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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1887
Page
4
A fragmented notice requests publication of a letter to Robey, asking for transmission via the post and including state and county identifiers. The readable parts mention the Gazette, law offices bound, and aim to publish in alignment with local publication practices. The text is highly garbled with many missing words and unclear names.
Hon. Chas. Taylor of Wabaunsee county, once Charley Taylor to Wakarusa townships, rose as a Douglas county representative who never forgot home. Readers learn of his daily fight for neighbors and boyhood friends as he served in the legislature and earned enduring gratitude.
Leavenworth and Lawrence area supporters backed the Quantrell Raid bill with aid from Hon. Edward Carroll and Judge Hurd. Berry, formerly of North Lawrence, campaigned for the measure, presenting the Lawrence massacre to earn sympathy and rally votes.
The article recounts President Cleveland's refusal to sign the No Man's Land bill, denying immediate homesteading access to thousands of settlers. It argues the Senate crafted a land grab, notes Weaver's concerns, and cites a March 7 letter from Land Commissioner Sparke defending the veto as protecting settlers.
A fragmentary article blends notices of homestead law concerns with a detailed veal paté recipe. It describes trimming meat, mixing with crackers, forming and baking, then creating a veal jelly from bones and eggshells, flavoured with burnt sugar. Garnish ideas include crosses, parsley, or lemon slices.
A Baltimore News report describes Japanese young women and men on dates and social events in Tokyo, noting absence of corsets, sash waists, and belt styles, with parallels to American fashion, stockings, and banjo playing. It ends with a brief sales plug for Salvation Oil.
Mrs Phoebe Chesley Peterson of Clay County Town aged 73 recalls years of kidney trouble and weakness. After using Electric Bitters she reports relief from pain, regained strength to do housework, and credits the remedy for renewal of her vitality. Barber Bros. Drug Store offers a bottle for 50 cents.
The Washington social season climaxed with Congressman Glover and Kate Patten wedding. Notables attended including the president and Mrs Cleveland, cabinet members except Garland and Manning, supreme court justices, and foreign ministers. Glover, 32, faced a rich dowry and a lavish trousseau with gowns, jewelry, and a 90 inch train. The couple departed for California then Europe, while relatives and notable guests filled the mansion at Connecticut Avenue for a joint reception.
The Paris crowd watched a tame bull fight described as a failure with unruly audience members and a herd of cattle avoiding toreadors. The performance, blamed on lights or fatigue, ends with low expectations for Parisian amusement. A separate note from New York describes a Portuguese wedding ceremony in Philadelphia with a canopy and a glass-crushing act.
A Boston Budget excerpt notes steel remains unsettled hours after rolling before it rests, warning tests before that period mislead. It adds a quip from Kate to Uncle George about Zoe and prayer, reflecting light social wit.
A Georgia correspondent outlines a barn built on the old cotton gin house plan, 28 by 38 feet and 14 feet high, with heavy sill timbers to prevent spreading. The design features two stories, upper forage storage, a front entry, a stairway, and a lower story with horse stables, cattle shed, grain room, wagon shelter, and a feed hall, all arranged for efficient feeding and housing.
Advice from American Agriculturist on keeping bees through winter. Maintain cellar or storage temperatures near 85 to 40 degrees, monitor for noise indicating high heat, and use ventilators to quiet buzzing. Check outdoor hives after snowfalls to ensure entrances are not blocked. Profit hinges on honey market and packaging size, with half pound comb honey favored. Emphasize neatness, cleanliness, and developing a home market for honey.
Farmers favor flat plowing on candy and dry soils to consolidate land while preventing surface packing on lean or strong soils. Excessively dry or wet conditions both harm furrow quality, so proper moisture yields loose furrows without lumps. Jorses and Colts: February intensifies stock stress. Professor Sanborn offers practical advice on maintaining horses amid winter hardships and dry feed effects.
Guidance on horse care during cold seasons covers skin health, digestion, and worm control. Daily salts and iron tablets aid digestion and blood health, while dry feed worsens issues. Emphasizes timely wound care for coronet injuries from icy roads, thorough grooming, and keeping mares spacious and exercised. Recommends bran, oats, and careful grain adjustments for mares and foals, with clover hay and straw as needed.
J J H Gregory of Marblehead Massachusetts, with extensive farm implement experience, endorses the Kemp manure spreader as a boon to commercial farming. He claims it can pay for itself on twelve acres yearly, with three men handling sixty loads daily, and advises a board behind the driver to shield from stones in the manure. The price is described as reasonable and financially rewarding.
A North Carolina man constructed a ground level silo using heavy plank walls doubled with four inches of earth filling to exclude air and covered the ensilage with boards and earth then topped with an ordinary roof to shed rain. The structure measures 15 by 16 feet and total cost was sixty dollars.
Farmers should equip with sturdy ladders before the busy season. A wheeled ladder device, shown by The Ohio Farmer, uses two light wheels and adjustable length to reach tree tops. Secure the foot with weights to balance the top and place the basket on the top board for use.
Agricultural tips cover butter production in churn, corn price shifts in New England and the middle states, rising cotton states values, Professor Cook's cab worm practice, fertilizers vs manure on potato yields, plum orchard pest control by poultry, oat sowing for rot prevention in grapes, rot-free grape vineyards with early summer treatment, and claims that raising draught horses pays with a cited price of twelve and a half cents for a good native mare.
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