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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1873
Page
8
A rustic refrain urges farmers to rise in unity to feed the world. The call names the tillers of the ground and appeals for fair reward, urging broad action and shared harvests as a new social charge in the countryside.
A Germantown telegram replies on lime use in orchards noting lime applications of eighty bushels per acre every five years can improve trees. It cites whitewash methods from Saunders at Washington, detailing lime and sulfur preparations and spring application timing for trunks and trunks.
The Virginia Farmers' Club favors a cost saving method for tobacco beds. It urges selecting original growth shoots away from arable land, cleaning leaves, deep bed preparation, minimal surface soil, sowing 1000 pounds of guano per acre, and careful sowing and covering. The plan includes March sowing and staged plant cultivation with manure and mulch to conserve moisture.
The Hammondsville Independent outlines regional farming gear in Northern Illinois, noting steel plows, two furrow pang-plows, wheeled seeders, and sully cultivators. It highlights new harvester platforms, larger corn shellers, windmills for stock water, and steam-fed stock feed mills as labor savers, while remarking Western farming demands substantial labor and capital. It also shares a blanching method using lye and ashes to peel peaches and onions for pickling.
A Syracuse Second Ward tale of a missing flock of geese found by a gander returning to the owner. The gander alarmed the flock, leading to the barn where the rest were kept hidden, with the escape traced to a barn door hole.
A writer argues men are not fascinated by business women and women only admire them in newspapers. He mocks gentle types who cannot distinguish basics and who neglect money knowhow, insisting practical women seek rights through duties.
Katy, a 3 year old, plans a birthday surprise for her father. She asks her grandmother for help in obtaining a baby sister without telling papa, expressing a hopeful wish and childlike affection.
The Bartford Courant argues Lieutenant Fred D Grant, son of the President, serves as an aid on General Sheridan’s staff with a nominal rank of Lieutenant Colonel. It notes staff appointments are honors, not permanent promotions, and are often paired with extra pay while staff duty lasts.
General Sherman warns a summer Indian war is likely as Arapahoe and Cheyenne prep for fighting. Bellknap tours border regions to assess danger while youths push for war. Frontier letters blame white buffalo hunting for fueling tensions and argue for strong protection of settlers. Local Connecticut results show mixed gains for parties in governor and Congress races.
A young man accepts a duelist’s challenge and returns home to his mother who discovers the rival practicing with a pistol in his garden and hitting the mark. She grabs a pistol and shoots. The case tests emotions of a French jury as the mother may be acquitted.
A town editor asks Yale College for graduates from the School of Journalism. He plans to hire two writers soon after they graduate, offering about six dollars a week.
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