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Newspaper
Friendship Weekly Register
Location
Friendship, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1889
Page
8
Fragmented readable lines show partial items from a local page segment with scattered names places and events. The legible bits hint at notices and brief items but full context remains unclear.
Practical tips from Avericas Cultivator and New York World on pig pen floors to keep pens dry and clean, methods to graft calves to a cow, and the art of curry combing horses. Also guidance on winter lettuce in glass houses, milk production, buckwheat as a weed-suppressing crop, and beekeeping notes.
Lesor A J Coot reports in the New York Tribune that Japanese buckwheat fields produced abundant nectar for bees. He notes half the field was planted in June and the other half later, costing him 3 a bushel, but the quality and quantity of honey earned for winter stores impressed him.
An Iowa farmer describes using a steel rail dragged by teams to level ground spread manure and uproot corn stubble. He reports faster, cheaper field preparation, deeper soil work, and a clean, ready-to-plow field after several passes. The method also levels ridges and controls weeds, with roots broken and soil packed firm in weeks.
The article offers practical farming advice covering warmth in feed, turkey and chicken rearing, manure management, and housing. It includes notes on skim milk for sows, beekeeping advice, horse tack for cold weather, and a dictum against overcrowding in poultry. It emphasizes animal health, efficiency, and profitability.
The article discusses winter feeding for bees with honey or syrup per colony and how warmer stores affect consumption. It notes that protection reduces cod consumption and cites two remedies for ants: P A Larsen of Norway recommends fish intestines placed in the nest, while C Criberg suggests powdered lime around hives for similar effect.
The London flower trade thrives at about $25 a day with French growers supplying Covent Garden. From Nice to Cannes a winter spring railway and postal route delivers thousands of dozens of flowers and ferns, including lilac syringa narcissus and hyacinth, though English production remains limited. Perfume manufacture from sowers in Grasse adds to the continent’s floral prominence.
An article describes Austrian bent wood furniture formed from red beech strips bent by steam, dried, and joined into durable pieces. It recounts a tale of Sir John Bright sharing salmon, reconciling generosity with caution after a misstep in a tavern anecdote.
Celina Doiselet, a girl not yet thirteen, faced the Assize Court of the Rube in France on charges of deliberately killing two young boys aged three years and six months. She allegedly harmed them to avoid caring for them as a nursemaid under her parents. She admitted some remorse and was sentenced to ten years in a house of correction.
A sorrowful weaver toils alone in a dark room with tears staining the loom. A white angel appears in a vision, taking him from his labor to a tomb where his dead daughter rises alive, and returns him to his shop with renewed purpose as he resumes weaving and finds peace through labor.
A collage of humor notes, proverbs, and social quips from a bygone issue. It parodies manners of courtship, manners in public, and daily life with odd spellings and playful phrases, featuring faux headlines, jokes about courtship and marriage, and comic snippets about servants and ladies.
Ernest Geyer known as General Tom Pounce the famous dwarf from Tom Thumb fame died in poverty on Greer street Cleveland Ohio. He earned over 100000 in life but spent lavishly and after losing health faded from public view. He lived with his brother after arriving from Saxon Weimar as a child and left only a diamond ring and gold watch. He passed away after aid from John Widmson who cared for him in his final weeks and was laid to rest in a child’s coffin wearing his stage dress suit.
A travelogue notes the pulque trade along Mexico’s rail line into Mexico City with hogskin bottles and lively stations. It also advertises Kemp’s Balsam and Sports Emulsion as widely trusted medicines praised by physicians, with testimonials and free samples offered to readers.
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