Various World Notes On Economics War And Society
A compilation notes economic questions including milk prices and grain feeds, school savings in Norristown, fur farming in Siberia, tea consumption in Europe, housing life expectancy by floor level, US public and private debt totals, royal workload, German aid to the Transvaal, Feeney the engineer in Lincoln’s inauguration era, French Madagascar expedition deaths, ship command evolution, Hungary’s millennium celebration and Budapest exhibition efforts.
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George W. Feeney
Philadelphi, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
Abraham Lincoln
Washington
Garfield
Feeney
Philadelphia
Madagascar
Majunga
Distilling Peppermint Oil From Field to Market
The article explains peppermint distilling on small farms near St. Joseph Michigan with simple equipment costing 25 to 50 dollars. It describes steam distillation, separation in a tin separator, and yield of ten to twenty pounds per acre with oil priced high in markets. It notes other oils from wormwood sassafras sage and the Tennessee mountains.
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St. Joseph
Mich
Tennessee
Southern Ochre Poultice In The Booth
Ochre is plentiful in the Booth and used to make poultices with drawing powers stronger than mustard. The ochre is boiled until soft, a lump of lard to prevent sticking, then spread between cloths with muslin and applied to the ache.
Savannah Population and Area Snapshot
Savannah in five square miles supports a population of 62,107. This compact city density highlights urban planning needs and local demographics.
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Savannah
My Wee Maid of Four by A L Packard
A poem praising a four year old girl with laughing eyes auburn hair and rosy cheeks. The speaker imagines heavenly light guiding her, night prayers for purity, and a wish she grows into a virtuous woman under divine care.
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Maid of Four
A. L. Packard
A Garden Chatfinch Friendship With Nesting Birds
A aunt and I befriended a mate chatfinch and its mate in our garden. The birds approached closely, shared biscuit crumbs, perched on chairs and shoulders, and guided us on walks. The parents raised three fledglings at a window ledge before returning to the nest. We lost touch after three months away.
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Chapfingh
Chattineh
Tamerabin
Pye
Life Beneath Snow Reveals Hidden Field Mouse Habitats
John Burroughs describes winter life under deep snow where warmth rises from earth, awakening field mice and shrews. Mice form underground tunnels and winter colonies, shielded from predators, while other species forage near icy ground. Spring exposes their frozen maps of tunnels across meadows.
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John Burroughs
Streat
Spring Arrival From a Burrow Driven by Hunger
A retiree burrowing creatures tale hints at spring as the old animal emerges in April after October retreats. He probes the snow for the surface, finds bare fields, and notes the first signs of plant life like plantain or clover sprouting, signaling seasonal change.
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Chuck
Primeval Kitchen Among Italians at Dobbs Ferry Camp
A Press reporter describes Italians working on the New York Central Railroad and at the Ardsley Casino grounds near Dobbs Ferry New York. They gather acorns ground into flour and used as coffee substitutes. They cook on a fire in a thatched hut, bake black bread, make soup, and roast calves heads. They spend nights around fires, consuming alcohol and smoking, with plentiful firewood from recent tree removals in Ardsley Park.
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New York Central
Dobbs Ferry
N. Y
Millionaires’ Club
Ardstey
Ardsley Park
The Hottest Region on Earth Near Persian Gulf
A report describes a furnace like zone on the southwestern Persian coast between July and August with temperatures above 100 degrees and up to 130 degrees. In Bahrein, divers called machadores bring life sustaining water from deep gulf springs, filling goatskin sacks by underwater jets without mixing salt water, a mysterious source traced to Osmond hills hundreds of miles away.
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Persia
Kabrein
Bahrein
Gulf
Osmond
Unfortunate Gift Spurs Stranger Trade Tale
A Baltimore knight recounts buying a baby carriage to taunt two rival merchants in Maryland. One rival, a bachelor, faced mockery over twins gifted to his neighbor. The other, a married trader, learned another man received a carriage, provoking similar anger. The narrator admits he cannot untangle the entangled mischief.
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C. E. Jameson
Baltimore
Gripsack
Washington
Maryland
Patents Granted in 18M By Britain America and Germany
During 18M, 3,815 electricity patents were granted across Great Britain the United States and Germany. British patents numbered 1,130 or one twentieth of all British filings, American patents reached 1,704 and German patents stood at 481.
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Great Britain
United States
Germany
Blind bicyclist rides solo 100 miles with sound cues
N L Perry, a seventeen year old blind student from Oakland, rode a bicycle to San Jose and back a week ago, guided only by the bell signals from a sighted pilot. He sustained three non serious falls on the outward leg and completed the century ride safely with keen hearing compensating for his loss of sight.
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Oakland
Cal
San Jose
N. L. Perry
Berkeley Institute For the Deaf and Dumb and Blind
Berkeley
The Swiss Pike and the Long Battle Shaft
The origin of the long pike is debated with no certainty about Swiss invention. Earliest reference appears in 1327 in an order from Count Philip of Savoy to Turin burghers. Prior infantry used spears and shields. Legnano Fal Kirk Courtrai show varied lengths. In Sempach Swiss pikes may have been around ten feet, not clearly longer.
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Philip of
Savoy
Turin
Legnano
Falkirk
Courtrai
Sempach
Motormen Fear Cats On Tracks In Night Encounters
A Columbus Dispatch report describes motormen delaying or backing up streetcars after sighting cats on tracks. Conductors note superstition around killing cats, with headlight glare drawing illuminated eyes and cats freezing in front of approaching cars.
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Columbus
Dispatch
Wonderful Spoon Recalled From Marquis Villiers Memoirs
In long published memoirs of the Marquis Villiers a Parisian tale recounts a wondrous spoon once owned by his family. The four inch gold spoon was said to be studded with hundreds of diamonds of the first water, each the size of a pinhead, and valued at 75000 dollars.
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Marquis Villiers
Paris
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Massachusetts Ploughman
Hoard
Norristown
Lomson Spectator
Siberia
London
France
Hungary
Austria
Norway
Sweden
Spain
Europe
George K. Holmes
Census Office
Victoria
Buckingham
Windsor
Transvaal Republic
Majuba
South African Republic
McDonald
Tamatave
Pannonia
Buda-Pesth
Buda- Pesth
Mid- Europe
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