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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1887
Page
4
The speaker argues for a straight biblical standard, using Amos plumb line imagery to measure character. He warns against worldly pressure corrupting morals, urges strict personal foundations, and contrasts virtue with the decline seen in reckless business and social conduct.
A sermon long excerpt contrasts doom and despair with moral correction and salvation. It rails against sin and wasteful living while urging repentance, the cross over the plumb line, and the healing waters of eternal life available this very Sabbath. It cites historical empires to illustrate judgment and calls listeners to embrace righteousness.
The article explains why bats are not birds, detailing their anatomy with wing membranes stretched over long fingers, nocturnal habits, and keen senses. It contrasts myths of bloodsucking with harmless behavior, notes their roosting in caves and ruins, and records a Texas church site swarmed by bats with floors littered by droppings.
A man who carried a terrified stranger from the Exeter Theatre blaze mistook her for his wife. He escaped with the woman on his back while his wife was trampled to death in the lobby as smoke and darkness engulfed the building. The incident, cited by the New York Tribune, stands as a tragic misidentification amid the disaster.
Prune current year’s growth rather than cutting back too much to ensure next season’s fruit. Leave sufficient wood, shorten about one third for ripening, and prune early in October to avoid winter damage. If applying manure delay until late winter to prevent premature growth and frost risk.
The article advises careful seed corn selection and dry storage to prevent mixing varieties and spoilage. It urges choosing fair sized ears from stalks that yield at least two ears, selecting fully ripe cobs, and drying thoroughly to avoid mould. It notes braiding husks for hanging as a traditional safe method and using smoke for pest prevention.
A new method described in Wick's Magazine trains dahlia stems to lie flat and form a green carpet as they grow. Plants are inclined when planted, stems fastened with wooden pegs, and later released to cover soil. Strong growers can carpet a square yard or more, with potential for varied color borders and ornamental combinations.
The article argues preserving manure’s nutrients before field application is crucial for soil health. It notes winter spreading can improve corn growth, and suggests using litter and gypsum to protect manure, with some farmers reporting raw manure performs as well as fermented. It cites practical experience and science supporting better manure husbandry to prevent soil deterioration.
Rye sown now will give a welcome bite to milch cows several months later. Feed pigs little and often. They have small stomachs and great appetites and they are easily gorged, but their digestion is rapid. One of the greatest drawbacks to be ginners in poultry raising is to attempt to keep fifty fowls in a house or lot none too large for twenty-five. Hogs are capital gleaners of wheat Golds, especially if there be also a good.
The article advises timely hay cutting, using wood ashes with plaster behind cattle daily, and keeping salt and charcoal mixes for swine disease prevention. It promotes saving wood ashes as fertilizer, warns against narrow roosts for turkeys, endorses mixed farming for soil fertility, and highlights green Lima beans as a profitable, easy harvest.
A Scottish book recounts Mr. Durham and a loyal servant Peter who warned him to temper tall tales. At a dinner the master adjusts fox tail lengths from twelve feet to six then three feet, finally warning: Peter, if I reduce the tail further the story's gone.
A pamphlet from the World's Dispensary Medical Association offers details on treating urethral stricture. It asserts improved methods speedily and permanently cure hundreds of severe cases and provides references, terms, and pamphlet pricing from 10 cents in stamps.
A curious line cites a belief in aiding others, followed by an odd health plug for Dr. Pierce's Pellets. Mention of Knapp, a small Northern Wisconsin town, planning a one mile long toboggan slide for next winter.
Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription touted as a tonic for chronic weaknesses and diseases peculiar to women. It claims to boost vigor, digestion, and sleep, offered with a money back guarantee and bottle pricing, plus a pamphlet on female disease from Dr J B Mareisi.
After six months an infant should be fed with animal broths and beef juice in addition to milk. Avoid starch foods until the child can walk. bread ok with caution after. Potatoes rice and bread are blamed for stomach troubles in young children. Tutt er milk is recommended to cure sallowness and freckles. To remove tan and sunburn use egg white and lemon juice heated briefly and applied nightly for about a week.
A prominent eastern Rensselaer county grower uses a large evaporator on cider apples to dry thin skinless slices. Sulphur fumes bleach them, then barrels hold 200 pounds for shipment to New York and export to Germany for cider production used in champagne and Rhine wines.
The article notes that Patrick Henry became Virginia governor in 1778 and, by an act creating the county of Illinois, served as the first Governor of Illinois. The vast Illinois county then covered what is now Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
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