Blue Grass Region of the Future Promises Great Pasture Revival
In the Blue Grass region of Kentucky modern efforts shift from wheat toward permanent pasture. Cultivators test seeding wild land with Hive Grass and Orchard Grass to create productive, drought resistant pastures. Experts cite lower costs per acre than first wheat crops and potential year round grazing. Southwest Missouri emerges as a leading blue grass area with soil and climate suited to stock breeding. The article frames the region as the future of blue grass in the United States.
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L. B. Rev
Kentucky
Geo. A. Purdy
Pierce City
Missouri
United States
Empire
Agricultural hints on soil, fencing, and crops from 19th century notes
The piece discusses wood ash applications on light soils, urgent fence repairs, clover sowing in wheat with plaster topdressings, and a Canadian North West farm report. It cites Major Bell and quotes yield costs per acre, Johnson grass eradication issues, Mille maize as a forage plant, and the changing value of corn by dry matter rather to moisture content.
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Aeeindiava
Pall Mall Gazette
Major Bell
Qu'Appelle River
Bell Farm
Canadian Northwest
W. E. Stone
Houghton Farm
Corsa
Pruning Hints for Safe Cutting and Healing
The guide advises pruning large limbs by cutting upward a little on the underside to prevent splitting. Wounds over an inch should be painted to promote rapid healing, and any cut made with a saw, even small, should be painted to protect the surface.
Raspberries Deep Planting and Pruning Advice
A New England quote from Pres ident Olimer of the Ohio Horticultural Society explains methods to make black raspberries self supporting. Plant four inches deep, then over, with growth tips pinched at twenty inches to two feet, laterals cut back to one to two feet, and horse cultivation. Red raspberries favor new canes over old, old canes burned. new cane growth yields better fruit.
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New England
Olimer
Ohio Horticultural Society
Kramer
la Crosse Horticultural Society
Milwaukee Sentinel
How to Grow Grapes Says Mr Kramer at La Crosse Horticultural
Mr. Kramer outlined grape growing methods from trenching on slopes to soil layering and muck filling. He advised early planting in deep holes, two bud backups, and careful pruning in November and December.
Highland Agricultural Society Reports Silage Feeding Experiments
The Highland Agricultural Society published results from two ensilage experiments. Six bullocks fed on turnips and oat straw averaged 700 pounds 1/4 10 2/3 as calves, while five silage fed averaged 700 pounds 1/4 18 2/5. By May 12 turnip fed averaged 800 pounds 1/4 2 1/2, silage fed 800 8 2/4 12. June 17 weights were 800 2 8 and 800 8 3/4. the silage group remained ahead. In August dressed carcasses averaged 39 stone 7 pounds for turnip and cats fed group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Higkland Agricultural Society
Stock and Dairy Notes and Farming Wisdom
Btock and Dairy Notes presents stock feeding guidance from Farm Journal and Phil Thrifton on cattle hogs and horses. It covers feeding, housing, and care to maximize milk, butter, fattening, and early thriving, with emphasis on humane handling and proper delivery for spring pigs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Journal
Phil Thrifton
Poulterer Shares One and a Half Acres Henhouse Setup
Cor. Gatte and Crier reports from a poultry keeper who confined 140 fowls to a 1.5 acre plot with a center henhouse 20 by 16 feet and nine foot posts. He details perches nests, feeding, and care for egg production plus cleanliness and scheduling for meals water and supplements.
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Gatte and Crier
The Reversible Frame Mis at North Manchester Beekeeping
Mr. Howard Acker man of North Manchester Ind argues the reversible frame improves on Langstroth frames and is here to stay. He favors Heddon’s design for simplicity, notes standing frames may hinder reversals, and urges careful use based on season and need.
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Howard A. Ackerman
North Manchester
Ind
American Bee Journal
Mioral Mints Discourse on Beconia Leaves Drying
Mioral Mints notes that beconia leaves brown when exposed to very dry air. Rex varieties are described as poor plants for this condition.
House Plant Care and Rockery Planting Tips
Advice on watering lime to kill earthworms without harming plants and repotting cape jasmine for summer. Methods for avoiding aphids with soapsuds, and tips on camellia nitrogen impact, drought plans, and root action. Propagation by cuttings and seeds, pruning, beheading, and bushy growth. Rockery design using rocks for moisture pockets, water barrels, and groundcover options like Jsese ivy and sedums.
