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Newspaper

Western Sentinel

Location

Winston, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Oct 09, 1879

Page

4

Leaning Towers Across Europe and Britain Insight

A survey of famous leaning towers describes Pisa Italy as the best known at 187 feet tall with 355 steps and fourteen feet of inclination, plus other inclined bells and lighthouses in Italy and Britain. It notes Bologna Asinelli Garisendi towers and Venices St Mary Zibellica, Ravenna, and Cerpbilly Castle in Glamorgan with varied inclines and historic causes.

Pisa Italy Campo Santa Bologna Asinelli Imola Ferrara Modena Garisendi Garissaidi Venice Ravenna Great Britain Cerpbilly Glamorganshire Charles

Bold Dressmaker Impostor In Boston Blackmail Plot

A New York Times sensation details a Boston scam where a dressmaker’s assistant, disguised as a fashionable tailor, blackmailed about a hundred wealthy women. He used a notebook of memoranda on dress fittings to threaten exposure unless paid, collecting around one thousand dollars before fleeing toward California.

Boston New York Times Hub Annie Julian Hardy California Pacific Slope

Josh Billings Abilities From Old Probabilities Collection

Josh Billings prints selections from Old Probabilities Perhaps Rain Perhaps Not in the White Mountain Echo. Wry maxims address luck, money, dogs, argument, poetry, honesty, seduction, and social manners with rustic humor and字skeptic tone.

Josh Billings White Mountain Echo Akward

Socialian in Germany and the rise of socialism

Willard Brown argues in October Atlantic that German socialism grows from two roots: harsh laborer conditions and a nature rich in deep feeling. He describes northeastern peasants as ill fed, overworked, living in crowded huts, with dismal prospects, yet notes a stubborn, persistent unity when stirred by philanthropy and justice.

Germany Willard Brown Atlantic

Late Fall Plowing Improves Clay Soils and Subsoils

The Rural Messenger notes fall plowing benefits for clay subsoil and heavy soils, while light porous land benefits from delaying plowing until near planting. It explains frost action, decomposed organic matter, and added porosity, stressing fine rotted matter and timely work to improve fertility and tillage ease.

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