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Newspaper
Waycross Headlight
Location
Waycross, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1887
Page
3
Savannah Florida and Western Railway announces May 15 1837 departures on a line from Savannah to Tampa with steamship connections to New York. The timetable lists trains daily with freight and passenger services including early morning departures and intermediate stops.
A collection of practical guidance on soil moisture and cultivation, poultry care, and peach tree health. Includes soil porosity to reduce evaporation, lice and mite control in fowls, and fertilizer regimes with potash and bone for peaches. Also covers orchard pruning, crop rotation, and general farm husbandry tips.
A local columnist discusses eye care and travel, noting rapid pupil changes at high speed. The piece cautions about focusing distance and attention when moving, suggesting practical observations from driving or riding to preserve eye health.
A Kentucky born prodigy aged six, Prof Fields, astonishes observers with rapid solutions to arithmetic puzzles one after another. He answers sugar and calico cost questions, clocks, engine revolutions, and large quantities, claiming a divine gift that he requires payment to reveal. He cannot answer non mathematical questions unless asked aloud.
A Russian sailor named Wine Stoffsky was brought to a workhouse in a sleepy state and woke refreshed, believing he had slept normally. The tale follows a prior London sensation of a French traveller, Chaffat, whose prolonged sleep was eclipsed by Stoffsky. The passage also mentions cremation practices and a jumble of unrelated phrases about health and plates.
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