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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1879
Page
4
The piece argues women favor men with genuine manliness over vanity and brutality. It envisions a typical intelligent, healthy, reasonably educated woman seeking a partner who is brave, kind, unselfish, and capable of supporting her without needing to dominate. It stresses sympathetic, well mannered behavior and stable qualities over mere looks.
Maj J H Gill U S associate engineer leads survey work on the Dan River from Danville to the western limit above Madison North Carolina. The project will extend from Danville to Clarksville with notes and charts sent to Washington for recommendations on whether to improve navigation for steamboats or only for bateaux. A local job applicant quipped about arithmetic and grammar.
A young man parades his counting habit by enumerating foods consumed over fifteen years in a jokey courtship scene. The girl, offended by the absurd figures, flees. she later marries a well to do grocer, ending the episode.
A Toronto Globe excerpt details a harsh equine training method. The narrator describes using a strap to threaten and restrain a stubborn horse, then discussing humane outcomes and patience while reading John Caldigate. The piece blends cruelty with a claim of humane intent.
Farmers discuss ideal sowing times for grasses including timothy blue and orchard seed. Timely sowing runs August to mid October, orchard grass opinions vary between spring and fall, clover should not be sown in fall. Emphasizes seed quality and generous sowing to ensure a good stand. Also notes witty adage about vanity and a wart cure using raw potato slices.
A Louisville Tobacco News reader offers advice on curing yellow tobacco leaf using a stone or brick flue and a small brimstone burn for lemon coloring. Proper flue curing preserves oil and flavor, yielding better chewing quality and wrapping properties.
A Corn correspondent touts turning large flocks into post harvest corn fields in fall. Sheep roam nightly to eat weed grains and stray ears, cause minimal corn damage, and gain rest before frosts. The practice extends pasture and maintains sheep health and profitability.
The article outlines making fertilizer by layering ground bones or whole skeletons with manure and lime, absorbing ammonia with loam, and moistening. After six weeks to six months, a superior homemade fertilizer comparable to commercial superphosphates emerges, depending on bone amount and careful management. It notes cost savings versus market phosphates and mentions a neuralgia memo by Dr Dyce Duckworth linking bicarbonate of soda to pain relief.
A terse old phrasing warns against urging trouble, pairing a rural image with a cautionary adage. The saying uses a mule and a beehive to illustrate unintended consequences of rash instruction or pressure in social contexts.
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