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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1880
Page
6
Mark Twain critiques barber practice and pricing in Hints to Barbers. He argues shaving should reflect effort and skill, not a fixed quick pass, urging higher charges for tailored services and better beard removal, with a view toward a more professional, humane trade.
The Essen Krupp steel and iron works employ about 17 000 workers including 5 000 miners producing coal and steel. Wages average 211.80 dollars per year with low daily earnings for unskilled labor, while company provisions cut living costs. The plant provides bread, clothing, hospital care, schools, theater, and housing at nominal rents, making wages effectively about double.
A Detroit fishing party on the Boyne River ran short of supplies and sent an envoy to Traverse City. After a two mile walk he found a log cabin with a woman, five children, three dogs, and tame coons occupying a single room. The woman replied flour was needed as they had run out.
Cor St Paul Proncer Press profiles Mary Jewett of Minnesota, a twenty year old farm girl famed for riding skill. The piece notes her upbringing on a St Paul Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway area farm, her habit of breaking horses, and confidence in beating Mrs. Belle Cook of California in a twenty mile race at the Minneapolis Exposition with no formal training.
A collage of household hints and gardening tips covers bottling rose water, fish frying with pork fat, cattle feeding on green forage, eggplant preserves, coconut dessert mixtures, and a post from Monroe Michigan about salt treated white oak gate posts. It includes recipes for plum cakes and summer apple suggestions from the Michigan Pomological Society.
On EF P Roe’s Cornwall-on-Hudson fruit farm buckwheat is grown after crop removal and plowed under to enrich soil, with clover as a superior option when time allows. A Practical Farmer correspondent notes green manuring improves yield, keeps land sheltered, and supports subsequent crops as shown by rye and clover trials and winter grain seeding outcomes.
A collage of testimonial snippets and promotional notices from 1870 recount cures from Hamburg Drops and Golden Medical Discovery, praising liver cures and rheumatic relief. Letters from users, endorsements by doctors, and ads for tonics, bitters, and patent medicines fill the clipping.
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