Fatal lightning and accident notes in scattered reports
Reports of deaths from lightning strikes and machinery accidents across various locations. Incidents include a bridge hit by lightning and collapsed, workers crushed or severed on roofs and gears, a farmer discovering a hung man near Neosho, a train wreck attempt near Jordan City thwarted, and a string of deaths in a single family from cholera and related causes amid a rural Missouri setting.
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Republican State Platforms from Illinois and Indiana
The document presents Republican platforms urging enforcement of emancipation and civil rights, national banking reform, opposition to wariness in currency, and direct popular vote for president and vice president. It endorses railway and interstate trade measures, noninterference with personal customs, fair treatment of rail passengers, and impartial enforcement of laws within state and national contexts.
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Indiana Republicans Uphold Principles and Public Reform
The piece defends the Republican party’s fidelity to its principles and critiques Democratic infallibility. It highlights unity, reform, and accountability, citing actions like Credit Mobilier divestiture, salary revamp, and investigations into corruption in the District of Columbia as evidence of commitment to public welfare. The article portrays Republicans as committed to removing injustices and exposing abuses, while emphasizing allegiance to the people over party.
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Republican Party Platform Endorsed by TadMINacvt Conventional
The convention declares unchangeable commitment to Republican principles and national unity. It favors measures to boost agricultural and mercantile prosperity, limit railroad land grants, improve inland navigation, ensure fair capital labor relations, and expand currency while preventing capital control. It condemns temperance issues and supports school funding and veteran pensions.
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Advice to Farmers and Domestic Life in a Rough Household
A fragment from a periodical urges husbands to help their wives with daily chores and courtship rituals, advising small acts like keeping hall shoes ready, avoiding dirt, dressing neatly, and reading aloud to show interest in her concerns. It also references sewing machine advertising costs and a bizarre tale of a patient hoax involving garlands and chemistry amid broader musings on domestic life.
Practical Household Repairs And Dairy Churning Tips
Instructions on making Turkish cement for waterproofing joints and repairing carvings, plus advice on butchery cleansing with saleratus solution, for mutton dressing. It also covers cream quality, churning timing, and how light affects fermentation and butter color.
Corn for Soiling and Winter Forage Practices
The piece extols Indian corn as the cheapest forage plant in the West for late summer from sowing after planting the corn crop and continuing every ten days to early July. It recommends sowing 3 to 4 bushels per acre, drilling 1.5 inches deep with 7 inch rows for even distribution, plowing in broadcast seed if done, and thorough harrowing to kill weeds. It notes Western dent corn as effective but not worth extra sugar corn cost, and discusses making hay and storing fodder for winter, with emphasis on not sowing corn exclusively for winter forage when corn is cheap to grow.
Drought Aid Statement From Rural Meade Editor
Fragmentary OCR notes discuss an dairy man’s duty to provide forage for cows through droughts. It references tech crops and summer shortages, with emphasis on winter feeding obligations and rural Meade context.
Your chuldisi guide to child farming and garden work
A Victorian era piece urges teaching children gardening by gendered plots, with boys digging soil and growing vegetables while girls handle flowers. It stresses proper tools, early drills, and simple seed practices, arguing that patient instruction builds lifelong agricultural skills and appreciation.
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W. Y. Herald
Animal Foot for Fowls Provide Limited Meat Rations
Pacific Rural Press discusses how fowls on moist ground find animal food from worms and insects, but as dry season comes they need a substitute. It warns against excess raw or cooked meat creating a ravenous appetite, leading to feather plucking and fights. Boiled meat and bones can be used as manure or feed, with boiled meat water mixed into other feed.
The Plum Curculio Insect Behavior And Control Hints
The Plum Curculio, related to the Colorado potato beetle, flies easily and drops to the ground when disturbed. It is dull black to dark brown, about half to three quarters of an inch long. Best hunted in early morning. avoid sprays as they offer no benefit. Pick up fallen plums to destroy eggs and larvae, and watch trees for two crops of beetles in certain seasons. May affect cherries and peaches as readily as plums, with peak danger around fruit size of a pea and through July.
Pests in Plums and Seasonal Beetle Control Advice
Fragmented notes discuss how plum beetles resist cold and hatch timing. Eggs die after about a week in some seasons, and complete crop failure can render beetles scarce next year. Emphasis on daily fruit examination from bloom to harvest and thorough eradication to secure a crop.
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