Uncle Sam's wars and a Utah irrigation bulletin
A historical list outlines major U S wars with dates and troop totals including the Revolution, Mexican War, War of 1812, Civil War and Indian Wars. It notes troop counts and battle counts, then summarizes a 1894 Utah Experiment Station bulletin on Seepage Water and the Underflow of Rivers with preliminary irrigation findings and calls for long term measurements to avoid disputes.
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Great Britain
Florida
United States
Tripoli
Utah Experiment Station
Ogden
Weber
Shrinkage of Corn Observed by McCormick Estate Farmers Club
In 1893 the McCormick Estate Farmers Club tested corn shrinkage from husking time to June 1st. Ten farmers reported 8 percent loss from Nov 1 to Feb 1 and 7 percent from Feb 1 to June 1, totaling 16.4 percent. A 1894 trial used 70 pounds of corn ears, yielding 7.6 percent loss to Feb 1 and 8.6 percent to June 1, confirming 16.5 percent total shrinkage. The results suggested a husking time bushel could yield about as well as a future June harvest.
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McCormick Estate Farmers’Club
Corner Tea Table Exhibit at London Home Arts Show
A Royal patronage Home Arts and Industrial Association exhibit features a corner table by two school pupils. The piece combines leather embossing, brass work by a washerwoman, and a coalheaver’s brass screen. Built by one young man and carved by another, it showcases beauty, unique design, and space efficient folding leaf for tea service.
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London
Home Arts and Industrial Association
Donts of Dress and Inventions in a Textile Loom
A compilation of fashion cautions on quality over quantity, avoiding frumps and mismatched trims, plus a description of Japanese coiffure milestones and a rising loom invention that feeds bobbins automatically. Also includes a tomato stuffing recipe, moral maxims on love and pain, and a quote about insults in relationships.
Fighting chinch bugs reshapes Kansas fields across states
Prairie farmers battle chinch bugs as dry spells drive pests from cut wheat into corn. Insect control methods range from coal oil trenches to Chancellor Snow’s bacilli infection program, with thousands of boxes sent and stations set up to spread disease among bugs. The effort aims to protect corn yields and offset potential losses from widespread damage.
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Kansas
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Snow
State University
Missouri
Oklahoma
Great People Shrink Then Cooked Tur nips Recipe Request
A witty anecdote contrasts a modest New York woman with the aloof Mrs Goggles who asks for her turnip recipe. An English tourist party of 75 travels from Moscow to Nizhni Novgorod and Kazan, marking a rare large foreign visit through famine era Russia.
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New York
Mrs. Goggles
Russia
Moscow
Nizhni Novgorod
Kazan
No Secret By Mrs Pinkham Relief From Dropsy And Prolapse
Mary E Campbell of Albion Noble County Indiana suffered severe dropsy and womb prolapse with bloated stomach and face. After weak relief from other medicines she used Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and improved enough to walk across the street. The letter urges others to try the remedy.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Marky E.campbell
Albion, Noble Co
Diverse News Snapshots Across Europe and London Society
O11 is pumped to lighthouses on the Denmark coast during storms while Wales shows eighty five percent speaking the old language. Berlin Society opens a global plant and drug discovery center. La Pariss extra argues Cuba's freedom and union with Mexico. A Rome paper promotes Christian socialism and clerical reforms. London hosts weekly street collections and a claim of Irish giant remains at a rail station. London hospitals served 1,695,276 people last year with one third seeking free care. A Christlike temperance hotel advertises aiding the kingdom, and a police case concerns a woman serving liquor to an officer on duty.
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Denmark
Wales
Berlin Pharmaceutical Society
la Parris
Mexico
Cuba
Spain
Republic of Mexico
Rome
London
Loxton
Wdman
Batych
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British Association
Japan
Hood's
Secret
Charles Eugene Banks
Chicago
Alonzo Huntley
Morley, Mich
Council Bluffs
Bprton
D. B. Cooer
Niles
Mich
W. Hl. Wallace
Hammondsville
Joan IlAut
Portland
Cumberland County
Respecca Mino
Mendham
N. J
Laya
Stromme
Samuel M Peck
Boston Transcript
Lady Fair
Lady Gay
Coquette Fair
Earth
China
Imperial Canal of
State Department
Ottoman Empire
Lithgow
Bagdad
Aleppo
Metropolis
M. M. Brewster
Montgomery
Ala
Bradfield Regulatory O
Atlanta
U. S
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Sting
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Mall Order
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Boggs & Buhl
Allegheny. PA
Cleveland World
Robert P. Porter
America
the World
Cleveland
Grand Gentra Hotel
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Andrew Schwartz
West State Street
Cavitel
Colummba,orio
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