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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1891
Page
2
The fragment discusses international copyright effort hopes, probate estates for American heirs, and the shift from legal male domination to married women' s rights. It also reflects on confidence tricks, urban deception, and the value of earning one' s living amid a rising civilization and leisure versus idleness.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions water gear and a bath without a name or address. The partial text provides little context but implies a public or communal item connected to a place, lacking clear date or organizers.
The tale recounts a juror’s struggle during a long deliberation ending in acquittal for a man later found innocent. A Westward homebound companion becomes a murderer, prompting mob pressure and a death sentence that is overturned by a pardon after the true culprit dies in another city. The narrator reflects on conscience, justice, and the danger of crowd judgment.
The captain of an American ship says the era of wooden sailing vessels is ending. In fifty years wooden deep sea ships will be as rare as wooden steamers once were. He notes steel ships are lighter, cheaper, and more capacious, with higher carrying capacity per hull size and cheaper crew labor. Freight rates have fallen to eight times lower than during the Deandnaught’s Liverpool run, aided by mail-transport machinery. British yards produce large steel ships rapidly, and in recent years about twenty monitor four-masted vessels over 9,000 tons have been launched.
The readable portion shows a garbled request about a friend group and a social question, but the exact meaning is unclear. No clear names dates places or events are present to anchor a fuller summary.
The article lists veterinary signs of cholera in animals, notes on manure value, soil improvement tips for crops, and farm practices. It covers disease symptoms, soil preparation for strawberries, barn cleanliness, and feeding hogs with corn meal versus cooked potatoes backed by Wisconsin experiment results.
A New England Homestead column offers a practical paint mixture for rough wood and stone. Combine a peck of lump lime, four ounces glue dissolved, one quart raw linseed oil, and chosen color. Use on brick, stone, or wood, covers about 1000 square feet, withstands weather, with oil varnish for extra durability. Apply with whitewash brush, test small samples first. Winter application advised.
The article argues final weed eradication is unlikely as long as farming remains intensive. Heavily manured, thoroughly cultivated lands still face persistent weeds. Long term, minute seeds in the soil will continue to trouble cultivators as population grows and lands are cultivated more like gardens. Canada thistles may yield first to tillage. smaller annuals endure.
The text notes potatoes as a starch source to absorb supply when cheap, and as a method to store crops via evaporation. It highlights a new use where potatoes are hardened and molded into buttons, a disguise for origin as button production diversifies potato use.
The piece argues farm and family expenses persist year round and profits hinge on continuous selling. It warns that relying on a single crop drains resources without new supplies and notes southern farmers long depended on cotton sales, contrasting with northern practices of diversification.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a generous farmer and vague lines about an enclosure and feeding. Other garbled phrases reference months and an ox, with no clear events or identifiable persons or organizations. The readable content is highly uncertain and appears historically garbled.
A patchwork of domestic hints covers cleaning, polish, cooking, and garment care. It advises on furniture polish with oil and gum arabic, roasting meat with a spoon, removing stains with hot tallow, and using soda for a corn cure. It warns glassware heating behavior, egg peeling, and bottle cleaning with potato skins. It notes satin stiffening with vinegar and advises caution about glycerine and arsenic content. A dubious medical report about a cholera-like illness is briefly mentioned.
The readable fragments show a garbled line of text with no clear event or entities. No concrete people organizations places dates or numbers emerge to form a factual newspaper card.
A sermon compares religion to a crystal, arguing faith's truth and beauty surpass the gem in exactness, transparency, and transformative power. Job’s text is cited to urge personal repentance, divine providence, and the need to choose salvation over sin amid vivid biblical imagery and historical allusions.
Long term tests by Lawes and Gilbert at Rothamstead show potash does little for wheat unless paired with phosphoric acid and estrogen. Ohio and Kentucky stations report potash lacking effect on wheat, though increasing corn, hemp, tobacco, and potatoes yields. Experts anticipate possible future wheat benefits as soils wear, with clover after wheat potentially using potash.
Practical advice on removing ink stains with blotting paper milk and more, testing tea purity by dilution, a cough remedy from flaxseed honey rock candy and lemons, using a potato as a pen wiper, and tips on warmth and velvet care including raising velvet pile with steam and proper drying and dust removal.
Practical guidance on farming mindset and labor discipline. Emphasizes economy without stinginess, careful feeding, proper seed handling, timely execution, and rising to the standard of better workers. Warns that neglect grows the worst issues and time is essential in field work.
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