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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1883
Page
3
A dramatic report describes violent cyclone activity Friday across Wisconsin Illinois and Iowa. The article portrays the storms as terrifying forces seizing the earth, damaging houses trees limbs and threatening lives.
A violent cyclone hit Racine last evening around 7, devastating the north and west riverfront. Reports vary on fatalities, with estimates from 10 to 30. at least 25 persons injured, many critically. Homes, barns, and fences destroyed. property loss potentially near 100000. Dozens of families affected. relief efforts organized with a council relief committee and a citywide citizens’ meeting planned.
The fragmentary reports describe cyclones near Springfield Junction and Centos Illinois on May 19 causing extensive damage. Victims include several killed and wounded, with houses toppled and trains disrupted along Jacksonville line. Separate notes cite severe wind storms affecting Morgan County and Greasy Prairie with multiple fatalities and property losses.
A May 19 dispatch reports a tornado 3 miles east of Livingstone causing severe damage. Homes and farms, including Livingstone’s, were destroyed. Mr Livingstone and others injured. Construction crew deaths noted near Springfield rail camp. Further reports from Shanmac and Platoview indicate extensive property losses and multiple injuries.
A.Anne Allen and N Pribanc discuss growing Amber cane as an early, sweet substitute for corn in 89 degree latitude fields. They note stalks resist drought better, produce two crops per season with fair weather, and advise shallow drills three feet apart and close seed placement.
Tevware guidance warns of dangers from sudden pasture change to watery grass. It prescribes limited grazing time, hay feeding, and dosing with linseed or cottonseed meal to prevent scour, plus cautious remedies for bloat and a lime and water mixture as a cure.
A Breeders' Gazette writer shares a method to eradicate lice on Poland China pigs. He applied coal oil mixed with paste along the pigs and their pens, noting lice died and pigs showed no further signs of infestation five weeks after treatment.
A long, garbled Gleanings column mentions President Grevy of France, Clark Russell, Henry Rowell, and Latin Collins in London. It notes gifts from Sohn Fer and C. BR Barker, a Boston checker player, plus various anecdotes about public figures, speeches in Pontiac, and a mix of unrelated incidents including a failed crane explosion plot and a staged parade invitation in Adams Massachusetts.
Advice on hog husbandry suggests letting hogs roam in a clover pasture until two months before market, then confining them to close quarters. It notes pasture improves health, but hogs gain faster when kept indoors during finishing, and that hogs tolerate cold poorly.
A Racal World writer explains the sheep grub, called the lary of the Beir ovis, or abeen gaikfly, detailing larva growth, ringed body with brown patterns, and the way it enters sheep via the nostrils to feed on membranes. He argues against turpentine or tobacco remedies, advocates exposing the animal to light and air to coax the grub out, and cites experiments from the stock book and personal observations.
The President recognizes George Edward Stanley as 23 Consul of Great Britain for California Oregon and Washington Territory. He will reside at San Francisco.
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