Bridge Strategy: Lead Rules for Trumps and Partners
A compact guide to card play in bridge emphasizing lead choices and partnership signals. It outlines when to lead strong or weak cards, how to manage trumps, and the coordination between you and your partner to optimize trick outcomes. It notes exceptions for certain hands and the importance of timing when the lead is uncertain.
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Yorto
Wen
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Mulft
Theo Alytral
Panther Hunting Tales From Eastern Kentucky Inn
A wandering traveler camps with a Kentucky pioneer family and hears vivid panther hunting legends. The host recalls a thief-turned-panther affair, a brutal painter lurching from tree to tree, and a neighbor’s close calls on ridges, ending with generous hospitality and a breakfast fit for a traveler.
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Kentucky
Ca'lipa
Knintuck
Saya T
Odd Character Sketches and Notable Local Figures
A montage of vignettes describes a Newark Ohio suitor’s fatal fail, David Grieve the temperance traveler from Zanesville, John King the Cincinnati newsboy who donated 2,500 volumes to the Public Library, and other eccentric characters. Also noted are John the woodman’s tragic end, Tulare’s Boat Hermit James Mac, Captain Calvin Hint of Somers Massachusetts, and a brief mention of Russia’s proposed military service reduction.
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Newark
Ohio
I “Shitor
Hagerstown
David Grieve
Zanesville
John King
Cincinnati
Old Museum
Third
Sycamore Streets
John Iron
Nature
Sam
John
Conmevcral
Public Library of
London
the Plagaics, Histories, and
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Jons
Austin
Minn
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Farm and Garden Notes from Rural Household Wisdom
Rural farming tips cover plant care, soil, and crop practices. Suggestions include boosting raspberry yields, watering rules for asparagus and radishes, aphid control with quassia and soap, mignonette cultivation, trellising tips for tomatoes and peas, and the value of small farm perquisites for family labor. Advances from Connecticut on corn fodder and animal salt use are discussed alongside tree root absorption and land drainage examples.
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Colorado
Henderson
New Yorker
Tne
dAlbany
England
Journal of Forestry
Wales
Anid
Household Economy and Home Cleaning Tips
A compact guide on cleaning stoves, tins, doors, and windows using waste paper. It details wax varnish from wax and turpentine, soda drain maintenance, and furniture polishing with sweet oil. Also includes feather upkeep, reviving pruning plants, and making tomato relish. Tips for hats and hair care with practical steps and caution.
Lucky Baldwin and His Nevada Mining Fortune
E J Baldwin popularly known as Lucky Baldwin rose from Indiana farm work to mining success in Nevada. After years of exploration he profited from mining stocks, becoming renowned for building the Baldwin House and Baldwin Theater on Market Street in San Francisco. The grand structure, including furniture, cost five million dollars. Traveling through Los Angeles he was said to have purchased a grant during a trip.
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Virginia
Kaintuck
Iis
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Indiana
Rockcastle
Bill Enstill
Bill
Bourin
E. J. Baldwin
Lucky Baldwin
Varians
Bonanza
Nevada
Baldwin
Market Street
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Plantation landscape with rustic cottages and orchards
A vivid description of a developed estate featuring pine roads, sparkling lakes with rustic bridges, and about fifty cottages for workers. The grounds include diverse orchards with 1,200 scene area, 18,000 trees, almonds, chestnuts, English walnuts, and grapes. Eucalyptus avenues provide shade along a three mile long, tree lined avenue.
Paradise at the center of a rising knoll estate
A description notes a mansion set amid cultivated fields and gardens on a rising knoll overlooking a fairy-land. The project will enrich the landscape and provide a tranquil retreat for the proprietor in his declining years as tenants multiply the scenery.
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San Francisco
Cor
Baltimore Sun
Delaware Peach Wagons Fill Rail Stations in Season
Pedestrian prose describes Delaware's peach season with vivid detail as wagons unload into stations. The scene is noisy with bells, mules, drivers, and crowds awaiting manifests and numbers at various railroad depots along the watershed.
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Delaware
The Vibrator Thresher and Mecra Co’s Engines
Prominent Battle Creek Mich firm Mecra Nicvola Baerano & Co for forty years made threshing and steam engines. Their Vibrator Thresher, long popular, is praised as the finest modern machine for threshing and separating grain. Also noted are Mounted Horeo Power and Bleam Threader Engines. Readers urged to contact the factory for illustrated pamphlet details.
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Mecra, Nicvola, Baerano & Co
Battle Deek
Mich
Mecera, Nrcuora
Nugparp & Co
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