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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1887
Page
2
A poem from Abilene Reflector features L H Litts and Co Eventide presenting verse about pasture scenes and children wandering through shadowy lanes. The text hints at nostalgia and the movement away from playful afternoons.
A fifteen year old Canadian farm boy wins a bear in a raffle and brings it home to his granary. The bear wrecks harnesses robes and a whip, while the boy debates escape strategies until his father shoots the animal. The incident ends with a chastening lesson on raffles and responsibility.
A negro in Arkansaw beats a steer with a hoop-pole while a benevolent rider stops to question the law. The speaker, in a rambling dialect, seeks legal guidance on the case as the steer resists. The tale blends courtroom curiosity with rustic hazard and moral posturing in a single anecdote.
The Troy Times cites Assyrian origins for an early seeding machine with an opener, mould-board, hopper, and furrow-covering setup. The San Francisco Chronicle notes James Burns of Verona Pennsylvania claiming copper welding discovery using a secret chemical demonstrated at a Pittsburgh rolling mill.
A San Francisco Chronicle item ponders the drummer as a global influence linking cultures from India to Ireland China to Pompeii. It jokes the drummer created myths, traded goods, and even forged social dynamics, detailing vivid drummer archetypes and a vanished, rambunctious trade.
A Vermont farmer’s collie drives cows daily and cleverly mapped a fence breach. A nearby Boston dog protects a widow by guarding her doorstep from approaching tramps, earning her praise for loyal behavior.
The piece details ostrich hunts among Arabs, outlining preparation of horses fed barley for days, light harness, and rope bits. It explains scouting, encircling the birds, exhausting them by running, then killing and processing the meat and fat. The hunt blends pleasure and profit, with shared costs between rich and poor participants.
The War Office-backed multicycle, a ten-rider single-file infantry carrier with room for a baggage or ammunition wagon, is to be tested at Aldershot for military use. A crew of trained volunteers demonstrated easy handling amid crowded streets, showing potential advantages in wind resistance and maneuverability.
The article advocates arsenite use for codling moth control in orchards, urging spraying bearing trees when apples are pea-sized with London purple or Paris green. It claims high effectiveness, warns against white arsenic, and details application methods, equipment, dilution, and timing to ensure every fruit receives poison while noting risks if misused.
The English government gains vast teak forests in Burmah, a scarce and costly wood in India. Valued for balanced weight, rot resistance, oil preservation, and insect repellence, it yields several colors and grains and polishes well. Palladium electrochemical deposition on metals by M A Balle is introduced as a direct finishing step.
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