Fattening Girls for Marriage and Latest Fads Across Europe
The piece reports on a range of topics including alleged fattening of young girls in the Mavenel and Tunis regions for marriage markets, exotic beauty preferences in Brazil, and then shifts to late fashion fads. It notes methods used on girls as young as 12, and contrasts with notes on Brazilian praise for weight gain, plus new accessories like long black gloves, two-rose hair ornaments, and prophecy spoons. It wraps with decor trends such as Delftware blue and white in furnishings and room palettes.
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Mada
Mavenel
Tunis
Barbary
Brooklyn Eagle
Brazil
Pittsburg Dispatch
Illinois apple exhibit wins first prize at Paris fair
Illinois horticulturists celebrate the Paris exposition first prize for apples Ben Davis Grimes Golden Jonathan Salome Stark Willow Twig and Winesap. Prairie exhibitors include G Loverhill H M Dunlap Arthur Bryant Fred Shaw F Phoenix L R Bryant I Dindlemon. The piece notes Russia's vast forests and stresses forest conservation and future canning factory disposal of surplus berries.
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Illinois
Ben Davis
Grimes Golden
Jonathan
Salome
Stark
Winesap
Loverhill
H. M. Dunlap
Arthur Bryant
Fred Shaw
Phoenix
L. R. Bryant
I. ¥. Dindlemon
Paris
Illinois State Horticultural Society
Merino Breeding and Wool Market Trends in Michigan
The bulletin notes a steady demand for fine wool and elevates Merino sheep as Michigan’s adaptable standard. It explains Merino’s historic prominence, the preponderance of cross bred wool in U S output, and how expert sorting reveals fleece variety, with pure bred flocks offering more uniform quality.
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Michigan Experiment Station
Michigan
United States
Goats on Farms and a New Rubber Gum Plant
The article discusses using goats to control weeds on farms, noting their ability to thrive where sheep struggle and suggesting a million goats could be added without impacting current stock. It also covers Synathereneas Mextcanox, a Central American shrub yielding a 40 percent gum used as a rubber substitute, scalable in green or dry form and branded as the twentieth century gum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central America
Baden Powell in a Battle Attacks Boers Near Hel fast
London reports from August 22 describe Baden Powell engaging Grobler's rear guard near the Pinnar's river while Buller's division moved toward Vanwrycksvivel. Rhodesians suffer Col Spreckley and four men killed and seven wounded. Dewet recrosses eastward with few guns and about 200 followers. Steyn reportedly heads toward Machado dorp to join Kruger. Boers blow up rail at Kootze's drift north of Newcastle.
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London
Lord Roberts
Wate
Pretoria
Buller
Vanwrycksvivel
Helfast
Paget
Hanmanskraal
Baden-Powell
Grobier
Pinnar
Col
Spreckley
Cyfer Kull
Phimer
Hickman
Dewet
Mungallesberg
Orange River
Collon
Bethlehem
Steyn
Pinagar’s
Kruger
Machadodorp
Kootze's Drift
Newcastle
Farmers Pass Resolutions At Colorado Farmers Congress
Aug 25 Colorado Springs farmers congress votes against a demand to force railcar rate cuts. Resolutions favor river and canal work, rural delivery, seed distribution via experiment stations, public water ownership for irrigation, and irrigation investigations. Debates include merchant marine and farm costs. Whitmore cites 25 cents per bush of corn, Filley claims 20 cents per acre.
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Colorado Springs
Col
Farmers’ National Congress
Congress
Nicaragua
Merchant Marine
Resolutions Committee
Alexander B. Smith
New York
W. G. Whitmore
Nebraska
J. Filley
Mob Attack on Dr Gavin Brown Clark in London
London readers recount a violent incident where radical MP Dr Gavin Brown Clark was mobbed by constituents on August 25. A supporter repelled the furious crowd with a revolver, amid fallout from a Colonial Office letter to President Kruger dated August 29, 1899, discussing war prospects and Kruger’s passes.
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London
Gavin Brown Clark
Caithness
Clark
Colonial Office
Kruger
Chamberlain
President McKinley Misses Chicago Encampment
President McKinley will not arrive in Chicago on Saturday and is likely to be detained in Washington by foreign affairs duties, preventing participation in any part of the Grand Army of the Republic encampment. Announcement came via telegram from George B. Cortelyou, the president’s private secretary.
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Russia
Europe
United States
Chicago
McKinsey
Press of Foreign Affairs
Washington
Grand Army of the Republic
Citizens’ Committee
George B. Cortelyou
Wisconsin Prohibition Ticket Nominated at Madison
The prohibition state convention nominated a ticket including War Governor J. B. Smith for lieutenant governor T. J. Torvildsen for treasurer W. J. Noyes for attorney general E. W. Chafin for railroad commissioner W. M. Weeks for Insurance Commissioner F. R. Derrick and for superintendent of public instruction H. C. Senn.
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Wisconsin
Madison
Wis
J. B. Smith
T. J. Torvildsen
W. J. Noyes
E. W. Chafin
W. M. Weeks
F. R. Derrick
H. C Senn
Odd Fragments From News and Notices Across The World
A jumble of anecdotes includes widows lamenting husbands in Southern Georgia, a Bayreuth critic on a sense of fire in the cello, and Queen Margherita’s rumored unpaid milliner bills paid by the king. Also recalled is James Russell Lowell under a moonlit scene and a butcher’s ironic nod to a “slaughterin’ Shia.” The piece closes with a notice for the 14th National Encampment in Chicago and a Great Western excursion offer to attend.
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Margherita
Slambert
Humbert
James Russell Lowell
Cambridge
Pune
fuJl Imeon
Sowell
Quote about self love and sincerity appears in a damaged note
The fragment contains a personal quotation about self love and the value of sincerity. It references an address in Minneapolis and a date January 6 but the rest is garbled with misspellings and stray phrases. No clear public event or named organization is identifiable.
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Adams
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Mousseline de Sole
Delftware
Michigan State Board of Agriculture
Warfield
Wilson
Bubath
Haverland
Crescent
Jessie
Parker
Burle
Gandy
Clyde
Greenville
Marshall
Connecticcut
Pennsylvania
Kansas
Rica
J. J. Ingalls
Grobler
Col. Spredskoy
Storiets
Georgia
Jes
Bayreuth
Hans Lichter
Richter
14Th National
Chicago Great Western Railway
Great Western
McKinley
I. H. Lord
Adams Street
Carter
Carter's Ink Co
Hoston
Morey
Allen
Olmsted
la Roy
N.Y
J. W. O'Laren
Tavid Ave
Minnespolis
Minn
Jam
Hall
Hull
F. J. Cheney & CO
Tolado
Draggistyle
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