Locket of Light and a Square Boy Becomes Family Bond
Stub, a newsboy, finds a gold locket with a vivid diamond during an extry. He pursues the car carrying an elderly man, returns the item, and learns the tale of a father and a mother’s teaching to act square. The man reunites with Stub, who then moves to a lakeside cottage with a new family.
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Jimmy Hobbs
Stub
Jimmy
Perett
Sinb
Disbro
Stanley Disbro
Shadow Land
Lake Shore
Gran
Chicago Record- Herald
Humming Birds in This Country
A New York Evening Post note describes hummingbird distribution in the United States. It notes seven species resident here, ten Mexican migrants, and one wintering in California. The rufous backed hummer travels from Alaska to Mexico, a journey over 2,000 miles.
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United States
California
Mexico
Alaska
New York
Hyening -Post
Making a Permanent Pasture
A farm guidance piece argues abandoning poor pasture for a new field. It recommends a mixed perennial seeding of red clover Alsike clover bluegrass orchardgrass meadow fescue redtop and timothy with September sowing and specific soil amendments. The procedure includes buckwheat humus, fertilizer, rolling, and delaying cattle turnout until year two.
Farm Visits Benefit Drainage and Stock Practices
A farmer is advised to tour other farms to learn about underdrains and root preservation. Such visits provide practical hints, refresh perspective, and can prove affordable by revealing better methods. A day spent visiting top farms leads to broader knowledge and success in farming.
Longfellow Bush Bean Described For Market Gardener Use
The Longfellow bush bean is praised as ideal for market gardeners with six to seven inch pale green pods free of inner skin and early season ripening. The piece also notes general causes of egg infertility in poultry and stresses varied diet and careful flock management for fertility. It urges visiting successful farmers to learn practical methods and emphasizes on farm-based study for better results.
Milk Stool That Won’t Upset Invented For Easy Milk Handling
A description explains a unique milk stool with legs spread over a wide area to prevent tipping. The design uses a pine seat 12 inches by 1 1/2 inches, with slanted bored holes. Old broomsticks are cut to fit, inserted, then trimmed to the desired length for stability.
Wasteful Swill Barrels and Farm Storage Discussions
The article discusses the harm of swill barrels feeding pigs with waste from milk, dishwater, and food scraps, noting hog disease risks and unwholesome fermentation. It also covers cold storage on farms, cooperative plans for fruit and vegetable storage, and the growth of live stock exports since 1850s, including dressed beef in refrigerator ships.
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England
Toronto
Canada
Clipped Work Horse Improves Sweat and Cleanliness
A Michigan Farmer note from two summers of clipping a work horse. The clipped horse sweats far less, hair stays neat, and he stays cleaner, saving grooming time and improving work performance.
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Michigan
Pruning Guidelines for Raspberries and Blackberries
The guide advises trimming young raspberry and blackberry canes to three feet and shortening laterals as they grow. Pinching with fingernails damages fingers when many bushes exist. using shears or a sharp sickle is recommended for efficiency.
Oatmeal Diets and Dyspepsia in Diet Advice
A Leslie's Weekly excerpt criticizes half cooked oatmeal mush and soft bread as major causes of dyspepsia in Americans and Scots. It suggests hard bread and vegetables with moderate meat in rural France as healthier fare and warns that soft hot bread burdens the stomach like a lead pill.
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France
Leslie’s Weekly
Apple Cake Recipe Steps and Apple Topping
A vintage style recipe details mixing flour baking powder salt and butter with eggs and milk to form a thick batter. The batter is spread in tins to half inch thickness then layered with tart apples pressed in rows and brushed with butter sugar and cinnamon before baking and dusting with sugar.
Method to prepare stuffed eggs served in cups
Boil eggs for thirty minutes until dry and mealy. Split near one end, remove yolks to form a base, mash yolks finely, mix with chopped meat or deviled ham and butter or oil, form into balls, place in egg cups on rye rounds and serve.
Fresh Butter and Strawberry Tartlets from Practical Recipes
Practical kitchen notes describe making fresh unsalted butter with milk temperature, ice water rinsing, and wooden tools. Also includes strawberry tartlets with puff paste shells, pink meringue, berries, whipped cream, and related desserts like strawberry sponge and prune souffle with simple steps and cooling on ice.
President McKinley and Reciprocity Policy
The Omaha Bee asserts McKinley strongly supports reciprocity as defined by the Republican platform of 1900. He opposes any form that harms home production or American workers. The American Economist backs his stance and notes a shift toward negotiating treaties to expand foreign markets.
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Omaha Bee
McKinley
Bee
Pacific Coast
Charles A. Moore
American Protective Tariff League
Our Greatest Year and Prosperity in Trade
A summary of optimistic economic figures from 1898 to 1901, noting a U S export record of 1.5 billion dollars and self trade totaling over 100 billion via bank clearings. The piece praises protection and prosperity, cites figures from American Economist, and highlights praise from Senator Foraker and observers on vacation days amid strong industry, railroads, and wages. It also mentions New York retail giants with thousands of workers and mail order departments within large department stores.
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Uncle Sam
Johnny Bull
Czar
Emperor Willam
Uncle 8Am
John Bull
Sam
Ohio
Senator Foraker
New York
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