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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1882
Page
2
A dispatch from Walpole New Hampshire notes growing sentiment to end the Congress holiday recess. Some argue lawmakers should keep two holidays Christmas and New Year’s Day, pressing for extended sessions and faster lawmaking.
A mosaic of agricultural notes covers livestock digestion remedies with saltwater mix, apple yields from Treavenworth county, dairy cow milking behavior, fattening guidance, and cheese flavor origins from M Duclaux. Practical tables on cistern sizes and a Maine harvest anecdote sit alongside orchard grazing recommendations and a Virginia tire preservation tip.
A collection of home cooking tips and recipes including lemonades for a sick person, Scotch shortbread, a plain dike cake, poultry dressings, Lyonnaise potatoes, fruit pudding with lemon and nutmeg, a molasses cake, squash pancakes, Berne with apples, and spiced bread-apple loaf, with steps and ingredients.
The Medical News argues cremation offers a hygienic, decorous, quick, and cheap method to dispose of the dead, noting rapid furnace systems in Milan Dresden and France, a battlefield Kuborn apparatus, and potential to handle large bodies daily. It cites sentiment and evidentiary concerns as objections but contends cremation ultimately serves public health.
An eye opening description covers how rug weaving is organized among mountain families near the Caspian, the role of Turkish and local agents in sourcing wool dyes and labor, and the spread of aniline colors. It notes low wages, religious poverty, and Ottoman trade routes via camel caravans to Tiflis with wine in ox hides and carpets from Persia.
A peasant sharpens his knife to kill a doe at a spring but injures himself instead. As he limps, the knife notes the irony that sharpening for blood enabled the accident. Moral warns that kitchen plots and scandals can return home.
A Scotch lawyer needed a stool to reach the bar prompting a quip about rising at the bar. Curran mocked an ecclesiastical-turned-lawyer with a line about a high authority behind him. The note adds that 3,000 Connecticut savings bank depositors have made no inquiries about their funds for twenty years.
A steam plowing system using two traction engines set 300 to 500 yards apart drives a five foot iron drum plow frame. The drums are bolted to the drum and connected to a wheel gauge with a hand wheel. Engines plow about thirty five acres daily, varying by soil and land layout, and the setup also harrows.
An English catalogue describes Canterbury as a free library with a new printed catalogue. Under H Esmond and A Pendennis Thackeray novels appear, Robinson Crusoe is listed with biographies, and Tower of London with guide-books. It suggests Austen and an Irish bulls work would be reclassified.
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