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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1896
Page
6
A collection of agricultural tips covers soil, cultivation, hog feeding, and celery storage. It discusses why wet leaves are risky for potato cultivation, describes a new hog trough design, and outlines dry trench storage and blanching for celery to extend winter use.
The Rural New Yorker offers guidance on operating a high speed separator. It stresses leveling a sturdy foundation, smooth running bearings, and clean oil. Tighten, align, and avoid gum or grit in oil to prevent overheating and wear. Regular check of oil grooves and temperature is essential for safe, steady function.
A New York Tribune note describes a quick bin construction using uniform boxes nailed together with a top cover. Boxes in various sizes from grocery and dry goods stores form compartments to store grain by kind, offering a practical labor saving method for barn bins.
The article urges readers who can afford it to own a separator and notes many already saving to buy a machine, whether hand or power, though it cautions against assuming universal readiness.
The column advises humane handling of horses and practical stock management. It urges avoiding whip use on frightened horses, recommends economical feeding with oats and milk, compares cheap versus quality horses and their prices, favors steady crop and stock farming, praises shade trees and pasture upkeep, condemns stumps and weeds, and cautions buyers to trust experienced horsemen over chance trades.
A Paris clinic demonstration uses the phonendoscope to map internal organs by sound. Prof Bianchi guides a patient, outlining the heart lungs stomach and more as blue pencil marks appear on the skin. Doctors claim near dissection-level revelations and potential for locating disease or foreign bodies.
In Cleo Springs Oklahoma a tale from the Arabian Nights unfolds when Frances Perkins of St Johns Kansas samples water from an egg shaped rock found in a scenic groove. The water proves fatal, and her body reportedly turns to stone upon contact with a ring. Judge Edward Merchant cites the Atlanta Constitution as the source of the strange report.
The Spectator notes that animals including horses fall prey to illusions born of imagination. Horses shy from unfamiliar objects due to vision defects or misperceived stimuli and may bolt when panicked. Russian ponies, for example, balked at donkeys, mistaking them for something else.
Mme Tholozan wife of the physician to the late Shah of Persia was famed for near escapes from fire across the world. Fifteen years ago a burning vessel near Batoum saved her, she survived the Paris Opera Comique fires, Nice Municipal Theatre blaze, and fled Constantinople amid a deadly hotel fire, losing all.
In New York City apoplexy deaths have quadrupled in thirty years. A Roentgen ray unit joins a Pittsburgh hospital’s equipment. Christiana Norway pulp mill makes light strong roofing tiles from treated pulp. Sir Robert Ball foresees sun powered machinery. Dr W F Brotherus travels Central Asia studying mosses. Lake Onaga depths vary from 31 to 68 fathoms in western and NW branches. Spain’s Microbiological Institute cites diphtheria mortality drop to ten percent with serum. A French invention adds a membrane cylinder to balloons for sea rescue. Captain Densy aims to solve Tibetan river outlet mysteries by dropping tin can notices. Earthquake stations planned globally starting in Japan with a central Strassburg hub.
The Toy Industry details how German toy making began in the late twelfth century in mountain communities, with Nuremberg emerging as a wooden toy center. Sonneburg rose in the eighteenth century to rival it, exporting vast numbers of dolls and wooden figures worldwide. Despite its fame, local children reportedly show little affection for these toys.
The passage surveys how Shakespeare and King James Bible shape terse speech, noting phrases like a heaven on earth and adding fuel to the flame. It credits Milton for common expressions and lists others drawn from Chaucer, Spenser, and the Chambers Journal as sources of English turns of phrase.
A celebrated art critic known for bold judgments recalls how he labels works as sublime when they strike him as ridiculous. The remark, attributed to Flie pende Binciter, highlights his provocative approach to taste and new meaning in art discourse.
Fragmentary notice touts a travel aid called Hostatter's Stomach Bi bforss as a protective stimulant and stomach regulator. It claims to counteract fatigue, impurity in air and water, malaria, rheumatism, and kidney and bladder ailments, with references to a river or region's languages.
A Commercial Advertiser quips about hiring sleepwalking maids who wander at night and may abscond with valuables such as silverware. The note recalls a cautionary tale from a reader and echoes a Philadelphia North American exchange about quirky hobbies and a bicycle fad.
A testimonial from Maz B A Pranau of Waynesboro Pennsylvania praising Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a cure for female ailments. The piece claims male doctors cannot understand these conditions and credits the remedy with relief after four city physicians’ treatments failed.
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