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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1884
Page
6
The fragment repeats a nostalgic farewell to a cherished home and garden. It laments loss and memory with lines about youth, twilight, and a dear, bright image, expressing enduring affection for a place now departed.
In a Florida style colonial vignette Aunt Dinah a very large black washerwoman with kind eyes lives near Live Oak with her children Cuffee and Lillie. A bold turkey becomes the target of a playful family and a moonless Thanksgiving misadventure ends with a conjuring scare and a poorer feast.
The article extols sorghum as a versatile crop suitable for any climate or soil like corn, yielding seed fodder and syrup. It details cultivation practices, fodder quality, syrup production costs, and notes its drought tolerance and early germination versus corn. It also discusses sorghum’s use in animal feed and potential butter storage methods.
The article advises choosing hogs with good hair and conformation to maximize profit from feed. It urges careful sire selection, Clover pasture in summer, clover hay in winter, and rotating ground to keep hogs healthy and productive. It condemns barren muddy lots and promotes well grassed, fenced pastures for pigs.
A method used in England to preserve butter involves packing two pounds of butter in cylindrical muslin bags placed in a mold. The bags are tied, packed in brine in tubs pails or casks, and headed like pickled pork. The butter absorbs no more salt and remains free from atmospheric exposure.
The article explains that true-bred sheep yield uniform wool fibers of equal growth and warmth while cross-bred or poorly kept animals produce coarser fibers. It notes kemp or dead hairs, present in many cross-bred or hill-fed flocks, as white or black where wool differs, reducing wool value and suitability for fine fabrics.
A Victorian era note discusses sheep dividends versus dairy, open sheds for stock, hog carcass disposal risks, butter churning pace, and cattle feeding trials. It covers silage for growth, treating hogs’ ears, crossbred sheep vigor, sorghum feeding results, seed corn odor repellent, manure behavior, and soil ammonia cycles before abruptly ending with an English farmer noting winter herd placement.
The record lists weekly rations for horses: forty-two pounds oats twenty eight maize twenty two beans twenty one hay cut into chaff seventy pounds long hay totaling 196 penne per week per horse. It notes common fowl diseases catarrh and croup with watery nasal discharge and swelling detailing care steps.
A humorous Chambers' Journal sketch contrasts Texas courtship with a white rocking chair scene. A couple exchanges quips as they sew, discuss quilts and a dog named Cooney, then drift into flirtation and a plan to obtain a marriage license.
The Pittsburg Dispatch outlines a Quaker marriage as solemn and orderly. The couple meet privately weeks before, obtain a certificate, and wed with a quiet service limited to silent worship and brief prayers. The ceremony ends with signatures on the marriage certificate and a formal departure.
The text describes using a neighbor as a signal for upcoming diasiiased meeting, appointing two overseers to supervise the ding breakfast for proper decorum, and the clerk recording the marriage in meeting records.
A compilation notes 1809 births including Gladstone and Darwin, Emma Larson’s Wisconsin to San Francisco trip safely completed, Lincoln’s manuscript gift to Mrs. Hillas, and lines on Henry M. Stanley’s upcoming lecture tour about the Congo. It mentions Montefiore’s wife advice, Calhoun tomb sarcophagus completion, Hoyt’s industrial school, and General Joe Johnston aging with image of gray hat.
The piece recounts Hon James Watson Webb longtime editor of the New York Courier and Enquirer as the last avowed northern duelist. It describes his Wilmington duel with Tom Marshall and a later Washington dispute over Brooks assault on Sumner, ending with Webb renouncing dueling and accepting private combat for national causes.
An editorial from the Cincinnati Enquirer extols public speaking as essential to all eminence across professions from congress to merchants and soldiers. It argues most failures arise from lack of practice rather than lack of ideas, noting speaking ability can confer influence that surpasses merit.
A reflective note on fidelity as the essential grace for Christian workers. The quote emphasizes humble steadfastness during sunshine and storm when no banners wave and no music cheers the weary feet. Source attributed to S. J. Nicholls.
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