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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1881
Page
7
An old shoemaker famed for wealth shares a maxim about luck and success. He stresses that steady, disciplined effort through persevering work earns mastery, not talent alone. The passage urges buckling down, applying hand and brain, and keeping pegging away to reach achievement.
Miss Martha Monckton, a cautious spinster, guards her life as events unfold when Letitia Quirk plans an elopement with Humphrey Horton. A runaway cat named Pussy triggers the night chase and a carriage ride that reveals the true couple and leads to a happy, unplanned marriage.
Captain Markham recounts observing a bear stalking a seal on thin ice, then diving and striking. The bear fails to reach the seal and enrages, swimming and diving before a sudden deadly ambush by a rifle shot. The incident ends with the harpooner mimicking a walrus to lure the bear toward danger.
A San Francisco Call description details embalming Mongolian steerage passengers on ships to China. A surgeon injects arsenical solution via neck artery, about two gallons, then seals the body in a redwood casket and stacks on the wheel house top, giving rise to the term Lone Mountain for the pile aboard.
Odd tale describes a well to do farmer in Orange County near Warwick who suffers winter hand trouble with white fingers and red hands while feet stay warm. The condition worsens with cold and even freezes ear and face yet feet glow warm. observed by earlier writer Himira N. Press.
A miscellany of household tips and recipes including lamp cleanup methods with varnish and ashes, a boiled cider pie, a brick treatment with glue and alum, horse feeding guidance, a snow pudding method, a light pot pie, and advice on chapped hands. It also discusses green manuring for farms, recommending millet buckwheat clover and crop rotation to improve soil fertility.
The Germantown Telegraph argues for spring rolling of wheat and rye to restore root position after thaws and improve productivity. It notes rollers pressed into soil help roots grip, suggesting rolling clover fields damaged by frost would also benefit. Timely action is urged to avoid losing advantages.
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