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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1881
Page
6
A Iowa State Register essay urges farmers to avoid debt and speculative markets. It contrasts mercantile risk with farming prudence, showing Chicago’s business failures and fashion-driven costs. It argues steady, intelligent farming leads to independence, while outside speculation ruins many.
An English physician Dr Duckworth of the Royal College of Physicians argues milk is essential nutrition and warns its declining use threatens national health. He urges five quarts daily for a family of ten and a quart per child, suggesting milk could prevent rickets and improve vigor amid climate differences between Britain and the United States. He notes mild remedies like carbonate of soda or lime water to aid digestion and endorses larger milk consumption for healthful outcomes.
A rural essay urges persistent weed control in grass fields to improve hay quality. It favors frequent cutting to exhaust weed roots, especially ox-eye daisies and thistles, and advocates mowing roadsides, clearing hedges to the fence, and preventing seed ripening. Railroads spread weed seeds, so premiums for clean fields are proposed.
The piece argues for a generous milk diet to combat adulteration via glucose and oleomargarine factories. It warns that reliance on bone and sinew alone fails nations, citing the Kirghiz in Central Asia surviving on milk. The author claims milk is an untampered, elementary food source crucial for national vitality.
An 19th century excerpt explains wool shrinking from felting due to rough fiber surfaces and friction. It advises washing in warm water, gentle handling, and hot to hotter water changes. The piece compares cotton and linen fibers as straight and smooth and less prone to shrink. It then outlines a German Peach Pickle recipe with vinegar, brown sugar, spices, and peaches, plus a Green Corn Pudding method with corn, eggs, butter, milk, and baking.
The High Church in England reacts to Victoria attending a funeral service of Congregational form. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society has 830 auxiliaries and 21,338 members with a treasury of 98785 dollars. Mississippi has 46,000 Baptist members in 00 churches, only ten preach weekly and six sustain themselves. A National Preachers' Institute is planned for St Louis in the fall. Texas seeks unemployed Protestant Episcopal clergy. Bishop Gregg invites applicants at Austin. Ontario teachers debate curricula and report oversupply of third rate teachers with many applications for low-salary posts. An East Indian Bishop ordains Thomas Richards, a miner from Cornwall, who has taught himself multiple languages and now teaches natives of Batman. The Christian Union critiques U S seminaries and suggests consolidation. six seminaries hold significant property. England's Roman Catholic nobility gather at Stonyhurst to mark the college's anniversary, with Jesuits returning to England since the Reformation and a student reciting the Odyssey from memory. There are about 300 boys from Roman Catholic families at Stonyhurst.
London Field reports on beaver trapping in the Northwest exposing white and mixed crews using squaw labor, profits skimmed by post traders, and Indian agents. The piece describes multiethnic outfits, brutal labor by enslaved women, and inflation of pelts as beaver skins drive profits.
A famous trotter Maud S. is to have new shoes. A noted city shoer tended the job at the blacksmith shop. Police kept the crowd clear as nails and tail hair were saved as souvenirs for the owner’s friends. The new hind and fore shoes weighed eight and fifteen and a half ounces respectively. An added note recalls guayids sworn as constables on British railroads for county coverage.
A collection of practical advice from cookery, animal care, and garden science. Instructions range from peeling peaches with ease to feeding sunflower seeds to poultry, making chalk soap, and preparing vinegar pies. Included are tips on fence for hogs, pruning dead branches, and a turpentine cure for lockjaw and croup.
The heart provides the driving force while arteries act as elastic conduits, smoothing flow and delivering blood steadily. Veins hold blood, with valves preventing backflow, and muscular compression aids venous return. Breathing and tissue oxygen demand help regulate circulation, with capillary forces adapting flow to organ needs.
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