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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1894
Page
4
An American Agriculturist excerpt advises buyers to assess farm value beyond soil. Consider proximity to markets and roads, fences and drainage, residence needs, schools, shade trees, and buildings. Emphasizes long-term shade, orchard value, waste land quality, and tidiness as key selling points.
Describes the hackney as more than a horse for riding. a symbol of wealth and taste in New York and Philadelphia shows. Notes its role in carrying lavish harness and glamorous equipage, driven by young society figures, with emphasis on appearance and status.
The article argues there is no evidence that artificial rain can be produced locally and criticizes Congress for funding such efforts. It labels many proponents as ignorant or unscrupulous, likening patent medicine and electric-healing quacks to those selling unsafe weather manipulation schemes.
Farmers with surplus stock build a straw shelter over a platform on posts. A two side stack forms a pointed cover over the platform, with an inner enclosure to prevent straw waste. Cows and horses winter comfortably, droppings stay unfrozen, and manure can be saved.
The text explains simple spray tools for varying garden sizes. A bucket with a whisk broom suits small plots, a hand-syringe serves medium setups, and a force pump with a barrel on a cart handles large trees or orchards. A long pole attached to a spraying hose ensures leaves are reached.
Stack straw for bedding and sale. grade farm products into uniform lots to fetch better prices. Cabbage club root follows continuous cropping and low lime soil. Paddy rice should be cooked soft. do not cut ensilage corn too soon. Bean weevil control uses bisulphite gas in closed storage. Milk yields ten quarts per pound butter at 22 cents. fourteen quarts per three pounds cheese at a given price.
A Boston trader boasted of possessing the Mosquito crown a tarnished silver band with red plush and missing jewels. He claimed the crown was pawned for rum and kept as a family heirloom, while natives were unaware of the theft as he planned to donate it to a museum.
A meeting of the English Iron and Steel Institute examined polar night conditions in Scandinavia. The debate noted long periods of darkness yet highlighted brightening effects from moonlight aurora and snow.
The basilisk tops medieval monster lore as a crowned eight legged serpent, hatched from an egg of barnyard fowl or crow, with deadly bite and breath. It inspires in literature a glitter in eyes that could kill, while cockcrow alone could kill any basilisk drawn to its gaze.
A London inventor proposes a defense against bullets by stacking soft iron rods in layered grids. A Winchesters bullet could not penetrate the top layer at twenty feet, displacing a rod sideways rather than piercing it. The design suggests using larger cylinders for higher calibers.
A Rio Grande City gentleman told Galveston News staff in San Antonio that Starr County drought relief fundraising failed after Judge J W Munroe was sent as a sole solicitor. He remarks Munroe’s weight and appearance caused laughter, and after a week without funds another envoy was dispatched.
Bishop Wilson of Calcutta, famed for quotable lines, greeted two young guests by praising their fathers. He admired one father’s Apocalypse work and commended the other for such a wise father, delivering a lighthearted jab at their differing Hibical views.
Mixed timetable text shows Fort Wayne Branch and Main Line departures with Chicago connections. Entries include Waterlo, Hillsdale, and various train numbers with times and notes that all trains run daily except Sunday.
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