Prepare the Bet Bed for Sweet Potatoes and Seedlings
From the Southern Planter a detailed guide to making a Bet Bed for sweet potatoes and early transplants. It covers soil removal to twelve inches, replacement with horse litter and leaves, a six to eight inch top cover, and a six inch edge frame with boards, canvas, or glass. It warns to avoid planting until heat subsides and to test bed temperature with sticks for twenty four hours. Potatoes go in after gentle heat returns, in a single layer covered with woods mould and kept moist.
Fodder Cutter and Garden Tools Promote Thrift
An Ohio inventor details a fodder cutter using a simple box frame and a Lightning hay knife to cut corn fodder quickly for multiple animals, claiming minutes per feed. He also describes a garden cultivator and a garden sprinkler system to water rows efficiently. notes root crops provide high feed value and reduce soil depletion, with mangels and ruta bagas cited.
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Ohio
J. T. Huntington
Indianapolis
Easter Joy and Tragedy Across a Splendid Spring
Reading fragments reveal a tale of baby Easter born on a holy day facing hospital trials after a fall and broken hip, with a hopeful recovery scene amid a family’s Easter expectations. Separate notes describe young members in Westminster and a German emperor’s past pranks with a dangerous hat prank gone awry.
Easter Hope: Doctor Forges Path to Recovery
A mother frail with heartbreak rests on hope as a kind doctor treats her and her daughter Easter. The physician foresees a slow yet hopeful recovery and arranges to visit the child on Easter morning, while the mother battles illness with renewed resolve.
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Somizghow
Easter
Liberal fortunes favor graybeards in English elections
The piece analyzes how middle aged and older Liberals dominate nominations and seats, with young candidates facing barriers despite efforts. It notes voters favor maturity and proven success, while occasional young figures gain trust when backed by leaders. contrasted with a dramatic wildcat rescue story near St Regis.
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Parrister
Gladstone
Morley
London Cor
New York Times
Homemade Clod Crasher Aids Fine Seed Beds
A farmer notes an illustrated homemade implement named the clod crasher designed to crush clods and produce a fine mellow seed bed. The device uses adjustable cylinders and two disks cut from planks with triangular pieces attached, plus square joist supports and shafts to reduce draft.
Stormy Day Work For Farmers And Teams
Farmers should use rainy days to perform small tasks such as greasing harness sharpening a disk pulverizer or making repairs. Keep a memorandum book for rainy day jobs and plan ahead to avoid wasting time on storms, improving productivity and household harmony.
Better Than a Hardie Contraception for Pasturing Cows
D W B in Country Gentleman describes a simple inexpensive movable pasture device. Four cows are pastured on a wagon path through corn, grass eaten down to the corn, with rope tied at new fence points to let cows move as if loose.
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Country Gentleman
Seeding Points On Wheat Protection From Hot Winds
A reader from Minneapolis in Farm Stock and Home outlines how hot winds harm maturing wheat and suggests practical methods. Use a drill for seed spacing and orient rows east to west to shield roots, with a drift to cover grain and protect against drying.
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Caiil
Minneapolis
Minn
Seed Treatment For Corn Smut Prevention
Dr. W J Sturgis of the Connecticut Experiment Station notes no satisfactory corn smut prevention. Removing and burying infected ears helps, but seed dipping at 130 degrees does not prevent corn smut. Oats, wheat, barley and rye respond to a Jensen pot water treatment at 132 degrees for ten minutes.
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Farenbeit
Dr. W. ©. Sturgis
Connecticut Experiment Station
Farm Notes on Crops, Crops, and Labor Management
The article discusses soaking potatoes in corrosive sublimate solution, starting seeds in warm boxes, and praising sheep as farm allies. It adds that diversifying crops spreads work and finances, and keeping crop accounts helps identify profitable areas. It warns against cultivating poor quality soil and notes fiber value in flax straw and pull timing for self binders.
Miss Pleby Stirs Reactions Over Costume Compliment
A Washington Star snippet quotes Miss Pwbpleby describing a new costume as a dream and a confidante noting the same remark. The exchange includes a contrasting reaction calling the outfit a nightmare, reflecting social reception of fashion at the event.
John’s Eyes Can’t Be Beaten In Telling Time
A town clock proves unreliable as locals doubt a sailor named Yong Bush, two miles distant, can accurately tell time despite reported blindness in John. The fragment hints at a challenge or joke about perception and timekeeping.
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Jersey Shore
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Jersey
New York
Africa
New York Herald
Yong Bush
Reappearance and Secrets Shake Lucy and Earl Cleve
In a moonlit garden Lucy and Earl Cleve confront the truth about Dick Ashland and the Maclane murders. Memory returns to the tormented narrator as he recalls David Maclane’s knife and Lucy’s role in saving him. A horrific lodge explosion ties up years of crime and retribution as justice edges closer and the tale ends with a contentious distribution of blood stained wealth.
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Sir William
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The
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Angel of Angels
Dangerous Habit Ends With Lost Nose in Barber Shop
A San Francisco man slept during a shave and struck out, cutting off the tip of his nose with a razor. He woke in alarm, rushed to City and County Hospital, where surgeons reattached the piece and it began to heal. The incident was reported by the New York Sun.
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Easter
Lemb
San Francisco
New York Sun
Compass Plant Guides Prairie Wanderers with North South Leaves
The compass plant, among the oldest vegetable forms, is noted for leaves that always point north and south. It serves as a natural guide on the prairie, with daisylike flowers and an extremely thin leaf visible even to the untrained eye.
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Botanista
Sailor Goes to Sea Prayer Request Read in Church
A church message asked for prayers for a sailor bound for sea. The text read in church urged the congregation to pray for his safety, reflecting the community’s concern as a wife and parishioners awaited his return.
Explosion at Reedon Lodge Housestead
A powder explosion occurred around 1 o'clock at Reedon Lodge a small house on its own grounds between Shepperton and Halliford on Thames. The report notes the incident as terrible and totally unexplained with limited further details available.
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Shepperton
Halliford-on-Thames
Gag Raver
Iranes
Bull Moose Shedding Horns Performs Unusual Antics
The bull moose at Ellerton moose park in Roseau shed his horns between Jan 1 and Jan 8. During the shedding the animal acted oddly, charging at trees and fences and chasing a bronco around the corral ten times before officers stopped the pursuit. The encounter ended with the moose subdued and the horse removed from danger.
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Ellerton Moose Park
Roseau
Be mine too late for vows in Detroit Tribune tale
A brief Detroit Tribune excerpt shows a lovers scene where a man's plea of be mine is met with too late from the woman. He hides his face, hope drains, and the couple ultimately marries after a late night exchange.
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Detroit Tribune
Positive Proof Master of the House Parrot Refuge
A fragment depicts a speaker stroking a stray parrot that has taken refuge in the house. The parrot calls out and appears to recognize the speaker, adding a playful note to a domestic scene.
Pronunciation Question Sparks Silent Syllable Talk
The customer asks how to pronounce the last syllable of butterine. The grocer's clerk replies that the final syllable is silent, a note from New England Homestead.
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New England Homestead
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