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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1886
Page
8
Practical notes on preparing fields for frost, planting trees, and preserving forage. Guidance on handling sorghum, sweet potatoes, and cane, plus tips for dairy cows, milk quality, and winter housing. Includes anecdotes on coffee, chicory, and a lawyer’s quip about wages.
The fragment discusses a science and progress context with references to earth, time, and a process involving melting and chemical terms. It notes a combined caper totaling 132 tons, hinting at a large material handling event or experiment. Names, places, and precise actions are obscured by garbled OCR.
The English writer argues the American Mayflower outperforms the British Galatea in seaworthiness and sail area, criticizing English tonnage rules and urging reform. He cites Mayflower’s 110 tons and Galatea’s 157.6 tons, ballast differences, and deeper ballast below buoyancy, while praising American design. The piece also touches on agricultural prospects and climate impact on future food production.
A ton of ordinary gel coal yields about 1200 pounds of color, 21 gallons of ammonia water and 140 pounds of coal tar. Extractive distillation gives pitch, creosote, heavy oils, naphtha, phenanthrene, naphthol, azarin and other compounds. Saccharine is produced later, described as far sweeter than cane sugar.
A fragment describes a checked homespun jacket with a high collar and plush trim, a tailored darts fit, two decorative forms, and buttoning on the left side, reflecting period fashion language and construction details.
A fashion column details infant bandas and mantles with improvements in band fit and secure fastenings, plus tips on comfortable garments for weak infants. It sketches mantle designs in velvet, plush, and fur trimming, and notes the queen watch pattern for girls as accessories evolve.
A chaotic Boston Globe excerpt mocks Alanson Meltz a Chicago lawyer promising painless divorces and legal advice. The piece parodies his storefront window, exaggerating his self promotion and failed practice while lampooning the era’s legal and moral pretenses.
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