15 Feb 1845
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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1845
Page
1
A poetic plea to children to remember their mother as they drift toward night. The speaker, a grieving father, asks who will teach their souls and tend their dreams now that the mother sleeps, urging a last blessing and lullaby.
A fragmented miscellany recounts seeing Napoleon in a dusty street as a double with a green uniform and a later return of the emperor in a carriage. The piece also describes a lion’s roar in the desert, a Samaria caravan scene, and then shifts to U S population shifts toward the West, immigration trends, and future political power, ending with a note on potato sugar from Britain.
A narrator recounts three days of scattered reports after the Waterloo campaign. On the 20th, three ragged, wounded fugitives claim Waterloo's field was lost at eight o'clock, amid disbelief and fear of Prussian spies. French evacuees then corroborate the tale with details of Napoleon.
The Mount Vernon estate covered about ten thousand acres in one block near the mansion, with farms within five miles. George Washington daily visited fields and ran large crop operations. in 1757 he managed 500 acres of grass 700 acres wheat and more for corn and vegetables. His stock included 140 horses 112 cows 335 oxen and 500 sheep, with 250 workers and 24 plows year round. In 1789 he slaughtered 150 hogs weighing 18 590 pounds for family and enslaved people.
The dialogue shows a boy asking about a road and the elder replying that it led nowhere, reflecting a moment of rural uncertainty and memory in a past setting. The exchange is terse and focused on place and direction.
The article advises leveraging mild days for gardening work. It recommends chilling ridges to unearth insects, spreading ashes, spreading a little salt, clearing vines and haulm, and lightly manuring bulbs. It suggests gathering moss for summer mulch, sowing lettuce in a warm corner, and minor sowing of pepper grass and radishes. It warns against pruning vines and trees at this season.
A Darmstadt dated letter reports Dr. Van Herff performing surgical incisions into the breast cavity to reach the lungs for tubercular pulmonary consumption. Medicines injected into the wound allegedly cure the disease with complete success and no danger to life, per the London Spectator.
A New York paper reports several tons of brimstone ordered to Washington to cure men stationed there who crave political offices.
A Yankee writer in the west mocks local marriage arrangements by suggesting to improve the region’s prospects with new teeth for the girls and sending them away. The remark reflects period humor on social and matrimonial matters.
A co temporary notes that a newspaper is a school in a family and crucial for children. It argues newspapers educate, inform, and elevate boys and girls, making them more capable of success and respectable in life, while costing only a small subscription in hard times.
The article notes mass Jewish movement toward the Holy Land due to oppression in Russia and Germany. Turkish protection brings Jewish bankers to Constantinople as reform spreads in congregations, altering Rabbinist superstitions. Over twenty papers worldwide support Jewish literature and religion amid rapid reforms.
The Raleigh Star laments Franklin's prospects as a printer's son in law as only two US printing offices existed in earlier times. It notes the gamble of supporting a family from printing profits and references a census count of 15572.
The article argues planets may be inhabited due to atmospheric presence and axial inclination. It notes seasons resemble Earth's and suggests such seasons benefit soil and living beings. The inference remains that all planets possess life-supporting conditions based on proofs cited.
Dr. Lee argues in the New England Farmer that ten bushels of boiled potatoes mixed into pudding from three bushels of corn or peas can produce as much pork as twenty bushels of potatoes fed raw along with six bushels of corn or peas. He cites his experiments and broader literature to support this feed method.
The citizens of Lexington Massachusetts vote to celebrate April 19 the anniversary of the battle of Lexington. Of the Lexington men on that ground in 1774 only Jonathan Harrington remains alive, in good health and active on his farm. The Emperor of Russia, among other gifts, has presented Queen Victoria with a dozen cradles. A gentle hint that.
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