Kidnap plot on a treacherous voyage in Hearts Desire
In a perilous scene from Hearts Desire, a German naturalist Baron von Holstein and his conspirator crew seek to recruit natives for North Queensland labor while two Europeans discuss escape and fate. David Leighan longs for England as a violent voyage binds them. The baron predicts eventual justice and repentance. Only two survivors remain after a brutal journey.
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Queensland
Messrs. Hengstenburg & Company
Sydney
Sergius von Holstein
David Leighan
David
England
Challacombe
Barons Plot and Ship Fire End Ill fated New Ireland Voyage
The mate plots to use natives for wealth as Baron Sergius plans to take control. A brief draft billows in Sydney as the crew faces mutiny and danger. A drunken captain's fire destroys the old schooner. David Leighan and crew abandon ship amid accusations and fear of murder.
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Sydney
Sergius
David Leighan
New Ireland
David
England
How a Virginia Colored Woman Looks to Get What She Wants
A Washington hostess, born in Virginia, relies on her Old Dominion maid staff for influence and loyalty. An in-house scene shows a maid using strategic flattery to secure a pink silk kimono from a mistress, illustrating a diplomatic approach within the colored community.
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Virginia
Washington
Washington Star
Old Dominion
Dlo
Chile
Mildred
Turkey
Europe
Kansas
Washington Post
Beef Trust
Garfield
Chicago News
House Gowns Advertised Beside Paint Talk
Mrs Shopps notes Cutt and Slashem advertise house gowns at a bargain while Shopps suggests their house could use a coat of paint. The exchange highlights frugal shopping and improving the home.
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Cutt & Slashem
Papers flash satire on high officials and reformers
A compilation of sharp quotations from multiple papers and editors mocking politicians, financiers, and political events. It cites Uncle Sam, Secretary of State, Rockefeller, Garfield, and Rockefeller humor, with notes on Turkey, Russia, and U.S. governance. The items mix political jabs, opinion snippets, and humorous asides from various newspapers.
Nin Improves Hay Devices and Stock Tonic Recipes
A description from the Ohio Farmer explains a $5 hay device mounted on a 12 foot runner frame with a 25 foot pole. It lifts hay from ground to stack top, keeps two men busy on the stack, and builds stacks up to twenty feet high. It also cites a ready stock tonic recipe listing turmeric cumin gentian and other ingredients with feeding instructions for horses cattle and other livestock.
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Ohio Farmer
Costly Crop Pests and Wheat Sowing Tips
A study cites the financial impact of chinch bugs, Nessian fly, and the Mexican boll weevil on crops including wheat and cotton with yearly losses potentially reaching two to four times current levels. It notes the Department of Agriculture’s pest control as crucial to reducing damage and advises on optimizing early field preparation for wheat sowing.
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Texas
Nist
Department of Agriculture
C. Arthur Williams
Success Magazine
Butter Quality From Cream Storage and Churning Frequency
The article explains that daily churning yields the best butter, but many farms lack enough cream. Churning twice weekly can work if cream is cooled and ripened properly. With only two or three cows, churn once weekly and keep cream near fifty degrees Fahrenheit to avoid old flavors or improve taste.
Buckwheat Seed Bed Preparation Instructions
The text notes the land must be clean warm and in a fine moldy state to receive the seed. It also mentions that the rows may be arranged in a certain manner.
Indigestion in Cows and Diet Remedies
Indigestion in cows is often caused by heavy grain feeding, especially in winter. Remedy by cutting grain for a few days, feeding grass and hay, then reintroducing grain gradually. A dose of Epsom salts and ground ginger in warm water follows grain withdrawal, with salt kept available to aid digestion.
Unloading device for cellar and brood sow selection notes
An article describes a potato unloading aid using No 12 wire and two hooks to slide baskets from a cart into a cellar, enabling two baskets to move continuously. It also covers selecting brood sows with age, feed, and pasture guidance, emphasizing lighter carbonaceous food for sows before breeding and a oats and bran based ration during lactation.
Top Dressing Forage Crops at New Jersey Experiment Station
Tests of nitrate of soda as a top dressing on forage crops show marked yield increases. Increases ranged from 84.1 percent for corn to 96.6 percent for barley, with barley the only crop not profitable due to unfavorable weather.
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New Jersey Experiment Station
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Lis
Sir Walter Besant
Tia
Duke of York Island
Sam
iInan
Chicago Tribune
George J. Gould
Boston Transcript
Oklahoma
United States Senate
Rockefeller
Detroit Iee
Norfolk
Pittsburg Dispatch
Peary
Abdul Hamid
Chicago Record-Herald
Odessa
Detroit Free Press
Bonaparte
Nestor
Orestes
Syracuse Herald
Missouri
Washington Times
Japan
Tokio Asahi
Weaver
Philadelphia
Montgomery
Pittsburg Times
M. Witte
M. Trepoff
Russia
Nicholas Alexandrovitch
Chicago Chronicle
America
New Rochelle
N.Y
John D. Rockefeller
Kansas City Star
Confucius
Laura Jean Libbey
Mary Maclane
Los Angeles Times
Holmes
Ohio State Prison
Spokane
Bpokesman-Review
Nin
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