The Pin Monopoly in American Pin Making
The Pin Monopoly describes fourteen New England pin factories producing about 7,000,000 pins annually. Competition among nine firms split profits, a three-wire-company alliance now ships pins to New York for nationwide distribution. England supplies most pins abroad, while U S production uses American-made brass and iron and domestic machinery and patents.
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Chily
New England
New York
United States
Cuba
South America
Canada
England
Writing on Art Sparks a Dollar Store Escape
Florence 3 Duncan 7 recounts a rambling career path from wax flowers to spatter-work, tax on debt, spiritualist schemes, and finally landing in journalism. After a fever, debt, and a chance tip to read Ruskin catalogs, she learns to write well and moves into tip-top society.
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Florence
Duncan
America
Ruskin
Domestic Receipts and Fancy Desserts Collected
A collection of kitchen recipes and methods for preserving and preparing fruit and vegetables. Includes cucumber salad with oil and vinegar dressing, sweet pickle from green tomatoes, sour milk cake, pink water ice from pineapple, fruit desserts with custard, peach tapioca dessert, boxed tomatoes with butter and crumbs, fried tomato slices, and summer squash preparation. Also describes orange preserves using sugar and boiling until skin can be pierced.
Old Time Orange and Apple Jelly Making Notes
Instructions describe sugar and water boil to form syrup for oranges until yellow jelly, with turning to ensure even cooking. Apple jelly uses hard sour apples boiled in water, juice strained, sugar added, boiled, skimmed, and jarred. excess pulp used for jam with optional lemon peel ginger or cinnamon for flavor.
Food for Thought fragment on virtue and ambition
A collection of aphorisms and reflections on character, affliction, love of country, and charity. It weighs ideals from Emerson and Rivard on personal growth, happiness, and helping others, urging active striving over idle ease and a expansive view of life.
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Rivarol
Emerson
Legislature Ends Changes To State Game Law
At the last session the Legislature altered the game law, moving the prairie chicken season from September to August and striking snipes from restricted species. The overview outlines hunting and possession limits, transport rules, trapping dates, and penalties, including fines of 10 dollars for birds violations and 25 dollars for deer and elk breaches.
Fort Dodge sells bonds at premium on water works issue
Fort Dodge has sold its $15,000 ten twenty five per cent water works bonds at a premium of $200, reflecting investor demand for the municipal issue. The sale details indicate the bond series and rate, with proceeds exceeding the par value by the premium amount.
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Fort Dodge
The Statesman and the Press Misrepresentation
A statesman recounts his early resolve to ignore press reports, then recalls how contradicting one villainous accusation prompted the papers to prove it, exposing the danger of fighting misrepresentation.
Ice and timing in meals and a rare African show
The piece warns against iced foods in hot weather and offers a vegetable time table for kitchens. It then recounts a Royal Proclamation in Central Africa inviting crowds to a show featuring a white man, whose demonstrations and attempts to feed himself with stewed fowls and sweet potatoes amid mocking laughter reveal cultural satire and embarrassment.
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Urangs
Rualha
Mkemokero
Zoological Gardens
How They Parted Song Stirs Norristown readers
The Norristown Herald mentions a new song titled How They Parted and sketches a dramatic parting scene at a late hour. The dialogue implies a kiss filled farewell with lingering moments as a man leaves after an intimate exchange.
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Norristown Herald
One Night Kiss and Parting in the Dark
A brief dialogue-like passage recalls a past farewell as a man gives a final kiss and steps into a black night, then calls again the next night. The line hints at a long-ago parting and lingering memories.
Hermit of the Sierra: Bodie to Yosemite Trip and Soda Spring
A Bodie to Yosemite journey crosses high peaks and deep soft snow. The party struggles to descend Green Creek and later finds a notable soda spring, four inches of fine cold water, near Tioga and Yosemite. The spring’s owner Lambert lives isolated in the mountains fifteen years, provisioning himself by backpacking from the valley and hunting locally.
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Odie
Cal
Free Press
Bodie
Yosemite Valley
Sierra
Green Creek
Tioga Mining District
Lambert
Soda Springs
Quotations and anecdotes on poetry, folly, and youth
A collage of aphorisms and vignettes touching idleness and vice, the value of poetry and books, and humorous misunderstandings. Included are jokes about almanacs dates and a Toronto alibi tale, plus a schoolhouse scene about Pitt the statesman and a boy’s quip on good speeches.
Readmission Debate Shapes Baker Case at Club
Broad sympathy shifts views on Pasha Valentine Baker as members reassess culpability. The article notes a misapprehension in the offense, tied to the innocent actions of a country girl who allowed broad freedom, altering perceptions of Baker’s behavior and sparing him harsher imputations.
