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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1892
Page
4
A reader quotes Lydia A. Smith from Good Housekeeping, contrasting domestic chores with a vivid scene of a wild cherry filled glade. The verse blends imagery of meadow greens, ferns, and blooming briars with the speaker polishing a stove, finding a pastoral escape that brightens daily tasks.
A widow considers renting her suburban stable to raise cash. Uncle Franklin pushes frugal advice, noting rivals charge fifty dollars a month. A chaotic ad campaign and a comic early-morning buyer scene unfold, revealing the widow's hesitations and rising costs.
A narrator recounts renting a stable to a slippery tenant, accepting five dollars monthly after telegrams to Uncle Benjamin Franklin. A milkman, a goat named Capricornus, and a damaged garden escalate costs, while the narrator records losses and laments pride in thrift. The goat devours plants, hats, and more, driving the household into chaos.
A domestic chaos tale unfolds with a man renting a stable and bringing home a wife, children, and elders from Chermany. Fire, loss, and a neighborhood charity rescue follow as the narrator narrates a comic disaster and a moral about frugality and fate.
A London Weekly Telegraph quote extols the beauty of an Irish girl describing a tall slender figure with curls, clear red and white skin, fine brows, and shifting blue gray iris that sparkles in sunlight, praising her brogue and charm as irresistible.
A Detroit Free Press quip has lawyers indifferent to sleeping positions as they work in a courthouse. An Indianapolis Journal remark jokes about offerings in a collection basket with a ten-cent coin and Methuselah's long life.
Agricultural hints illustrate a portable roof to shield tall stacks from wind and rain. The design uses a ridge pole from a two by four timber and paired legs of one by six boards. Roof sections are built from barn siding over crosspieces, with alternating crosspiece positions and three inch wire for securing.
The design describes a portable stack roof with nails near board edges and lath overlap, water channels cut into lath, guttered joints, and wire loop hangers. Two workers can cover a hayrick quickly, with sections weighted in very high winds if needed. The roof keeps hay dry and protects unfinished ricks, fodder, or loads on the farm, as explained by American Agriculturist.
The piece urges shippers to switch to thirty dozen cases, use proper fillers, and avoid rough handling. It stresses training for workers, inspection of egg quality, and rejecting imperfect stock to reduce losses. Proper packing and fresh eggs are key to improving the trade, with weather and rough handling as major risks.
Weeds in the Mississippi valley often grow with crops, indicating fertility when left unchecked by farmers. Certain weeds prefer rich soil, while mullein and ragweed thrive on poorer grounds. The text adds a cautionary tale of a blind, wealthy land buyer and a mullein versus thistle comparison. It also notes roost hygiene to combat kerosene-saturated roosts and lice, and mentions thickening buttermilk with meal as a feed tip.
Julia Allyn of Ohio Farmer explains bee placement for convenience and safety. Attics and upper rooms work if well lighted and ventilated, and ground placement should avoid paths for people and animals. Even city hives need careful screen and shading to prevent public alarm while maximizing honey yields.
A reprint from a farmer’s column covers Bordeaux mixture use, spraying with fungicides to prevent losses, and notes on scab and wireworms. Practical tips include feeding regimes for work horses, cleaning grounds to prevent gapes, and using air stacked lime to curb diseases. It also suggests planting peach trees in the poultry yard to provide shade, control pests, and utilize manure for soil.
The illustrated gate is not permanently fixed to posts. Castings with lips on top secure the gate, the upper boards rest on these castings, and a vertical position is kept by the lips. Notches in the gate boards allow lips to pass. pushing the cross bar beyond the notches lets the gate swing or lift off for clearance. Orange Judd Farmery.
A verse from Our Young Readers praises a voyage to Contraryland. It parodies the class of whiny, say no children who resist every demand. The piece riffs on compliant sails and steady winds as a critique of reluctance, attributed to C. R. Tunis via Youth's Companion.
A sunlit dollar slips from a passerby into a bank scene where a boy returns it, seeking the owner. The tale follows the boy’s quest through a bank, a broker named Ballymore, and a shy cashier who finally learns the bank discovered the owner when accounts balanced. The dollar’s journey ends with the bank reclaiming its funds and the boy’s quiet satisfaction.
A boy finds a dollar lost in a city bank. After days of doubt he returns it to the cashier, who admits a recent mistake. The dollar is then spent to delight local children, and the clerk adopts a motto to never overlook small things or make mistakes.
A humorous column analyzes Miss Dawdler who complains of heat while lounging amid summer chores. It contrasts her restlessness with family members busy in the kitchen, garden, and veranda as Good Housekeeping weighs in on habit, health, and keeping active in the dog days. A second brief item notes an intelligent horse, praising affectionate, attentive pets over indifferent, sugar-fed animals, and ends with a German pun about sausage names.
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