with cabinet work by ten, avoiding politics at home.
The text details a person’s strict schedule with nocturnal work, early awakenings, and quiet study. It notes constant calls at 7 a.m., possible 6 a.m. wake times, long cabinet hours, and brief daytime naps during travel or in the countryside, including observing masons and gardeners after dinner.
A pair of resurrectionists disinter an unknown man, dress him in a frock coat, and ride home in a covered wagon. They stop at a tavern to drink, leaving the corpse seated upright with reins in his lap. A hostler notices the silent figure and discovers the ghastly joke, provoking fear and sudden retreat by the medical students.
ILALL CULBY of Greece 1840 describes using leached ashes around fence posts to prevent decay. He notes experiments with oak, red beech, chestnut, and red cedar posts set 2 to 4 feet deep, claiming posts surrounded by ashes stay sound for many decades. He outlines a method involving a bottom layer of ashes, stones, earth, surface ash, and periodic renewal, estimating minimal cost and effort.
Farmers report difficulties with smut in wheat and describe a brine and lime test to improve seed treatment. The note asserts their spring wheat was smuttier in the past and explains a seed preparation process begun by soaking seed in water before further steps.
In a 1910 note by Fd. Hume, growers describe soaking repers te the light kernela and oats in strong brine, draining, drying on a barn floor with lime, and sowing seed. He claims seed prepared this way shows no smut, unlike neighbors who skip the prep. The author notes spring wheat sowing occurred around early May.
Take a dry cask or box, such as an old flour barrel, and lay a layer of coarse salt. Place a ham, cover with salt, and repeat until full. Set the cask in a cool dry place. When needed, remove a ham. it will be clean and void of vermin. Salt remains usable for fall use. a damp cellar risks salt dissolution. Hams must be well dried before storing.
Fragmentary notice advertising a venereal disease clinic in Albany linked to Professor Cooke and the Albany Lock Hospital. It promotes treatment for syphilis and related conditions, claims superior expertise, and invites patients to consult at the hospital premises with confidential appointments and private chambers.
An advertisement for Winslow's Compound Balsam of Horehound claims it cures coughs, asthma, influenza, whooping cough, and breast ailments leading to consumption. Prepared by J.A. Loll, Rochester, it promises rapid relief and includes a warranty based on the proprietor's experience. A caution notes genuine bottles have an engraved proprietor seal and wrapper seals to prevent counterfeits.
The firm at 6 Mar Street Borrano announces expansion to greatly extended scale to meet rising demand for their goods. They promise continued quality and prompt fulfillment of orders. Western merchants are advised to send orders to Hagar Wortman & Co. at No Ohio Street for a first rate assortment of groceries wines and liquors available in Buffalo. April 10, 1839.
FAVE subscribers who purchased the Woolen Factory laced taps to carding, cloth dressing, and weaving. They offer wool processing on shares or by the yard at reasonable rates. New machines enable carding and cloth dressing with the aim to restore production and expand weaving output including eight quarters wide fabrics and carpets. 20 barrels of painted goods and other produce received.
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