The Universal Bug as Musician and Menace
A long, humorous essay extols bugs as natural musicians heard in day and night. It details their changing colors and shapes, their omnipresence, and the awe they inspire, culminating in a playful plea that people tolerate and even cherish these insect performers despite their mischief. Grounded in observed nature, the piece punningly elevates the bug to a grand yet comical figure of daily life.
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Shep
Velit
Autanin
Lin
Withaell
Hartony
Webster
Thoughts for Farmers on Apple Worm Destruction
The article explains an imported apple worm threatening apples, detailing its life cycle, appearance, and timing. It urges farmers to act now by turning orchards into hog pastures or consuming and destroying infested apples, and offers methods like Trimble hay bands and trunk care to reduce worm numbers. Strong entities include LaGonda and Missouri State Entomologist C. Y. Riley.
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Europe
Curculia
Suel Foster
Iowa
Trimble
C. Y. Riley
Missouri
LaGonda
Farmers' Club Proceedings in Damascus July 19 1876
The Farmers' Club at Damascus held a regular meeting amid a busy season with full attendance. Members discussed education for farmer's daughters and sons, wheat profitability, and freight reductions. Rev Donmeyer spoke on raspberries, Miss Donmeyer performed music, Hon H C Burchard funded books, and a girls recreation topic was debated and settled.
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Damascus
Bvtror
Mesars
Rigley
Rieckner
Lena Harmonic German Singing Society
Donmeyer
Burdett
H.C. Burchard
S. Trarx
Cor
Fertilizing Pastures and Evergreen Care Advice
To maintain pasture fertility, avoid poisonous and useless plants while promoting valuable growth. For evergreens turning pale, apply a thorough dressing of barnyard manure to the extremities of the branches for a deep green color and strong health.
Manure From Pasture Weeds By Scythe Clipping
A contributor notes that clipping over pasture land with a scythe where cattle left coarse areas, carting and stacking near the stable for bedding converts weeds small bushes and coarse grain into manure.
Dickens Visit in Conisville Highlighted by Innkeeper Throckmorton
The Conisville Courier-Journal recounts Dickens first visit to the city, staying at the Galt House where landlord Throckmorton, a bold Southerner linked to Clay and Crittenden, offered to introduce him to Kentucky’s elite. Dickens queried if Throckmorton kept the inn, and Throckmorton promised to summon him when needed.
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Conisville
Dickens
Quaker and quarrelsome neighbor over a wandering cow
A Quaker faced a loud neighbor whose cow repeatedly wandered into the Quaker’s garden. After the neighbor threatened violence, the Quaker warned he would return the cow if found in the garden again, and the cow ceased troubling him thereafter.
Odds and Ends of 19th Century Humor Bits
A collage of brief quips and anecdotes from a 19th century reader, including wordplay on writing and spelling, social mishaps, letters to editors, jokes about dogs and monkeys, a telegraph window scene, a midwestern Kansas editor’s note, and various puns about religion, education, and everyday life. It preserves the quirky tone and broad range of mild humor typical of the era.
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Kansas
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