Linen from flax may rival cotton in value and spread
The New York Tribune lauds flax use as a substitute for cotton, noting an American invention to produce linen from unrotted flax or hemp at prices near cotton. It envisions linen cloth costing about 12 1 2 cents per yard and argues linen factories could multiply across the land. H L Ellsworth of Indiana plans to grow flax next season to manufacture flax cotton, hoping it becomes more profitable than grain, hogs, or cattle.
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New York Tribune
Clausson
the Tribune
H. L. Ellsworth
la Fayette
Indiana
A Swall Horse and Potatoes Advice from The Cape Girardeau Eagle
A treatise argues that very large animals are less useful and less hardy than mid sized ones, urging farmers to choose compact, well built horses with short hind legs. It then presents a Cape Girardeau Eagle note proposing a potato rot preventative using salt and plaster of Paris, claiming improved yield and size.
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Lonzer Limbo
Cape Girardeau
Plaster of Paris
Nova Scotia
Tas New Potator Diceer Invented in Brooklyn
Mr Shaffer of Brooklyn invents a potato digging and cleaning machine with a scoop brush cylinder and endless apron. The device digs to a required depth, lifts potatoes, brushes off dirt, and deposits them into a rear receptacle. It is horse operated and designed to keep dirt from the potatoes.
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Tas New Potator Diceer
Shaffer
Brooklyn
Rochester Democrat
Bees Driven From Hive by Chloroform Method
A historical note describes using chloroform to drive bees from a honeycomb. The hive sits over a chamber with a glass window and a side hole. A bottle and twin tubes release chloroform through the hole, flooding the chamber as air is blown in, causing the bees to tumble into a box below.
To my Corsix a Portrait of Your Disposition
A candid letter from Kate Carol to her cousin Derby, imagining a true description of her looks and character. The writer warns of faults, then urges a noble, generous life, praising the “gift” of inspiring happiness and advising that beauty lies in benevolent influence over others. The excerpt ends with a pledge from the cousin to continue the memoir in the Derby Journal of Virginia.
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Liam
Derby Jurnal
Virginia
The Right Use of Life Prolongs True Living
A reflection on how life’s value comes from daily good deeds rather than mere longevity. It suggests that each day spent without doing good is a lost day, urging purposeful action and moral improvement.
Spirits Speak Through Muscatine Daughter in Rapping Scare
In Muscatine during January, rumors spread of spirits using a daughter to rap tabletop and answer questions, with many townsfolk gathering to witness. Messages described mediums, table tilts, and chairs moving, as families sought news from the beyond, provoking fear and astonishment for about two weeks.
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Muscatine
W——m
M——a
Consistency Thou Art a Jewel in Politics
The Enquirer editorial laments hurried session work and a monolithic law rushed through by the General Assembly. It cites alleged oppression, condemns Whig schemes and Maine liquor law defeats, questions why the Governor did not veto the Locofoco measure, and ends with a call for consistency.
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Enquirer
la. Cossitt
Maine
the Enquirer
Zoological Anecdots And Upas Tree Tales From Abroad
A collection of curious animal anecdotes from Sweden and the East Indies. A hunter battles a bear, a bull and bear encounter end disastrously, and a cat and mouse tale ends in suffocation. The Ural Upas tree tale explains deadly gas effects with recent local discoveries. A NY Com. note discusses table turning and spiritualist imposture with skepticism.
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East Indies
Indies
Darien
Panama Star
James Linn
Ithaca Man Patents Year-Running Clock With Date Playback
Mr J H Hawes of Ithaca New York has received a patent for a clock that can run a year and display the day of the week the month and the year. Exowence is not wisdom. A person may know and yet have no claim to be called wise. Wisdom is the practical application of knowledge.
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J. H. Hawes
Ithica
N. Y
I Didn’t Think We All Should Think About Choices
A reflective piece questions why people fail to think before harmful actions. It contrasts a boy guarding a trapped mouse with adults and youths who engage in bad behavior such as drinking, coarse talk, or Sabbath neglect. It warns that ignoring thought leads to degradation and social harm.
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Sweden
D Spais
Thomas Bell
Householl
Foucault Pendulum at Bunker Hill Monument Report
Harvard Prof Hosford repeats the famous pendulum test using a 220 foot granite monument. The device shifts with sun heating, moving west and north in the morning and east in the afternoon, evidence of solar induced expansion. A shower neutralizes the effect by cooling the south side. Also notes a Medina Ohio man named Smith with remarkable joints and lungs, a Mexican War veteran.
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Moriex
Busker Uitr Monemest
Foucault
Hosford
Harvard University
Bunker {Ill Monument
Sillman's Journal
Sixcolar Mas
Medina
Ohio
Smith
Mexico
Gev
Taylor
Acts Passed by Iowa Legislature Late Session
A lengthy list of acts changing town names including Aisne ville to Batavia Jefferson county Kanesville to Council Bluff. plus acts on county judge bonds, vacating streets, reorganizing districts and seats, city incorporations Davenport Dubuque Council Bluffa, and numerous public notices including taxes, roads, courts, and transportation projects.
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Iowa
Sessom
Aisneville
Jefferson County
Batavia
Orson Hoar
Robert Cock
Tlydia Cock
Coles
Bentonsport
van Buren County
Jones County
Kanesville
Council Blut
Inghram & Ramsey
Agency City
Wapello County
Baefinggion
Ja Tiee
Blackbawk
Yetl
Rissen
Decatur
Dubuque
Desmoines River
Fayetteounty
Council Bluffa
Jamesville
Nicholas B. Brown
Cedar River
Lian County
Warren County
Davenport
Benjamin S. Bryer
Cedar Rapids
Portawattomie
Muscatine
Keokuk
Solomon
Delaware County
Polk County
Committee of Conference of the Two Houses
Senate
House
Supreme Court
Staite
State of Iowa
Congress
Council Bluffs
Burlington
Missouri River
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Farmers’ Column
Kate Carol
Coz
Journal
N.Y. Com
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