Cabin community greets new neighbors with hopeful speech
Kelso delivers a welcome in a prairie cabin, praising soil that shapes leaders and imagining future statesmen. He lists Abe Lincoln among the wealthy in the neighborhood and notes shared books and a new Burns volume as a treasured asset.
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Abe
Kirkham
Progress
Washington
Henry Clay
Hamlet
Othello
Senate
Marc Anthony
Webster
Hayne
Blackstone
Qld
Jack Armstrong
Cotter
Robert Burns
Samson Traylor aids fugitives and reunites with old friend
In a winter tale from New Salem Samson Traylor aids two enslaved fugitives seeking freedom. He hides them in a barn at Orwell Farm owned by John Peasley and meets Henry Brimstead, reconnecting with old neighbors and sharing the moment of their escape and relief. The narrative links Elijah Lovejoy and Erastus Wright to the fugitives route north to freedom.
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Pittsburg
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Alton
Beardstown
Samson
Abe
Sarah
Midlands
Samso
St. Louis
Mississippi
North
Elijah Lovejoy
Mr. Lovejoy
Erastus Wright
Springfield
Mr.Wright
Biggs
John Peasley
Orwell Farm
New Salem
Henry Brimstead
Brimstead
Goshen
Peasley
Orwell
Samson Traylor
John
Charles
Mr. Traylor
Tom
Traylor
Missouri
Feller
Brumstead
Hog Lice Infestations Impact Swine Health and Losses
The report outlines how hog lice affect domestic and wild hogs worldwide, causing constant itching, skin damage, and reduced growth. Losses range from 2 to 6 percent of market value, with indirect costs from weakened vitality and greater disease susceptibility.
The Slaves
Samson and Sarah Traylor and their children journey from Vergerinés Vermont to the Sangamon country in Illinois. They meet John McNeil at Niagara Falls and travel to New Salem where Lincoln and others welcome them. Lincoln’s group conflicts with Jack Armstrong’s gang. love and danger intertwine as events unfold around Ann Rutledge and Bim McNeil.
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Samson
Sarah Traylor
Josiah
Betsey
Vergerinés
Land of Plenty
Illinois
Niagara Falls
John McNeil
Sarah
Harry Needles
Traylors
New Salem
Ilinois
Abe Lincoln
Jack Kelso
Bim
Jack Armstrong
Lincoln
Armstrong
Bap McNeil
Harry
McNeil
cNeil
Ann Rutledge
Ann
Lonely life in a Prairie Cabin and Underground Rail Road venture
The excerpt describes Samson and Harry Needles settling on a Prairie County homestead, building a well and plowing a hundred acres while fever and ague afflict the family. A letter from January 4 1832 mentions Abe Lincoln visiting for medicine, Henry Clay support, and shared hopes of correspondence and future visit.
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Underground Railroad
Samson
Sarah
Father
Mother
Joe
Harry Needles
Springfield
Mr. Offut
Betsey
Abe Lincoln
God
Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
Clay
Jackson
Harry
Sapington
Gain From Purebred Sires in Nevada Stock Raising
A Nevada stockman writes to the USDA praising purebred sires for higher yearling weights. He notes yearlings at 1200 to 1225 pounds versus 800 to 900 pounds for scrub steers at three years. He argues purebreds cost the same to produce and are cheaper long term.
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Nevada
United States
Blke County
Nev
Beet Molasses Valued As Poorly Recognized Feed
Beet molasses is valuable though underrecognized. At current feed prices it is worth more than twice its purchase price when fed in limited amounts to steers or lambs, and more so when combined with wet pulp or corn silage.
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Irs
Salt for Sheep Important Guidance
Farmers are advised to provide salt to sheep at least every two weeks or keep a constant supply in the form of rock silt or medicated stock brick. Adequate salt is essential as lack leads to general unthrifty condition in flocks.
Perverse Little Girl Causes Diplomatic Gaffe in New York
The British ambassador at a New York luncheon criticised peace advocates as using silly arguments. He recalled overhearing a beautifully dressed child in a toyshop say I want doll please that will buy Damn it when I hit it, illustrating a naughty world he described.
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New York
Genuine Bayer Aspirin Warning for Safe Use
Consumer notice stresses check for Bayer name on packaging to ensure genuine Aspirin prescribed for twenty one years. States uses for colds headaches neuralgia rheumatism earache toothache lumbago and general pain. Mentions handy twelve tablet tins and larger packages from druggists and defines Aspirin as Bayer trademark.
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Bayer
Why the horse Nis agar is hard to harness
A Louisville Courier-Journal excerpt questions a horse named Nis agar with the joke that he’s hard to harness, illustrating a quip about temperance and wisdom in a bygone era.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
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John Cameron
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York State
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Ponto
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Bim Kelso
Taya Snerre
Dean
C. GC
Peterson
Ast Side Square
Neosho
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo, N. Y
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Atlanta,Ga
S.S.S
Wakefield
Allen
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