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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1883
Page
3
A scattered U S article fragment covers poultry care, ventilation for hay mows, squash bread, ham steaks, and household wisdom. It includes advice on fowl feeding with corn meal, colonization of hens and chicks, and methods to improve hay drying and storage. It also quotes The Household on aging, health, and living well, with notes on weathered life stages from youth to old age.
In family life hard work precedes meals and women should use proper utensils to lighten the load. The piece urges using bright tins, porcelain kettles, and a range of pans with covers, plus dishwashing discipline. It promotes soap shakers and iron dish-cloths to improve cleaning, and stresses replacing worn items promptly. Wandals deface Daniel Webster’s Marshfield monument.
A three man Northern party quarters with a Tennessee farmer during Shiloh field exploration. A quarrelsome night unfolds with a violent argument over ownership of the farm, mules, and a past as a slaveowner, ending with the bed collapsing and the trio sleeping through the uproar. The tale appears in Detroit Free Press. Louis Lelong, a Boston youth, recounts ten days walking to Jack Fish Bay, then a forty foot fall from a cliff, injuries severe but survivable. The Boston man is expected to recover. A South Carolina boy age twelve boasts nineteen engagements and aims to marry soon, prompting the Pittsburgh Dispatch to joke he may wish he had remained Mormon.
A Cohasset rock formation is said to resemble Daniel Webster in outline, competing with the famed Old Man of the Mountain in the White Mountains for public notice.
A Buffalo scene shows Tom Ballard, a notorious counterfeiter, scaling a house roof as officers gather. Superintendent Thomas Curtin leads the daring armful ascent and safely captures the criminal. Curtin recounts prior illness linked to Bright's disease, then credits Warner's Safe Cure for his recovery and renewed health.
Tteno Nevada Gazette describes a Central Pacific Railroad watchhouse on Red Mountain top with two sentinels who monitor the snowsheds. They use glasses and a telephone link to Cisco, Sacramento, Blue Canyon, and Summit to summon fire trains with water tank cars. Trains halt other traffic near danger. the system is praised as nearly perfect at preventing major shed destruction.
Dr Francisco Garcia of Havana urges St Jacobs Oil for neuralgia from teeth with capsular cures for toothache earache and bodily pain. Testimonials cite Ely cream balm for catarrh and Brown's Iron Bitters as tonics, with various brief endorsements from readers and agents across the country.
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