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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1875
Page
4
Poem from The Galaxy for November reflecting on lost summer, a lover's rose, and enduring memory. The speaker recalls a stormy sky, sea-dark eyes, and a vanished garden where no June days can match that deepening warmth. The poem ends with the heartbeat of memory keeping the soul sweet.
A farm and home guide presents recipes for preserved apples with sugar icing served cold with cream, hop yeast milk bread batter, apple fritters, franner dawn fried cakes, oaten biscuits and griddle cakes, Frenon pancakes with lemon, and cracker pies with vinegar molasses mix.
A Muskingham County pork producer tested cold effects on hog fattening. Hogs fed on corn and weighed showed returns per bushel of feed declining from 80 cents in October to 5 cents by January. Weather shifted from warm to freezing. hogs were sheltered in a well-built pen with a plank floor.
Farmers favor fall timothy sowing with winter wheat for a good catch, but spring sowing can reduce weed competition. The article cites a Grange meeting in the county discussing cases of weed growth and disease spreading when seeds are sown late.
Four Bethlehem neighbors sowed seed from a local dealer a year ago and now harvest shows extensive wild carrot growth. Timothy and other grains are absent as carrot blooms through fall. Grange members urge careful seed purchases to avoid spreading foul seeds and harming crops.
A Boston Cultivator correspondent explains wintering bee colonies in dry dark cellars to avoid frost and shortages. He notes warming by sun on stands can fail, trenching and burying in dry ground as options, and feeding weak swarms with honeycomb and honeyed sugar mixtures to boost spring breeding and early labor.
The piece discusses potato storage risks for early and winter crops. It notes low prices, field losses from unripe tubers, and dangers of storing in heat. It explains using straw and layered earth to protect heaps from frost and advises against long storage in warm dry cellars.
The text notes June potatoes stay firm for eating or planting while exposed potatoes sprout a foot long when not in contact with soil. Dry warm air drives sprouting. A sod layer over the heap prevents this, enabling vigorous growth after planting and a good start for the first potato crop. Planting late in rich warm soil with firm seed requires care to secure early varieties for late planting.
The Pall Mail Gazette reports a proposed Prussian measure to abolish clerical patronage, replacing private and state presentations with congregational elections. Episcopal patronage may continue with congregational objection rights, seen by some as a challenge to Catholic church independence, signaling a broader church state conflict.
New York correspondent notes editors survive more than other professions. Editorial life keeps editors busy and morally oriented toward the public weal, leaving little time to dwell on personal danger or miseries. Walter Scott’s remark on bankruptcy and sanity is cited as an example of distraction through work.
A violinist claiming to be Ole Bull performed in Fowler and won public thanks from local citizens who presented him with eggs. The crowd crowded the delivery, tossing eggs that had never been thrown before as a show of appreciation. He tried to sell his shirt front and coat for a circus poster but refused.
The article cites Scientific American on foot care noting many wash feet only weekly and fail to change saturated stockings. Daily washing with pure water and daily armpit cleansing are advised to prevent odor. Stockings should be aired after a day or two. The piece also mentions a New Jersey water crop estimate of 4,000,000 bushels.
A nostalgic poem from Macmillan's Magazine images a seven o clock curfew and children drifting to rest. It contrasts earthly play with heavenly light and tender parent love, blending childhood innocence with a muted sense of mortal mystery.
A Sunday scene unfolds in the Dobbs household as Cinthy Ann loses her hair and Tommy endures a dress swap caper. Tommy fights to attend church disguised in his father's clothes, while Barry in a separable tale longs to sail away with Old Kutch in search of his father as his mother watches with wary love.
A humorous scene unfolds in church as an animated pair of boots with a hat enters the Dobbs pew provoking laughter and a startled minister. Mrs Dobbs hides the object under a camel hair shawl while Dobbs and family react with embarrassment as two boots exit with small hands clinging to straps.
In Leesport a Reading sewing machine agent tried to repossess after the husband’s death leaving the widow with six children destitute. She locked doors, wrestled the agent, toppled him onto a hot stove, and forced payment of all installments before allowing the machine to be taken away.
Louis Bourbad of Vermont identified Emma Bourbad as his daughter after years apart. In 1873 she was led astray by a dry goods clerk in Albany and later vanished. A search led to a cave near Watervliet where memory returned when the father spoke the name Emma. They head to Vermont together.
Report from London about Basque emigration to South America. Data cites Basque population in the Pyrenees region and a large outflow starting in 1870s with thousands leaving each year. Mentions specific towns and shifting numbers, noting substantial declines in local Basque communities and rising diaspora.
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