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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1876
Page
3
Seated once more, two meet a royal guest a little angel with flaxen hair who drums a spoon on a table and studies unnoticed. The infant rules with silent power in a scene of hopeful helplessness and severing farewell as the nurse ushers in night and dethrones the king.
The article notes a mild season masks risks for wheat as lack of protective frosts and thaws may endanger the crop. It urges farmers to improve surface drainage and relieve fields of standing water, using coarse manure or litter as protection on wet or uneven soils.
The article explains proper tapping using small iron spouts and several taps per tree to avoid decay. It describes clean collection in filters and casks, a multi-chamber boiler system to boil sap into syrup, and stresses care to improve quality to rival English cheese, plus notes on cleanliness in dairy and other household tips.
A Utica Herald piece quotes a cheesemaker urging dairy farmers to improve milk quality to boost cheese value. He stresses the impact of milk grade on the final product and notes practical steps to enhance milk for superior cheese.
The article lists diverse vegetable varieties and sowing practices. It covers melons, onions, peas, parsnips, spinach, radishes, squashes, potatoes, tomatoes, turnips, salsify, scorzonera, and lettuce with notes on drill spacings, soil conditions, and early versus late varieties.
Instructions describe removing gum from carpets by applying buckwheat batter to grain, drying and scraping. It suggests softening hard water by boiling or adding lime water, warns that washing soda can yellow fabrics.
A World article summarizes New York and Philadelphia experts on street salting. Prof. Rogers argues salt lowers risk by drying the air and keeping feet dry while Dr. Wister and Dr. Le Conte offer opposing views about humidity, leather damage, and health effects. A veterinary note by Dr Esenwine is questioned by Mr McClure.
A 40 year old man attempts to cash an $18 check at a bank in Nankin Township but is refused payment due to lack of identification. He insists on his identity, clashes with staff, and leaves at noon awaiting a “hat feller” to confirm him. The same issue notes a Russian neutral spirit entering English markets at 1s 1d per gallon, cheaper than British or German spirits.
A veteran collector recounts early career struggles with debtors, noting a bias against young collectors and detailing his persistence. He describes chasing a rich, obstinate debtor for two years, then the man blindsided him with crape on the bell by a cold night, ending the chase.
A Pittsburgh Telegraph correspondence narrates a frontier tale of a returning soldier who uses a powder filled cannon can to blow up alligators by smoking pigs. The incident ends with the fearsome reptiles banished and speculation that the Lincoln soldier may have lived nearby.
Dr T Lander Brunton notes that men exposed to cold should avoid spirits during exposure. Stories from a deer hunting keeper, Canadian lumberers in winter, Arctic travellers, and a Sierra Nevada party show alcohol worsens cold exposure risks and is routinely discouraged among workers and explorers.
The piece argues California should not increase its population via immigrants unless they can support themselves. It highlights an overstocked labor market, Chinese competition, and calls for discouraging Chinese immigration while seeking European workers. It urges newspapers to report truthfully about immigrant expectations.
A woman with eight children arriving in Macon from Cleveland on an Atlanta pass seeks help to reach Florida to join her husband. The father unknowingly appears at the City Hall hours ahead of his wife, who believed him in Florida. Local charity and police shelter the family for the night.
The text lists seed counts per pound for crops: wheat 10 500 barley 15 400 oats 20 000 rye 23 000 buckwheat 25 000 and clover 686 400. It estimates vertebrate animal varieties at 20 000 birds 6 000 reptiles 2 000 fishes 10 000. Total animal species about 250 000. It notes codfish 3 600 000 eggs herring five ounces 36 000 eggs and mackerel twenty ounces 454 000 eggs.
In Hopkinsville Massachusetts a deacon named Small, after losing his youth’s partner, rode to a widow Pironet’s home. He asked for directions to heaven by Hopkinton, she replied none, and invited him in. They were married the next day.
A collage of scraps touches on a Scottish death, a Niles inheritance, playful classroom quips, imperial wit from Sigismund, hog weighing tricks in Kansas, opium rumors in China, whisky concentration scams, travelers with long journeys, Boston tea protests, centennial price hikes, Punch humor, a London epitaph, a Danbury widow, ragweed growth in Indiana, Cremon violins auction, Imperial Crown details, a Lassen trek tragedy, and Boston Common relics with a 1600s medal.
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