04 Feb 1886
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Newspaper
Moulton Advertiser
Location
Moulton, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1886
Page
1
The Moulton Advertiser lists publication details weekly with pricing for ads. Rates include $1 per square of eight lines and 50 cents for each subsequent insertion, plus 20 cents per line for special notices and a $10 fee for district office candidate announcements.
Promotes Vicks Floral Guide as a two hundred page seed and plant manual with dozens of illustrations and two colored plates, offered for ten cents with a first order, and highlights Godeys Lady's Book February issues featuring My Lady Bountiful frontispiece, patterns, serials, stories, poems, and fashion notes amid a blizzard scene described in vivid prose.
Good Seeds Direct from the Farm readers may request the 1886 Seed Catalogue from the Joseph Harris Seed Co Rochester N Y postage paid. Free to all. Bend for it. Flower Seeds imported from Europe and fully described in the 1886 Catalogue. Better than one who wipes away a tear is he who prevents it from starting.
The article discusses Manoa Training Schools and Colleges as a growing U S department in education. It traces its origins to Boston in 1876 from the Russian system, praising manual and labor-based learning. It highlights Auburn A M College in Alabama as proof of progress and notes the influence on Southern education.
The Temperance Vanguard arrives in Huntsville as Mrs. Chapin of Charleston speaks at Cumberland Presbyterian Church. A large audience hears her call to end drink, urging mothers to defend sons and urging men to join a statewide temperance campaign. An organizational meeting for a Women’s Christian Temperance Union is planned for this morning with invited men as honorary members.
A humorous exchange recounts a failing merchant who solves dull trade by publishing a newspaper advertisement. His wife persuades him to place the ad, and crowds buy the wares, settling bad notes and lifting his spirits as the ink proves profitable.
An editor’s skill lies in selection and conduct of tone and propriety. The article notes Moscow’s St Peter’s Cathedral near completion, comparing its lavish gold overlay and marble doors, costing about 12.5 million dollars and attracting ten thousand worshippers, while observations turn to social envy between the rich and the poor.
A wide compendium advises cheaper stock care via boards over hay and grain, notes on nitrogen rich brai fodder, ash use, cellar storage, and pest control. It warns against overextended fencing, stresses timely pig feeding, and explains why frost processing of apples can add value. ends with a financial comparison showing Russia, England, France, and Roasia ill prepared for war due to debt and deficits.
A stark call against alcohol abuse urging readers to quit strong drink before ruin, depicting drunkard scenes and fatal outcomes. The speaker addresses the free and tempted alike, stressing that temptation leads to death and urging self mastery over drink.
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