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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1891
Page
7
Agricultural guidance covers clover care and reseeding methods, soil and seed quality, harrowing and rolling practices, and the benefit of gypsum dusting. It warns against early spring pasturing and outlines best steps for reseeding on winter grains and after rains to improve meadow yields. Also discusses honey shipping methods and a dramatic nurse’s walk on a high trestle with a near-fatal incident.
The article extols saving wood ashes for soap making and as a fertilizer after potash extraction, noting dry storage and simple leach setups. It claims hardwood ash soap is superior to shop chemicals and highlights ash utility in orchards and clay soils. It also mentions sheep as a profitable North Dakota industry, cotton lint to seed ratios, South Carolina mills, and milk costs at a New Hampshire station.
A new postage stamp museum in Vienna opens to the public with free daily access. The collection surveys stamps from 1840 to 1891, balloon letters, pigeon post, submarine mail from the Paris siege of 1870, forged stamps, and world-spanning postcards. Strong items include a Dundee stamp valued at £500 and a Cape of Good Hope stamp at £100. The display totals about 3,000,000 stamps and related objects.
During a Palmyra hailstorm children gathered hail on a plate to melt but the stones did not melt. They are formed around white pea sized cores with fine shells in some. most are transparent blue white. Several residents report obtaining similar stones and shells and seek their origin.
W H Pickett and 60 move into a vast four story warehouse 36 by 120 feet with a basement packed with pipes nails and bricks and a first floor stocking iron steel wire rope tools belts oils and hardware. The second floor holds plows seeders drills and farm implements while the third floor houses a 10500 square foot shop employing about thirty men and serving eight states with plumbing heating roofing and sheet iron work. Main stores feature axes belting lubricants injectors and other supplies all offered at right prices.
A Wayne Michigan farmer aged ninety one, worth thirty thousand dollars, lost his wife years earlier. He courtship a young woman named Emma, proposed, was rejected, tried to will or deed his estate to her, then attempted suicide and was confined to an insane asylum. He wanders the halls seeking his beloved Emma.
A Belfast man bursts into a shop asking the time of the first tram. The clerk recalls the quarrel over a cough and a wife. Elsewhere, Kingor Commercial wins by a neck. In Bangor a neighbor pushes through in a dry goods store, chasing a summer dress. Mrs Bingo recounts the dress theft.
Griggs remarks on marriage prospects in Cloak Review with a quip about a girl paying 3100 per dress and a plan to compensate with cheaper suit costs. The light jest contrasts expectations in courtship and fashion.
A mother pleads with her papa on a voyage as a telegram arrives. The message reads The gray maie won and we're in the soup today Horse zheads Bazoo. The father stays silent, the child senses trouble, and the telegram's odd wording underscores the uncertainty aboard.
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