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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1898
Page
14
A Chicago inventor introduces a modular heavy cannon with an inner removable barrel and a tapered outer surface built from matched steel disks. The design promises high strength, ease of barrel replacement, and a method to control initial stress, with figures illustrating the assembly and breech mechanism.
Robert P. Porter reports from London on the craze for Willow pattern waistcoats imitating old china. The blue designs on white vie for attention in Regent Street as connoisseurs debate their appeal and future collectors seek authentic pieces, while Americans eye perhaps safer, stylish reproductions.
A garbled OCR passage from the Detroit Free Press presents a fragmented poem and scattered dialogue about hope, fate, and an impending event. Names and clearer context are missing, with several unreadable phrases and broken sentences.
A Canadian traveler who spent years in the far northwest along the Penes river notes a country of Tevet with four herds of wild buffalo, totaling at least 2,006 animals.
A fragment notes that the ballet is said to have been invented by the Duchess of Maine in Paris. The statement reflects a historical attribution tied to French nobility and early dance culture.
A Vermont neighbor dispute led to a man facing legal costs after a polecat was thrown through a neighbor's window. The incident occurred in Weterbury with 25 dollars cited as part of the prosecution expenses.
A rural essay discusses beekeeping as a potential farm income, arguing bees need only flowers rather than soil fertility. It notes beekeeping can be a supplementary, independent venture for farmers and their children, with modern manure handling and manure spreader ideas. The piece also shares a neighbor’s lamb sales and notes profitability of diversified farming, citing a New York farmer.
The piece notes yearly corn harvest practices, citing two or more ears per stalk, with one large ear and smaller ones often unprofitable to market. It argues the third ear, when present, is seldom saleable and should be fed to livestock. It warns the fodder is poor without nutrition supplements and laments waste in saving nubbin corn.
Professor James Law argues clover hay causes heaves in horses. He notes the condition is rare where clover is absent and rises with clover hay use, worsening with dusty or poorly cured hay. He cites U S practice and regional differences as supporting evidence, while acknowledging other factors may exist.
Wiste clover grows abundantly there is plenty of hay and horses get two full gallon in the place of stirt fay and part geain and thus eat too much Woeskiy Union Take an Interest to the Boy Every fon Wie far should be given a young animal to raise for himself he to attend to it and be iducet to take an interest it its prog ress He will thus early become fond of animals and farming and will be more reconciled to farm life whet be is grown The boy who leaves the farm for the city is the one who has never had any oaportuitles and looks in farming as drudgery Labor becomes a pleasuré when there is something to strive for and carly education of the hoy on AG fara Siewid be by giving him an Is terest in something AM children l owe youns alock and pet them Bx
The article notes a possible second moon to Earth announced by German astronomer George Waks mut of Hembareg. It cites historical observations from Cyrianus in 270, Aliseher in 1720, 1721, Goway the American, and Wallemath, suggesting a small reddish body with white streaks. Observers warn of observational uncertainties and emphasize telescope use for confirmation.
Lord Peel s tale shows a schoolboy answering that objects elongate under heat, illustrating how early science teaching shapes thinking. A critic laments technical instruction in England, seeing it as turning dull youths into bright but hollow thinkers.
The piece argues St Pudenaiana in Rome as Europe’s oldest church. It traces a mid first century Roman senator convert linked to St Paul, a chapel in his house, a family baptistry, and consecration by 108. Canon Roudledge cites it as Christendom’s oldest church, unique for remaining a church since the first four centuries.
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer snippet, T recalls a forgetful moment when the clergyman paused during announcements. He fears the impending event. Vestrymen join the group for a Monday night spin to Handytown and back.
The Lick telescope measurements suggest Neptune’s diameter near 32,990 miles, revised from earlier figures that ranged 2,000 to 4,000 miles higher. This update reflects refined observations and analysis by astronomers detailing planetary size.
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