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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1877
Page
7
A verse depicts a snowy New Year arriving in white beauty while the old year dies. It uses imagery of bridal robes and white fleece to symbolize peace and renewal, urging no bloodshed and praising future deeds and calm, bright bells signaling a fresh start.
The article weighs fencing expenses against soiling savings on eighty acre farms. It estimates fence costs at 500 to 600 dollars per eighty acres with annual repairs about ten percent, equating fence upkeep to roughly 100 dollars yearly over twenty five years. It contrasts high fencing with soiling, citing a Country Gentleman note of 35 cows and three four year old steers fed for 75 dollars in a season, and argues soiling and reduced fencing could greatly improve farming economics.
A rural editorial urges farmers to shelter livestock during cold weather. It warns neglect causes disease and parasites, and suggests affordable shelters, even sod walls and brush roofs, to protect cattle and other stock from wind, rain, and cold.
The article warns that cold weather and wet ground threaten feet and overall health of cattle sheep and other stock. It urges dry ground straw litter and shelter to prevent disease and parasitic infections, noting that even hardy animals benefit from protection during winter storms.
Practical guidance on fattening poultry for profit or home use. Emphasizes continuous high feeding with clean water, avoiding pre-kill feeding to prevent tainted meat, and warns against deceptive cramming. Recommends barley or corn meal mixes, warm feed, iron in water, and a humane, rapid killing method followed by dry plucking and scalding for golden coloration.
A collection of archival home recipes includes Jerusha Cake with sugar milk butter and raisins, Verjuice Cabbage with stewed cabbage seasoned by verjuice, Tarry Canpy brittle candy, German Rule Carrots with suet and flour, and Frexon Briacxora a layered black syrup mix.
A historic notice describes almond macaroons made from almonds sugar egg white and water formed into balls and baked briefly on white paper. It also lists a gingerbread mix with molasses lard spices milk eggs flour and baking powder, mixed to a stiff dough for shaping and baking.
The New York World recalls a comic twist from the Brooklyn Theater fire. A Newark youth and a Brooklyn friend left before the last act to catch a train home. Newark learned of the disaster only the next day. The Brooklyn boy returns to a funeral scene for his own body. The denouement is implied.
Down in the Mouth. Catarrh with nasal irritation and throat inflammation is warned as a forerunner of consumption. Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy is said to cure in early stages, with Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a follow up. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser details rational treatments in a 900 page volume priced $1.50 postpaid.
Publishers of Western Family Magazine and Farner's Monthly offer a year subscription deal at 1.50 each with a chance to win 8 to 10 premiums. Premiums include standard books seeds and cash value. Sample copies available post paid for ten or twenty cents. Springfield Ohio address.
Half a million deaths occurred in England with fifteen causes accounting for most. Bronchitis led at 53,000, followed by consumption 49,379, atrophy and debility 80,995 chiefly young children, old age 28,604, heart disease 28,513, convulsions 27,13Y mainly children, pneumonia 25,927, scarlet fever 25,922, diarrhea 21,204 including 18,000 under five, and apoplexy 12,848. Recent items include unwanted market ads for Dobbins Electric Soap and horse medicines, and a vegetarian bull scare at a water-cure boarding house with culinary quips.
Colonel George E Waring of Ogden Farm Newport R I will publish a series of papers in Scribners Monthly focusing on bringing farms into villages for education and health benefits and reducing isolation An outline includes Village Improvement Associations and sanitary village housing Also featured are serial stories and international coverage with authors like Holland Burnett Tourgueneff Boyesen and McKay plus subscription offers and specimen numbers
Pensions increased and claims by officers and soldiers will be paid. Advertisement offers legal services by Bingham & Co for claims patents and land titles. Includes a promotional note about sending a sample package of transfer pictures and lamp postage, with agents wanted for J L Patten & Co.
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