Mount Sinal Located Report From Berlin Academy
Prof. Dr. Al Musil of Damascus reports to Berlin's Academy of Science that Halal-Bedr in Hedja northern Arabia may be the real Mt. Sinal of Holy Script. The extinct volcano is identified as the biblical site of the Ten Commandments revelation to Moses amid debate and speculation.
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Academy of Science At
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al Musil
Damascus
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Halal-Bedr
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Ambiguous Sign Trifles in Butcher Shop Exchange
A humorous scene unfolds as Sir James Butler recalls a butcher shop miscommunication. A customer asks for two boys and a girl, the clerk mishears, and the manager clarifies with a joke about not keeping such items. The exchange highlights language confusion and a shop’s plain policy.
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James Butler
Cable lore and odd tales from an era
World cables mostly made in America with vast lengths of wire, a 1857 first. A sea depth and ship pace note rounds to hours before landing. A Budapest hospital marriage ends with a death an hour later. Greek head coverings vary by class and era. A private shaving cup cap uses a sealing paper to prevent reuse.
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America
Earth
Moon
Budapest
Erdos
Frankfort
Germany
Wrdos
Warning to the Doctor on Adenoid Surgery Advice
A medical review cautions physicians against advising parents about a child’s impaired nasal respiration a year after adenoid removal. The note stresses careful communication, avoiding unnecessary recommendations, and ensuring accurate assessment before suggesting further procedures.
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Neal
Summer Sleeping Room Curtain Trends in Inexpensive Fabrics
Japanese crinkler crepe and cotton arts and crafts striped patterns offer affordable curtain options for summer sleeping rooms. Unon crash 48 inches wide comes in various tones with simple machine hemming. Imported marquise, white piques with colored borders, silks, foulards, and Swiss muslin embroidered curtains provide appealing summer bedroom options.
Household tips on laundering and floors from an old guide
The article offers practical advice on laundry care including using White soap, avoiding soaking, and proper wringing. It also discusses carpet care with salt and turpentine, ironing advice, and floor options from cork to linoleum to cement, noting durability, cleanliness, and cost considerations.
To Make Good Coffee and Miscellaneous Kitchen Tips
A collection of household hints on coffee strength with hot milk instead of water to enrich the brew. Also recipes for Sweet Pickled Peaches and Pears, Baked Potato Balls, and a method to mend thin white dress fabrics using powdered starch and heat to create an invisible repair.
Crisp ginger snaps from old home recipe
A nostalgic baking instruction describes a ginger snap mix using two thirds cup butter one cup sugar and molasses one teaspoon soda dissolved in hot water half teaspoon ginger and flour to form a pliant dough. Roll small pieces into balls place five inches apart and bake in a hot oven. If they spread add more flour.
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Baker's
Keep Poultry House Clean and Prosper by Simple Methods
An Oregon writer argues that cleanliness is the key to profitable poultry raising. He emphasizes simple, practical methods over fancy contraptions, noting that good food and clean quarters reduce winter egg problems. He shares his experience discarding elaborate roost ideas in favor of practical, low-labor practices.
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Dennis H. Stovall
Oregon
Northwest
Hen house improvement for easy cleaning and hygiene
The design features three foot high, long troughs that hold at least a dozen fowls each, arranged side by side for cleanliness. Boxes are removable for thorough cleaning with lime, emulsion, or lye, and a smooth board floor aids sanitation. The house is cleaned twice weekly and old straw is burned.
Cure for Droopy Poultry From Bacon Grease Treatment
A 19th century farming note prescribes dipping droopy poultry in warm water with melted bacon grease to loosen feathers, hasten molting, and kill vermin. Fowls are dipped head down twice, then released, dried in shade, with repeated grease additions to the water. Early fall dipping aids winter resilience.
Why Eggs Don’t Hatch Explained
Two main causes discussed are excessive mating with one male bird and delaying setting eggs too long. The yolk softens when old, preventing germination. Express shipping also harms eggs by heat from tight packing and long exposure in cars and warm conditions.
