A Handy Stone Boat for Farm Use
A stone boat is a farm essential and the illustrated model proves handy. Runners are about 6 inches thick with a natural crook at the forward end. The narrow strip along the runner and the 2 inch front plank form a sturdy platform held by wire spikes. Use a small drill bit to start holes to avoid splitting. The detached pole is key and should not be omitted. The chain passes through the mortise in the pole and a small bolt through a link improves control as the boat descends a hill.
Watering hogs and peas rotation from Orange Judd Farmer
Practical notes on a semi automatic hog watering device using a barrel trough and plugs. Also discusses cow peas as fodder, crop rotation with oats cotton corn and cow peas, and advice on plowing under green manure. Emphasizes soil building and use of winter rye for spring crops.
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Orange Judd
Water for Hogs and Other Farm Notes
Practical farming items discuss water for hogs to prevent sickness, calf fattening with skim milk and oats, soil renovation with cow peas, and tips on clover plowing and orchard grass pasturing. Also included are pension office letters, humorous anecdotes, and ministerial stories from the era.
Women’s Hair Beauty Tied to Sunshine and Bonnets
The article claims women’s hair grows thicker and more vibrant annually due to light bonnets and exposure to air and sun. It notes sunshine improves color and texture, bleaches pale hair, and Venetian red came from sun dried hair, while dark hair remains unaffected.
Police as Shark Catchers in Calcutta’s Hooghly
Calcutta police perform diverse duties including shark capture in the Hooghly River. Over the past twenty years rewards have been paid for destroying these man-eaters, and the Bengal government has recently established a scale for such payments.
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Calcutta
Hooghly
Bengal
On the Solar Plexus
A brief comic exchange shows Miss Cutting chiding Cholly about his stubbornness as Cleveland Leader notes the humorous back and forth in a local humorous column.
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Cutting
Cleveland
The Independent Spirit of a Self-Reliant Man
The remark praises a man who works just as well alone as under observation, framing him as good while his enemies are bad, and noting the West remains indifferent to world affairs. It reflects a rugged individualism and a detached view of global opinion.
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Poultry World
Soldiers Stories of Company I at Camp Randall 1861
Graphic reminiscence of Company I Wisconsin volunteers from Vernon County joining in 1861. Describes roll call, youth, awkwardness, adjutant selection, early officers, and battles from Rappahannock to Appomattox. Notes 41 killed, 65 wounded, 17 died of disease, one brigadier general, one colonel killed at Cold Harbor, and a memorable regimental farewell.
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Company I
Camp Randall
Vernon County
Tony
Eastern College
I Company
R. R. Dawes
Company K
Dawes
Charles G
John A. Kellogg
Liberty Pole
Clayton I
Earl M. Rogers
Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
Potominc
Appomattox
Congress
Frank A. Waller
Mississippi
Blair
Washington
Antietam
Treasury
Pennsylvania Avenue
Tony Young
Frank A. Kellogg
Frank A. Haskell
Cold Harbor
A. H. Young
J. A. Watrous
Chicago Times-Herald
A Modern Munchausen Tale Emerges in Army Camp
An old officer and acquaintance of the General, recently ordered in from the plains, joined a group and began recounting wild tales of red-handed slaughter. The scene suggests a morale strained by desertion and rumor amid military scrutiny.
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Munchausen
Defeated Lee Seen as Soldier and Gentleman
Forsyth in Harper's Magazine portrays Gen. Robert E. Lee at defeat in vivid detail. The observer notes Lee as a tall, aged Confederate chieftain with a reddened face, gray beard, and neatly trimmed mustache. Lee wears a fine gray uniform, carries a sword and buckskin gauntlets, and stands bareheaded with sad dignity in the doorway.
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Lee
George A. Forsyth
Harper's Magazine
Ordered His Own Execution as Civil War Tale
A veteran recalls a Yorktown siege case where Capt Wood, officer of the day, issued orders for pickets to shoot approachers. Lost at night, Wood was fatally shot by a sentry he had just ordered to fire first, exonerating the guard before dying. The item closes with a short note about a milk can with a central ice-filled compartment.
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Bureau
Pension
The
Washington Star
Commissioner of Pensions
Kansas
Congress
United States
McKinley
Gabriel
Yorktown
Wood
Capt. Wood
Buffalo Express
Practical Housekeeping Tips and Recipes in One Page
A collage of at home advice and recipes. It covers medicine storage safety with labeling, improvised remedies for neuralgia croup and earache, a spice cake recipe, egg freshness tests, a humorous verse about mothers, quick fricasseed oysters, rhubarb pudding, oyster cocktails, breakfast rolls, corn meal griddle cakes, and notes on fodder from a Nebraska farming section. Prominent names include Good Housekeeping and J. B. Johnson with references to regional farming contexts.
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Orange Judd Farmer
South
Louisiana Station
Inverness
Alliance
County
Neb
Wey
Adily
Bage
J. B, Johnson
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