Early Potatoes and New Jersey at Chicago World’s Fair
An article discusses early potato varieties like Early Rose and Early Ohio, advising soil, eyes, and manure for early crops. It then shifts to World’s Fair ideas with New Jersey recreating a Morristown house as a state headquarters to evoke Revolutionary era sentiments. A side item notes a Welsh Run Dunker church concert reviving old hymns with Baughey, Maugan, and Myers leading.
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Ude Ce
Ohio
Chicago
New Jersey
George Washington
Mount Vernon
Morristown
Massachusetts
Hancock House
Boston
Welsh Run Dunker Church
Solomon Baughey
Pennsylvania
Jacob Maugan
Maugansville
Myers
Broad Fording
Professor Baughey
Maryland
Chambersburg
Succession Cabbage Promises Big Yields for Gardeners
The Succession cabbage, one of the most valuable varieties since Early Summer, runs about a week later yet nearly doubles its size and stays true to type. It is a safe choice for amateurs, thriving in all seasons and suitable for medium early, main crop, or late plantings.
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Elias Carefal
Lydia E. Pinkham
J. Perzog
Perzog
Philadelphia
Mrs. Robinson
Stow Centre
Maynard
Depot
S. R. Scott
Stow, Mass
Spring care of bees overview
Prepare hives in warm weather by checking food stores and hive condition. Feed liquid honey or sugar candy, look for bee moths and queen issues, ready new top boxes and frames, and clean or replace old hives and foundation before spring work accelerates.
Onions Reach Market Size By Cultivation Method
Onions grown to commercial size can reach table size if set out next spring. The main difference lies in cultivation. Seeded onions mature in one season, while dwarfed onions require a second season for full maturity.
Experiment Station Gleanings Headlines and Appointments
Bulletin notices from Raleigh list distribution by director H. B. Battle. W. H. Caldwell from Pennsylvania heads Guernsey cattle tests for the World’s Columbian Exposition. The Valley Tobacco Experiment Association forms in Connecticut to test fertilizers with the state agricultural college. At North Dakota E. S. Keene becomes agricultural engineer to study farm machinery starting with a straw stubble burner. Arkansas reports wheat oats grasses and clover trials at Newport and Pine Bluff where cotton dominates.
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Agricultural Experiment Station
Raleigh
H. B. Battle
W. H. Caldwell
Pennsylvania Station
American Guernsey Cattle Club
Connecticut River Valley
Valley Tobacco Experiment Association
Newport
Pine Bluff
Matchbox designs shift from hunting scenes to steel bodies
Jewelers' Review notes a trend in matchbox aesthetics. Early favorites featured guns and dogs, but the field now favors finely figured dark steel with silver or gold hinges and accents. Expensive models may include rubies and a satin finish, valued for durability as the main appeal.
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Jewelers’ Review
Archduke Josephs Gypsy Experiment Fails
Archduke Joseph of Austria attempted to settle Doboz and Koebel with Gypsies. The groups fled when harvest and army recruitment approached. The Archduke, a friend of traveling people who has written about them, will not repeat the experiment.
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Archduke
Archduke Joseph
Austria
Doboz
Koebel
New York Tribune
Love and faith endure beyond a grave and dream of reward
A reflective meditation on lasting love and faith that true reward may come after death. The speaker vows to persist through years and sorrow, trusting that a genuine love will finally be fulfilled somewhere, someday, despite grief. The piece references enduring devotion and ultimate justice.
Innovations in Torpedo Boats Introduce Dual Rudders and Deck Turrets
John M. Ellicott notes advances in torpedo craft with two stern and bow rudders on larger ships and Thornycroft’s paired stern rudders. He describes deck mounted turntable launching tubes enabling firing while still at high speed, reducing exposure and risk to crews.
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Thornycroft
John M. Ellicott
St. Nicholas
Two Watches Stop at Same Time in Florida
An old friend in Florida explains his fine watch stopped suddenly though wound the night before. The house head asks for the time and reveals his own watch also stopped. They compare and find both watches halted at the same hour and minute, but neither can explain why.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Boston Transcript
Brazen Kitty Clover Seeks Grandma’s Gold Beads
A child named Kitty Clover repeatedly asks her grandmother to lend gold beads. Grandma patiently lends them, advising restraint. Kitty proposes a clever workaround by asking for the beads to be given to her. Dr. Stephen B Weeks argues early Virginia settlers intermingled with Croatan Indians instead of being massacred.
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Kitty
Grandma
Virginia
Stephen B. Weeks
Johns Hopkins University
Sir Walter Raleigh
New World
North Carolina
Baltimore
Misfit Photographs Sold at Open Door
A caption reads Misfit photographs for sale over a photographer’s door. The author ponders why they are misfits and suggests they could be mistaken as errors, reflecting a quirky view of the shop and its wares.
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Judy
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Marie of Edinburgh
Roumania
Carmen Sylva
Washington
Jackson Park
Scotland
Tyydia
Lynn
Mass
Waltham
T. F. Parker
Main Street
Maynard, Mass
Dr. Stetson
Concord
Dr.stetson
Hapgood
Stow
Horace Tuttle
W.A. Cunningham
Walden Street
J. C. Friend
Earth
James Dawson
Armour Packing Company
Kansas City
Bowman
Concord, Mass
Yles
Fener
Neil Currie & CO
Maynard’s Block
Agg
Russell's Dry Goods Store
Ayer
Mark
M.S. Ayer
M. S. Ayer
State Street
GW. & C.H. Towle
Concord Junction
Tuttles, Jones & Wetherbee
Acton
H. A. Littlefield
West Acton
Riverside Co-operative Association
Russell
Summer St
E. H. Davis
Prop
H. Richardson
Maker & Miner
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