Brooding Tips For Chick Health And Feed Mix
A brief poultry note advises that excess kindness harms chicks more than other causes. It recommends exercising chicks to stay healthy, using a third cracked cane seed in feed, and adding clean sand to the brooder floor daily to reduce bowel issues.
Lemon Curd Pudding Plan Reads Like Fragments
The text outlines a short crust pastry plan and a pudding mixture with bread crumbs and milk. It lists butter and lemon, but the instructions are garbled leaving an incomplete recipe and unclear quantities.
Vermin Growth in Warm Weather and Poultry Hygiene
Vermin multiply faster in warm conditions affecting henhouses brooders and coops. Recommend thorough disinfection with squid disinfectant and dusting fowls and chicks with lice powder to control infestation.
Watering Tank for Fowls Inventor Merrill’s automatic system
P D Merrill of Chicago describes a ceiling mounted watering tank for fowls. A half inch pipe runs to a water dish, with a tin can float linked to a lever. Water rise lifts the float, moving the opposite lever end to lower or raise the dish via a cord and an upstairs control lever.
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P. D. Merrill
Chicago
Automatic Valve Regulates Water Supply for Fowla Dish
A supply tank uses a top feed valve with a coil spring to hold the valve open when the watering dish is low. Water flows in until the float rises, then the valve closes, stopping flow until the dish lowers again.
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Fowla
Late Hatch Eggs For Continuous Fall and Winter Supply
Late hatches can succeed with proper care despite heat and insects. Set hens or incubator in August to hatch in September when weather cools and pests lessen. Early fall chicks mature quickly and suit winter, spring use. Pullets may lag a bit this winter but will lay next spring and through next summer, ensuring year round egg production with fall-hatched birds.
Brooder House Made Handy for Poultry Keepers
A handy coop design from Farm and Home lets builders create brooders from 2x3 to 4x5 feet or larger. The small version suits a hen and brood, while bigger sizes accommodate more birds, reflecting a convenient poultry housing solution.
Brooder Colony House to Sow New Ground Weekly
A brooder will hold and accommodate four flocks of 100 chicks. The yard should be divided into three sections using 1x2 or 1x3 inch strips with one inch mesh wire netting. If covered with wire netting, the setup is protected from cuts and intruders. The coop and house must be moved to fresh ground weekly.
Breast Is Main Thing in Market Fowl Demand
Article notes that breast quality drives market value while skin color is secondary unless buyers demand yellow skin. Poultrymen must adapt to market preferences without challenging them. Also discusses the impossibility of determining an egg's sex before hatching, suggesting a hatch-and-wait method to identify roosters.
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Mapes
Getting Most Money From Poultry Care and Feeding
The article argues that profitability comes from well cared for poultry rather than quantity. It states twenty hens properly fed and housed yield more income than a hundred poorly fed birds, emphasizing food and labor in poultry management.
Molting season prompts poultry house improvements
The note warns that warm weather accelerates vermin growth and stresses filth as a major profit killer. It urges farmers to inspect ventilation and cleanliness, especially when hens seek unusual roosting spots, and to correct inefficiencies in chick or fowl care to prevent disease and poor thrift.
Aunt Jenny's Johnny Cake Do It Yourself Recipe
A recipe from the Chicago Tribune outlines Aunt Jenny's Johnny Cake using milk buttermilk salt soda and meal with butter. It instructs kneading rolling baking on a heated board set at an angle, brushing with butter three times, browning and cutting into squares, and notes Virginia water ground meal is preferred over northern cornmeal.
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Chicago Tribune
The Hunting Parson and Other Old News Snips
A collage of stray quotes and dated notes from the era includes the Rev Lawrence Capel Cure known as the hunting parson of Abbess Roding. Also snippets on peach canning methods, eye hair removal tips, and an aside about Cabole wood. The piece quotes the London Evening Standard and mentions high priced Africa teaklike wood.
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Lawrence Capel Cure
Abbess Roding
West Essex
London Evening Standard
Africa
St. Thomas
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