Seeds and soil care and historic New Jersey display
Early crop planting advice notes that cold wet soil and dormant seeds impair vigor. recommends well rotted barnyard manure, not artificial fertilizer, for early potatoes. The piece then discusses New Jersey’s World’s Fair building plans featuring Mount Vernon and Morristown houses, plus a concert of old hymns and a note on designer matchbox fashions and durability.
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George
Washington
Mount Vernon
Morristown
New Jersey
Chicago
Massachusetts
Hancock House
Boston
Succession Cabbage Promises Large, Reliable Harvest
A horticultural note praises the Succession cabbage as one of the most valuable varieties since the Early Summer. It ripens about a week later, but produces nearly double the size, performing well in all seasons and suited for medium early or main crop plantings.
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Welsh Run Dunker Church
Solomon Baughey
Pennsylvania
Sand
Jacob Maugan
Mauganaville
Myers
Broad Fording
Professor Baughey
Maryland
Chambersburg
Marie of Edinburgh
Roumania
Carmen Sylva
Mrs. Robinson
Stow Centre
Maynard
Depot
S. R. Scott
Stow, Mass
Spring Care of Bees in Warm Days
The article urges beekeepers to inspect hives on first warm days, ensure sufficient food until honey flow, and watch for bee moths. It recommends liquid honey with sugar for feed, or pure sugar and water, and to prepare new top boxes and frames. It notes possible queen destruction to boost weak colonies and stresses hive readiness and equipment upkeep.
Onions Grow to Commercial Size by Spring Planting
Onions grown to commercial size follow normal cultivation. Seeded onions mature in one season under favorable conditions, while dwarfed onions need a second season for full maturity.
Experiment Station Gleanings
Reports from Raleigh note Bulletins available by application to director H. B. Battle. Pennsylvania station selects W. H. Caldwell to lead Guernsey cattle for the World’s Columbian exposition test. Connecticut Valley Tobacco Experiment group forms to test fertilizers with government station aid. North Dakota appoints E. S. Keene agricultural engineer to study farm machinery including a straw stubble burner. Arkansas station cites successful trials in wheat oats grasses and clover at Newport and Pine Bluff where cotton remains dominant.
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W. H. Caldwell
Pennsylvania Station
American Guernsey Cattle Club
Connecticut River Valley
Valley Tobacco Experiment Association
State Agricultural College
North Dakota
E. 8
Keene
Arkansas
Newport
Pine Bluff
Archduke Joseph experiment ends with vanished gypsies
A New York Tribune note recounts Archduke Joseph of Austria attempting to colonize his estates with gypsies who fled during harvest and recruitment time. The archduke, fond of the wandering people, will not repeat the experiment and is known to understand their language and has written about them.
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Archduke
Archduke Joseph
Austria
Doboz
Koebel
New York Tribune
Secrets of Love and Wool Preservation Unearthed
A fragment recounts a lifelong secret love and faith in eventual reward, tied to a grave and distant memory. The piece then shifts to an 1890s style science note on glycerine as a wool preservative, detailing heat resistance tests up to 284 Fahrenheit and a method by J Perzog that keeps wool durable under high temperatures.
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J. Perzog
Perzog
Philadelphia
Torpedo Boat Innovations Include Dual Rudders and Deck Turn Tables
An article highlights torpedo boat advances such as two rudders on larger types for quick turning, and a Thornycroft design with two stern curved rudders flanking a central propeller to aid steering. It cites a new deck mounted launching tube concept allowing torpedoes to be fired while the boat speeds past. In a separate anecdote, a Florida watch tale contrasts two timepieces that stopped simultaneously, puzzling the observers.
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Thornycroft
John M. Ellicott
St. Nicholas
Florida
Boston Transcript
A Clover Youngster and a brazen beggar Kitty
A story about Little Kitty Clover who pleads for her grandmother’s gold beads. Grandma, gentle and patient, returns the beads and admonishes her to ask less often. Kitty proposes a clever plan to avoid asking again by suggesting the grandmother give them to her instead.
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Kitty
Grandma
Prandma
First Settlers of Virginia Found Absorbed by Croatan
Dr. Stephen B. Weeks of Johns Hopkins University presents a special study arguing the first English settlers in the New World were not massacred by Native Americans but absorbed by the Croatan tribe. Their descendants reportedly live in North Carolina according to the Baltimore American.
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Virginia
Stephen B. Weeks
Johns Hopkins University
Sir Walter Raleigh
New World
North Carolina
Baltimore
Misfit Photographs for Sale Over Photographer's Door
A short notice notes misfit photographs for sale displayed above a photographer's entrance. The line hints at imperfect prints and invites curiosity about what qualifies as a misfit. The tease ends with a witty aside attributed to Judy.
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Judy
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Jewelers’ Review
Agricultural Experiment Station
Raleigh
H. B. Battle
Jackson Park
Scotland
Pinkham
Lydia
St. Lydia
Wana
Lovell Diamond
Waltham
T. F. Parker
Main Street
Maynard, Mass
Dr. Stetson
Concord
Dr.stetson
H. S. Hapgood
Stow
Horace Tuttle
W.A. Cunningham
Walden Street
J. C. Friend
Earth
James Dawson
Kansas City
Bowman’s
Concord, Mass
Flair
Dresser
Neil Currie & CO
Maynard’s Block
Russell's Dry Goods Store
Hapgood
Ayer
Mark
GW. & C.H. Towle
L. N. Fowler
Concord Junction
Tuttles
Jones & Wetherbee
Acton
A. A. Littlefield
West Acton
Riverside Co-operative Association
Mass
E. H. Davis
Pofat
Ja Suy
S. H. Richardson
Maker & Miner, Concord Masa
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