Game Laws Move To Protect Quail and Partridge
Farmers across Ohio rally to back a proposed amendment to game laws. They seek to abolish placard hunting and make trespass with dogs or guns illegal to hunt on others lands. The petition, headed to Columbus, urges longer protections for quail and partridge to curb overhunting and crop damage. The piece notes a winter lesson in hunter excess and cites local advocacy in support of a two to three year protection period.
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Onto
Columbus
Alwear
Ohio
Farner
The Value of Poultry Flesh Across Fowls
The article contends that poultry flesh quality is not inherently tied to breed or size. It argues that proper feeding and care, not breed, determine tenderness and flavor, with well fed birds of any type providing excellent meat for market or home tables.
Applying Manure to Wheat or Corn for Profit
A farmer should choose manure application by local climate and soil. Spreading on wheat land with clover addition and hog pasture enriches land most cheaply for corn. If used on sod for corn, spreading after tillage and harrowing pays extra labor but may be profitable.
Absorbent Methods for Liquid Manure Use
A historic note describes absorbing liquid manure by mixing with straw, leaves, sweepings, sods, waste from mills, garden earth, or field soil. It warns to avoid substances that neutralize manure properties or introduce harmful constituents, with drainage to cisterns and annulling as needed.
Egg drying plant in St Louis ships dried product worldwide
A St Louis establishment dries eggs by the hundred thousand. The dried form, resembling brown sugar, is packed in barrels for transport. The process yields a product that travels across the equator on ships and can be reconstituted into fresh tasting omelets.
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St. Louis
Hodgepodge Recipes and Moral Maxims From a 19th Century Column
A Massachusetts woman reports being poisoned by a dye in a dress and recipes for paste, salves, lime water, and a cordial set of home remedies. The piece also includes moral reflections on labor, happiness, charity, and a pocket notebook of Stephen Allen with maxims on honesty, thrift, and conduct.
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Massachusetts
Horn Buttons Too Muds and Modern Maker Tricks
The article explains horn button manufacture from cattle hoofs, detailing boiling, dyeing, shank fixing, moulding, pressing, polishing, and packing. It notes Paris makers employ skilled die shapers, with fine relief heads and indented color rings showing high craft. Also mentions artificial gems and a French method to create opals and other corundums, plus upcoming exhibits and a giant London aquarium tank.
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Aberdeen
Paris
France
Comic Snippets and Anecdotes on Society and Letters
A collage of humorous scraps from periodicals features a New York child drinking kerosene and a mother using a wick as a lamp, Maine train car faintings, a Central Park dialogue about Schiller, and a cranky Webster anecdote about wine costs. It closes with Poe lore and a family audience mishap during a reading ending with a playful Raven joke.
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New York
Alereay Argus
Maine
Danbury
Central Park
Schiller
Bill
Old Skiller
INDIAN SUPERSTITIONS AND SKY MYTHS
The Indians view thunder as a giant bird with green back and gray breast whose wing claps cause the noise. They say the heavens rest on four tree like poles and that the bird dwells in the west, heard only when flying east. They fear the aurora borealis calling it nomedicine fre and worship it for supposedly aiding accuracy. Meteors and falling stars are believed sent by great warriors to warn of danger.
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Cape of Good’ Hope
French Academy
M. Monniar
Hungary
MM. Monnier
Jove
Confucius Quote on Virtue and Perseverance
A reflective passage emphasizes that goodness and truth outweigh talent and temperance matters more than brilliance. It argues belief in principles rests on our fault corrections and virtue strengthening. It notes true glory is rising after every fall rather than never failing.
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Confucius
Dr Tayne Expectorant Aids Bronchial Disorders
An advertisement claims Dr Tayne's Expectorant can thoroughly cure bronchial or pulmonary disorders that resist ordinary remedies, presenting it as an effective solution. Promises relief for coughs and lung-related ailments with emphasis on its curative power.
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Asterborn
Tayne
Private letter and Appletons Journal highlights 1877
A William D. Kelley testimonial praises gas treatment for chronic ailment and recovered health. The piece mixes a personal medical letter from Philadelphia with a review of Appleton's Journal March issue, noting stories by Annie Edwards and serials, plus Godey's Ladies Book and fashion illustrations and poems in a classic 1877 magazine roundup.
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Appleton
Tor. Mareh
Jornal
Rio de Janeiro
Dom Paidro
Annie Edwardes
Celia
Charlotta Adama
Julian Hawthorne
Kate Hillard
David Ker
Goory
Lady
Boor
Ieney
Godey
Ladiey
Max Adder
Margaret B. Harvey
Olivia Gay
Mary E. Nealy
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Lanor
Sxoren Kesprras
Sterney Allen
Stephen Allen
Trenry Clay
Lewatine
Westminster Aquarium
London
Liberty
M. Bartholdi
London Academy
Zamoreus
Norr
Congress
Senate
House
American Missionary Board
Stanley
Africa
Hin
Daniel Webster
Boston
Mr. Webster
Seriberts
Syi 7
Poe
Mr. Poe
Pallas
Nevermore
Rose
Ton. Wu
D. Kelley
West Philadelphia
Gav. R. Stanker
Philadelphia
William D. Kelley
Brown
Orion
Anail
I. Ed. Brown
South Fifteenth Street
E. Pu
Els
J. Minkler
Seni
National Tree Co
Putladeshua
Vitarittans
Publia Omaors
B. W. Ziegler & CO
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Cain
Seul Post
Aveliy Co
Cheshunt St
Philo
Par
Murphy Movement
Franci Murphy
Atorce
William Wint
Ft Salle
Tomn Rysitin
Firatts
Liniment
Etn
Sori
Ebrot Se &E
Eral
Dyuggists
Adulihla
Siva
C. Lpham
Sighth
Villadenhia
Civenlars
Frese
R. Shoemaker. & CO
Robert Eels
Kirkham
Watson & KeLso
Kelso & Kirkham
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South Second St
Philadelphta
Uncle Sam Press
Gulli Selt
Biker
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Ric Selt
Erera
Jachin and
Boaz
Stesl
Keystone
Phike
Mus
Hentz
Rand
Maryland
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Bradley & Company, Publishers
North Fourth Street
Sousump
Tig Ney
Alt Biker
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Meyer
Miedo
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Dyer LI
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Supreme
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DR. Staver
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