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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1883
Page
6
Horatio Nelson Powers reflects in the Critic on how nature and language fuse in a sonorous meditation. He explores seeds and buds, sea depths, stars, and insect voices as conduits of universal emotion and beauty. The poem evokes twilight scenes and luminous, almost mystical, connections between flora, fauna, and human feeling.
A rural church scene features a deacon insisting on male headship and wife submission as divine law, while Mrs Geer and others challenge the doctrine. The exchange turns humorous as a wife retorts with a tale of quiet influence and a smoker’s ban.
In a church room discussion, a deacon defends the biblical duty of wives to submit to their husbands. He argues submission reduces family friction and that husbands bear ultimate responsibility for children, while acknowledging cases where a wife may rightly intervene. The group considers a printed rule set for wives and the dialogue shifts to warmer recollections of parental care.
In a New York bar the writer notes whisky levels society by placing a U S senator a hack driver and a millionaire son on equal footing. The piece argues whisky fosters daylight self respect by morning. It describes nocturnal Turkish baths used to regain respectability and mocks the drink as a national equalizer.
A Providence Journal item describes a Pawtucket man whose life revolves around punctuality. He rises and dresses at exact times, preaches time savings, and once cut a cat’s tail to reduce time spent letting it in and out of his store.
In 1882 a farmer reports successes with fall lambs and winter feeding. lambs learn to eat early reducing milk drain on ewes. Fifty four pounds of wool from twelve lambs plus strong ewe condition and high grade Merinos. Berkshire improvements through selective feeding and mating.
A column reviews gardening lessons on pest control with lime saltpetre coal oil and sulphur, recommends wood ashes and properly timed manure, notes dangers of over-application, advises on corn germination soil warmth, seed quality, and compatible planting patterns for beans and peas. It also suggests soaking sorghum seeds and benefits of manuring tomato hills for faster growth and earlier blossoms.
A collection of home practice notes on storing cabbages with moist cellars to aid heads, plus simple kitchen tips. It also covers rust prevention for steel knives with soda solution, a pork roast side dish with potatoes and sage, a chicken soup recipe with barley or rice, ginger cookies using sweet milk, crystalized popcorn with sugar, and nut preparations.
The article notes Berkshires as the premier modern swine breed, large in size with strong vitality and active temperaments, while acknowledging the role of domestication in shaping their form.
Dr J E Morris states the infection in swine stems from rats. A Vienna committee found 37 percent of Moravia rats trichinous, Vienna area 10 percent, and Lower Austria 4 percent. Hog voracity drives them to consume meat and wastes from infected animals, urging elimination of disease sources in swine diets.
The magazine explains how fallen leaves mulch tree roots in winter improving soil as they decay. It urges collecting leaves around trees and covering them with brush or cornstalks and says the experiment is worth repeating.
The note states beans are fed to sheep and other stock, with better results when cooked, especially when ground or fed in the whole state. It emphasizes beans as nutritious but recommends cooking to maximize benefits.
The piece argues for enduring parental ties beyond law and material aid. It stresses guidance through example and honor, insisting families remain united even when children grow independent. The author cites the mercy of reconciliation with a child returning home.
A short, incomplete OCR fragment from the Boston Star mentions punctuation changes and formatting quirks. The readable portion centers on a stray colon and comma usage, with no clear event or named figures.
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