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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1888
Page
2
Subdued joy fills Florence as Doris Roseleaf plans a comically elaborate Tyrol journey for Trotty the dog. Misfit scheme includes opium powder, a baby disguise, and a pillow cradle carried by Perk, while Mrs Roseleaf feigns concern and hopes for the animal's end. Doris insists the vet saved Trotty, while the family debates the travel antics and social perceptions.
On a Florence to Verona train a young Englishman escorts his sister’s baby as a stowaway in a crowded compartment. Misidentifications, a missing dog, and a hospital nurse’s sleep lead to a frantic search before the Contessa Trotty is recovered. Harold Lyman greets the infant as he helps reunite Doris Roseleaf and her child, while a romance lingers at Verona.
A two story brick building at 916 Second Avenue houses the Board of Health vaccine virus farm. Dr. Pardee and two assistants handle cattle vaccinated with virus drawn onto quill points. The operation funds vaccine production, with cattle bought and sold, costing about $10 000 yearly, and last year $2 259 earned from virus sales. The city vaccinates about 99 000 people free and supplies virus for 30 000 more, worth nearly $30 000 in foregone charges.
A historical overview notes the great auk's extinction within fifty years, with ongoing debate about possible living individuals around inaccessible northern shores. It describes the auk's divers family, coastal nesting habits, and unique paddled wings, plus details on a captured live specimen and current eggs and skins surviving in museums and collections.
The article reflects on enduring mysteries once feared or speculated about by ancestors. It recalls the Nile source, lost Atlantes, inner earth theories, Symmes Hole, the magnetic pole, and a Greenland Danish colony’s disappearance, noting modern discovery may erode these enigmas while hinting at future powerful energies in common substances.
A compact antiquarian sketch traces dining habits from the fourteenth century through the sixteenth. It notes pewter vessels, bone and silver spoons, rare knives, and early skepticism toward forks. Salt cellars, ceremonial salting, and the salt line divide, plus shifting tastes of Henry VIII’s era, are described, ending with reflections on servants and domestic duties before modern refinement. A stray humorous Rochester Express line about tigers closes the passage.
The piece offers farming tips such as delaying alfalfa sowing near corn planting to avoid frost damage, and cautions on coffee fumes as a disinfectant. It also provides home tips on garden upkeep, horseradish with turnips, Bohemian cats in county courts, and recipes for cream crullers and molasses pie. It discusses fowl fattening diversification and swine feeding, noting that feed type affects pork quality.
An older article extols Welsh mountain sheep for tender high quality mutton, dubbing it superior when pasture and breed combine. It contrasts Welsh, Cheviot, Scotch Clack-faced, and Rocky Mountain Argali with Southdown for flavor, carcass quality, and variability in wool and meat. It discusses dressing methods, cleanliness, and proper evisceration to avoid woolly taint.
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