Poultry Sitters and New Coops for Broody Hens
Farmers discuss controlling broody hens with inexpensive wooden coops. Old methods like placing hens under barrels caused fatalities. new alatted-bottom coops, used in a dark shed, bluff broody hens into abandoning nests. Also includes prices for milk, hay, and live stock figures from New York wholesale markets.
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Phila
Long Island
Virginia
Penn
C.c
Jersey
Bob T. Vee
Uy Orange Co
Ceeeee Ede
Rm del
Feathers and Feeding for Guineas in Backyards
The text explains guineas as good layers with hidden nests and variable egg output possibly 60 to 100. It notes monogamy with one mate but a male may mate with two females, and warns against excess females with a single male. It outlines starter feeding for chicks with curds bread milk eggs and greens, and stresses night feeding to encourage them to return home.
Grading Eggs on Market Factors
Eggs may be graded by size color cleanliness and freedom from cracks. The internal condition of the egg content is crucial, especially in the late summer months.
Change in Wildlife Along Arctic Coast Noted
Vilhjalmur Stefansson writes in the Geographical Journal that musk rats beavers and moose increase while caribou and musk ox decline. Moose advance from Mackenzie river west to Coronation Gulf as muskrat spreads east to Coronation gulf and Dolphin and Union Straits.
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Arctic
North America
Vilhjalmar Stefansson
Geographical Journal
Great Bear Lake
Mackensie River
Coronation Gulf
Dolphin
Union Straits
Wall Street Goats and Outbreak of Asses Run Free
A Philadelphia Inquirer item notes over 3,000,000 animals slaughtered in New York last year but many asses escaped. The quirky statistic highlights unusual livestock losses and escapes amid urban reports.
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Wall Street
New York
Philadelphia Inquirer
Sleeping Sinners and the Beadle’s Rousing Stick
The article recalls early church discipline by using a beadle or appointed scour to awaken sleepers during sermons. Betty Finch at Holy Trinity, Warrington, circa the early 1800s, is noted as a masculine archer of the rod equipped with a bob at its end to nudge listeners awake in aisles.
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Beadle
Betty Finch
Holy Trinity Church
Warrington
Fake Egyptian Mummy Sold to Tourist Arrest Follows
An imitation mummy built largely from calf bones was sold in Cairo to a U.S. tourist as the remains of a third dynasty palace dignitary. The fraud was uncovered and the seller was placed under arrest.
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Cairo
United States
Fascination of the Emerald and its Ancient Powers
The piece surveys beliefs about emeralds wielding magical influence. It cites Nerosis and Charlemagne tales of emeralds misdirecting evil, revealing a mythic eye glass and poison finder. The claim that Charlemagne’s wife wore and then ordered an emerald in her mouth to haunt the emperor is discussed as likely origin for such legends.
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Nerosis
Charlemagne
Poe’s Airship Hoax and the 1844 Atlantic Crossing Hoax
Edgar Allan Poe anticipated by New York Sun hoax in 1844 about a steerable balloon crossing the Atlantic in three days. Monck Mason Harrison Ainsworth and four others were named with a diary diary extracts and a detailed balloon description that fooled New Yorkers for days.
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Poe
Fairbairns
Edgar Allan Poe
New York Sun
Atlantic
Monck Mason
Harrison Ainsworth
First Class Alibi Confounds Arkansas Judge
A meek prisoner in Arkansas claims innocence of stealing a rooster from Mr Jones and offers a clever defense. He says he can prove it by noting he stole two hens from Mr Graston the same night, and Jones lives five miles from Graston. The judge finds the proof conclusive and discharges him.
What a Sparrow Did
A German driving a touring car was hit in the face by a sparrow struck by a sling shot pebble. The car swerved into a ditch hit a telegraph pole and haystack, injuring only the driver whose eyesight was damaged.
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Germany
Leslie
Washington Crossing Memorial and Land Purchase Planned
The Pennsylvania legislature allotted 25000 dollars for a memorial and 100 acres of land at Washington Crossing on the Delaware. New Jersey already plans a park marking the landing site of Continental troops on that side. The Philadelphia Bulletin opposes federal funding for a bridge at the spot, calling traffic there insufficient.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Washington Crossing
Delaware River
New Jersey
Trenton
Philadelphia Bulletin
Congress
Delaware
Too Much Competition in Shows Frustrates Youth
The Judge notes a dismayed youth who laments the many shows he cannot attend for a chance to be alone with his beloved. He lists numerous events from auto to land shows, then resigns to the idea there is no show for him.
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