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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1890
Page
4
In this excerpt from the Warren Mail dated April 9 1890 S W Foss cites a fictional inventor who constructs perpetual motion tests flying machines and sea sleds while chasing a universal cure. He swallows a green life elixir and dies within twenty minutes, illustrating a cautionary tale of overreaching invention.
Thirteen year old Jack Thornton accepts farm work to support his ailing father and unemployed mother after they must part with Pat the helper. He learns milking and farming, expands the dairy and poultry operation, plans beekeeping and vegetables, and eventually helps restore the family and himself, later becoming a college president.
A Jackson County man seeks a divorce after thirty-eight years of marriage claiming his wife forced him to perform all washing and housework. The Costa Rican swamp vignette paints a vivid, perilous lodging with deadly insects, giant spiders, alligators, and stifling heat during a fever season.
A Kansas City woman showcases a five foot rattlesnake skin banner, tanned with colored back and mosaic like spots on plush. Stated to come from Texas, the skin bears fourteen rattles and nine inch width at its widest, reflecting the impressive creature it once covered.
A Farm and Fireside writer describes a practical wagon-jack built from hard white oak with an 18 inch base and 8 foot uprights. A top block, long lever, loose bolt slot, and a ratchet engage to lift, lower, or secure loads, presenting a simple durable device.
A writer from the American Agriculturist argues the forty acre tract can be productive and profitable. He describes efficient layout with a lane along the highway, diversified crops, and livestock on a compact farm, noting fence savings and suitable frontages for orchard and truck crops.
Advice urges early planting of hardy vegetables and sugar beet demand, warns against overbearing trees, promotes grape vines and home orchards, suggests cold storage for later markets, and favors asparagus beds with May sowing and rotted manure for best results.
The column riffs on mole signs for women with left and right side implications, mixing whimsy with superstition. It also runs poultry tips on breeding, care in damp weather, and sources for poultry, cigars, lamps, and remedies, ending with ads for olives and a cough remedy.
A self supporting portable ladder with five bearings three adjustable to surface and length weighs about forty pounds. The crane and basket hold thirty pounds of fruit and fold for storage. It aims to improve safety and efficiency for fruit picking pruning and hauling fruit to the basket, reducing bruising and increasing profits.
A Maryland farmer recounts feeding corn and clover silage to horses and cattle. Horses died after four weeks, traced to excess nitrogen from air exposure in clover silage, while cattle showed little ill effect. He notes superior silage quality from corn cut in half inch pieces, urging caution to fellow farmers.
The notes name M. Kopt and John Knupp with Henry Knupp and Dave Siggins in livery, John Binder at carriage works, John Fulmer in livery, W. OC Russell the druggist, A. W. Nickle an oil producer, Union City, and J. W. Sproul the attorney.
A brief reflective note cites a poet's line that pit y and love share impulse. The text explores compassion as a bridge between feeling and action in human relations.
A London Truth note argues four thousand pounds awarded to a husband for his wife’s loss mirrors continental views that a wife is a chattel. It debates who should pay damages if the company is at fault and suggests the wife’s and husband share responsibility.
In a Lawrence American excerpt a woman recalls she slapped a man yesterday prompting his puzzled reply and her coy insistence on the meaning of given rebuke. The scene centers on courtesy, memory, and a social exchange.
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