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Newspaper
Wakarusa Weekly Sun
Location
Wakarusa, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1876
Page
4
The article outlines strawberry cultivation in hills or rows with pistillate plants near strong staminate varieties, spacing and thinning tips, and hoeing methods. It favors growing beans carrots parsnips beets in rows for horse cultivators and recommends sweet corn for summer family use plus berries and currants for variety.
The article recalls the first cent with Washington and thirteen links allegedly designed by Franklin and depicts a Paris bootmaker scam where a lord defrauds two bootmakers at the Grand Hotel by taking one boot from each pair, leaving them with odd boots. It also mentions Louis XVI coins and a Detroit anecdote.
A young man, recently given twins by his proud father, attends church. The preacher speaks of an important responsibility, and the new dad, thinking of his twins, blurts out I have two of em to surprise the audience.
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