The Housewife Work Cases
Instructions describe making a canvas bag with a lining from a 20 by 7 inch piece of canvas and silk, using six skeins of worsted. Add a bordered cross stitch edge, baste lining, turn edges, and fold the lower third to form a bag with a pocket-like flap secured by two buttons and loops.
Care of the Hair Says English Authority on Brushing
Professor Wilson of England is cited as a hair expert who condemns washing in favor of thorough brushing to improve circulation. He argues cutting hair does not promote growth and warns against common baldness remedies as often ineffective and sometimes harmful. A ammonia lotion and a borax glycerine cooling mix are recommended, with cautious, gentle daily friction for bald spots.
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Wilson
England
Household Help and Craft Tips From Old Goop Remedies
Goop for hiccups uses warmed granulated sugar moistened with vinegar given to infants in small doses with rapid relief. Recipes include vinegared watercress seed flavoring for sauces and celery vinegar. Tips cover pin cushions, varnished paint cleaning with tea leaves, and a piano cover made from canton flannel with bed ticking and briar stitching accents.
Deviled Eggs on Watercress Bed
Boil eggs hard and halve them. Remove yolks and mix with grated cheese fried bread crumbs pepper and fat. Refill whites and arrange on a bed of watercress for a tempting luncheon dish.
Stewed Lamb with Peas and Pepper Butter
Stewed lamb cut into pieces with salt pork and water, simmered until tender, skimmed, then a quart of green peas added and cooked until tender. Season with pepper and butter rolled with flour for final glaze.
Pork Cake Recipe from Salt Pork and Molasses Mix
One pound salt pork chopped fine with no lean or rind is boiled in half a pint of water for two minutes. When cooled, add a cup of molasses, two cups sugar, three eggs, two teaspoonfuls soda, one teaspoon cinnamon, one teaspoon cloves, one allspice, one pound chopped raisins, and flour to make a stiff batter. Bake slowly in a pan loaf.
Green Pea Soup Recipe From Historic Menu
Two quarts green peas boil with four quarts water for two hours while adding fresh boiling water to replace steam. Strain and return liquor to pot. rub peas through a sieve and chop one onion fine. Add a small mint sprig, simmer ten minutes, then thicken with a flour butter roux, season with pepper and salt, and serve with buttered toasted bread sippets.
Macaroni Pudding Recipe Delicacy
A simple macaroni pudding uses broken macaroni milk eggs sugar butter and vanilla. Cook macaroni in water ten minutes then simmer with milk twenty minutes then bake with beaten sugar eggs butter and vanilla until set served with sauce.
Fried Scallops Breaded for Quick Frying
Drain two dozen scallops and season with salt and pepper. Roll in fine bread crumbs then dip in beaten eggs. Coat again in crumbs and lay on a platter without touching. Fry in hot fat in batches until golden, ensuring the fat is hot enough to produce blue smoke from the center.
Land Pirates Exposed Leasing Indian Lands Sparks Debate
Washington to Chicago Tribune reports Gen. Sparks and Gen. McCook catalog illegal fenceings and leases of Indian Territory lands. A list shows hundreds of thousands of acres held by non Indians with nominal rents while Indians are deprived of rightful use and government protection.
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Washington Telegram
Chicago Tribune
Sparks
General Land Office
Lamar
McCook
Colorado
Indian Territory
Rotary of the Interior
United States
Gen
Department of the Interior
Cheyenne
Arapahoe
Hampton H. Denman
Washington, D. C
Kansas State Senate
Edward Fenlon
Leavenworth
Kas
William C. Mallelly
Caldwell
Robert A. Hunter
St. Louis
Albert G. Evans
Lewis L. Briggs
Muscaton
Jesse S. Morrison
Darlington
I. T
Briggs
E. M. Hewins
Cherokee Strip Live-Stock Association of Kansas
Kansas Corporation
Nez Perces
Gen. McCook
Congress
Rapine
Double suicide and murder suicide in Gilson tragedy
In Gilson a schoolteacher Melissa Steepleton and her fiancé Edward Southerland died in a self inflicted chain of events. She took rat poison then to poison herself and died at 5 am. He then shot himself in the head near a timber area after learning of the death. An inquest was held today.
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Galesburg
Gilson
Melissa Steepleton
Edward Southerland
Southerland
Dreamer Beecher Confesses Past Pineapple Theft
Henry Wake Beecher says in dreams he steals like a rascal yet when awake he recalls only apples and melons thefts. The remark contrasts nightly misdeeds with daytime memory, implying a playful self-awareness of his past small thefts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Wake Beecher
Senator Prue Studies Southern Life For Possible Book
The Kansas senator is described as examining Southern scenes and life with the possibility raised that he may write a book based on his observations.
