Mixed Almanac Snippets and Social Notes Across Iowa
A broad column of assorted items mentions printing shops upgrades, 1 400 ranges in Iowa, Stokes giving up pardons, Cushing sailing to Spain, and church revivals near Chillicothe. It also reports temperance momentum, a Chicago hall refusal, and new tax laws. Grange funds for Columbia tools, a long-lived Black resident dies near Callao, and Boone County grangers back home industry. A dramatic kitchen stove incident and debate over school book cycles conclude the digest.
Smoke-Consuming Coal Stove Patent by Richard T. Brown
Richard T. Brown describes his new smoke consuming coal stove with a bottom magazine and screw feed. The device reduces smoke, uses coal dust to lump coal, and can burn for 12 to 24 hours without frequent tending. Railroad men endorse its suitability for passenger cars.
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United States
Missouri
Richard TH. Brown
Wheeling News from Missouri: revival, enterprise, and markets
In Waretine March 2 1874 readers hear of revival efforts in Wheeling with two church additions and ongoing prayer meetings. The piece notes talk of building a flouring mill and tenement houses, calls for home industry, and cites grain prices, cattle shipments to Chicago, and welding backers to support enterprise amid tight money. It also mentions temperance efforts backed by Catholic groups opposing liquor without cost.
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Orcasion
Wheeling
Missouri
Darkey
Esq. Beck
Pildine
Grange
Chicago
New York
Congress
C Perkins
Patrons of Hue Laundry executive notes coop progress
Wm M Price chair of the Patrons of Hue Laundry reports at the State Grange meeting that the organization is nearly complete but the business department needs perfection. He urges salt curing meat, warns against long storage, and discusses rising corn and wheat prices, crop prospects, flax failure, and the Mississippi river improvement as vital to northwest producers.
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Iowa
Northwest
New York
New Orleans
Illinois
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Ohio
Congress
Mississippi River
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Sensible Advice on Lamp Safety and Fire Prevention
A column urges housekeepers to fill lamps daily to prevent dangerous gas buildup as oil burns away. It warns that nearly empty lamps can cause ignition from minor disturbances, and urges immediate lamp filling. The piece notes dangers of kerosene fires and contrasts with safer powder can use. A Missouri man offers to live forty days without food for $500.
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Missouri
Delaware Grows Most Peanuts in United States
Familiar taste and quality of peanuts are unknown to many. Delaware furnishes nearly all U S grown peanuts. The peanut forms underground pods from ten drils, picked by hand. Vines feed horses and cattle. yields per acre range from 30 to 80 bushels, with some planters producing 1000 to 15000 bushels annually.
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Delaware
United States
Thirteen Men to Steal a Farm in This Court
Judge Grier once set aside a jury verdict against an unpopular man and remarked that thirteen men can steal a farm in this court. The comment underscored a controversial assertion about jury and judicial power.
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