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Pasha Valentine Baker
Baker
Warning on Urine Sediment Cure Claim for Kidney-Wort
An old advertisement urges immediate treatment for sediment or mucus in urine, claiming kidney disease and promising cure with Kidney-Wort. It notes availability from druggists in dry and liquid forms and prompts readers to act before it is too late.
Horticultural Notes From Prairie Farmer
Northern Alabama set 600 000 grape vines last year while Newport feeds on pink pond lilies and Massachusetts supplies demand. Mr. Young of Norfolk VA cultivates 225 acres of strawberries for Atlantic cities. A Brandon VT woman harvested 26 bushels of strawberries at $3.25 per bushel. Tomato vines need support for larger, sooner ripening fruit with better flavor. Florida plans to ship fifty million oranges this year amid frost troubles. foreign orchards export about 600 000 000 oranges to America. A green striped elm worm infests West Point New York elms, threatening shade trees. Heavy manure and mulching keep orchards thrifty when not bearing. land should receive dressing as fruit production begins. Prairie Farmer.
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Alabama
Newport
Massachusetts
Mr. Young
Norfolk
Atlantic
Brandon
Florida
America
West Print
New York
Preserving Fence Posts Debate in Farmer Notes
Mehan the Philadelphia Farmer editor argues against coal tar for post preservation. He cites experiments by railways showing high cost for ties, recommends durable woods like chestnut catalpa cedar and cypress, warns tar harms wood and absorbs heat, favors setting posts upside down, and notes ground moisture dictates longevity. Oak lasts best in wet conditions, but mixed soils reduce durability.
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Mehan
Philadelphia Farmer
Vlad Usciusn
Productive Orchard North of Lockport in Niagara County
A detailed account of Peter D. Miller's eleven acre apple orchard north of Lockport, with 550 trees on fertile soil. The Baldwin portion, seven acres, produced major profits including 1230 barrels from 140 Baldwins aged sixteen in 1875, selling at 3.25 per barrel, contributing to yearly revenues exceeding 32,000 with strong net gains.
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Lockport
Niagara County
New York
Peter D. Miller
Baldwin
No Mill Trels Extermination Timing Suggestion
A Prairie Farmer writer advises that the last half of July and first half of August is the proper time to exterminate unwanted growing trees. By cutting or girdling during this period they will die root and branch, with softened roots decaying quickly in soft wood species. If not felled promptly, leave atop ground until winter to work up.
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Auerhbach
Mac Donald
France
Trish
Pat
Tim
Dan
Darling
Toronto
Ramseller
Prairie Farmer
Thinning Timber and Brush Clearing in Autumn Season
Timber plantations needing thinning should girdle or cut selected trees now to dry by winter for firewood and other uses. Root systems decay after removal or girdling and by spring become tender enough not to hinder plowing. This season also favors destroying brush and weeds along fences by close mowing with a brush scythe.
Asparagus Beetle Control by Lime Dust Claim
New York Tribune notes entomologist A S Fuller endorses a cheap at home method using dry lime and an old broom to dust an acre of asparagus. Application in the morning with dew helps lime cling to plants and larvae, while improving decomposition of manure in beds.
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The
New York Tribune
A. S. Fuller
Seeding to Grass in Fall Favor, Says Cultivator
A writer in the American Cultivator argues for fall sowing of grass seed. He notes rising fall sales and urges seeders to plant by September 1 for winter growth and an early spring start. Early-seeded lots yielded good crops, with a typical mix of redtop, timothy, and red clover. Plowing ahead of late crops enables spring sowing and allows clover with grass seed for hay next summer, though later than other grasses.
Horticultural Afefat ies From Western Horticulture
J H Pearson notes grape losses from winter injury and rot reduce crops. Pinch back blackberry and raspberry canes to form stocky, self supporting growth. Watch for worms as army worms damage crops. Seed selection from early, perfect specimens helps control running out. In sweet potatoes, avoid cutting vines short and pull up plants at joints to encourage larger tubers.
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J. H. Pearson
Cured of Drinking By Bitters Says R R Official
A Chicago railroad official notes a young man cured of drink craving after using bitters. The antidote reportedly calms the burning thirst and restores steadiness, with the subject remaining sober for over two years and no desire to restart drinking. Several others are said to have been cured as well.
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R. R. Oficial
Chicago
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Leidy & Phippen, Publishers
Towa
Statesman
Central Africa
Thomson
Hermit of the
Pitt
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