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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1886
Page
5
An Ohio butter producer seeks neater packaging from Elgin to boost sales. The piece urges proper barn layout, hoist water near feed, and easy stalls, then extols clover seed sowing for higher yields and richer farms with practical steps for March and spring sowing.
The article explains well placement limits based on depth, recommending a well be 24 feet in diameter at 12 feet depth and a privy farther away or on a lower level. It notes mortar lining and a tight cover to prevent contamination and advises against using city wells due to numerous hidden contamination sources.
The article extols currants as a seasonal remedy for lethargy headaches and low spirits urging daily breakfast with fresh currants for a month. It claims the fruit boosts vigor kindness and sociability and even mocks medicines while praising the cur rant as a means of grace.
An informed reader asks the Des Moines Register about the best sowing time for clover. The piece extols clover as essential for pasture hay and soil health, praising its value for hogs cattle and as a fertilizer, urging spring sowing with grain crops for optimal results.
Betsey Jones describes home cheese making steps from heating milk to coagulation, cutting curd, gradual heating to 98 degrees, stirring to prevent packing, testing curd squeeze, draining whey at 91 92 degrees, then pressing at 80 degrees and curing at 65 to 70 degrees.
The piece advocates rapid outdoor air exposure and vigorous exercise to break a catarrh. It describes a two part night outdoor campaign and a strict fast to diminish the disease, followed by a frugal diet and possible additional fasting. It emphasizes cold air, arm exercises, dumbbell swings, and wood chopping as key cures.
An article states that exercise helps reduce catarrh and the accompanying semi brainy condition in severe colds. It notes indoor struggle and that cold air worsens pulmonary disorders, urging a trio of exercise abstinence and fresh air as the most obstinate cure.
Correspondence notes a Vienna system educating girls until 15 then training in pantry and kitchen for a year or two. Girls learn to do tasks themselves, gain value of things, and become independent of cooks. Austrian women praised as affectionate wives and mothers, accomplished, witty, and beautiful.
A Good Housekeeping excerpt by Zenas Dane urges optimism and warns against fretful manners. The writer criticizes husbands who fret over trifles and pressures daily life, noting worry ages people and harms family happiness.
From the Contemporary Review the piece urges women to gain financial literacy and manage own money. It counsels wills at 21, prudent investments, and strict security with trusted funds. It praises the independent widow or old maid who uses resources wisely to aid others.
A social gathering prompts replies on teaching daughters. Responses urge practical math, home etiquette, assertiveness, and self-respect, including budgeting a dollar from hundreds of cents and mastering wardrobe and decision integrity.
Major General Yakovitch recalls witnessing Borodino where the Imperial Guard surged over breastworks as Napoleon declared a bold retreat plan with no retreat and Moscow as his date. The scene shows carnage, fading column, and the fall of Napoleon's army within three months, pursued by Cossacks.
The Bremen cigar makers form a distinct class with wives and children handling rough tobacco. Workweek begins midweek after loitering Monday and Tuesday in beer houses. Workers can earn 50 to 60 shillings weekly for a productive couple, aided by six days of the wife’s wages. The craft is musical. singers form confraternities and factories hum with chorus while daily news is read aloud to the shop.
Mary Elizabeth Edgar, daughter of Dr. Edgar of Greenville Pennsylvania, aged about fifty, after twenty seven years away, returns to claim an estate valued at fifteen to twenty thousand dollars. She was married ten years ago to a Mr Hoyt and had been sought by advertisement with no trace found until a Missouri paper listed her.
The article discusses well authenticated cases of second sight where individuals, while asleep or in a trance, describe future events that later occur. It cites a Maryland woman who predicted a cousin’s nonwounding knife incident and a train accident involving a conductor. The piece weighs theories about precognition and mentions De Quincey’s ideas on near death experiences.
Describes tolling a plan using a shore blind and a dog to lure ducks within range. The method details how ducks are attracted by play and movement, then directed by handlers to be shot from water. It notes high female casualties among fatally shot ducks, reported at eighty seven percent.
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