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Newspaper
Friendship Weekly Register
Location
Friendship, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1889
Page
8
The article describes fall plowing and spring sowing of flax seed in Ireland, using a hand pouch and traditional sifting. It details the processing at a mill with the scutching and re-scutching steps, the division of earnings among miller and laborers, and the harsh rural economics ending with the flax farmer's meager income and eviction fears.
Police inspector McDevitt warns of a novel scheme where arson is staged to collect insurance. He cites professional arsonists known as freworkers, with a New York base and agents in Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, and other cities. The group targets small retail clothing stores using forged glaziers and other operatives to burn goods for profits.
The article recounts a complex case where suspects deny involvement in a robbery linked to a faulty compass. It notes a woman’s protest of fault being with a veldsmith and describes a judge’s remarks and public spectacle. It also traces the compass’s history from Chinese origins to European adoption, culminating in a 19th century ownership dispute.
Sand rapidly covers tombs on the hill opposite As souama Egypt where Sir Fraser Grenfell notes a stone edge suggesting an ancient stairway. Ninety two steps lead to chambers richly painted but quickly buried again by desert sand. An English cemetery near Agsouam houses over a hundred graves since 1884.
An 19th century farming digest discusses ox shoeing to improve work, blanket use for horses to save feed, hive entrances in cold weather, barbed wire fencing care, and treating wounds with pine tar and bittersweet salve. It covers cattle feeding, open air versus barn fattening, stock salability, and general farm management tips including fertilizer, poultry housing, and winter shelter.
Four steam plows perform excellent work at Tulare near the eighteen-mile House ranch. Cal Tie plows turn earth well followed by drays that pulverize clods leaving smooth ground. The engine runs day and night with lamps lit, consuming straw and ten men handle the operation. The traction moves from field to field, plowing about serentx acres every twenty four hours, praised as a wonderful invention for seeding and harvesting grain.
Hermosa New Mexico reports the heaviest snowstorm on record. Ranchman J B Newman recounts Captain thoseier becoming lost with his horse. He killed the horse and lived inside it for three days, surviving on raw river until reaching Diamond Creek Ranch on the eighth day.
Pry Prairie Farmer describes a simple candy for children using white sugar butter and water boiled to thread then mixed with freshly popped corn or nut meats as a rich alternative.
Curated notes cover tea brewing with a spirit lamp, making cabbage pickle, apple and plum confections, lamp wick care for clean burns, and kitchen housekeeping. Also includes recipes for crackers, honey cake, Guippie cakes, tapioca jelly, pancake batter, mutton broth for invalids, potato yeast, and brief U.S. state facts.
An old advertisement promotes various remedies including a claimed radical cure for epileptic fits and a tonic for coughs asthma and croup. It offers free sample bottles from druggists and promises a paid Guide and treatise by mail, listing a New York address for responses. It mentions a Jerusalem church memory and portrays miraculous healing claims.
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