Up to Date Hints On Soil Cultivation And Yields
A farmers institute report covers soil fertility, top dressing with stable manure, and the value of clover and other forages. It notes Prof. Houston on soil variation, clover yield ranges, weed control, poultry care, and wheat feeding for hogs, with practical examples from Indiana and South Dakota.
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Farmers’ Institute
Chicago
Livery Barn
Timothy Meadows
Prof
Houston
Purdue
Logansport
Indiana
Making Apple Cider From Sweet Apples
Instructions from American Cider Maker and Country Gentleman describe making a stronger cider by pressing, boiling, skimming, adding tart apples, and cooking to a pulp. Process uses tin or copper boilers, avoids iron, and stresses stirring, flavoring with cinnamon and cloves, and storing in a cool place for one barrel per one and a half bushels of apples.
Butter Flavor Holds Key Nutty Appeal Says Consumer
A food writer argues that butter’s unique nutty flavor is essential to its appeal. Without this trait the product loses one of its main attractions, and consumers will notice the missing quality.
Woman's Nerves Prostrated By Least Excitement Kept
Mrs. Helen Meyers of Chicago visited Keokuk Iowa and told how nervous sickness nearly drove her to distraction. A severe shock fifteen years ago followed worries and heartbreak. She credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for restoring her nerves and complexion, saying they revived her like a healthy 16 year old. Sold by Keokuk druggists and by mail from Schenectady New York.
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Gate City
Keokuk
Iowa
Helen Meyers
Vernon Avenue
Chicago
Leasant
Lake Rive
County
New York State
Williams
Dr. Willams Medicine Company
Schenectady
W. Y
Alligator Attacks Gate Bathers At Cuttack Site
A report from Cuttack describes gharial like dangers at a bathing ghat where women and girls bathe before daylight. An alligator snatches a bather, killing and sinking into the river while onlookers flee. A large captured alligator yielded ornaments in its belly, suggesting many victims.
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Cuttack
Cossack Tactics and Surprising Field Experiments
An 1891 Warsaw report describes Don Cossacks testing water crossing boats made from lances and canvas, horse picketing by buried wooden pegs, and lance handles for scythes to harvest fodder. The piece also notes a seed promotion for Salzer’s seeds and prize Danvers onions with offers for catalogs.
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Warsaw
Vistula
Ivan-Gorod
Poland
Poulteney Bigelow
Harper’s
Ostrich farming in California shows mixed prospects
The clipping notes mixed views on ostrich farming in California. It also reports 2000 lobster traps around Monhegan Island Maine all turning a profit. A Butler Pennsylvania woman, Mrs Andrew Moore, died after being knocked down by a ram. A herd of about 500 wild cattle roams Oregon from Rogue River to the Umpqua over two decades.
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California
Monhegan Island
Maine
Andrew Moore
Butler
Rogue River
South Fork
Umpqua
Oregon
Berlin police framed by crime stats and royal duties
The Philadelphia Press notes Berlin guards 30 900 booked criminals and compares costs to Paris and New York. Schutzmen carry swords and obey strict rules while Kriminal beamte in plain clothes carry revolvers but rarely use them.
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Berlin
Paris
New York
Philadelphia
English Nonsense Sparks Domestic Jealousy Over Coachman
A household quarrel erupts as Mrs Gerald Lawrence Beverley Smythe laments hiring an English coachman at a third the wages of an American servant. She fears the man, and sobs over the hyphenated name and foreign accent, while the husband blames jealousy and a brogue.
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Howard-Clarence
Gerald-Lawrence-Beverly-Smythe
A. m
Man seeks legal name change for New Orleans merchant
Little Coon, a six foot tall 220 pound African American hardware merchant in New Orleans, has applied to legally change his name claiming his current name causes people to laugh upon sight. He asserts the name affects his business and dignity.
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Little Coon
New Orleans
Hardware
Glassmaking Hearts of Murano Island
In Murano near Venice a small island, over half its population toils in glassmaking, shaping a famed craft and livelihoods tied to the fiery industry.
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Glassmakera
Murano
Venice
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Miello
Revea
Farmers’ Review
Androfogon Scoparius
Bus
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John J. Rath
East Saginaw
Rath
Salzer
John A. Salzer Seed Company
la Crosse
Wis
Animal Life
Fingle
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pacific Ocean
Ultra Anxiety
Hood
Schrage
Silaco
Outfit
P.O
Omaha
Hicks
Life
Nessens
Ottage Grove
Oulortaien
Colchester Rubber CO
Uglas Rit
Joe Sane
Dovan
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T.adies
W. L. Douglas
Pompeii
Dora Thorne
Stoneth Marvel
Bulwer Lytton
A. Conan Days
Bertha Clay
Bill Nye
J. W. Riley
M. E. Holmen
Webster West- Pocket Dictionary
Address Harrison Book CO
West Jackson St
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