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Newspaper
Kokomo Journal
Location
Kokomo, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1870
Page
7
The note highlights a small fruit market opening amid late frosts and dry weather, urging farmers to attend the Fair at New London on the 18th and 19th. It frames farming as healthful, independent, and dignified and urges families to visit with children to gain respite and community reunion.
A weed described as European in origin has naturalized in the United States. It is a biennial plant with a first year rosette of large radical leaves and a second year flowering stalk three to six feet tall. The plant is difficult to control once established and is often burned to prevent spread.
An editorial urges farmers to diversify beyond wheat and hogs toward cattle and sheep with clover and grass. It argues that wheat and hogs suffer from pests and disease, are exhausting crops, and that varied farming would protect soil fertility, improve health, and raise net returns over time.
Howard County seeks support to establish a county agricultural society with a fall fair. Directors from Center Taylor Harrison Honey Creek Monroe Clay Howard Liberty Union Jackson oversee townships and seek names and money. Secretary L J Temrzin calls for subscriptions to build a suitable fair venue and fund the society’s path to success.
A Paris writer asserts that fully one half of the world’s inventive genius is in the United States. Since 1830, over 100,000 patents have been issued by the U S Patent Office while more than 50,000 applications were rejected. England and France granted about 80,000 patents each in the past century.
Leeds offers 595 acres with improvements to exchange for goods notes and cash. He also lists 240 acres near Soux city Iowa for trade and 50 head of sheep for sale soon. A heavy stock of groceries is available for cash or barter with country produce.
A party fishing on private land ignores rights, hides trout behind fences, and narrowly escapes a farmhouse confrontation. A farmer and his bull dog pursue the intruders while the party uses a baited line to outwit the dog and depart with their catch before returning home.
Fragmentary text suggests mentions of Blanc and tramps, describing safe, inexpensive entertainment in a fife amid constant enjoyment and rapture. The snippet appears in an old publication with unclear context and limited readable details.
Noxih. Western Farmar published at Indianapolis is a first class Rural Magazine devoted to Agriculture Morticulise Rural Economy Stock Raising Home Culture and Family Reading. It is printed on fine paper with illustrations of stock machinery fruits flowers and buildings and aims to entertain and instruct children. It has grown to large circulation west of New York in five years and costs 1 50 a year. It is highly praised by Gen. Negley Gen. Orr and others and is advertised by Buasp and Canoweut in Indianapolis.
A suggestion to adopt in our schools the Swiss practice of summer voyages en zigzag. Boys in blouses and knapsacks trek with teachers through mountains and valleys, returning with health, happiness, and memorized sights. Some have scaled peaks and gazed from glacier high points with rapture.
A reader criticizes foding together in sleeping cars and suggests one large car split into two sections for men and women. She foresees discreet, orderly use, noting women would keep to their side while men roam in night attire, and hints at risks of exposure.
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