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Prue
Kansas
Ruskin Kinship Ties Highlight Local Heritage
The text notes that Mr. Ruskin's father handled wine as a merchant. His maternal grandmother ran the Old King's 8 Head Tavern at Croydon, and her husband worked as a sailor.
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Mr. Ruskin
Croydon
Publisher B F Hackman joins New Orleans Daily States
B F Hackman once ran the American Register in Washington has become a partner in the New Orleans Daily States Publishing Company.
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B. F. Hackman
The
American Register At
Washington
New Orleans Daily States Publishing Company
New Reprorp Woman Takes Up Cornet Playing
A New Reprorp woman has taken to playing the cornet. The piece mentions the broad question of women's suffering widening as a social theme.
Gardner Claims Uniqueness as World’s Sole Woman Infidel
Hetex Gardner declares herself the only woman in the world who is an infidel. The claim centers on her faith status and personal identity within a controversial context.
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Hetex Gardner
Purity tests for air and a lightweight compound engine
The article describes an oxygen consumption test using alkaline permanganate to gauge air purity. It then details a remarkable 105 pound steel and phosphor bronze engine rated over 20 horsepower at 200 rpm, with claims of 30 horsepower at 500 ft per minute piston speed. It also covers Wood Worker methods to toughen timber by steaming and upsetting, enabling 70 percent compression, and rubberizing/metalizing wood by RUBENNICK processes with multiple chemical baths to produce a moisture resistant metallic finish.
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Warstyyn Axp Coorrn
Rubennick
Anamese as described by a San Francisco Chronicle correspondent
The account portrays Anamese as constitutionally timid and deferential to Chinese and colonial rulers, yet susceptible to coercion by French, sailors, and merchants. It cites fear of foreigners, habitual deception, and brutal mistreatment by overseers and workers, with alleged unpunished killings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tong-Duc
Orient
San Francisco Chronicle
Beaux and Belles of New Guinea and Indian Personal Crises
A vivid 19th century portrait of New Guinea beauty and attire contrasts with grim 1880 1881 Indian crisis reports. Cheyenne captives wounded a cavalry sergeant and rancher, were jailed, and a chained execution spiraled to four suicides in a single cell.
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Montana
New York Sun
Do Not Use Evasions When Called Upon to Do Good
A moral admonition urges honesty in action whether praised or reproached. The exhortation condemns excuses for good deeds and defending bad acts, urging accountability and straightforward conduct. It stresses personal responsibility and integrity in all situations.
Pedestal Fund Promises Statue Welcome to New York Harbor
The article extols a grand statue titled Liberty Enlightening the World to stand at the Bay of New York. It cites supporter Mr. Philip Beers and notes strong generosity from foreign-born residents while recounting prejudice against new schemes. It links a personal illness tale to advocate for the pedestal fund and asserts the project will succeed.
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Newark Harbor
Bay of New York
Philip Beers
Pedestal Fund
Beers
New York
Bright
Warner
Rutter
Central Hudson
Central Hudson Railroad
Willard Parker
Honors to the Secretary of Wyoming by Bill Nye
The piece recalls a former Federal appointee in Wyoming who faced social snubs and suspicion in Cheyenne. Nye notes the West’s stubborn independence, the secretary’s failed glamour, and the need to prove worthiness over years to win acceptance.
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Wyoming
Atlantic
Cheyenne
Justice of the Peace
West
Deadman’s
Bill Nye
What's Next in the Sailor Tale of Tommy and Poll
An elderly sailor educates his son Tommy and his parrot Poll through travel and cheap theater. In San Francisco they attend a Chinese quarter playhouse until a fireworks explosion kills the pair. Poll mutters witty lines as they fade, and the tale ends with the parrot asking What's next.
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Tommy
Poll
Polly
San Francisco
Iselves
Harper’s Magazine
Milwaukee Youth Upsets Proverb With Silver Dollar Feat
The youth in Milwaukee who swallowed a silver dollar has stirred chatter about the old saying that fools and their money are soon parted.
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Milwaukee
Promotion for Rock Island Road General Ticket and Passenger Agent
E St John is appointed assistant to the General Ticket and Passenger Agent to take effect July 1. He has served since 1862 in various ticket office roles and will continue to oversee general ticket and departments. His twenty second anniversary with the Rock Island Road falls Saturday July 4.
