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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1876
Page
3
A verse on marriage and social expectations. The speaker muses on fate and finding a wife, urging readers to listen as he fixes a marriage date. He reflects on mothers, maidens, and wives within one story homes, and ends with a vow to seek a wife if not too old.
The article urges thorough soil preparation before seeding. It emphasizes pulverizing earth for close seed contact, noting germination improves as roots take hold in finely worked soil and gain nourishment from the soil.
Winter wheat benefits from harrowing and rolling in spring. The past winter's weather has favored wheat and the crop looks good. Where ground is crusted by rain and winds a light harrow and short teeth are best. a hard, lumpy soil needs a heavy roller, and work should occur in warm, favorable weather.
Instructions advise gentle separation after drying the calf to allow visibility of the cow. If the calf has not suckled, it can be taught to drink in one lesson. Feed progresses from fresh warm milk to warmed skimmed milk with linseed meal gruel during cool weather.
A farmer stresses thorough grooming for six day a week horse work. He advises removing harness at noon, rubbing dry, washing shoulders with cold water, then drying. Warns many farmers overlook the gains from keeping horses healthy and fit for maximum work.
The article discusses forcing asparagus to supply tables for six months a year. It recommends small seed beds sown thinly, transplanting early, and maintaining a crop cycle every two to four years with a rotating plan. It notes methods to place roots in forcing houses for rapid, regular production and sustaining succession across multiple houses.
A detailed guide on forcing asparagus using old frames, beds, and pits with fermented dung heat. Advice covers bed preparation, heat management, and protecting roots, preferring simple lemon beds or unexhausted pine pits when material or labor is limited.
A. L. Patchin outlines causes and cures for hollow horn in cattle. He argues polled or muley cattle prevent hollow horn, while other breeds retain hollow horn bones after age three. He notes misattribution of disease to horns and urges diagnosing via dental-like examination, with digestive or respiratory disorders often the root, treatable by laxatives and supportive care.
Fr Seth Bonfoy of West Winfield New York shares cheese making methods gained from long experience. He explains setting milk at 82 degrees to improve whey separation curd vitality and final yield. He uses Patrons rennets soaked 12 hours in 98 degree water and salts to preserve skins. He gauges curd readiness by texture and uses a careful slow heat to scald then drains and mills the curd before salting and pressing.
The excerpt describes steps for producing a perfect rind on cheese using strong alkali and annatto coloring. It notes pressing, resting until dry, and dressing, with whey butter made by drying whey cream and applied warm.
A mixed domestic notes column listing recipes and preservation methods. Recipes include Moassks Cookies and Lemon Pr Pr with molasses. Latine Scinator Cake and ProLep Turkey. Lemon Mixer Pres and Force Meat Batuts with soup. Verast hops custard and Yeast. and a Receiver For Crime H Axis detailing curing wheat with salt and molasses for smoking in six weeks.
Dr Henry Field praises American zeal in Constantinople where the Bible House built by Rev Isaac Bliss cost about sixty thousand dollars and serves as a Bible depot and printing site. The Scutari Home, a girls seminary, recently added a fifty thousand dollar building funded by American women. Bebek College owes much to Cyrus Hamlin and Christopher P Robert, with two hundred thousand dollars, overlooking the Bosphorus and hosting nearly two hundred students from across Turkey and Bulgaria forming a Protestant community.
From the Syracuse Journal a police officer recalls clues to a drunk woman?s drink and state. He links disturbances to whisky as a rule and notes different drinks producing sick or merry behavior. The piece surveys wide social places from palace to gutter and comments on the affected women’s condition.
In Aroostook County Maine farmers unite against potato sales to a local starch factory unless guaranteed at least twenty five cents per bushel. The pledge reflects concern over crop value and market terms in the county.
A Tennessee blood and flesh shower in August 1841 sparked sensational reports from Lebanon and Nashville papers. Accounts described gelatinous red droplets and insect-derived matter, with explanations tying the phenomenon to lepidopteran fluids and transformations noted by Hallowell and others.
Ingenious calendar tool explains calculating day of week for any date by aligning year and month columns then Monday through Sunday rows. It notes leap years shift one column and highlights January February for leap-year adjustments.
Paris police have seized a smuggling operation supplying illicit game. A vendor was caught at a gate with a cart of various game species, concealing carcasses inside skins and feathers to evade detection, indicating a long running illicit trade.
The Virginia News praises snow plough crews in Sierra trains who battle long, perilous runs against heavy snow. One white man and two Chinese workers were killed. the piece notes their lack of rest and their $2 daily reward.
An American belle in London society explains her impressions of the metropolis after a ball in Philadelphia where bouquets defined status. Observers note two classes of ladies based on bouquets, with larger blooms seen as gifts from admirers and said to carry a symbolic scalp, reflecting on chivalry and ballroom customs.
A boy about twelve to fifteen in Cohoes slept with mouth open and swallowed a mouse. The mouse rode into the stomach, later vomited alive, and escaped through a floor hole. Doctors gave emetics, the boy recovered, leaving a puzzling survival inside. Separate Irish land strike chatter shows tenants resisting rent hikes by a company agent.
A collage of miscellany including notes on Shakespeare in Polish, Grand Haven population claims, counterfeit currency fears, exports, education, patents, and odd anecdotes. It mentions Paris and Vienna expositions, English ministers, and various regional curiosities from the era.
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