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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1898
Page
4
Cavalry of the Regulars has seen long service on the Western plains making life more arduous than infantry. Officials note U S cavalry remains unsurpassed though some miners doubt it. The role includes horse care, feeding, equipment upkeep, and constant readiness in active force.
The article discusses the U S Cavalry readiness for Cuban operations noting the need for rapid mounted raiders to disrupt rear areas and communications. It covers horse selection emphasizing first class stock, appropriate size weight and temperament with geldings 15 to 16 hands and 1000 to 1200 pounds.
An artful survey traces U S military attire from 1776 to the Civil War, detailing hats from tricorn to beaver and cocked styles, tunics length, boot changes, and the shift from ornate to practical dress, noting epaulets and shoulder straps and the gradual decline of ornament.
If barn-made manure is not spread on the land or kept under cover to protect it from weather, you are robbing yourself of part of the farm income.
Washington street car tickets sell at six for a quarter and have long been unused. An official notes tickets totaling forty eight thousand dollars were never used, suggesting they were lost or destroyed.
Germany rises as the continent’s best educated nation while noting a historical struggle. A century and a half ago many German teachers earned meager wages and sang in front of houses to supplement income with small payments.
The Baltic Sea has more wrecks than any other region with an average of about one wreck per day annually. This pattern highlights the area as the world’s most wreck-heavy maritime zone.
Sampson grew up in Palmyra New York as a day laborer’s son and trained in public schools. He earned naval academy entry through Congressman Morgan, graduated with honors in 1860, and rose to command ships San Francisco and Iowa, earning national respect for his steady rise and land achievements.
A collection of short anecdotes spans seasickness encore remarks by Miss Bellwood, a $5 pump fix by Sanford Adams quoted to Judge Hoar, and the Massimo family revival tale. It also notes Napoleon’s query to Prince Massimo about descent, Vanderbilt and chef Joseph in Paris, and Joseph’s remark that a dinner should be short.
A low tub shaped barrel mounted in an old wheelbarrow frame serves to collect kitchen and milk-room waste. It can be wheeled to the pig-house or poultry-house. Scald the tub, mix meal bran meat and scraps with boiling water, cover with a blanket, and let it ferment overnight to a dry crumbly mass.
A French Academy committee answered War Ministry questions on wiring around powder magazines. They require underground conductors be 30 feet away, aerial lines 60 feet away, exterior switches, strong metal pipes for internal lighting, voltages below 110, and minimal current bells. Electric lamps are favored for safety.
A young salmon hatches in a mountain stream and heads downstream for the ocean. It adapts to predatory life, grows rapidly, and gains strength to climb rapids and leap waterfalls. As maturity nears, reproductive drives push it to return upstream to its mountain sources for spawning.
At a Washington reception a wealthy ex-Congressman's wife and the wife of a bureau chief exchanged sharp remarks. The hostess singled out the bureau official's wife for wearing a pink dress, and she retorted that her husband faced questionable transactions, underscoring political insinuations amid a crowded afternoon.
A new compact searchlight projector for yachts under 100 feet uses a nine inch diameter lens, fifteen inch height, and forty pound weight. It emits a clear round beam visible half a mile on dark nights, with larger seventy two inch lenses in production for naval and commercial use. The maker owns an in house lens plant that sweats glass in fire clay molds, anneals it through a two week heat cycle, and produces durable glass capable of withstanding marine heat and cold.
Capt Cheever, famed rider of the Dandy Sixth, argues horses lack true intelligence and advises a five to eight year old, 1000 to 1100 pound, 15 to 15.5 hands high horse with sound wind and limbs. He lists ten essential points from coloration to temperament and favors Kentucky-bred, bay horses while avoiding white or black colors for cavalry use.
A new standardized ceremony for lowering the Stars and Stripes replaces the old casual method. At sunset the post assembles for roll call, retreat, and a bugle call before a measured flag descent. The flag is never allowed to touch the ground and is carefully folded and stored under guard.
The article notes crimson clover as a winter annual cover crop, valued for catch cropping. It warns that feeding mature clover to horses can cause fatal hairball formations, so straw after threshing should not be fed, with risk increasing as plants mature.
A fragmented sheet lists vegetables with quantities and prices, alongside a long fertilizer and cultivation timetable. It includes crops like artichokes, asparagus, cabbages, carrots, cucumbers, onions, pears, plums, raspberries, strawberries, and more, followed by planting routines and broadcast instructions. The document also mentions a press drill for wheat and notes timing references like June 6, 1808.
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