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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1886
Page
4
The article stresses planning for purpose built stables with proper ventilation avoiding airflow from mows into fodder. It advocates tight stable construction, solid walls, floor set into sills, six inch drainage pipes, and dry liquid manure absorption. It recommends moisture control, better floors than thick plank, proper foundations, and keeping stable areas ceiled off from rest of barn to prevent contamination.
The Rural New Yorker notes that hybridizing wheat and rye has shown little practical value. Science experts including E L Sturtevant and Trelease doubt true hybrids exist. Beal of Michigan Agricultural College has assessed samples, with further examination sought to confirm any actual cross.
Delicate horses need careful handling including hay from a safe height, rest and good bedding, mashed oatmeal and milk when appetite falters, and natural grass. Ensure well ventilated, dry stables, level floors, good drainage, clean bedding, and plenty of fresh air. Provide space for lying down, protect from cold, rub and dry wet horses, and check hooves for stones.
A Burmese fairy tale retold from Siam describes a king chasing a giant’s hair. A fleet sails through a carrot hole to a giant’s kingdom, adventures unfold inside a curry pot, and the giant kindly offers a hair to release the trapped crew. The tale ends with a mighty blow sending the fleet home.
A Utica Observer correspondent details a Broadway office where Ed Rice and associates interview chorus girl applicants. Women undergo singing tests and physical checks before being trained by Tarr, with no moral examinations or backstage discipline by the managers. The process favors looks and voice, with trial pay offered.
In Louisville city court four youths Clarence Leisure Fred Leisure Frank Hack and James Hack were fined ten dollars each for beating cans and blowing horns under neighbor Miss Shaw's windows. The judge offered a stay if their fathers would whip them in the marshal’s office, which they did with Deputy McCorkill supervising, leaving the boys pantaloons lathered and sore.
A narrator describes a plain seeming girl loved by the town for inner grace. She is kind to all, unenvied by any, and known as a sun beam who brightens everyone she meets. Girls admire her and seek her aid in love matters. Older ladies call her delightful and she comforts them with sympathy.
Washington correspondent notes several new lobbyists including six notably pretty women. One claimant from the south gained early momentum, passing both branches after three months of effort, awaiting the president’s signature. Another woman lobbies mail routes with strong post office sway and contractor fees. The lobby, though not without grumbles, is broadly prosperous meanwhile a Liebig pupil advises consumptive patients to room with sulphur fumes to ease coughs.
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