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Newspaper
Friendship Weekly Register
Location
Friendship, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1888
Page
8
The article advises pine cedar or cypress shingles as superior barn roofs with full underlayment and tarred paper. It suggests painting or dipping shingles to improve durability, waterproofing, and notes winter stall design with 10 foot square boxes, high troughs, and littered earth floors.
Farmers discuss winterizing poultry houses protecting fowls from frost and moisture. Advice covers ventilation, bedding, feeding a varied ration with cottonseed meal, and avoiding overfeeding or muddy nests. Notes on topdressing wheat soil, general farm tips, and small science snippets.
A masked highwayman halted two stage coaches near Santa Barbara and Jestliser, robbing passengers and drivers of cash and mail pouches. He forced riders to don masks, staged a roadside sit, and escaped with about 45 dollars plus other valuables, while noting a surge in similar robberies along the coast. He is linked to the return of the famed highwayman lifestyle in the region.
The article lists top falls by height including those in Scandigavia Verme in Romsdal and Sogne Fjord with heights around 469 feet. It notes Velima Falls near Vernii 214 feet and Tessa Falls in Vai For maca among others. Vic toris Falls in Zamboi are highlighted as widest at 3200 feet.
Dr Tassinari of Pisa University reports experiments testing tobacco fumes on yellow fever bacilli. Varying tobacco types produced delayed germ development or arrest, suggesting microbes may cause yellow fever and that tobacco smoke could influence these germs, though real-world exposure differs from lab conditions.
A Tokyo correspondent visits a Japanese ivory carver in a garden room as he chisels a graceful female form from a tusk. The artist estimates labor at fifty dollars a month, total cost about 540 dollars, and hopes the next piece will surpass this one. He notes a commission for ventilating frets for a palace and contrasts Japanese woodwork prices with Western costs.
The piece details a Pawn fund aiding art redemption for the poor, North End Mission sewing for street children, nurseries for mothers, and a sailors relief society. It then shifts to testimony of crime as three Western Texas cowboys report rapes and killings, followed by medical ads praising remedies for coughs and bronchitis.
A discussion on female suffrage spans reform debates. Arguments cite intelligence and civic duty of women, while critics warn of social disruption and the need for protective measures. The piece notes misgivings about testing citizenship and promises money-back guarantees on wrappers.
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