16 Dec 1885
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Newspaper
Iowa Le Mars Daily Sentinel
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1885
Page
1
A garbled OCR fragment mentions individuals and places with unclear actions. It reads like notes from a broader story about people and movements, but lacks coherent details or dates. Further text is needed to establish a definite subject, location, and outcome.
A fragmented line describes trees becoming landless and dying as cold reaches extremities. It suggests that planting in groups would have protected against effects, noting that the impact was tied to the cold and its severity.
Prof A J Cook of Michigan Agricultural College discusses best practices for wintering bees to reduce losses in harsh winters and outlines keeping bees quiet with steady 45 F internal hive temperature, ample ventilation, and a nonconductive cover. He also notes winter feeding of poultry with varied cooked foods, water access, and dry housing, plus spring fattening plans.
Prof George E Morrow of the University of Illinois summarizes a feeding trial of ten steers from calves to 27 to 36 months old. The cattle were wintered cheaply, then grass fed, followed by corn, with three daily feeds. Average daily gain neared one third bushel of grain, final weights averaged 1351 pounds, gains ranged from 157 to 570 pounds per head over periods up to six months. The study notes that gains vary more within similar breeds than between breeds, winter gains are modest, and profit hinges on timing, age, and economical feeding strategies for cattle to reach 30 to 36 months.
A dated correspondent reports extreme and unsafe practices in livestock management and feeding. The piece cites a farmer forcing items into animals, experimental flooring with nonstandard materials, and debates on economical feeding via regulated grain meals, reflecting contentious agricultural methods of the era.
Aird New Yorker correspondent outlines simple methods to make vinegar from cider or fruit scraps. It covers slow fermentation in warm weather, quick small-batch methods with sugar and water, and tips like using light exposure and insect protection. It also notes maple sugar derived vinegars and emphasizes home production for quality and economy.
Instructions describe knitting strips of raga and yarn into a rug with kinton needles, sewing stripes to form a large piece, adding a fancy wool border, and creating a crimped fringe by raveling edges. A second rug is made by knitting yarn bits into two inch wide slips and joining them, washing and laying stripes to accumulate material, cutting and raveling to create fringe, then sewing bed ticking around the edge to finish. The result is a handsome rug.
A fragmented recipe column lists home cures and decorative tips. It covers cleaning silver with tartar and water, whitening jewelry with powders, cleaning walnut stairs, treating felons with heat, and various folk remedies for canaries, marble, paint removal, and a bird’s asthma using oils and spicy mixtures. The tone is instructional and period style.
A garbled 19th century recipe fragment describes mixing one cup butter two cups sugar four eggs one cup milk two teaspoons baking powder with three cups flour and half cups shag bark meat. It mentions lining a tin and applying rows of English meat across each slice before marking portions.
Fragmented text mixes quince preparation with sugar and boiling steps and then blends incomplete chicken cream sauce instructions. The garbled OCR mentions quince, sugar, boiling, and a chicken cream dish with butter egg yolk and seasoning, plus an unclear game reference.
The passage describes cooking pulp ladles stirred to prevent burning until thick, returning to the pot with other ingredients and boiling to thick consistency. It notes wild grapes cultivated give a better result than other grapes and the preparation is delicious on cold meats.
A historical kitchen note describes halving an eggplant, scooping pulp, browning with butter, onions optional, then simmering pulp with white stock or water and stale bread crumbs. Fill shells with the mixture, top with crumbs, bake covered for an hour, and serve by scooping from the shell.
The recipe instructs to boil the head until bones slip, strain bones, mince meat and brain with tongue, season with salt pepper parsley and aleppo, form walnut sized balls, fry, then add to soup. Include stale bread crumbs, a gill of wine, mushroom, walnut ketchup and brown flour to thicken before serving.
A reader describes using a wet linen handkerchief wrapped around the neck with a dry cloth beneath the pillow to induce sleep. After trying this twice, sleep returned quickly, suggesting a simple, self administered remedy for wakefulness. The note ends with a cautious endorsement for habitual or late night use if insomnia recurs.
Dr Vigoureux recommends hot lemonade hourly for diarrhea. An Italian doctor treats diphtheria with cold wet sheet wraps repeated several times daily, throat cold compresses, and gargles with disinfectants. reports from 1870s show all seven and six cases recovered respectively, with convalescence shortened and strength restored.
An address by Dr. D. Fe Salmon declares hog cholera highly contagious and outlines failures of medical treatments. He notes contagion through pen contact and contaminated stock cars, with vaccination as a hopeful prevention model similar to smallpox. The discourse warns of widespread spread and calls for courage and persistence in control efforts.
A reminiscence recalls the rise of Artemus Ward, his consent to lecture after a Broadway suggestion, and the successful run at Pfatt's and De Walden's backing. It notes Ward’s humor, the $1,280 gain, and his subsequent touring success described by Chicago News.
A reflective piece recounts the precarious life of itinerant people feared and persecuted. It notes how tramps face suspicion, threats from farmers, and even violence or execution when crimes occur nearby, highlighting cruelty and prejudice in rural communities.
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