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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1882
Page
4
A garbled catalogue of regional humor and anecdotes recounts encounters with a temperance farmer a lawyer and heiress a boastful beggar and a French priest. It mixes street chatter farmyard wit and a Boston tram episode with snippets of dialogue and misheard phrases.
A rural note book offers practical advice on fodder crops and poultry grounds, soil improvement with cow pens, maize cake use, and butter production. It also covers pest prevention with carbolic acid, saliva production in animals, cold water treatment for clover distress, hay quality, and moss removal from shingles.
A quirky historic account describes bees used as defense in sieges. Turkish forces, 500 sailors and soldiers pursued the hive bearing enemy attackers. Bees were dropped onto ships and ramparts, scattering defenders and surprising onlookers.
An essay on enduring marriage highlights how patient forbearance and daily affection keep couples content after fifty years together. It urges maintaining warm memories, anticipatory kindness, and steady care to prevent quarrels and to let love deepend as life progresses.
Mr. M. Jr. Adams of St. Paul receives $8 000 from the government to test a submarine hydraulic battery. The device uses triangular tubing in two chambers to shoot jets through perforations, breaking earth deposits and guiding debris downstream to clear river channels. A 6 000 foot tubing setup will be used in an experimental run near St. Paul to prove the concept.
Jno Dickinson of Lake Side Law Company Spirit Lake was in town to discuss a rail expansion plan. He favors extending a Worthington to Salem stub north through Minerca to Huron, Jameston, and the Northern Pacific, with a northward line from Salem via West Vermillion valley to connect Chicago and St Louis. Dickinson favors the Worthington route as the most feasible, aligning with the Burlington interests and Spirit Lake country.
A letter from Casselton recounts a visit to a new county road grading and ditching machine, citing Iroquois County Illinois as proof of success. The writer highlights drainage improvements, increased corn yields, and a large ditch project that boosted county wealth, with local officials reporting reduced road costs and extensive road-building efforts in the district.
A pamphlet reports German and English findings on illicit tobacco flavoring using beet leaves chicory and cabbage, with chemists in New York factories enhancing fillings. It notes vanilla valerian cedar oils and other additives, dangers of sulfuric ether and bromide salts, and estimates New York output and employment.
An American in Europe buys crest and motto stationery with SPQR style initials. He and his wife fill reams with signatures, then realizes the caption reads S.N.d) B. and ends in a humorous moral about pride and vanity.
Clippings report yellow fever appearing at an Atlanta quarantine in New York City. Miles M. Handy, the sole colored lawyer in Cincinnati, is dead. Gettysburg hosts 100 Army Posts from the Pennsylvania Department in camp. A Hen farm in Albert Lea sells about 900 chicks at 25 cents each. A quarrel between two Indiana farmers escalates to costly court proceedings. Russia adopts a model liquor law restricting the rum shop to one in a village. Allegheny County Pennsylvania has about 2,400 saloons and Pittsburgh one for every 17 voters, with 2,000 families supported by workers.
Truman B Handy of Cincinnati, a leading commission man, telegrams S H Richardson Co to contribute 100 toward a monument for Charlie Stiles. Richardson & Co plans a subscription to fund the memorial on the Erie railroad line run using hydrogen gas fueled naptha craft. The Naptha powered steam engine set a fast trip, with 140 pounds of steam, promising lower naptha use as crews gain familiarity.
A stylish Glasgow woman lured a naive draper and a hairdresser into a fake plan to shave a man’s head and steal silk goods. She then vanished with a companion and the goods, leaving the brother disgraced and the case unresolved.
The first vein of gas at sixty two feet and the second at one hundred twenty one feet were found twenty miles north of the city. Drill is down two hundred twenty five feet. After water is secured, Meyers Ohmer and Stewart will resume gas drilling to assess its potential for fuel and lighting a ten thousand population city. A Pennsylvanian gas expert says the find appears bonanza with strong flow.
Practical advice on storage for salt lard preserves and bread kept in dry places. Methods for boiling and roasting meat include boiling water for juices and steam to prevent scorching. Tenderize tough beef by two hours of gentle stewing with pepper and salt, then make gravy from saved liquor.
A Dakota Farmer notes that expanding wire becomes slack in warm weather and can be fixed by crimping the wire with a monkey wrench. When cold weather arrives the wire contracts and the crimps straighten, preventing sagging wire.
Overbearing cropping harms tree health as fruit overproduction leads to imperfect fruit and poorly ripening wood, with many trees damaged by excessive pruning.
The finois prohibitioniste will hold a convention at Bloomington on August 9. Local organizers invite supporters and members of the movement to attend and hear speakers discuss temperance goals.
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