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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1886
Page
6
The article argues Indian corn is the great money grain since it fuels high priced outputs and supports livestock, while also fertilizing fields. It warns against cruel veterinary practices, stresses humane care, and urges seed selection, early harvest, and drying methods to boost yield by 10 to 25 percent. It notes drought in Western Texas, rising cattle losses, and calls for government aid.
The article extols cutting clover at peak blossom for hay and asserts green state stems provide nutrition while mature fiber is indigestible. It argues clover is the farmer’s best crop when well cured and timely cut, linking stock quantity to crop yield.
Stephen Powers voices support for selecting stock seed to ensure next year’s crop. Country Gentleman praises careful breeding as key to vegetable improvements. Seed firms prize high quality stock seed, often valuing it highly and guarding it closely.
The article urges women to cultivate personal resources and nurture friendships. It notes the difference between perishable and enduring values, stresses care for possessions, and urges maintaining old ties while making new friends. It argues busy women can still write letters and find time to visit with friends to avoid social isolation.
Advice from Popular Science News on hand care uses lukewarm water with ammonia or borax and oatmeal to whiten skin. Glycerine at night can irritate some skin, so dry oatmeal and bed gloves are recommended. A night mix of white of egg and alum, Roman toilet paste, or lemon can aid cleaning and whitening.
The author critiques maternal overindulgence shaping selfish children. It argues excessive pampering harms character and that a mother sacrificing for her family risks neglect and social scorn as her children focus inward and demand comfort.
A mother raises seven daughters in wealth to do work and help others. When fortune falls, the family adapts without complaint and remakes a bare dwelling into a refreshing, welcoming home. The daughters, trained to duty, bring sunshine to every place they visit.
The Philadelphia Ledger comments on how girls in private homes and fashionable resorts engage in card games and gambling. It argues these acts erode fine womanly standards, erode respect for them, and threaten marriage prospects, warning that gamblers risk ending in divorce court.
The ideal sleeping room should face east and be at least fifteen feet square with light and ventilation from two windows. A open fireplace aids ventilation, walls finished hard and tinted calmly, natural woodwork, hard polished wood floor, weekly shakable small rugs, and minimal dust by furniture without extra cane. The bed uses a two-part hair mattress with woven-wire spring beneath and light yet warm blankets and white spread.
A fragment warns that stone quarried and set the next day remains green and weak. It cites open pores and susceptibility to moisture and atmosphere, urging builders to cure and dry stone before placing it in walls to ensure permanence.
A Rochester Post Express interview with H H Warner discusses a summer shift to year round production and heavy demand for Warner's Safe Cure. It cites medical authorities praising the remedy and warns of narcotic and stimulant abuse, linking kidney and liver health to systemic disease while noting rising sales and reduced newspaper advertising.
A railroad-peddler known as Homely Dave persuades Secretary of State Evarts and a party of senators to buy Edwin Arnold's Light of Asia after Dave reads from the book aloud. Dave also sells hundreds of dollars of volumes to other travelers before reaching Chicago, earning praise for his bold sales tactic.
A Lewiston, Maine woman uses colored strings as memory prompts for a long shopping list. She recalls items from four yards of baby ribbon to velvet trim and thread, finally realizing the strings remind her sister’s visit and other household needs.
A fragment reports Paul Bert, a French minister resident in Annam, dying of fever. The text also contains garbled lines about a boy and a family attempting to cope with the illness and a bottle of Penny Davis's Pain Killer referenced as a remedy.
A garbled OCR passage presents a jumble of words and phrases with no clear narrative. The legible bits mention dress, seaside imagery, and foreign terms, but lack coherent facts, names, or events to summarize into a proper news item.
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