Subsoil plow gains ground in Europe and America
The article extols the English subsoil plow and notes Yankee versions cost about a quarter of English prices. It cites boosters from the Boston Cultivator and Cincinnati sales, detailing how subsoiling loosens subsoil to depth of 8 to 12 inches, improves moisture, and increases yields, with experiments reported in Delaware and Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Cincinnati
Exy & Campsext
Lower Market Street
Boston
Cin. Gaz
Great Britain
Bates
Reybold
Delaware
Mesers, Prouty & Mears
Michigan
Cleveland
Blissfield
Public condemnation of horse racing in Cin Atlas reflection
A Cin Atlas reprint denounces horse racing as a demoralizing vice with public betting, gambling and swindling. It cites half a million dollars wagered at Long Island shows, notes women drawn in, and claims races corrupt youth, promote cruelty, and favor slaveholding regions while Ohio and North reject it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Island
New Jersey
New Orleans
Natchez
Nashville
Washington
Louisville
Ohio
Cin. Atlas
A Magnificent Spectacle of Peace and Prosperity
A broad essay extols peace over war, envisioning a world spared bloodshed where wealth flows to industry and happiness. It contrasts Christendom with a kingdom of peace and urges rulers to embrace harmony over militarism. A collection of short notes follows on drowning safety, a rural constable confrontation, and aging ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christendom
Christ
Highland
S. C
Alexander the Great and other misdeeds amid scraps of news
A magazine page recounts Alexander the Great as a heavy drinker ending his life after feasting and drinking bouts. It also relays assorted items from Troy New York a majority cash theft a flirtation tale about Sally Larabee in Whittingham Vermont and humorous notes from Punch and Ipswich England. The page closes with a hotel fire in the American Hotel district and a quip about a Justice of the Peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander
Philip
Pausanias
Clitus
India
Plutarch
Persia
Cyrus
Promadious
Proteas
Proteus
Ohto Tem
Organ
North Adams
Sally
Sally Larabee
Timothy Water’s
Whittingham
Vermont
Jacksonville
Dante, Waters
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Virginia
Wesley Farmer
Liverpool
New York
Cape Clear
Cist
Pennsylvania
Jim
Jake
Commonwealth
Decaine
Crrizs
Amsterdam
Venice
Perth Amboy
Newport
Alexandria
District of Columbia
Baltimore
Jamestown
Roanoke
Alexander the Great
Troy
N. Y
Vanderheyden
Y. Tribune
Lord Denman
Earl of Rogse
Orion
United Kingdom
Earl
Punch
Ipswich
England
Frederick Ransome
Ar Jather
Fir i Laraverre
Leity
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