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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1863
Page
4
An agricultural column notes that tapioca from manioc can be produced in California and discusses figs, raisins, prunes, almonds, and nuts as potential crops. It suggests California could supply eastern states and keep a large revenue from dried fruits, with moisture and dew physics explained in a separate science essay.
A collection of home remedies and care tips including a corn treatment with white bread and vinegar, tin cover cleaning with whiting and oil, Britannia metal polishing with flannel and rotten-stone, pewter cleaning from sand and ashes, and a sorghum syrup bread recipe for light bread.
A reflective passage warns of heedless pursuit of pleasure as gentle tides turn into dangerous waves. The speaker parallels a youthful temptation to the sea, noting how curiosity entraps feet and harms the soul, ending in swift destruction.
A fragmentary reminiscence recalls a Mobile relative who, invited to a family meal, reacts to boiled crabs as sick spiders. The text threads in a wartime political jab about Greenbacks and Copperheadism, ending with a slang exchange about danger and loyalty.
Fragmentary text hints at a poet praising someone who writes books. The quotation references skill in composing cross baby lines and overall literary achievement as greater than simple acts of speech. Further context is unreadable.
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