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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1883
Page
2
Poem urges withholding judgment and offering hopeful pity for others struggles. It argues a perceived flaw or failure may be a scar from battle guiding growth and ascent, while condemning quick disdain and emphasizing mercy and understanding.
Colonel Monteagle and his daughter Mary, a skilled mathematician musician and linguist, live in decay after former grandeur. A visitor, Mr Crofton, observes their strained manners and the pair’s proud pretensions as Mary curses their poverty and pretenses.
Mary Monteagle hides poverty from her parents while learning to operate a sewing machine at farmer Pelham's. She earns a dollar a day, funds household needs, and smooths her family's insolvency. Mr Crofton offers marriage and a stable life, but Mary's hustle reveals a practical path to security.
A fragment quotes a line about a true virtue surpassing wealth, noting there are many scholars and pretenders but a real noble woman is priceless beyond rubies. The text reflects a moral contrast and social judgment.
The article outlines how height and weight relate through life, noting growth percentages from infancy to adulthood, sex differences, and a proposed rule of about five pounds per inch of height for adults. It cites Dr. Hutchinson’s data from weighing 2,600 men and provides a table of recommended weights by height.
The Belford piece portrays the red haired Colorado congressman as a witty rough rider with a wide vocabulary and stage presence. He once defended a Denver client against Secretary Teller's brother, delivering a sharp reply that drew a big laugh from jury and gallery. Belford dodged baptism jokes with humor and kept the audience roaring.
A New York peach grower notes that removing part of the crop while young yields larger, heavier fruit and higher quality. The grower also suggests storing butter for winter use and recommends clean stone jars as optimal containers.
A weary singer recalls striking a single chord that echoed like an Amen. The music floods twilight with healing calm, linking meanings into peace and soothing pain, yet the lost chord remains sought and maybe heard again only in heaven.
In this column farmers are urged to study sheep breeds and wool types to outpace buyers and improve profitability. It argues many farmers lack breed knowledge, rely on others, and neglect self education while shipping farm products graded by buyers. It also notes the New York Times suggestion to soak seed wheat in caustic solution to destroy germs, smut, and rust.
A County Gentleman correspondent extols rye as a permanent pasture grass saying it can be grazed for years. In Adrian Michigan a farmer reports rye has been used as pasture for three consecutive years, providing good grazing to year end. Rye is hardy with deep roots and versatile on many soils, offering early spring and late fall feed for ewes and lambs.
Mr F E Bishop in Poultry Messenger outlines two fence methods. One uses split fence boards with end and middle supports a latch every three inches and a wire fastened to posts. The second method stretches three wires at six and thirty inches from the ground with binding wire and laths woven in for tightness and stability.
The Massachusetts Ploughman extols the compost heap as a beneficial farm practice. The article discusses its value for soil fertility and farm efficiency, presenting it as a sensible, practical feature for rural housekeeping.
The text describes adding road scrapings ditch scourings pond cleanings hedge clippings and various refuse to a compost heap. It notes weeds will decay to enrich soil and recommends layering lime and salt periodically. Turn the heap and apply the finished compost to land in spring or autumn.
The article defines Glanders in horses with pecan deposits and sores on the nose membrane and lungs. It explains that the acute form follows inoculation or occurs in weak worn-out animals, with causes including exhausting diseases, bad air, and overwork. Symptoms include languor, appetite loss, red watery eyes, dry coat, rapid pulse and breath, nasal patches, nasal discharge, and sometimes dropsical swellings.
The American Cultivator notes frost anxiety may ease as frost causes grain to mature better by robbing the stalk of nutrients. Resulting harvest could yield more and higher quality grain while fodder loses feeding value.
The text offers preserved kitchen recipes for pickles including cucumber cucumber, tomato and cabbage blends with vinegar and spices, plus a tomato preserve method. It also gives house cleaning advice to prevent dust when sweeping and tips to brighten carpets and woodwork with ammonia or bullock's gall and light floor painting for accent.
A fragmentary compilation notes a moral admonition on speaking truths, a report about Paris green used to kill rose bugs on grapes harming blossoms, a remark that marriage concerns others least yet is most meddled with by them, and a quip about malaria from a Judge.
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