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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1892
Page
6
A fragmented rural dialogue explores who truly helps others and questions the value of philosophy versus practical care. The speaker notes various neighbors and a pivotal tale about a man who clings to cures, then recovers, illustrating communal judgment and resilience within the Grange context.
Disjointed prose fragment discusses wealth and its perils, urging humility and moral living. It cites Spurgeon and explores restlessness as a sign of weak purpose, comparing wanderings to a navigator veering amid winds to reach a singular aim. The voice weaves religious reflection with literary allusions and moral admonitions.
Fragmentary advice blends social self control with garden planning and kitchen procedures. It urges avoiding restless tics and fidgeting, then moves to garden layout, poultry care, and simple recipes like Spanish cake and cranberry turnovers. The piece mixes instruction on behavior with practical domestic tasks and meals.
A fragmented recipe note stresses stirring constantly until the sieve is smooth and adding water gradually. It mentions about a quart of milk and water required for the mixture, highlighting the technique to achieve smoothness.
A Washington jeweler explains how common glass paste forms the basis of many counterfeit gems. Dense, transparent rock crystal plus borax and coloring oxides create fake diamonds and imitations like rubies and sapphires. Methods to color and refine these pastes, and attempts to fool experts, are discussed with notes on crystal growth and detection.
The Albany Express notes a famed elm near Willamstown, famed for its size with a trunk twenty-five feet in circumference. The tree was struck by lightning twice in August and has burned since, with a smoldering fire at times and a column of flame twenty-five feet high that frightened locals. Mr. Fowler plans to plant a young elm next spring on the site.
The fragment notes the Daily Courant of London and mentions an instruction about the wealthiest man of all time. It references a figure of estimated capital around 5,00, with other odd notes about an intoxicating drink from corn and decayed fish.
A Civil War reminiscence recounts Gen. Sedgwick's death near North Anna during Lee's invasion, detailing his mortal shot to the forehead as he examined the lines. It notes a sharpshooter called Rattlesnake and Silverheels, with an anecdote about a posthumous exchange and a survivor’s recollection of the moment.
A fragmentary reminiscence describes Browning’s youthful life, his conversations with contemporaries, and his capacity to turn unwritten poems within his mind into public works. The narrator reflects on Browning’s memory, studies, and continual creative play that shaped his art and lyric moments.
The excerpt discusses Abeyne and the Ghursians, noting their roles in the narrative and the frequent parentheses in the text. It suggests the ship and its journey as a minor focal point within larger pieces, highlighting the broader themes and the author’s style.
The Rural New Yorker notes a visit to a dairy firm run by Wee k President Morton where a large herd of Guerners is kept and private butter is produced. It describes monthly milk testing for butterfat using the Babcock method, sampling across many milkings, and compares this plan to Professor Dutrick's campaignof using larger sample amounts with a Mason jar and corrosive sublimate preservative for testing readiness.
Lady Burton works on a life of her husband aiming for completion by Christmas or early 1891. The piece covers Burton family burial at Rowan Castle, a Java dispute tale, a singer fainting on stage, Miss Mary Wilkins’ pearl necklace, an orphan with a friend’s rooms, and Berg telephone operators required to pass multilingual exams and draw maps.
A farmer hires a man to help during a drought. They mistake crane attempts for parries of labor. The hired man later tests a drink, mislabels water as beer, and ends up endorsing the administration to avoid losing his job. The tale ends noting rum and beer origins.
Fragmentary OCR passage describes rituals and manners of women and men, noting respectful behavior toward men, dress changes, and gesture-based signals in social interactions. It contrasts preparations before a man’s gaze with posthumous ghostly reverence and warns of feared terms used for ancestral spirits.
A garbled domestic guide lists household hacks from cleaning carpets with hot water and alcohol to using alum water as an insect killer. It includes advice on laundry with paper folds, preserving fish by salting and soaking, needle threading tricks, velvet fashion notes, and window cleaning with alcohol for efficiency.
St Louis Republic reports a site on the Lena River in Northern Siberia as the coldest known place on earth. The area near latitude 67°N, longitude 164°E, described as nearly windless and perpetually still, with temperatures reaching 89 degrees below zero and notable surrounding mountain wind patterns and calm conditions.
A brief survey notes a dwindling number of electrical books in a library, now about four volumes. It also reports the Columbian celebration rail receipts in New York totaling about 150 000, the largest for a railroad in a similar period, with Salem’s old Evening News referenced as a weekly journal from 1708.
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