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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1895
Page
3
The writer explains homemade three and four horse equalizers for plows and wagons. By adjusting holes in the short eveners and placing clevises, the driver can judge and influence leaders' effort and balance working teams effectively.
S M Edwards argues for improved horse equalizers in the four horse era. He notes four horses to the drill burrow binder grain tank and plow ranges, and describes three and four horse rigs with swingle-tree centers for balance and efficiency.
Advice on animal health and husbandry urges prompt attention to coughs and slipped horses, recommends proper shoeing on ice, and favors mules over sea trotting horses for steadier income. It covers tree whitewash for bark protection, fruit misnaming issues, and urging correct labeling by authorities to curb dealer deception.
Two neglected crops peas and beans offer profit on suitable farms. Grow early peas first on heavily manured ground then beans later. Beans fetch good prices and straw from both crops can be used for bedding or sheep feed.
Ground tobacco leaves and stems are recommended as a bottom nest covering to deter lice and improve laying, alternating layers of tobacco and straw to avoid odor while using ample tobacco without worry.
The article explains how winter egg production depends on proper feeding. It advises keeping hens warm to reduce energy needs, prioritizing nitrogenous animal foods over bulk grain, and suggests a daily regime of scalded hay with animal protein plus wheat, plus a morning warm water pan to boost egg yield and cut costs.
The Baltimore Sun reports Mrs. Robert Garrett completed an eight thousand dollar poultry complex at Up lands near Baltimore. The single roofed 250 foot long structure features three towers including a center library and poultry keeper’s bedroom, rooms for 2000 broilers, brooders, brood pens, and separate turkeys and ducks housing. The setup includes cement floors, a brick incubator unit, and a connected fattening building, with incubation and brooding arranged for high density poultry management.
A Farm and Fireside illustration explains the proper method to kill fowl for dressed poultry by piercing the mouth to sever the throat artery. The diagram marks the artery across the back of the throat under the ear and shows where the knife should enter to make a clean cut.
The article explains sheep gain two teeth at age one and two more each year to a full mouth at five, after which age cannot be read from teeth. Natural lifespan is about ten years with breeding well to fifteen and sometimes twenty, but on western plains wear out teeth quickly and seldom live past six, ceasing profitability after five due to digestive ailments from poor nutrition.
Santa Rosa county treasurer Stofen was knocked unconscious in a vault robbery that emptied nearly four thousand dollars. His wife, alone with knowledge of the combination, unlocked the vault after returning from Cloverdale and found him alive but insensible. A tall intruder in stocking feet loomed as the motive force behind the crime.
World Herald correspondent Robert B. Peattie reports extreme destitution across Buffalo Dawson Lincoln Keith Perkins Hitchcock Chase Noyes Dundy Frontier counties. Most people depend on charity, fuel is scarce, water scarce, and crops failed. aid by railroads to county seats is urged as cold wave threatens lives.
In Jacksonville Florida on December 29 W W Coleman a Baldwin merchant was shot by his 18 year old son Otis after the father returned home drunk and began abusing the mother. Otis seized a double barrel shotgun and fired buckshot at close range killing the elder Coleman protecting his mother. The 사건 drew sympathy for Otis.
A humorous survey of historic figures and their eating habits. Armens favored year round lettuce, Frasers Bacon preferred simple fare, Thomas Futter served others while ate plain dishes, Barnart lived on dried fruits, Cripen enjoyed roast beef with mustard, Kant ate small portions, and the Duke of Wellington criticized Spanish victuals during a visit.
A Philadelphia Press excerpt reimagines the ideal wife via Proverbs text and a grim minister quip, portraying domestic virtue and male passivity. It blends Bur dette commentary with a domestic recipe and a light Atlanta joke about a man disposing of gas in hotels.
In Kolnische Volkszeltung a Genoan CountMantian court transcript shows the presiding captain recounting how the accused offered a cigar to a sentry. The sentry declined saying you are an ass your honor. The exchange highlights the informal defiance amid formal proceedings.
Advertises January 15 1895 half rate tickets from St Louis Cairo and Missouri River gateways to Arkansas Louisiana Texas New Mexico Kansas Nebraska Colorado and Missouri west of Harrisonville via St Louis and other hubs. Also notes a trade mark case The N K Fairbank Company versus Cotteleo in US Circuit Court Southern District of New York with injunction upheld to protect Cottelene name. Fragmentary quotes about a child desiring to become a minister and a remark about Cleveland Plain Dealer sports coverage.
The notice promotes a 136 page book on the nature symptoms and curability of nervous debility impaired memory low spirits and related disorders caused by youthful habits. It claims past physicians have treated these diseases as a specialty and that the book can be obtained sealed for ten cents postage from the World’s Dispensary Medical Association Buffalo NY.
A parvest throws a grand dinner party to display a newly decorated dining room. The ceiling is lavishly painted and wallpaper costly, but guests deem the dinner itself execrable. A witty observer remarks he cares less for gilding and more for carving.
Frank J. Corner swears as senior partner of F J C Henry & Co Toledo Ohio that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The notice lists testimonials, prices, and a notary public oath dated December 7 1858.
McVickers Theater Chicago announces On the Mississippi ends January 6 with a grand spectacular Black Crook to follow. Seats sold by mail, light humor from Brooklyn Life and Truth snippets appear amid a mix of ads and notices for Piso's Cure for Consumption touted as a top asthma remedy from W KR Williams of Antioch Illinois dated April 11 154.
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