Ostrich Plumes Sweep American Fashion Boom
Investors who moved ostrich farming from Africa to the United States celebrate rising demand and profits. American farms in Pasadena Jacksonville and Phoenix supply most plumes as society women adorn hats with long ostrich feathers. Feathers fetch high prices, with birds valued at about 800 dollars a pair and each yielding around sixty dollars annually. The feed is modest, farms of a few hundred acres suffice, and nine tenths of future plumes may come from domestic flocks.
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Africa
United States
Fey
Gainsboronga
Fawhion
Pasadena
Jacksonville
Phoenix
Dwner
Uncle Sam
Origin of the Kiss Earliest Worm The Caress of Ancient Indians
A Yale professor reports at the American Oriental Society that the kiss originated in ancient India as a sniff and head touch. He argues the genuine kiss was invented by a woman, tracing evolution from sniff kiss to caress and eventual adult display. Some peoples never kiss. Mongolians, certain Central Asian tribes, and Esquimaux use it variably.
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American Oriental Society
Hopkins
Yale
India
Orientaliat
Prof. Hopkins
Central Asia
Esquimaux
Bonora
Sniff kiss mystery ends without reappearance
A cryptic phrase from the Philadelphia North American hints at a vanished parent and child scenario with the sniff kiss as a focal clue. The text implies a family involved in a long standing kissen problem without clarity on outcomes or identities.
American Club banquet highlights agriculture and exports in 1906
At the Ameri cas Club banquet in Pittsburg speakers praised agriculture as a creative force. James Wilson cited 1906 farm output of 6.704 million dollars, 44 percent up from the prior census, and total exports valued at 1.718 billion, with farm and forest products comprising 72 percent. He noted tobacco and tobacco products, cotton, grain, and forest goods as major export sectors and described farm demonstrations to improve soil use and tobacco production in several states.
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Americas Club
Pittsburg
T. 8
Grant
Agrulture
James Wilso
Grant Mouser
Ohio
Washington Gardner
Michigan
Wilson
Cuba
Sumatra
Porto Rico
Mediterranean
Connecticut Valley
Florida
Alabama
Texas
United States
Appendicitis Declared Unfashionable in High Society
A satirical column mocks social vanity as appendicitis is deemed unfashionable. It cites physicians noting fewer operations, nurses calling it passé, and laundries influencing fashion more than medicine. The piece blames elites for seeking new ailments to preserve status. A playful nod to spring remedies ends the riff.
Deborning Chute and Spraying Notes From The Montreal Star
A degraded OCR page discusses a dehorning chute with hinged rear doors for cattle, construction details, and operation steps. It also cites R A Everson's spray recommendations for year, outlining Bordeaux mixtures, arsenate of lead, and timing from bud stage to late summer, plus bean cultivation tips and pole support for the Dina bean crop.
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Deborning
An Ani
Montreal Star
R. A. Everson
Nebraska Experiment Station
The Small Garden and Farm Stock Notes
A short treatise on small gardens showing pleasures beyond profit and the kinds of crops to grow from onions to cabbage. Advice on improving dairy stock with pure sires, cross breeding, and cost benefits. Also describes a wagon box lifting device and guidance on keeping a productive family cow, plus sheep transit care and triple decked car options.
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Northwest
Death and deeds through history in The Weekly Historian
The Weekly Historian lists centuries of events, ranging from ancient battles and explorers to early American milestones and modern political shifts. It includes Moorish and European campaigns, the founding of the Hudson Bay Company, the Crown Jewels incident, and a mix of political, scientific, and social notes.
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the Weekly
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New World
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Society of the Cincinnatic Organid
Woalter Colton
California
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Rutland
John Marshall
Virginia
George
Town
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Legure
South Carolina
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Mexico
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Washington
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Canada
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Mont Pelee
Martinique
Snyder
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Oparstory
W. Tl. Moody
Bland Bork Bor
United States Supreme Court
Charles Law Willa
Kent
Rigland
Lin Rill
J. P Nenetti
M. Py
College Givisten
Dinklin
Freeman’s Journal
George ‘Coulleye
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