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Newspaper
Waycross Headlight
Location
Waycross, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1886
Page
7
The piece discusses garden flowers focusing on pansies with large blooms and scent. It also recounts an Indian wedding scene observed by a traveler in Dakota, describing tented celebrations, attire, ritual acts, and a gift exchange, followed by fashion notes on summer styles and fabrics.
A quirky scene unfolds in a bustling dining house where a diner notices turtle soup costs ten cents more on a Faro pill. A colored waiter serves a cooler, and the patron brands the meal a mock delicacy, then jokes over a mushroom surprise.
Fragment from a historical column recalling Civil War era grooming habits and the public uproar over facial hair trends. Mentions bustling newspaper debates and the rise of movements like The Beard Movement against mustaches.
A detailed session notes the Royal Dublin Society on skim milk use in dairy stock and the promise of dried skim milk to relieve congested markets. It covers pig feeding, disease risk from filthy water, grafting and pruning for fruit trees, and dairy care including cow cleanliness, feeding, and Jersey milking practices.
Dr Goosman reports on a third annual test noting apple pomace yields 15 to 20 percent dry matter when fresh, averaging 17.5 percent, with pomace richer in nitrogenous matter than the original apple. The study compares feeding value to whole apples and other fodder, suggesting moderate pomace quantities aid dairy stock, with recommendations on milling, chalk, and straw use to improve storage and acidity balance.
A fragmented note from an Indiana agronomist explains selecting and preparing healthy fruiting scions. It advises cutting bundles to two inches in diameter, tying and sealing them, and using wax and tests to ensure desirable buds. The text highlights best strain maintenance and careful handling before grafting or planting.
Photographs of Congress photographs and an image of a member stamped on cardboard are shown at the Treasury Department and a private exhibit. Visitors and members encounter these framed shadows in public spaces, making these images a notable way lower-house members become known to others.
The Spokane’s construction described with plans like a house, a life size shipboard blackboard, and numbered frames. Riveters number over 250 workers, paid per rivet, with four man gangs earning 50 to 75 a week. One man caulks all seams, earning about 25 weekly. The ship uses a water bottom design and is tested on a vast scale, reflecting the era’s shipbuilding methods.
A Washington letter notes senators display odd habits in the chamber. Senator Hoer is described as always swinging a bunch of keys and appearing unsettled unless he holds them. He twirls a black string around his thumb and finger, with his elbow resting on the chair arm as he fidgets.
The narrator describes Tokyo from a high vantage near a temple, noting ivy covered slopes, white doves, and long-tailed cocks. He tours Atago Yama, Hakone views, Fuji, and distant castles, then samples lunch on tatami with chopsticks, savoring eel and sake as a waitress guides him in a Japonaise style meal, ending with tea and dessert.
A railway official argues that the 25,000 US locomotives seldom need headlights and that lamps hinder night vision, increase accident risk, and strain engineers. He suggests automatic bells at grade crossings as a cheaper safety measure and notes road engines gain little from headlights.
James H Marr longtime chief clerk for the first Assistant Postmaster General is highlighted as the most senior living veteran of the postal service. He began as a Maryland clerk, rose with steady service, and his Washington office has long seen pivotal routine during Presidential eras. The feature notes his enduring respect among colleagues.
A fragmentary quote recalls a visit in Durham North Carolina where Sayan Aun era suporter describes entering a large factory and observing a crowd of around seven hundred women. The garbled text suggests a vivid, bustling scene with toast and movement among the workers.
The article explains two coke types gas coke and bituminous coke, their uses, and how coke is produced at mines. It describes oven cooking in brick ovens and open-heap burning, noting efficiency differences and regional coke beds in Virginia and other Southern states. It cites the Chicago Inter Ocean as the source.
A Washington correspondent recalls a woman who, in a fashionable hotel, fakes meals by rising late, buying a cheap paper, and dining at a Pennsylvan ia Ave saloon. She rides a three cent car to Congress, socializes briefly in the House and Senate galleries, then returns to her dingy room. By noon she resumes a careful lunch circuit at several homes, eating her way through ten visits.
The New York Mail and Express cites Dr Cyrus Edson blaming the bark Sy ringa poisoning and ophthalmia on excessive tobacco use. The piece notes long known links between tobacco and sight failure and urges renewed anti tobacco action, as highlighted by the British Medical Journal.
An old commentary extols the joys of infancy and the duties of parents. It argues that babies deserve loving reception and rightful place, contrasting gratitude with the burden of caring for a new life and the imagined inheritance of joy.
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