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Newspaper
Friendship Weekly Register
Location
Friendship, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1889
Page
6
Agricultural column discusses timing for cutting clover and hay curing methods, remedies for gapes in chicks, horn cutting effects on milk, young fruit tree care, and sheep grazing benefits. It emphasizes practical farming tips for home use and market, including pasture management and crop health practices.
Practical advice for farming and animal care emphasizes timely harvest, diversified feed, clean water, and humane handling. Topics cover mower investments, chick growth, grain quality, buckwheat to deter cutworms, poultry and equine management, breeding ethics, and calf development for lifelong vigor.
The Detroit Free Press outlines a smoke method using camphor to drive mosquitoes, plus airing clothing, brushing, and steaming to kill moth larvae. It advises fumigating chests with sulphur, placing coals and sulfur, and using camphor bags under furniture seats to deter moths, with professional benzine baths for hair filled upholstery.
A guide to palatable farm beverages includes ginger water with molasses and cider vinegar, cocoa tea from shells, buttermilk drinks, oatmeal water, lemon juice additions, and ginger beer recipes. Raspberry vinegar, lemon syrup, and lemonade variations are described along with a note on silk culture in California ending due to cheap cocoons from Asia.
A collection of aphorisms on honesty virtue and self reliance. The text cautions against mockery unearned wealth and deceit urging personal effort obedience to natural law and independence over vain display. It also notes limits of knowledge and the value of experiential truth.
A German family in Houston displays a so called human-faced rat at the Natural History Club. They claim the creature arose after a infant's death believed caused by rat bites. Dr. Pinning endorses the theory linking the rat to the baby’s blood milk.
Two divers descended in submarine armor to locate a mine fire at Grass Valley Idaho, near the 700 to 1000 foot levels. Heat melted seals and both men inhaled gas, forcing an emergency ascent. The headway of the exploration halted as conditions worsened.
A wife in Ithaca told of New York Governor Cornell’s habit of returning late to Albany, quizzed about the hour he said about midnight, and later found the clock hands pointed to half past two revealing a ruse. The Philadelphia Record notes the anecdote as a cautionary tale about marital life and public figures.
A story recalling a British private at Waterloo who held a hedge surrounded orchard position under heavy fire. Two loaded wagons carried powder to the post. the first wagon exploded, destroying horse and rider, while the second crossed a burning breach to deliver supplies. The private died later, believing he had saved the day.
An eminent railroad man notes the fastest regular express trains in the United States run daily between Philadelphia and Washington at about forty five miles per hour with bursts over sixty five. He says two English roads match or beat this over long distances while American speeds to 100 mph require different locomotives cars and tracks and compromise safety and comfort.
A Times-Democrat report notes that amid bread shortages at the Paris Exposition, an American restaurant offered hot bread from a flour barrel but Parisian diners refused to buy it. They said they would rather go hungry than risk digestive trouble from the hot, hard-to-digest loaf.
Idaho shows rapid development from 1880 to 1888 with delegate votes rising from 7000 to over 16300 and public school spending increasing from 9000 to 140000 annually. The state’s 55000000 acres comprise 25000000 grazing and 15000000 agricultural lands.
Dr. Pierce asserts his medicines surpass all others due to superior curative properties. He offers a guarantee that patients will be benefited or cured, or money will be refunded. The Golden Medical Discovery targets catarrh to chest and lung diseases when used early and with fair trial. The Congressional Library holds 615,781 volumes and 200,000 pamphlets.
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