Mixed 1894 Weather Notes and Early Global Antiquities
A stream of items covers spring weather, education, and trade with notes on fertilizer value and New York yachts. It mentions a long blizzard, March snow storms, and a coming April camping season. Egyptian wall painting of two men playing chess from 3300 BC is highlighted as possibly the oldest game known. The piece also contrasts McKinley and Wilson tariff debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sakhara
Egypt
Teta
Brugsch
Inventor Aims to Make Paper Belt From Pasteboard
An inventor in Lowell Massachusetts plans a belt made from specially treated paper pulp formed into a board, cut into leatherlike links linked by pins and run around a pulley. The belt promises lower cost than leather cotton or rubber and greater wear life, gaining hardness and smoothness with use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowell
Mass
Want Fun and Religion Too in Jamaica Youth Groups
In a Jamaican village Christian Endeavor members are urged to choose between church duties and euchre clubs as most youths participate in the clubs. The annual Christian Endeavor convention planned at the Reformed church chapel found no local members to open the chapel because they were at a euchre party. The youths insist the games do not interfere with church duties and vow to continue both organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamaica
Christian Endeavor Society
The
Reformed Church
N. Y. Sun
Classical Revolutionists and the Love of Antiquity
John G. Alger notes that French revolutionary leaders idealized classical writers and Roman figures. Leaders quoted and imitated antiquity, renamed selves after Roman heroes, and staged civic suppers with servants, while figures like Claviere and Charlotte Corday acted under classical echoes. The era’s theatrical tone affected behavior and even prison cell inscriptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John G. Alger
Mr. Alger
Claviere
Valaze
Condorcet
Buzot
Barbaroux
Roland
Vergniaud
Chabot
Mme
Charlotte Corday
Marat
Plutarch
Paris
Brutus
Elysian Fields
Friends of Liberty
Greece
Rome
Cincinnatus
Socrates
Payan
Iauscice
Sparta
Robespierre
The Awful Looking Man Whom God Made
In a New England village Jenkins Sanderson, a gentle giant, approaches his wife’s tea party. A hysterical guest fears him at first, then the wife calmly reassures, saying God made him despite his fearsome look.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Jenkins Sanderson
The Way to Tell an Orage
A guide to judging oranges by weight skin texture and color. Heavier sweet fruit with thin smooth skin signals quality while deep pores and bright color indicate coarse spongy fruit. Merchants judge value by heft and juice content during purchase.
JIGGING FOR TOMCOD IN CONNECTICUT TALE
A New York Sun piece chronicles Connecticut tomcod jigg ing along the Thames river, detailing the fishs confiding nature and the moral lesson some claim comes from jigging. It relays a farmerlike tale of oak leaves luring tomcods and a popular local pastime born from piscatorial curiosity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut
Thames River
Piers
de Nver
New York Sun
Publications of the U S Department of Agriculture March 1894
Summary of Agriculture Department publications issued in March 1894. Includes Fertilizers for Cotton, Sugar Beets experiments, Statistical reports on wheat and corn, and bulletins from the Office of Experiment Stations. Also lists meteorological congress reports, weather reviews, and lake and cattle disease maps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Washington
D.C
J. M. McBryde
Farmers
St. Paul
Minn
Office of
H. W. Wiley
Walter Maxwell
Division of Chemistry
Statistician
Experiment Station Record
German Agricultural Society
Belgium
Agricultural Experiment Stations
Holland
United States
Office of Experiment Stations
Treasury
International Meteorological Congress
Chicago
Ill
Congress
Weather Bureau
Monthly Weather Review
Great Lakes
Mark W. Harrington
Boundry
Secretary of Agriculture
Bureau of Animal Industry
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Bristol Phenix
An Ad Herald Printing Company
Hope Street
Bristol Builders
Army of Pennsylvania
Ledger of
New York World
U.S. Department OF Agriculture
Dana
Angus K. McDonald
Bath
Danas
Sarsaparilla
Ivorine
J. B. Williams Co
Glastonbury, Ct
Rhode Island
Mathewson Street
Providence, R
IALTY
Dental Association
Music Hall
Providence, R. I
H.w.ladd Co
Neurz
H. W. LaddCo
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