Governess in Monterey Hears From Home and Plans Escape
Eulalia, the new governor, navigates life at the Royal Presidio of Monterey while rumors swirl about her husband Don Pedro and a lively social scene. Capitan Soler courts her, Capitan Soler flirts and teases, and letters from home renew her longing for freedom as she imagines escape from this remote capital.
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Eulalia
California
Duenna
Don Pea
Fray Mariano
Fray
Don Pedro
Eulalia Barbara
Serra
Indizuela
Baten
la Gobernadora
Presidio
Royal Presidio of
San Carlos de Monterey
Bay of Monterey
Monterey
Escabellito
Capitan
Nicolas Soler
Senora la Gobernadora
Capitan Soler
Presidio of
Santa Barbara
San Francisco
Senora
Soler
Californias
Palacio
Wes
San Carlos
Mexico
Fages
Messe
Laziest on Earth Thriving in Maine
Bangor report outlines six months of logging camp exile for the laziest loneliest men, mostly French Canadian Canucks, living in remote cabins. Camp life offers food, shelter, literature, and bear-proof caution as workers avoid towns, while one bookkeeper story reveals odd accounting practices amid harsh isolation.
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Bangor
Maine
Ride into Monterey with the governor and friars
In a restrained scene a governor, a priest, and their retinue prepare to move toward Monterey. Fray Junipero Serra declines riding, stating his legs remain. The governor chooses to walk with the governor’s party while the others walk in quiet procession as the group advances.
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la Gobernadora
Don Pedro
Monterey
Fray Junipero
Padre
Serra
Pedro
Governor's Lady Inaugurates New Home Porch Scene
The governor's wife sits in a handmade sycamore chair on the portal of her new house. Escabel lito eyes Chichi tied to a porch log as there is bustle inside the dwelling. Augustus's voice rises in exasperation as maids and Indian helpers work to finish the scene.
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Augustias
Pedro
Angustias
Huena
Eulalia
Guna
Femeean
Eng
Ias
Escabellito
Chichi
Intelligence of Twins Compared by Science
The article surveys twin studies on heredity and environment in intelligence. It notes that identical twins show a small average intra-pair IQ difference while fraternal twins exhibit a larger, genetics-influenced variance. Tests like the Simon-Binet are used to measure general learning capacity.
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D. Cecil Rife
Scientific American
Moon Night Altar Inspires Poets in Japan
On the day of the full moon in Japan poets both real and imagined honor the ancient practice. A temporary altar is set on the veranda or another spot likely to catch the moonlight, inviting reflection and ritual.
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Japan
Beauty Is Secondary in Muskingum Men Survey
New Concord Ohio Muskingum College men say beauty is more than skin deep and favor naturalness and poise over mere facial features. They cite good taste as important, resisting the idea that co ed pulchritude defines loveliness.
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New Concord
Ohio
Muskingum College
Muskingum
Collegians
Monkey Solves Poser for Airport Manager
A rhesus monkey figures in an airport manager puzzle as birds abandon nests and sparrows seek new nesting spots, with tiny creatures shaping the scene and a perplexing weeklong context at the facility.
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Monkey
Poser
Sanitation tips to save chicks from disease on farms
North Carolina State College expert J. T. Brown outlines poultry sanitation practices. Move or disinfect brooder houses to clean ground, scrub with lye solution, replace topsoil, and avoid attracting flies. Feed cleanly and rotate to summer range shelters on clean land. Use grazing crops to purify soil and support grazing for hens.
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J. T. Brown Extension
North Carolina State College
Fences reshape contour farming to remove point rows
Contour farming in square fenced fields creates point rows in corners. Farmers in demonstrations remove these by realigning fences to match the contour, per Charles R. Enlow. One farmer merged point rows into adjacent pasture, maintaining total grass and cultivated acreage. Avoid adding rocky or unproductive land to cultivation.
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Charles R. Enlow
The
Soil Conservation Service
East Front Laying House Preference Over South Front
The Ohio experiment station reports seven years of testing favoring an east front laying house over a common south front design. It notes ten months of direct sunlight entering the east front and reaching most of the interior, while the south front admits sun only in winter when windows are usually closed.
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Ohio Experiment Station
Poultry Nutrition Notes From Historical Almanac
The excerpt lists practical poultry farming facts: thin eggs signal mineral or vitamin D deficiency in hens, 1937 38 Argentine wheat output near 6 million tons, 34 000 acres needed for Oregon corn, magnet use to remove metal from feed, eggs are two thirds water needing a gallon per 100 eggs, sleeping sickness in horses noted in 1880 Germany and US, capons profitable for selective markets, birds weigh about two pounds before processing, 45 pounds of corn per case of eggs, grow alfalfa or clover where feasible instead of grass hay, and include 5 percent alfalfa meal to ensure vitamin A for chicks especially without cod liver oil.
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Virginia Stivers Bartlett
Laziest
Canuck
Don Murphy
Boss Logger
Argentina
Oregon
Germany
United States
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