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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1881
Page
6
Practical instructions from Scientific American and Gardener's Chronicle detail egg preservation methods. Techniques include lime pickle with salt and water, wax oil glaze, charcoal and sugar packing, and water glass coatings. Also notes on storage in cool cells, risks of shell brittleness, and six months to two years with proper technique.
An illustration of pest control for fruit trees describes old brush methods and modern sprays using paralline fir tree oil and nicotine soap. It details scale insects including white scale and pear scale, notes winter application for stronger insecticides, and warns that apple tree knotty bark blight spreads quickly, with paraffin oil as a highly effective treatment.
The piece recounts evidence from explorers and scholars that Native American tribes built mounds for burials and monuments. It notes examples among Omahas Choctaws Osages and Yamacraw and describes mounds on the Rivanna Shenandoah and New YorkState sites with varied construction and human remains. It ends with Virginia complaints about English sparrows and their invasive, persistent nesting.
A compilation of diverse statistics including California barley shipped to Chicago for malting, US railroad locomotives and rolling stock, winter ice costs at Boston hotels, immigrant money estimates, a pale historic note on a locust post in Easton, oleomargarine exports, and extensive crop produce figures for buckwheat, barley, oats, wheat, corn and rye. The piece also reports color blindness study results in England, fruit acids reacting with tin, and tin content in canned fruit.
A collage of quips and witticisms from multiple papers. Notable lines include a remark on inventors dying poor and a note on the telegraph and telephone pioneers. The collection also jokes about stock reports and a humorous anecdote about Uncle Mose and Austin.
William Morgan, a workman at Pickel Marble Works on Labeaume Street and Broadway, lost hold of a hoist handle and fell into moving stones. The wheels gripped his throat until helpers released him, leaving a deep throat wound and a badly injured windpipe. He was taken to Sisters' Hospital after medical aid.
A survey of varied items from 17th century teacups sold in London to laws in New Jersey banning Sunday fishing. It covers European debt trends, social customs at French races, empress dowager Che-An, and oddities like a speaking machine exhibit in London and a trained fox terrier on the London rail network.
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