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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1876
Page
7
An Iowa farmer recalls fence posts treated with salt to prevent decay, notes how to test hoof warmth after driving on a hard road, and shares a recipe for a jelly dessert. He also reflects on the farmer's value and non monetary rewards, quoting the New York Times on independence and security.
Farmers contest that farming yields less than mercantile or mechanical work but sound, industrious farming builds lasting value. The piece argues that intelligent tillage and prudent capital in farming endure beyond panics, unlike risky speculative ventures that collapse, harming many. It stresses fertility, modern tools, breeds, and steady investment as enduring wealth.
A Western farmer asks how profitable sheep farming can be. John Johnston of Geneva details feeding to fatten sheep on corn, barley, oats, wheat and hay, using manure as value. He describes staged grain feeding, straw for fattening, and occasional oil meal to boost gains. Christian Union.
A twelve year old Jesse Pomeroy fiend from Windsor N Y appeared in Great Bend where he lured two boys into a barn and attacked one, slashing and nearly strangling him before bystanders and Justice DuBois intervened sending the youth to jail. a second item notes postal business scale with vast daily requisitions and charges.
A collection of pithy sayings and maxims attributed to Josh Billings and other voices. Topics include honesty, adversity, laughter, necessity, superstition, and gender, presented as wry, folk wisdom with moral tones and social commentary.
Gail Hamilton, a prolific author with seven or eight volumes, is said to have earned no more than seven or eight thousand dollars from her literary career.
The article warns that the season brings fever and intermittent diseases from unhealthy earth and water. It recommends tonic and alterative treatment, highlighting Hoatetters Stomach Bitters as top among invigorants to fortify residents against endemic and epidemic maladies and help the feeble escape illness.
The firm touts the success of all stores and highlights the Charter Oak cooking stove Evening Star apparatus for wood and the Soft Coal Base Burner Head ha for olllceatore. It claims prices are as low or lower than any stove of similar weight and oven capacity, using only top materials and maximum labor to produce near perfect goods.
Fragmentary OCR lists Excubsion Manufacturina Co with address 612 to 018 North Malan Street St Louis and Notvtos & Shutprern with 225 227 State St Chicago. mentions large vine inset works in the world in Chicago and Prugaing & Co Prov's. unclear overall context but indicates business names and locations.
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