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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1892
Page
4
In a Chicago Herald piece titled Glory Murphi, a sick girl Glory from a cramped alley ward receives care from Miss Gay and a hospital. A blooming lily grows from a buried bulb, symbolizing renewal as Glory regains strength and takes first steps home after treatment.
In Harper's Bazar, a reflective Easter piece urges that blessedness surpasses happiness. It contrasts joyful services and family losses, noting graves, memories, and the promise of immortality through Christ. The essay affirms the eternal life ahead and the peace found in faith amid sorrow.
The article stresses selecting and sharpening plows harrows hoes and other tools and keeping them in a neat tool room. It argues that thorough soil pulverization with proper tools and weekly horse cultivation boost weed control and vegetable quality while saving labor and increasing crop value.
A Boston Courier poem celebrates spring as the spring girl blooms with bonnets and new clothes, contrasts winter and summer girls, urges churchgoing on Easter, and notes German Easter egg hiding customs for children.
The article offers poultry-raising tips. It notes Emnoren geese lay two settings, guineas lay regularly, and eleven turkey or duck eggs suffice under a hen. It stresses dry nests, avoiding chilling early turkey eggs, letting Serrexa hens off the nest daily, and not turning Dvuexs and turkeys until two weeks old. It recommends Sanp on coop floors and warns that warming weather increases trouble. It advises keeping separate roosts for many chicks and ensuring thrifty growth as conditions warm.
Edward Vyn Alstyne discusses best practices for sheep care in Farm and Home. He urges March or June shearing depending on wool presence and lambs, notes prejudice against unwashed wool, and advocates twice yearly shearing in June and November with winter housing for November wool.
Agricultural guideline urges farmers to study crop needs before buying fertilizer. It notes nitrogen and phosphates aid wheat corn oats and vegetables while clover grass beans peas and potatoes may need more potash. Lime and ashes help soil, manure value varies by ingredients, and testing on small plots is essential.
A correspondent describes a low cost homemade sprayer using a small copper boiler, a hydronette pump, hose, elastic tubing and two copper wires to guide the nozzle. The device provides continuous spray for insecticides and Bordeaux mixture in vineyards, mil dew, or black rot, and is not patented or commercially produced.
The article stresses six months of careful feeding for work horses colts calves and pigs with emphasis on balanced rations rather than corn alone. It discusses hay versus pasture for different work levels and advises proper breeding feeding balance and attentive horse appetite to maintain growth and value. It also notes winter feed needs for sheep and the importance of shelter and individualized rations.
A humorous verse by R. K. Munkittrick shows a child wishing to be the Shanghai pet who runs in the rain and mud. The speaker contrasts this wild freedom with the restraint of indoor nursing care and tidy clothes.
A young girl Edith Myers. Takes a mission to obtain a prosthetic leg for a crippled boy. She visits Furnish and Trimming and explains her plan to her mother. She gains aid from a policeman and her father. The funds enable the boy to walk again on Easter morning with a new leg.
A mother and father Brighteyes with three children flee a collapsing garret in a warehouse. The father dies beneath debris while the family escapes into a neighboring cellar where they find cheese and safety. A mouser captures the cat Flaff, and the master later removes the rat survivors.
A boy Harold mishears his mother request for desiccated codfish and is told to tell her if the package isn’t right. The grocer corrects him after a humorous exchange reflecting miscommunication and a mother’s laughter. The piece ends noting linen embroidery by North Irish peasant artisans and handmade linen-lawn handkerchiefs, with a brief aside about travel photos and etiquette.
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