Warm and Garden Notes for the Husbandman
Agricultural tips cover horseradish growing in rich moist soils with 3 feet row spacing and 18 inches in rows, plus field planting steps. Calf feeding advice includes oil meal soaking, water access, oats, and avoiding overfeeding. Remedies for scours, rennet preparation, and healthy calf care are described. Also notes on sunflowers, fattening cattle, milk handling, pear production, Paris green pest control, pruning, soil minerals, and late-season hay sowing.
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Paris
The Trouble With Indians
A 19th century column riffs on Indians and courtship, suggesting white culture should teach Indians to court with affection rather than violence. It mocks Native practices, advocates tame behavior through love, and stereotypes Indians as violent when not civilized.
Passing Events in 1880s From a Montana to Mexico Chronicle
A collage of notes reports rankings and curiosities from across North America and beyond. Topics include Butte Montana plans for a granite courthouse and Washington dog licenses, rail routes circling the globe, smallpox in Tusxpan Mexico and health precautions, dry land rowing machines for schools, a white funeral procession in Poughkeepsie, a London London Globe remark on June 1, and a Hawaiian native’s death by fish. It also cites locusts in Cyprus and the phylloxera pest in France, fish market tonnage at Billingsgate, Leominster horn crafts, and the U.S. government stance on Native American lands and independence in Indian Territory.
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Butte
Montana
Washington
Tusxpan
Mexico
Charles E. Courtney
Kittie Stephens
Poughkeepsie
London Globe
Whitaker
Mr. Gladstone
Hawhatian Gazette
Hilo
Sherman
Cyprus
French Department of Agriculture
France
Fishmongers’ Company
London
Society of Arts
Billingsgate
Obidiah Hill
Newbury
Leominster
Mass
United States
Tennessee
Georia
North Carolina
Alabama
Old Time Home Preserves and Pervasive Pudding Recipes
A kitchen notes column shares instructions for preserving canned fruits with syrup, sweet pickles using brown sugar and spices, and multiple baked desserts. Recipes include poached eggs and cakes such as almond, apple jelly, lunch cake, and rice cake, plus rice pudding with lemon and almonds. Each item details quantities, steps, and baking times in a concise home cook format.
Sabbath Observance and Legal Limits on Enforcing It
The Boston Budget argues against requiring Sabbath observance by law, noting impracticability and risks of enforcing personal beliefs. Citizens deserve protection to observe the Sabbath per their own convictions, including Jewish observance on Saturday.
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Boston
Miners Arms Dog Fight in Elko Parson and Deacon’s Shadowy Plot
In the Miners Arms at Front Street Elko a crowd recalls a cruel hoax tied to a parson and his boy. A staged dog fight ends with a dust cloud and a claim stake misdirection, revealing how thieves manipulated a winter tale for gain.
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Miners’ Arms
Front Street
Elko
Deacon Holbrook
Connecticut
Deacon
Bob
Ill Stevens
Bill
Stevens
Reforming West Point Education Broadly Proposed
Adjutant General Drum proposes widening West Point admission and selecting only a fraction to serve in the army. He envisions many graduates returning to civilian life as military professors to bolster militia instruction and readiness for emergencies, arguing current schooling treats boys as machines and distorts life roles.
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West Point
Adjt
Drum
Rey Sami Jones Grammar Odd Speech Fragments
A garbled speech piece shows phrases about language, obsolete words, and playful mispronunciations. It includes remarks on Latin decay Anglo roots and a joke about being nibbled by minnows, ending with a light remark about not speaking long. The text appears as fragmented dialogue with names and scattered letters.
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Rey
Sami Jones
Grapes and Cedar Shavings Sparked Hammondsport Boom
In Hammondsport era reminiscence, Uncle Billy ships grapes to New York in cedar shavings, starting 1847. Capt. Fairchild recalls tiny harvests, market gluts, and a rise to become a major regional wine producer as Uncle Billy’s venture grows into a thriving trade. The story contrasts old and modern warfare and notes naval ramming as an ancient tactic reappearing.
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Keuka
Smith Fairchild
Penn
New York
Stanley Fairchild
Billy Ings
Beer Garden
Billy
Uncle Billy
Newark
Epee
Poe
Hammondsport
N. Y
Cor
New York Sun
Nevare as a Prohibitionist
Fragmentary OCR notes discuss Prohibition, youth drinking, and regional differences between the South and North. The text criticizes Northern drinking norms and warns that excess whiskey will ruin youths, with scattered phrases about weapon use and natural order, lacking clear context or complete sentences.
Fragmented Heathen Fragment: A Local Life Snippet
A damaged OCR fragment sketches scattered names places and events about birthplaces relationships and a distant Moosehead plant picnic hinting at a past acquaintance and life details without coherent narrative or clear dates or actions.
Fragmentary OCR Note Sparks Confusion in Local Ledger
A garbled OCR fragment references names like Smith and mentions hospitality and a place returning to normal after a disruption. The readable bits hint at a local event or notice but lack coherent details, making precise summary difficult.
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New Mexico
Col. Ilges
Indian Commission
Piers Cs
Nevare
E' Gant
Smith
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