Birthday Horse Outbreak At Wigglesworth Farm
Mrs Wigglesworth celebrates her birthday with Ellery’s gift a tall sorrel horse. The horse causes chaos at Sawyer's barn pulling a basket, scattering clothes, and lifting Ellery into the air. By dawn the pair face a tense scene as the horse strains the halter and suspender while the wife and husband debate how to proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Wigglesworth
Mrs. Wigglesworth
Ellery
Wigglesworth
Mark
Wwen
Mr. “Wigglesworth
Wiggiesworth
A Famous Wall and Its Vast Span Across China
The history of China spans dynasties like Egypt. Chehwang-ie began the Great Wall in 240 B.C. to guard the northern frontier. It rises two thick earth filled walls with granite foundations and towers spaced every hundred yards. Recent survey data claim heights near eighteen feet and lengths around thirteen hundred miles. The wall traverses mountains plains rivers and marshes and could encircle the globe with two walls two feet thick and seven feet high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Egypt
Chehwang-ie
Union Pacific Eyes Electric Switch Lamps Across System
The Union Pacific contemplates replacing oil switch lamps with electric lights on its system. If adopted, Omaha, Council Bluffs, Columbus, and North Platte yards may be equipped, making UP the first U S railroad to electric switch lamps. The plan follows demonstrations in Chicago and suggests lower cost and brighter, less maintenance than oil lamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific
Huntington
Chicago
Omaha
Council Bluffs
Columbus
North Platte
United States
Curious Facts From The Times Of The World
A collage of short notes cites wonders from Man cos cliff dwellings in Colorado to a Kent beech trees painting sold for 1400 dollars. It mentions paper telegraph poles, a quarry blast near Providence, a Norwich garden strangling wsp, finger print uniqueness by Galton, and a German report on flexible glass made from gun cotton and resinous oil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Mancos
Colorado
Kent
Providence
R. I
George D. Colt
Norwich
Galton
Liquid manure proves superior for quick plant gains
Farm guides compare liquid manure to coarse barnyard manure, noting quicker plant uptake and higher yields. An Iowa Experiment Station trial found 82.02 bushels per acre with liquid manure versus 50.06 with ordinary barnyard manure, while rain and weather exposure waste much of the liquid in piles unless captured and reused.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B Barrett
Iowa Experiment Station
Keeping Dairy Herd Records Pays Off for Profits
The Missouri Experiment Station outlines six reasons to keep dairy herd records. Benefits include weeding out unprofitable animals, predicting calf quality, selecting efficient feeders, raising herd value and sale prices, studying individual animal traits, and enabling rational feeding to prevent wasteful practices.
Rainfall chart nudges Michigan potato planting dates
Michigan Department of Agriculture releases a rainfall guide for potato growers across counties. The analysis notes that planting timing, soil prep, and moisture conservation affect yields, recommending earlier sowing in April or two to three weeks after May 20 to align tuber formation with cooler, rainier periods in August and September. For northern Michigan the text ends abruptly.
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Department of Agriculture of
Michigan
Drought Timing and Rainfall Explain Northern Potato Success
The chart shows drought arrives in July when harm to crops is lower, and rainfall is heavier in fall months in the northern area. This pattern may help explain why the northern region excels in potato growing.
Planting and cultivating methods for strawberries
A Rural World writer shares summer planting failures and praise for Planet Jr. tools, urging early and thorough weeding, careful hoeing, and smart spacing. He recommends three by five feet as a base, with a matting plan to produce large berries, warns against close matting, and predicts high returns from well-spaced, vigorous plants.
Red Dutch Currant readers’ opinions sought for value
Farmers' Review invites reader responses on Red Dutch Currant. Questions cover growth duration soil type bearing vigor hardiness disease resistance drought tolerance yearly cultivation pruning fertilizing and uses for jelly and table quality plus market value.
Fruit Growers for Market in England Foreseen
The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society features Mr. Lee Campbell advocating home fruit supply to curb dependence on foreign foods. He stresses soil climate suitability for apples plums and other hardy fruit, warns amateurs, and predicts future fruit growers must be well trained with secure tenure and fair compensation. The piece cites his Orchard visit in 1894 and argues bush trees outperform standards.
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England
The
Royal Agricultural Society
Lee Campbell
Glenston Court
Lee- Campbell
Campbell
Mr. Campbell
Gardener's Magazine
Our Wit and Humor from a Dusty Train Scene
A fragment from Texas Sittings features comic dialogue about a surprise on a Pullman car, college mischief, and a dust nuisance joke. It hints at social cost and public perception, with characters debating money, propriety, and embarrassment in a playful tone.
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Texas
Explicit Train Time Laughs at the Station Patrol
A passenger pesters a special officer about a train time, repeating the schedule five times. The clerk remains firm, declaring the train departs at 4 40 this afternoon from track No 3 with five minutes warning before departure. The would be traveler finally shuts up.
Precocious Little Ones and the Fauntleroy Effect
A mother recalls her children adopting naughty phrases after watching Little Lord Fauntleroy. She asks why young minds imitate mischief and notes the contrast between the hero’s virtue and the kids’ slang learned from the play. The anecdote cites a Boston Herald quote about Dick the bootblack.
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Ethel
Harold
Lord Fauntleroy
Cully
Mamma
Bootblack
Boston Herald
Tip for porter over a shoe shine mix up
In a humorous exchange on a Pullman car a porter exclaims Half a dollar bless me, missus, I weiter had a lady to gib me a tip belo. The lady passenger responds with sweetness about not blacking her patent leather shoes and mentions wearing No 6, fearing a mistake.
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Pullman Porter
Missus
Texas Siftings
American Horses in England Heads for London Sale
John A. Logan Jr plans an July London trip with fifty horses 15.3 hands or taller all solid bay or brown and at least fifteen matched pairs. No animal slower than 2.30, stylish with fine action. Logan expects strong interest and high prices abroad. Also notes on breathing therapy and a children’s dialogue about the Merrimac.
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England
John A. Logan, Jr
London
Logan
Rex
Witty Fragments and Banter Across Newspapers
A collage of short quips and jokes from various papers. Dialogue snippets feature taxes, debts, humor about sheep and lambs, bicycle dreams, counting to twelve, church choir rivalries, blasphemous language, and shop banter. The items showcase humorous exchanges and light satire across multiple publications.
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Somerville Journal
Charles
Yonkers Statesman
Jimmy
Timmy Grogan
Mickey
Indianapolis Journal
Johnny
Harper’s Round Table
Riley
Harper's Bazar
Simpson
Tammany Times
Jones
Boston Globe
Harlem
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J. A. Sampson
Chili
South America
Argentine Republic
Uruguay
Herr Anwandter
Valdivia
Great Britain
Buttons
Canada
Manitoba
J. Pearce
Nebraska
Ontario
Pullman Palace
Topapa
Japan
Salter
Joan A. Salter
Jardin Des Plantes
Paris
Prince Bismarck
Hood’s
John Carle & Sons
New York
Tommy
Hitch
Emerson
Columbia
POPE /IFG. CO
Hartford
Boston
Curgaca
San Francisco
Providenge
Buffalo
Selb Solisiters
MFU. CO
Louisiana
Does Moines Windmill & T. Co
Des Moines
Ens Poo
Morris
Washington, D.C
Taree Keelay
Syrs
Parker
Wever
Davis & Rankin
MFG. CO
Tennessee
Alabama
Virginia
State
Ezoo
McCormion
A Martin
Cincinnati, Ohio
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