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Newspaper
Friendship Weekly Register
Location
Friendship, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1889
Page
6
Agricultural notes discuss geese grazing versus grain diets, topdressing with manure for seed beds, pruning and fruit tree care, and horse shoeing economics. It covers field practices, farm machinery, feed value, and general advice for efficient farming and animal care.
A collage of puns quips and witticisms ranging from slangy one liners about life in New York and New Jersey to shop talk and social humor. The items riff on dogs whales cooks lawyers and rail travel with brief sketches and snippets attributed to newspapers and magazines.
In spring the youth notices a maiden with a pretty face and gliding flutter of a ribbon. The young woman sheds her sealskin and dons new spring finery as love and romance unfold with meetings, confidences, quarrels, and makeups leading to a wedding date. Bastou Courier reports.
Louis Boissevain return from Ecuador describes its vast untapped internal resources and growing exports to California and Chile. He notes Guayaquil as main seaport, rapid rail link to Quito, and President Florrez’s liberal reforms, with gold rubber sugar cattle as key riches needing capital. Also discusses Congo slave trade cruelties and a scientific note on greenhouse atmospheres and high mountain frost.
A San Francisco Chronicle item describes Powell street cable cars using a street annunciator device. An oaken box with glass shows the next street as cars approach, with notes unfolding automatically and a gun slot mechanism triggering the display to reveal the upcoming street. The invention saves breath for passengers and conductors.
A wealthy husband and a clever wife exchange a telegraphic code for money matters. He relies on a one word telegram Laugh to test his scheme, while a coded demand for five hundred dollars follows. The fragment blends a noir edge with a family scene and an ad rhetoric mash of the era.
An early 20th century invention uses an inverted pyramid hopper under sidewalk chutes to receive coal from carts. The device weighs and records the load on heavy scales via a lever and wooden frame, claiming precise measurement of tons per dump.
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