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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1876
Page
7
A fragmentary verse piece titled Under the Rose explores coldness and longing with lines about a rose, hidden depths, and broken emotion. The dated source notes Scribner for November, hinting at literary period publication.
A farmer digs a barnyard well at about fifteen feet deep, with stonework and three days of labor while the family relies on a distant stream for water. The piece details labor, cost, and water reliability, then discusses furze pasture, lime effects on heath, and soil changes leading to clover and grasses.
Use china eggs for nest eggs and place under a setting hen after one night on a china egg. Allocate eleven eggs to large hens and nine to small ones. Build roomy nest boxes with dry earth bottom and hay or straw nests, add sulphur to deter lice. Keep the henhouse wastewashed, collect manure, compost seasonally, and apply half to one pint of compost per fulls of garden produce.
A field experiment shows oats sown with charlock seeds may sprout thickly when old pasture soils are tilled. An example from a grass field that was expanded reveals charlock infestations, while newly added oat land remained clean. The observation supports that charlock seeds can lie dormant until conditions favor growth.
A kitchen column offers recipes and cooking tips including WarrLes-to milk and eggs batter for griddle cakes, Sweet Apple Pie with cream and lemon zest, Flannel Cakes with separate beaten eggs, Esouisa stew with pickles and gravy, Cheese Fritters fried in butter, and a cabbage pickling method from a reader with vinegar and spices.
A compliment to American industry highlights George Steck & Co of New York for supplying a superior concert grand to the Grand Niebelungen Orchestra in Bayreuth and marks Steck as a premier piano maker with awards from Vienna 1873 and the Centennial Exhibition. The column also notes a mysterious incident in New York state as two performing bears are found dead in Roxbury woods while travelers search for the bear trainers. It closes with advertisements for Mercuast’s Garotine Om liniment and Caswell Hazard Juniper Tar Soap.
Official report of the Judges of Awards at the Centennial awards Steinway & Sons the highest honors for excellence in concert pianos. It praises tone purity duration power and modern construction and details six key improvements including metal frames and tubular actions. Also mentions other notices and trade ads from the exposition and city route guides.
A jumble of late 19th or early 20th century classified style listings seeks agents, catalogs, and product samples. It promises weekly or monthly salaries, free samples, and high commissions for male and female agents, with various firms including Jay Bronson Detroit Felton Co Louis Mo and Excelsior Mfg Co offering opportunities. Several lines mention catalogs, banking for commissions, and sales of novelty items.
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