Dairying and Farming Tips From Historic Alfalfa Guides
Agricultural guidance discusses sunflowers, sheep, cows, and hogs with alfalfa as key feed. Notes soil depth for plowing, grain-fed pigs failing expenses, heat stress on cows, and fruit and berry pests. Emphasizes clean hay, disease-free seed potatoes, bush fruits, and proper manure use for hog nutrition.
Farm Advice From an Old Agriculture Column
Practical notes on farm hygiene and animal care cover cleanliness in dairying and poultry yards, silage benefits for milk, feeding mixes for chicks, reproduction considerations for geese, ducks and lambs, soil management with straw and manure, and cautions against overwatering ducks. It links crop care from potato fields to alfalfa and cow peas, with emphasis on cost efficiency and careful fertilization.
The Bloody Staircase of Moscow and Its Cruel Czars
A vivid chronicle of the Kremlin’s bloody staircase where Ivan the Terrible and Sophia the regent enacted atrocities. The narrative ties coronation routes to executions, palace intrigues, and the brutal rituals that defined early Romanov power along the famed steps and gates.
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St. Basil
Synod Palace
Ivan
Czar
Caesar
Sophia
Krasndia
Walla
Moskva
Moujik
Samuel Loyd Puzzles Maker Dies in Brooklyn Home
Samuel Loyd eminent puzzle expert and inventor of the Fifteen Puzzle died at his Brooklyn residence. Born 1841 in Philadelphia he shaped popular brainteasers from Pigs in Clover to The Donkey and influenced math education. Survived by widow son and two daughters.
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Samuel Loyd
Philadelphia
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Brooklyn Whist Club
Samuel Loyd, Jr
The First Woman Mayor in Argonia and Hunnewell
The piece recalls Susanna Salter, elected Argonia Kansas mayor in 1887 for one year, as the world’s first woman mayor. It notes her suffragette stance, views on women in policing, and a sugar policy she used to smooth council friction.
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Susanna Salter
Argonia
Kan
Topeka
Wilson
Hunnewell
Salter
de. Wilson
War on Phossy Jaw Prompts Labor Legislation Push
Washington reports the 1909–1910 inquiry by the American Association for Labor Legislation and the U.S. Bureau of Labor on phossy jaw among match workers. The piece notes high exposure, gruesome jaw bone decay, costly surgical cures, and advocates a prohibitive tax to curb white phosphorus use amid substitutes like sesquisulphide of phosphorus. The Diamond Match Company’s patent transfers and monopoly concerns are mentioned as part of the policy debate.
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Washington
American Association For Labor Legislation
United States Bureau of Labor
America
Bulletin 86
Bureau of Labor
Diamond Match Company
California Pioneer Finally to Receive 60-Year-Delay Claim
A. G. Lafferty, 82, a Trinity county veteran of the 1851 Indian outbreak under Captain Liscom, will be recon densed by California for mules and supplies advanced to soldiers. After 60 years his claim was repeatedly blocked by legislatures and vetoed by the governor. He lost fortune, was crippled losing an arm, and his house recently burned. The $1,000 grant has no interest.
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San Francisco
Cal
A. G. Lafferty
California
Alaska's Fishing Industry and Its Growth
Alaska's fishing industry second only to mining for jobs, employing 12,588 people of which 2,823 are natives. In five years salmon wealth reached 43,000,600 dollars. The 1910 total fish output was worth 11,181,388 dollars.
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Alaska
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