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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1893
Page
4
The New York News explains thermometer production from glass tube cutting to making freezing, sixty four and ninety six degree marks. Nine workers including nine women assemble a single instrument, with ice and water tests ensuring accuracy.
Captain Thomas Sharp proposes winter warfare in the Great Lakes region leveraging snow shoe mobility to defend the northern frontier. He argues Canada could swiftly occupy key positions if war erupts, and urges snow shoe training and domestic manufacture to boost preparedness and industry.
The World’s Shipbuilding 1892 statistics show 1250 vessels totaling 1,451,919 tons, a slight decline from 1891. The Clyde and Tyne river yards lead with gains to 336,414 and 207,210 tons respectively, while the United States Canada output falls to 22,243 tons and Europe to 135,675 tons amid overall industry weakness.
The article traces salt as a driver of wealth and civilization from ancient trade routes to modern state control. It notes salt’s sacred meaning in Greek Roman Hebrew and Christian traditions and its role as a symbol of eternity hospitality and wit, citing Demorest's Magazine.
A narrator recalls living like a lord at the Paris Exposition by taking advantage of food samples at exhibitor booths. He explains a six month diet of soup and beef tea, and how he dodged detection by alternating visits and staying in a sample bed while posing as broke.
In ancient Rome and China rare delicacies included trepang or tripang among other unusual foods. Trepang refers to slow moving sea animals, known as sea cucumbers, holotauriids, or coruichons de mer. Unlike other echinoderms they are extremely sluggish and barely move.
The dromedaries adapted to the Gjimaze show better results than expected for parcel service. They resist disease, endure dry stony regions, and travel carrying 259 pounds each without fuel sores or water deprivation issues.
Instructions from the New York Times and American Agriculturist cover leather care using tanners oil after wetting, weekly upkeep, and washing with warm water and castile soap. Also detailed poultry dressing practices including picking dry, removing offal, fasting hens before slaughter, and methods to kill, pluck, and cool birds for market.
A collage of oddities including a San Francisco woman with 200 cats a knife and fork for one armed men tobacco farming in Maine and a goose with three wings. Other items note desert square miles Nile porcelain teeth and ornate Ottoman treasures.
A farmer explains that seed germination failures come from poor seed and soil, warns against sharecropping, urges prompt action against pests, and advises proper drainage and irrigation with ample fertilizer. He notes the US farmer should aim for world markets beyond local demand.
The American Analyst argues household economy rests on understanding value in groceries, choosing proper uses for each item, and avoiding unnecessary extravagance. It urges housekeepers to match preparation to food quality, maximizing value and preventing waste.
Two Confederate stamps carried a package from Granby Massachusetts to Boston and went undetected. A New York bill would admit seven year legislators to the bar without exams. Daniel Morgan of Missouri claims to be the sole descendant of a revolutionary general who lent money to clothe and sustain troops, a note now worth about 30 million dollars, but the claim remains unallowed.
Spreads a large cloth in a sour clothes basket before loading laundry. Uses clean damp cloth on the line to dust, favors galvanized wire lines to avoid knots and breakage, and describes a cloth pin apron with a pocket. Includes a string of quaint dialogue snippets about cleaning windows and a playful exchange.
Experiments at the Ontario Station over three years compare rations for beef production. Results include daily costs: ensilage with hay and meat 16.78 cents, ensilage with meal 16.90 cents, roots with hay and meal 19.10 cents. Weight gains per animal: 1.88, 1.63, and 1.74 pounds respectively. Even with food costs, selling prices exceed purchase costs, though ensilage with meal alone is not wholly safe for finishing cattle. Roots play a strong, safer role in rations. Farmers are urged to continue growing roots and corn where possible.
A Chicago News Record report explains crowd poison as excess carbonic acid gas in crowded air causing headaches and suffocation. It cites Lord Mayor show air quality and a London court scene where stale two day old air circulated due to faulty ventilation and pumps.
Report from the St. Louis Republic quoted Alonzo T. Yerger of Waycross Georgia describing unusually enormous cotton stalks on a Wil zinky plantation in Washington County Mississippi. He notes stalks reaching tree size, requiring children to climb them to pick cotton, and stalks producing bolls with cotton weighing heavy seeds.
The sunflower is a rapid grower with multiple uses. Leaves furnish fodder, stalks fuel, seeds oil and meal, and the residue is nutritious for livestock. Oil serves as a fine lubricant and seed byproducts rival cotton seed meal in usefulness. Gerang town Telegraph.
In Sheoo-Shan valley wax insects are gathered and carried to Chia-ting, 200 miles away. Porters transport sixteen-ounce packets of scales, open them to cool at rest, and face loss from heat. Price at Chia-ting runs about half a crown per pound, sometimes doubling in scarcity. yield ranges from four to five pounds of wax per pound of scales, with profits fluctuating.
A sheet torn from a Steubenville newspaper dated April 21, 1855 was found hidden behind a fireplace mantel in a Coshocton boarding house. It contained three copper dies for counterfeiting gold dollars, dated 1820 and 1825, each about one and a half inches across and a quarter inch thick. The engraving shows skilled workmanship and suggests the outfit had been concealed for about 38 years in a building once used as a general store.
An advertisement extols Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters for digestive and kidney ailments and warns against fake imitations. It also promotes Brown’s Bronchial Troches for throat and cough, and an eye-water from Dr. Isaac Thompson for weak or inflamed eyes. John R. Dickey Drug Co. of Bristol Virginia sells these products at 25 cents per bottle or box.
A humorous street scene from Street & Smith's Good News features Dora and Ethel attempting church play with dolls. They lack a boy doll or preacher so they use Johnny's jumping jack, which proves too lively for a regular church and becomes a revival.
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