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Newspaper
Springfield Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1872
Page
4
The article urges farmers to grow and utilize clover extensively. It explains clover fixes atmospheric nitrogen, improves soil, and yields two to three tons per acre per harvest with multiple cuttings. It notes benefits for horses, cattle, and dairy, encourages early cutting, and advises soil preparation and plaster to maximize growth and subsequent crops.
A fragmented advisory piece warns against mixing quinine with hearty meals of india-rubber and warns of disastrous outcomes from certain concoctions. It prescribes unusual baths with tar and presents odd antidotes. It notes bathing history, urges facing stairs feet first, and claims skin on potatoes aids the liver, ending with a dubious historical remark.
A Green Key Cs post office notice reads prices for stamps: ten cents? the text shows three cents each for stamps, five cents each for stamps to be licked and stuck, and a clock inquiry about mail closing time. The fragmentary OCR hints at timing and rates, with phrasing reflecting a small town notice.
A reminiscence on poets reading their own works by Coleridge Wordsworth Moore Lever Byron Dickens Scout and Sir Walter Scott, noting varied delivery styles and their effect on audiences. The piece quotes a remark from Byron's life and recalls Scott’s recitation, with reflections on taste, emotion, and the art of reading poetry aloud.
Henry Vand Beecher argues labor and capital are not distinct. a worker’s savings and skills become capital, turning labor into ownership as one progresses from laborer to employer. He stresses mutual dependency, fair pay, timely wages, and prudent management to benefit both workers and employers.
A humorous ramble on sea songs and life aboard a ship. The narrator recalls rollicking verses about the sea and describes the jostling, disorienting motion of cabins at sea and the comic mishaps of diners and passengers amid rolling decks and swinging furniture.
A fragmentary column laments coarse talk about women in public, cites a moonlit walk of a pretty girl, a drunken Irishman, and a modest passenger who leapt from a ship. It humorously riffs on manners, morality, and medical woes while recalling other odd anecdotes from daily life.
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