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Newspaper
Marshall News
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1898
Page
6
A 1900s column promotes a gender equal standard in speech and home life, listing beliefs in temperance, prohibition, arbitration, and a shared moral code. It honors three female reformers, notes debates about women’s roles in public life, and laments past attitudes while urging readers to engage in civic improvement. An advertising fragment for Knill’s pills closes the piece.
A historic column discusses a doubletree hitch question about which horse pulls hardest when two horses share a single bar. It explains diagrams, then shifts to hog nose health, sheep management, and notes from breeders on hog vigor and Dorset sheep. The piece blends mechanical curiosity with livestock care guidance.
Prof. C F Curtiss discusses distinguishing profitable feeders from nonviable types in cattle. Key markers include blocky, stout frame, straight legs, wide back, full neck, brisket, chest, and fleshed flanks, with a fine clean bone, mellow hide, and vigorous yet calm temperament. Even flesh cover and good handling quality are essential for superior finished product.
Farmers use a movable pig pen made from two old wheels with a roofed shelter and trough. The device lets pigs graze fresh grass daily by shifting the pen to new spots, offering a simple portable shelter during storms and enabling easier management.
The Western Plowman advises stockmen on efficient hog fattening focusing on quality over quantity. It urges choosing land that grows corn, feeding full rations of corn or peas, and delaying weaning until pigs show robust growth. Early spring peas provide valuable hog feed as pastures decline.
Breeders assert small hog houses prove superior for pig raising. An eight by ten foot house with a stock lot outperforms a large horse stall, housing six to ten sows with piglets under low fencing.
A compact survey of civil service dignitaries transitioning to literary life. It names Austin Dobson, Cosma Monkhouse, Reginald Bratt, Searcy, Edwin Hodder, W. Jaenbs, and others. notes the Inland Revenue, Post Office, and Audit Department producing biographies, novels, and essays.
A garbled historical excerpt mixes calls for supplies with naval imagery describing battle actions and ship readiness. It references a soldier assaulting Spanish batteries at Santiago, capturing prisoners, and planting a flag, then shifts to unrelated domestic dialogue about tasks and a motor battleship launch cost.
A fragment recalls a local episode where a man nicknamed virtnazo is accused in a terse exchange. A boy named Addie notes a bet worth 8 pounds and a claim that the accused did nothing wrong, while the terse wording hints at a disputed act or misunderstanding.
Alfred R Higgs buys from Weeks and Turner of Springhill a renowned wire-haired fox terrier named Uno. The dog, young yet seasoned, began a successful show career in New York a year ago and dominated circuits in Chicago St Louis Louisville and Pittsburgh. Sired by Halifax Revival out of Saybrook Wisen, Uno is hailed as Maryland’s best wire-haired terrier and was sold to a local owner amid acclaim from amateur fanciers. The piece also notes Lake George potholes shaped by glacial action and geological theories about their formation.
The fragmentary tale recounts Stokes sent to Dublin during a famine to show how to make soup from meager scraps and water, provoking a quip about its true nature. It mentions the Bridge of Sighs in Venice as a reference to prisoners moved from judgment hall to execution.
A diverse, damaged clipping contains assorted items from crimes, science notes, marital humor, dental water myths, locust control, and travel statistics. It includes Indonesian fasting customs, a witty exchange about marriage, and scattered regional measurements, all presented in a rough, unedited OCR form.
The Duchess of Sutherland, daughter of Rev Dr Richard Mitchell, faces a jewel theft case after $150,600 worth of diamonds disappeared en route from Paris to London. Her past includes two marriages and a custody dispute over the duke by his heirs, amid rumors of intrigue and a court challenge to a will.
The Philadelphia Record reports that U S post office rules impose a $1009 fine or two years in prison for defacing letter boxes. A city inspector noted widespread paint and scrapes and letters solicit repainting crews under watch. A phosphorized silver paint will illuminate boxes at night to deter vandalism.
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