Prison Ship Jersey Reverberates in Anti British Sentiment
In a Boston Herald piece the Jersey prison ship’s cruelty during the Revolution is recalled as the navy considers using a colliers as a prison ship at Norfolk to ease the Boston yard’s crowded facilities. The historic cruelty, including freezing conditions and lack of medical care, is cited to galvanize opposition to British memories.
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Jersey
Navy Department
Norfolk
Iva
Boston Navy Yard
Judge Advocate of
Navy
Boston
Atlantic
Boston Herald
East River
New York
Franklin
Mediterranean
Thomas Dring
Dring
Virtues of Turtles in Doctor Yerkes Experiment
Harvard University physician Doctor Yerkes demonstrated a turtle’s patience and persistence by placing it in a boxed maze with obstacles and a dark nest at one end. The turtle moves steadily toward the nest despite barriers, illustrating perseverance.
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Yerkes
Harvard University
Prudential Record
How to Judge Tobacco Quality and Flavor
The guide stresses three key factors for tobacco growers burn color and texture. a uniform light cinnamon brown shade with white ash and no black ring, leaves that burn freely and hold their shape, and a soft glossy elastic texture. It notes Connecticut tobacco aims for neutrality without flavor, while flavor comes mainly from Cuban filler, and climate and soil affect leaf flavor.
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Connecticut
London Post Office Efficiency and Prison Ship History
The piece outlines rapid London mail service from any point to central contact and back within hours, then shifts to memories of the Jersey prison ship used for privateersmen, its sunless confinement, and the swift return routes. It also discusses hog showmanship versus breeding, and turkeys’ domestication linking to Mexico and Europe.
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Bank of England
London
United States
Thieves of India Priority: The Zenana Burglary Method
The piece describes lower Bombay thieves as experts who tunnel into zenanas, deceiving guards with a bamboo head decoy, then steal earrings, bracelets and bangles from sleepers without waking them, a delicate and dangerous art attributed to dacoits.
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Bombay
Locomotor Ataxia League Formed for Cure Effort
The Locomotor Ataxia Patients United National League organizes in New York with an office on bifth avenue. It aims to promote research toward a permanent cure and offers a $10,000 reward for a guaranteed curve. The group estimates 18,000 to 20,000 sufferers nationwide and hopes members join to fund a sanitarium with public and government support.
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United National Locomotor Ataxia League
Bifth Avenue
New York
League
New York Medical Journal
Inventors Avenue to Music and the Pain of Melody
The piece notes Edison detested music and Tesla avoided its charms, calling such aversion a freak. It cites Byron Burke Fox O’Connell Pitt Peel as great minds who disliked sound, contrasting oratory and silence with musical pleasure.
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Edison
Nikola Tesla
Byron
Edmund Burke
Charles James Fox
Daniel O'Connell
William Pitt
Robert Peel
Dairy and Poultry Mow Successful Farmers Operate
A condensed guide from the Farm Department offers practical hints for farmers on managing dairy cattle, live stock, and poultry. It emphasizes routine care, clean housing, feeding discipline, and disease prevention to improve yields and flock health.
Origin of Turkeys in Natural History
Thorne notes two wild turkey species recognized by naturalists Meleagris gallopavo the southwestern US and Mexico and Meleagris silvestris of Canada and the northern US. Also mentions Meleagris occulata the Ocellated turkey of Central America and extinct predecessors found in New Jersey and Colorado with Meleagris antiquus. Turkey relates to Guinea fowl, giving the genus Meleagris.
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Mexico
Europe
West Indies
C. E. Thorne
United States
Canada
Turkey
Central America
New Jersey
Colorado
Contaminated Butter Sparks Food Adulteration Concerns in England
Reports from England note several convictions for selling butter tainted with preservatives including toracic and boracic acids. The article links tainted imports from the United States and outlines new safety measures in New York with a purity label system. It also recounts dairy care guidance from Oscar Erf on milk handling and a critique of cost cutting in creameries that harms butter quality.
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England
United States
Elgin District
New York
Medical Society of
County of
New York City
Hereditary Effect of Tuberculosis on Young Animals
A French experimenter inoculated guinea pigs with tubercle toxin before gestation. Offspring were reduced in number and often died or were feeble. Results suggest tubercle toxins lessen birth numbers and cause fetal or neonatal weakness, with born young more TB sensitive than normal.
Ground bone and fresh meat aid hen weight and egg yield
West Virginia experiment compares ground bone with meat meal for laying hens. Forty hens split into two groups showed ground fresh bone produced more weight gain and higher egg count with larger eggs. meat meal group had illness and deaths. Researchers caution results may vary with different meat meal samples.
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West Virginia Experiment Station
Plymouth Rock
Ballot as Weapon in Labor Plainly Warns Voters
The statement condemns labor voters who back policies harming workers as using the ballot against themselves, describing such choices as political self destruction and a fatal misjudgment by workers.
Fertility and Egg Production At Ontario Station
Experiments in egg fertility and production trace how male presence affects fertility over ten days and how delaying male introduction changes fertility percentages. Two parallel flocks tested total egg output from January to September showing minimal difference in overall egg count between pens with and without male influence.
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Ontario
Jarvis
Butter Costs Tied to Cow Flesh Levels, Says Professor
Over five years of study Professor Haecker finds butter from cows with less flesh consistently cheaper than from plumper cows. He notes the trend holds daily, weekly, monthly, and over a cow’s lifetime, arguing spare cows produce better butter.
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New York Produce Review
Healy
Professor Haecker
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National Prison Ship
Gler Southery
Southey
Old Jersey
Thieves of
India
Dairy and Poultry
Daily Notes
Farmers’ Review
Illinois
Oscar Erf
Ilinois Agricultural College
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