Variety and Hemoraxtryin The Wk¢ T akes In Matriive Time
A satirical miscellany notes quick quips on oysters smallpox humor and manners. It sketches anecdotes from California Maryland Virginia and Nevada with playful lines about lawyers barges and farmers and mentions a German student and an elderly hunter preparing a Texas trip.
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Axtryen
California
Maryland
Henry Tobacco
Chicago
Black Hills
Atinata
Salt Lake
New York City
Rochester Democrat
Virginia
Albany
Portland
Ore
Germany
Fatherland
Dark View of Life in Kate Thorn Essay
An excerpt from Kate Thorn in the New York Weekly contrasts universal gloom with a call for resilience. It discusses how some view life as a vale of tears, blaming Providence for misfortune and urging resignation, while others advocate agency and cheerfulness as antidotes.
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Sworth
Kate Thorn
N.Y
Religious and Educational Notices In Connecticut and Nearby
Three year term and resignation of Rev Dr Speer to return to China noted. Southern Baptists held Seminole camp with seventeen tents and a convert. Christian Connection united Rhode Island Massachusetts Connecticut conferences. Congregationalists emphasize preaching over sermons and Christian experience. United Methodist Church forms in Northern New Jersey with eighty members. Southern Presbyterian Church reports 520 vacant churches, 208 preachers without charge. total churches 1,797, preachers 1,084. Nevada M E Conference: 60 probationers, 495 full members, 15 local preachers. baptisms total 45. churches 11. parsonages 16. Sabbath schools 19 with 148 officers and 953 scholars. Episcopal fund and church extensions totals listed. Pittsburgh Presbyterian Ministerial Association denounces Sunday newspaper publication as unlawful and urges discouragement.
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Connecticut
Speer
Fresbyteria Board of Education
China
Southern Baptist
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Christian Connection
Congregationalzat
New Jersey
United Methodist Church
Southern Presbyterian Church
Nevada
M. E
Episcopal Fund
Presbyterian Ministerial Association of Pittsburgh
How to Start Plant Slips From an Old Jar
An old grassdrul jar can start plant slips by filling with earth and water. Sift soil, add slips until two to three inches deep, then pour water and place in a stable spot. As roots form, add soil and water, then transplant by breaking the glass and moving to a pot.
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W. ¥. Herald
Household hints and remedies from frontier pages
A medley of home remedies and domestic tips appears, including lime slaked for turnips protection, a pickle tomato and spice preserve, cat caretaking to deter rats, and a steam treatment for felon in the hand. The snippets cite sources like the N Y Tribune and Country Gentleman.
Training Steers The Gentle Path To Discipline
A dhame Farmer correspondent describes training steers with calm guidance. He advocates quiet approach, gentle handling, and the Golden Rule, using lines and nose snaps as needed, progressing from single to paired work until steers move calmly in or out of the pasture.
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dHame
Lamina
Handling Cattle with Calm Kindness and Individual Names
The speaker explains a humane method for taming stubborn cattle. They avoid whipping, prefer calm correction, and treat each steer kindly. Each animal is given a distinct name using Yankee custom, with name clues from markings to guide handling.
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Elsy
Breaking Colts with Kindness and Self-Control
The Iowa State Register advises early humane colt handling. Train by kindness not force, break yourself of haste and anger first, then teach the colt through patient demonstrations. Start with gentle halter work, progress to harness, and never whip a colt even when it resists.
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Iowa State Register
Digging Ditches and Laying Tile With Animal Power
A farmer describes efficient ditching and tile work using teams and a double whiffletree. The method speeds digging, stabilizes depths to three feet with a subsoil plow, and details careful tile placement over stone and sandy spots to maintain a level watercourse.
Plow and Tile Drainage Practice Advised in W Yo Herald
In the W Yo Herald article a critic warns against using horses to drag plows along tile drains. The piece urges careful ditch work and careful placement to avoid breaking tile and ensure long lasting drainage. It notes the risk of crushing tender sections and emphasizes shovel digging as safer.
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W. Y. Herald
Gypsy Cup Superstitions Across Nations
A readers note on gypsy reverence for cups in Germany and England. The belief holds that touching the ground or misplacing a cup renders it forever sacred or unusable. Similar fears lead to hanging utensils in wagons and echo Hindu ideas about ritual purity.
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India
Germany
Liebach
England
Tven Bart
Organisms in the Atmosphere Study by Mrs Blackley
A brief report details Mrs. H Blackley’s experiments on pollen and hay fever patterns. From April to July observations used glass coated slides to count pollen at breathing height, with peak pollen on June 28 at 80 grains per cm2 in 24 hours. Pollen and fungal spores were more abundant aloft, reaching ten times the breathing level, and cryptogam spores at 1,000 feet numbered tens of thousands per square inch. findings show airborne organisms travel considerable distances.
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H Blackley
Hay
Journal of Microscopic Science
Encounter With a Wild Cat Near Huffaker's Nevada
A Washoe County rancher William Lyell fought a wild cat on his Huffaker’s area near Saturday Eve with two dogs joining the fray. Lyell battered the cat with a gun barrel until it lay dead, weighing thirty three pounds and measuring three feet four inches from tip to tail.
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Nevada
William Lyell
Huffaker’s
Washoe County
Mr. Lyell
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Jack
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