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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1876
Page
3
A reflective verse about a child near death and a parent’s longing. The speaker imagines future love after death and laments loss, with mournful imagery of dust and tears. The poem contrasts a child’s innocent world with adult sorrow and the ache of parting.
An Ohio Farmer writer argues that poor soil is unsuitable for large bean crops. He notes beans grow on poor land but yield improves with good soil or abundant manure, challenging the belief that light soils are best.
The article urges constant yearly selection of three chickens to keep for future breeding. It argues removing the least desirable birds for market improves flock health, uniformity, and price over ten years. Emphasizes thrift, hardiness, and form as key traits for long term profit.
A poultry correspondent shares a method to stop hens from eating eggs. Place an eight inch high keg fragment in the nesting box so the hen cannot reach the egg while standing on the rim. The plan costs little and has reportedly prevented egg theft in his coop.
A farmer urges August cutting for oak, hickory, and chestnut timber to yield longer lasting posts and rails. He notes winter cuts rot faster, prefers eighth month timber, and shares decades of experience since 1802 with barked timber staying sound and top logs serving fuel longer.
Farm breeding season begins as owners plan matings for ordinary stock. Farmers assess stalls, gather breeding tools, and coordinate with veterinarians to ensure healthy, productive stock throughout the coming cycle.
The author argues for prioritizing pedigree over looks in breeding choices. Better to mate with animals of inferior appearance but strong bloodlines than with handsome stock of weak lineage. Emphasizes consulting interests, improving blood, and breeding to raise purity of blood and overall stock quality this year.
The Chicago Daily Commercial Beer and Market Review outlines proper butter packing and shipping to boost profits. Key points include uniform colored packages, avoiding jars, using neat pails or firkins, soaking in brine before packing, layering salt, and cooling storage away from odors, with prompt shipping to prevent quality loss.
A collection of kitchen notes with methods for repurposing dinner leftovers into quick meals, cleaning instructions for black cashmere, and several baking and pudding recipes. The text delivers step by step actions including slicing onions, browning butter, making gravies, and preparing dairy and grain-based dishes.
A man involved in a dispute with his wife was last seen climbing into a hayloft and pulling the ladder after Lin. The scene suggests a possible disappearance or intent to stay hidden. Police search teams coordinate with neighbors amid the unsettling incident.
A reader reports the Centennial fair impresses with diverse exhibits across cotton, agriculture, and foreign pavilions. Highlights include a cotton show with Memphis and New Orleans samples, a Jerusalem bazaar, and robust agricultural schedules. Australia’s pavilion and the German jurors also feature prominently.
A Springfield Republican retells the Toole case from New Haven in which a man sentenced for life for arson endures escalating brutal punishments in a Connecticut prison shoe shop. Blows, flogging, dungeon confinement, and denial of food push him toward revolt. The warden dies after Toole resists a lash, prompting reforms and contractor complaints about必要 harsh conditions.
A merchant, unsteady from drink, weaves home through a maze of telegraph poles in a dark narrow street. He apologizes for bumping poles, clashes repeatedly, and curses the crooked lanes as friends intervene to calm the drunken procession cited by the California Spirit of the Times.
A traveler describes the gagboo tree notes its leaves cause hair loss in mammals. The machinelle tree is described as dangerous on islands with wind and smoke provoking illness. A horse exposed to certain boughs suffered near unconsciousness. Poisons from crabs and paint odor are discussed with household hints.
President Ulysses S. Grant proclaims a national observance urging counties towns to assemble historical sketches of their formation for the centennial year 1876. The joint resolution directs copies to clerk offices and the Library of Congress to preserve progress of institutions during the first century of the United States.
A Popular Science Monthly writer condemns flamboyant nurse attire in sick rooms and counsels simple black dress with white cuffs, quiet movement, and soft felt boots to avoid disturbing patients during recovery.
The article explains how the sturgeon swim bladders are soaked and cleaned to remove impurities, dried in the sun, pressed to flatten and uniform sheets, then packed. Large bladders yield packets of ten to fifteen sheets weighing about a pound and a quarter, smaller ones twenty-five sheets weighing a pound. Eighty packages are sealed in a cloth bag or enclosed in sheet lead.
English settler A Douglass in the Cape Colony expanded from six ostriches to about three hundred after eight years, selling eighty five birds. Birds consume about twenty pounds of vegetable matter daily. net profits from birds and feathers amount to about 425 dollars over the four preceding years. Ostrich hatching uses artificial methods with forty two day incubation. natural hatch failure is higher. Ostrich feather work also starts in California. fashion risk may reduce value of plumes. A New York hotel episode reports ex governor Bullock arrest and related gossip.
Poem reflecting on thresholds and departures as travelers move toward a distant gate. Images of gates, bells, moonlight, and fading farewells frame a meditation on love, aging, and the solitary passage of life with references to parents and lovers as companions linger before the final gate.
Odds and Ends reports a series of brief items from 19th century life. It mentions Secretary Don Camenon who has no wife, massacres in the Black Hills, teacher wages in Connecticut, a Louisville show paused by creditors, and General Edward F Beale named Minister to Austria. It notes plan to deepen Seaport Irwell Mersey, oil refiners sold to Standard Oil, a comic line about a runaway horse, a Richmond Indiana marry at twelve and mother at fifteen, and legal quibbles over breach of promise. It also covers an estray notice, Chinese confession methods, a Boston school substitute punishing with a rod, scalp traditions, colored light experiments, and a Centennial era wedding description in mauve attire with diamonds.
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