Sorghum Cultivation Spreading in Illinois and Farm Practice
The Germantown Telegraph notes sorghum as a viable crop in Lasalle County Illinois with over two hundred sores grown this season yielding about one hundred fifty gallons per acre. Local mills average five hundred gallons daily, and farmers are urged to prepare for seasonal manufacture or expand sugar works locally.
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New-Youren
W. B. P .Prattsburg
Borghum
Iowa
Warlville
Lasalle Co
Ilinois
Mississippi
Illinois
J. Dunxis Rougns
Earlville
Lasalle Gr
Catawissa Raspberry Described as Real Desideratum
An 1830s note extols the Catawissa raspberry for two crops per season with late autumn ripening. It claims large, excellent fruit on the bushes by November 1 and mentions growers harvesting through early November. The rest is a political dispatch about President Buchanan, Lincoln, and Southern reactions to secession rhetoric.
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Catawissa
Congress
South Carolina
Buchanan
South
Telis Ding Messera Cobb
Thompson
Lincoln
Thep Herald
Lapresa
Journal of Commerce
State Treasure's Fiscal Report for 1859 60
The document details receipts and disbursements of the General Fund for the year ending September 30 1860, noting a balance on hand of 39 044 44 and total receipts of 309 put as 308 414 29 409 619 40. It lists major disbursements to hospitals prisons educational institutes and societies totaling 178 166 56, leaving a balance of 192 397 88 for remaining state expenses. Sam D Wasrives signs as State Treasurer.
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Hospital For the Insane
Institute For the Education of the Deaf and
Domb
Institute For the Education of the Blind
State Reform School
Geological Survey
State Agricultural Society
County Agric’l Socities
State Historical Society
Adina Insurance Co
Sheboygen County
Sam
D. Wasrives
Styles of Women in the Spanish Islands Viewed by an English Traveler
An English critic reviews Mrs Murray's travel book on Santa Cruz Teneriffe women. The passage praises the Englishwoman for energy and honor, contrasts Moorish and Spanish women with domestic life, and extols a fearless, free English ideal over exoticized beauty.
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Santa Cruz
Teneriffe
Duenna
Academy
Finishing a Deceptive Receipt by a Western Clerk
A report from a Western business firm describes a Futt.-Teutonic worker who was paid off and asked to sign a receipt. After much scratching he produced a poorly written receipt reading Ight full, I wants no more money. Joun Swackwamaes. The anecdote highlights awkward spelling and a comical signing error in a routine dismissal.
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Reorter
Futt
Editor’s Burden TacIt in Press Duty
The Home Journal notes editors bear heavy burdens as they must write daily despite sorrow illness or calamity. The public sees only polished copy while the journalist hides personal grief and presses on.
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Tou Enrrorray Treapar
Horse bitten by mad dog dies after hydrophobia symptoms
Our neighbor George W. Shultes lost a horse that was bitten by a mad dog. The horse showed hydrophobia symptoms within two weeks and had violent fits, reportedly breaking its skull against stable legs.
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George W. Shultes
Mantorville
Washington parish church cited as dilapidated for repair
An Episcopal clergyman in Fairfax County Virginia acknowledges a donation from the Southern Aid Society and notes Old Pohio Church near Mount Vernon where Gen. Washington worshipped as vestryman. He says the church is very dilapidated and an appeal will be made to repair it.
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Agricultural
Noa
Germantown
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