Sorghum Sugar Planting Call Signals New Nebraska Mills
Agricultural note urges farmers to adopt sorghum sugar by using newer machinery and planting on shares. August 1st will bring mills and evaporating pans across counties, with Missouri Kansas Illinois and Minnesota already producing sugar. The State Board of Agriculture offers prizes for best sorghum sugar at the upcoming state fair. D. H. Wheeler Secretary.
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Missouri
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State Board of Agriculture
Native Black Cap Raspberries Prove Hardy Yet Tame Varieties Fail
Osceola Recrop notes eight years of growing native black cap raspberries on a farm, praising their cold hardiness and productivity. The writer reports several introduced varieties died after winterkill, while native berries survived seven harsh winters intact, recommending natives for home gardens. The account is signed Ww. H. Lorine.
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Philadelphia
Turner
Lawton
H. Lorine
Arbor Day Premiums Offered for Planting Efforts 1880
The State Board announces premiums for Arbor Day planting. Prizes include 50 dollars for the greatest total trees on the third Wednesday in April 1880 with fruit, forest and evergreen varieties, 25 dollars for hardwoods, 10 dollars for cuttings, and 30 dollars for a single planter with April 1880 work. Additional awards total 100 dollars from J Sterling Morton for planting over 5,000 trees, all to be documented under oath with witnesses and filed by September 15, 1880.
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Nebraska
D. H. Wheeler
J. Sterling Morton
State Board of Agriculture
State fairs offer premiums from leading railroads and land departments
Nebraska announces cash premiums for county exhibits at the next State Fair in Omaha in September 1880. The U P Land Department offers 50 for best county agricultural display. B M R R offers 25 for best wheat corn oats barley, 10 for second best hay, 5 for second best clover, and 25 for best fruit display excluding Missouri River counties. Premiums judged by agricultural and horticultural societies.
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U. P
Land Department U. P. RK. R
Nebraska
Omaha
Vyhe Land Department
The
B. & M. R. BR. Company
Missouri River
Agricultural and Horticultural Societies
Memorial of Susannah Purdy, 1801-1880 in Polk County
Susannah Purdy died March 16, 1880 at her daughter’s home in Polk County Nebraska. Born July 17, 1801 in Elizabethtown Ontario she married Lauren Fulford December 1, 1820. Widow’s sixty year companionship, Christian woman known for walking two and a half miles to church. Funeral at Wesley Chapel with Rev. J. J. Fleharty preaching from Psalm 90 10.
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Susannah Purdy
Lauren Fulford
Aurinda McLean
Polk County
Neb
Elizabethtown
Ontario
Dee
Christian Church
Christ
Wesley Chapel
J. J. Fleharty
Remedy for Hard Times and Hop Bitters Tested
A sales pitch urges readers to reduce spending on clothes and food, abandon quack medicines, and rely on Hop Bitters as a simple, affordable cure for better health and times. It promises tangible benefits and invites readers to see more in another column.
Separation agreement between Mrs Caroline C Beebe and Theo Beebe
Articles of separation entered this day Mrs Caroline C Beebe and Theo Beebe mutually agree to live apart Each will not pay the others debts All persons are notified not to trust Caroline on my account as I will pay no debts after this date Dated Osceola Nebraska March 10 1880 Theo Beebe.
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Neb
Theo. Beebe
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Holian
Keatty
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Critica al
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Janine Able
Monopoliats
Arek Pohanses
America
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Europe
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Washington
New Jermy
U.S. America
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