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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1881
Page
4
A collection of kitchen tips and recipes including Ambrosia with layered oranges and coconut fritters with oysters in batter. Also covers Bread Cake with dried fruit spices Apple Snow Buckwheat Cakes and Wasnixce Maple Easy a laundry preparation using sal soda and lime to wash clothes.
An article discusses using clover to renovate exhausted grain land. It advises plowing in the first full bloom crop for fertility if enrichment is the goal, or mowing for hay and applying manure if profit is priority. A second clover growth plowed in can provide similar soil fertility to the first.
The report details bond issues and outstanding amounts by class, totaling a potential debt near 3.9 million after funding. It notes new consolidated four percent bonds with 88 464 interest paid to date and total 156 000 once landing completes. Receipts and expenditures for the last two fiscal years show a net positive variance of about 100 000. The year’s expenses are forecast at 529 800, with a proposed tax rate of 28 cents expected to raise 415 000 and 135 000 to be covered from other sources.
A polemical sketch contrasts European expectations with Chinese customs. It notes opposite social norms such as right-hand mounting, hats kept on, vermilion visiting cards, and a wife’s changing social power. It also describes peculiar military dress, wheelbarrow riders, public canoes, and banquet practices, ending with a muted dinner scene.
The article extols sheep husbandry as highly profitable and transformative for farms. It argues sheep bring money, improve land, yield early lambs wool and pelts, and can save poor farms while boosting overall prosperity. It notes strong farmer respect signs with manners and dress.
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