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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1894
Page
13
E Benton discusses topping bay stacks using swale or grass, plus a ladder bracket device to create an adjustable hay platform. The piece also critiques sloppy hay handling, notes humane treatment of balky horses, and cross talks on Jersey butter, harvest apples, Wagner’s fat pea forage, and practical farm tips.
A historical notice urges readers to send opinions on taxation reform and social questions. It argues reform could raise land values and invites submissions to P. O. Box 58 Buffalo N. Y. for publication consideration.
Ex-Speaker Sulzer argues in assembly that the proposed tax bill would let New York City voters decide how taxes are raised by choosing to tax real property, personal property, or both. He disputes rural objections and asserts the measure aids farmers and urban taxpayers alike, warning against evasion and noting broader state benefits.
A North American Review writer notes Spain leads global theater enthusiasm. Madrid hosts numerous, lavish houses with royal boxes and palaces above the stalls. The Madrid Opera House is bright and intimate, with a royal box and salons for the Queen. Aberedd is cited as a false note smuggled into the country through a paper.
A Minneapolis Times report recounts a dinner party where guests ate roast beef preserved by the ozone process. Host claims the meat had been in sun exposure for 21 days in a window, sparking disbelief until written testimony from W A Barnes supported the claim. The piece explains ozone as a purifying agent that prevents decomposition.
A Russian smuggling scheme using counterfeit bank notes was uncovered after a customs officer handling a case of lead pencils discovered a hollow roll of paper inside the pencil. The device hid false notes within ordinary items, eluding port scrutiny until the extra layer revealed the fraud. The confession by O L Rato vitch of St. Petersburg highlights the clever ploy and its exposure.
An Irish student on a Oxford travelling scholarship visits Ghent and stays in an old hotel. After nightfall he hears a door open by a shadowy figure, then enters his room to a shriek and a ruckus. A lighted taper fails, he searches a subterranean passage and discovers a glow from phosphorus on his clothes after matches spilled phosphorous dust. A commotion with a fallen maid ends with his retirement to his room as the waiter explains the strange incident.
The article recounts Samuel Woodworth, a New York printer, composing The Old Oaken Bucket after a visit to Mallory’s tavern. A drink sparked his memory of a treasured spring water bucket from a well in Scituate, Massachusetts, inspiring the now famous poem. The tale situates the well near Greenbush in Scituate, Plymouth County, about twelve miles from Mansfield.
A historical tale credits Sergeant Frank Manchester of Rhode Island with inspiring the phrase He knows beans. During the Civil War, Manchester boiled beans with pork and molasses for a day to improve taste, impressing General Burnside who later toasted Manchester at a staff meal, claiming one man in the army knows beans.
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