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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1888
Page
4
Practical advice on poultry care covering feed water and care for laying hens ducklings and sitting hens. Recommends carbolic acid as a disinfectant and outlines feeding rules including meat for ducklings and avoiding excessive sitting. Notes ducks need animal protein and that hens on nests should be exercised to prevent moodiness.
The article discusses pumpkins and mangels as winter hog feed alongside corn, noting they supplement grain but cannot replace it for full fat and muscle development. It warns about overeating heat-inducing feeds and stresses balanced rations, plus practical notes on pumpkins cultivation and storage, bean culture, roses, and orchard pests.
Farmers are urged to manage pastures by trimming tops, feeding surplus grass to pigs, and keeping herd sizes manageable. Onion seed sown now with winter litter will yield early onions next spring. Advice covers soil, seed quality, pest control, cattle growth, and preserving leather boots with a tallow beeswax mixture.
A New Hampshire case features a horse owner liable for injuries from a known vicious animal. The defense argued only forward kicking implied liability, but the state Supreme Court rejected the technical distinction as absurd.
The last stone of the Masonic monument on Bird's Mountain Castleton Vermont is completed, finishing the structure 100 days after the proposal. The 15 foot high shaft with a 12 ft 8 in base to capstone rests on white marble blocks donated by 52 lodges from ten states and Canada.
A Rochester interview with J. H. Warner extols Warner's Safe Cure as the premier kidney and liver remedy. He asserts public health officials publicly endorse it and warns narcotics and stimulants devastate organs, urging use of the cure to restore vitality and curb habitual drug use.
A Freeport Illinois resident recalls heavy rains that swelled a river, submerging trees and causing crayfish to cling to bark and branches by hundreds. Crayfish crowded upward, covered trunks, and remained out of water for days while locals swept them off and stored them. The phenomenon is linked to pests in western areas that increase farming labor and costs when burrowed mounds revive vegetation into larger growth.
A speaker recalls tossing a stone and cursing in anger. Two days later a neighbor’s child repeats the oath, nearly causing death when a brick wall is struck and a head is broken, revealing reckless consequences of mischief.
The Washington Star describes the south side Pennsylvania avenue recruiting office near Tenth Street. Recruits face scrutiny by a surgeon, meet physical and moral tests, and undergo a structured routine with baths, uniforms, drill, and daily policing. Recruits may be sent to David's Island after five days for three months of further drill and discipline.
A Pullman porter argues the sleeping car company should raise wages to win goodwill and reduce passenger tips. He notes wage scales vary by route from 15 dollars monthly between St Louis and Chicago to 40 to 50 dollars on southern runs, while conductors earn at most 75 dollars monthly and cannot take gratuities. He prefers porter work and cites railroad income dynamics. The passage ends with an advertisement for Buckinghams Dye and Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for throat and lung issues.
The London Z nest recounts a Port Elizabeth case by F Ensot Senior Surgeon describing a man who had his leg bitten off by a shark. He was pulled from the water, the stump amputated at once, and he recovered enough to walk with crude appliances a month later.
Two remarkable recoveries reported in the metropolis. One, a girl shot in the head with a deep bullet, discharged from hospital as convalescent without operation. The other, a self-inflicted gunshot case with bullet in the brain, discharged from care and said to suffer no inconvenience.
Mr Ed P Wells of Stevens County Washington reports a full cure from rheumatism using St Jacobs Oil. Architect Edmond Legendre of San Francisco says a severe cough improved after one bottle of Red Star Cough Cure. A Holstein calf in Late county California weighed 441 pounds at six months, gaining about two pounds daily on average since birth.
An extended advertisement praises Scovill’s Blood and Liver Syrup for scrofula rheumatism and other diseases with physician endorsements. It also pitches Kilmer’s Cough Cure Piso’s Catarrh Remedies and Fish Cure, offering home work and earnings claims, including testimonials and prices, in a dense, multi-product sales block.
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