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R. R. Cable
Rock Island Road
E. St. John
St. John
General
Quincy and Toledo
Quincy
Ill
Great Western Railroad
Springfield
Chicago and
Rock Island Railway
Pittsburgh Gas Belts and the Richest Subterranean Treasures
Andrew Carnegie discusses the Murraysville gas belt near Pittsburgh with nine wells, noting a six inch pipe venting gas that forms a pillar of fire without smoke. He explains salt water intrusion in the belt, limited success near Pittsburgh, and Prof. Dewar’s view of gas distillation from oil beds, asserting Pittsburgh as a metropolis of subterranean riches.
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Murraysville
Pittsburgh
Marysville
Dewar
Cambridge
Andrew Carnegie
Macmillan’s Magazine
Biography Ethics in Public Life
A reflection from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat on how biographers should treat private papers and sensitive details. It argues for fairness, discretion, and restraint, stressing that not all private material belongs in public biography while preserving the subject’s dignity and audience trust.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Population and Urban Life Facts About London
A historical snapshot lists figures for London including 3,000 horses dying weekly 129,000 paupers in the city 11,000 police maintaining order 120,000 foreigners residing there 10,000 strangers entering daily 9,000 new houses erected yearly 700,000 cats roaming at night 2,000 clergymen preaching Sundays 620 churches serving worshippers 125 daily population increase 38 miles of new streets planned yearly 500,000 dwellings housing residents.
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London
London women enter decoration advising trade among the newly rich
The New York Tribune notes a new London industry as William Morris sisters tour homes advising on decoration. A sensational preacher cries out about virtue in an age of excess, while critics question the impact of restrained fashion and joy.
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London
William Morris
New York Tribune
Wuart
Tophet
Dynamite crimes spark intense indignation and calls for order
George William Curtis argues in Harper's Magazine that dynamite terror in Ireland provokes universal condemnation. He notes the historic ease of building explosives and condemns Irish leaders for not speaking out against the violence. The piece asserts constitutional reform as the proper remedy and defends England as upholding civilization against anarchy.
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Guy Fawkes
London
Carlyle
England
Ireland
George Mason
Mr. Parnell
Parnell
George William Curtis
Harper’s Magazine
Pain Fortitude Tested by Tribes Against Rheumatism
The article notes indigenous tribes like Cherokees Sioux and Comanches show fortitude against pain from rheumatism. It praises Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a safer stronger remedy, claims other treatments such as colchicum veratrum and nux vomica may be dangerous in excess, and argues mineral preparations are inferior to the Bitters for cleansing impurities from blood.
Mrs. Wesley’s Mother Buried in Quiet Burnhill Field Grave
The burial of Mrs. Wesley, mother of John and Charles Wesley, is described at a Burnhill Fields grave on August 1, 1742. She is praised as a Puritan-spirited matriarch who raised nineteen children and inspired devotion in her sons, with John Wesley leading the service and quotes noting the solemnity of the day.
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Burnhill Fields
Wesleys
John
Charles Wesley
John Wesley
John West
Catarrh Remedy Promised Cure by Sage’s Belief
An advertisement extols Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy claiming cures in thousands of cases and urges readers to mail a stamp to the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo New York for a pamphlet on the disease and treatment.
Sydney Smith Anecdote on soap and thrift
A quoted anecdote by Sydney Smith describes testing soap quality by price. He notes servants prefer dearer blue paper soap, believing it washes better, leading him to switch to the pricier option and save money annually. Betty’s choice underscored perceived value and thrift.
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Smith
Betty
Cure of Consumption Claimed Without Physician
An advertisement claims cure for weak lungs and consumption without a physician. It instructs sending two stamps to WORLD's DisPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION in Buffalo, New York. The piece also notes a comparison between a vain young lady and a confirmed drunkard in their insatiable desire for the glass.
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World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo
N. Y
Grand Union Hotel Promises Comfort and Value in NYC
When entering or leaving New York City travelers should note the Grand Union Hotel near Grand Central Depot. It offers 600 elegant rooms at low daily rates with elevator and restaurant service, plus stage and rail access to all depots. Families can live better for less money than at other first class hotels.
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New York City
Anal Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Grand Union
Gault House Hotel Ad Promises First Class Rooms
A Chicago hotel advertisement touts the Gault House at Clinton and Madison offering first class accommodations for two dollars to two fifty per day. Located one block from Union Depot, the hotel features elevator service and full amenities under Hart and Gates, proprietors.
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Gealt
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