Sweet potato culture tips and irrigation notes
Missouri cor presents a practical guide on sweet potato set out timing, bed preparation, ridging, and single-pass cultivation. It details a red potato variety with strong flavor, notes from a longtime grower, and emphasizes good plants, early setting, and deep mellow ridges as keys to yields. It also covers artesian wells in Davison county, irrigation methods, and insecticide preparation including paris green, london purple, hellebore, and kerosene emulsion for pest control.
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Missouri Cor
Paris
London
The Skeptical Mind and The Fear of Death in North American Review
A dispassionate meditation contrasts wealth and liberty with moral freedom, arguing that pursuit of present pleasures binds men in servitude. It condemns self-indulgence and links luxury to yielding to nature, while noting death as final auditor and the rising modern hope in resurrection as a measure of the future.
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North American Review
Household Hints and Italian Sugar Cakes
Household hints describe Italian sugar cakes known as Itisses made from sugar and egg whites flavored with peppermint and notes suggest they pair well with black coffee. The item also covers window cleaning with vinegar and a new codfish dish from the New York School of Cooking involving parboiled fish in milk with spices and walnuts.
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New York School of Cooking
Fair and Fashion Rosa Bonheur Exhibition in London
An exhibition in London celebrates Rosa Bonheur turning seventy four with a remarkable painting of a historic 1734 English stallion duel owned by Lord Godolphin. The piece showcases power and finish as fashionable guests attend.
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Rosa Bonheur
London
England
Lord Godolphin
Paris Court Frees Drusaux After Long Imprisonment
In Paris the Court of Cassation declared Mme Druaux innocent after years of detention. The 1877 case from Malaunay in the Lower Seine alleged she poisoned her husband and brother, with strong witness testimonies against her.
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Life
Paris
Cor
London Telegraph
Drusaux
Court of Cassation
Mme. Druaux
Malaunay
Seine
M. Goujon
Fragmented Society Notes and Odd Anecdotes
A collage of humorous exchanges and brief notices includes quips about a man with peagreen neck whiskers ordering a soft boiled egg, Willits leaving a church, and a postal editor calling someone an ass. Also reports on Mme Druaux's exoneration, a New Zealand rabbit control prize, and a tiny colt born in Carmel Massachusetts, with other assorted snippets.
New Doctor of the Nineteenth Century Explores Replacements
A New York Herald piece interviews a self styled nineteenth century doctor who claims to replace diseased stomachs and lungs with skin, leather, rubber and metal substitutes. He describes stomachs of chamois cowhide and buckskin and lungs made of rubber brass or steel for various users.
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New York Herald
India
Neal
Riley
Ants Used by Greek Surgeons to Bind Wounds
Greek barber surgeons in the Levant reportedly used large ants to hold edges of cuts together. An ant is clamped with forceps, bites to seize wound edges, and its head is severed yet it retains grip, sealing wounds with seven or eight ant heads. The ants are described as a big headed compound ant.
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Springfield Republican
Abe Bunter
Abe
North America
Jeneth
Jeunesse Doree
White Oaks
Cole’s Crossing
Royal Prisoners In London Times
The text notes two enduring European potentates who never change residence the Pope of Rome and the Sultan of Turkey. The Sultan has stayed in Constantinople since his accession, nineteen years ago, under tragic circumstances. His Holiness remains within the Vatican after receiving the triple tiara.
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Pope
Rome
Turkey
Constantinople
Vatican
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OUR Pleasure Club
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Willits
Ccbhhurch
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Minnie
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Mannie
Houston Bugle
Galveston Trombone
Texas Sistings
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Mabel
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Mass
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