Wedding Song Fragment
Poem fragment describes Clothea in white at a wedding. It contrasts orange flowers and a soft answer like music. It reflects enduring love and the shadowy grave that will close life.
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Clothea
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Newspaper
Daily Liberal
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1881
Page
1
Weeds in the Highways and the City Farmer’s Advice
In Ishboring and Western farming circles the need to keep public roads weed free is debated. A plan favors increasing travel and beautifying property to draw traffic, reducing weed growth. The City Farmer extols pruning and careful cultivation to preserve tree health and prevent decay while advising gradual, judicious trimming.
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Imantown Telegraph
City-bred farmer's grand new country venture fails
A wealthy urban farmer adopts lavish upgrades and imported stock in a bid to reform old farming ways. Despite spending on cattle, sheep, crops, and gear, he suffers repeated losses from overfeeding, pests, disease, and misfortune. After five years his operation collapses, he sells at half value and returns to city life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pixties
Papa
The Train Bell Rope Origin Story in Railroading
A historical note recounts the Erie line in 1842 and Captain Ayres shaping train control. It details the tug of authority with engineer Hammill, a wooden stick on a cord, and the birth of the bell rope signaling system used to govern locomotives and enforce fare payment.
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Erie Railroad
New York and Erie Railroad
Jersey City
New York
Piermont-on-the-Hudson
Turner
Ayres
Abel Hammill
Hammill
Piermont
Turner's
Evie
Influence of Color on the Diffusion of Seeds
Popular Science Monthly notes that seed diffusion is often animal driven, as brightly colored ripe fruits attract animals while protective seed coverings resist digestion. The article discusses color’s role in fruit selection by monkeys and its implication for ancient human color perception, challenging the view that early languages lacked color terms.
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Popular Science Monthly
Magnus and
Geiger
Gladstone
Zeuxis
The School of Forestry and its aims in forestry growth
Popular Science Monthly describes the school of forestry as a formal organization for instruction in tree growth and human welfare. It contrasts European forestry as planned cultivation with casual, hazard prone growth, noting forests as long term crops influenced by science, art, climate, and industry. The passage highlights replanting, forest restoration, and expanding forestry education as European aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popular Science Monthly
School of Forestry
Europe
Ballroom theft and comic mishearing abroad in Paris
A wealthy American woman in Paris misses a diamond ring after leaving it in a chest and returning to a ball. Paris papers report a chorus of misheard names, Capoul and Paul et Virginie, sparking amused guesses about who stole the jewel amid social gaiety and hotel mixups in Nice and Paris.
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Paris
Rue Galilee
Virginie
Paul Et
Masse
Nice
Fragmentary quotation hints at family conflict
A fragment from a historical newspaper page shows dialogue about a remarriage, with phrases like “there is nothing in the world wrong this time” and “Tam her husband,” suggesting domestic tensions surrounding a union and potential husband figures.
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Tam
Legend of the Waterfall of Nourishing Old Age
A Japanese tale set on Mount Tgi in Mivo where a poor woodcutter and his father survive by selling brushwood. The son's discovery of a wine-scented waterfall sustains the aged man, attracts the Mikado, and leads to the year Yoro meaning nourishing old age. Today the waterfall draws picnics, but the wine is gone.
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Tgi
Mivo
Daddy
Stripling
The Stature Of Different Races In Popular Science
Popular Science Monthly compares average heights across races noting Patagonians near six feet four inches their mean around five eleven while Bushmen in South Africa average about four feet six inches A Swede five feet seven inches towers over shorter Lapps The piece includes a figure contrasting a Patagonian and a Bushman and concludes women are about one sixteenth shorter than men
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popular Science Monthly
Australia
Sweden
Magathons
South Africa
Decorated With Orders In Hungarian Election Anecdote
A Pesth Diet candidate canvassing a remote Romani district in Banat wore a mockery of knightly insignia. He arrived to address voters with his supporters adorned in ersatz regalia, including fake orders, to curry favor with peasant electors. The tale highlights electioneering satire.
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Banat
Pesth
Magyar Costume Boosted Candidate's Poll Victory
In a vivid political oddity, rustic voters were wowed by a candidate's ostentatious Magyar garb and numerous, fake decorations. Believing his honors reflected royal esteem, they elected him en masse, handing him Parliament with an order like rank.
Daughter of Ethan Allen in Montreal Remembrance
J H Darwin recalls the death of Sister Margaret Allen on December 10, 1819 at Hotel Dieu Montreal. Daughter of Colonel Ethan Allen, she left Burlington in 1808 at age 24 and spent eleven years in a convent. The writer visits the chapel, notes her beauty, and ponders why she chose nunhood in the city his father-invaded.
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Montreal
Star
J. H. Darwin
Hotel Dieu
St. Paul Street
Sister Allen
Margaret Allen
Ethan Allen
Montgomery
Canada
England
Irons
Burlington
Vermont
Chaple
New England
Nickel coin history and nickel ore discoveries
The article traces the origin of nickel and its coinage, noting pack tong use in Asia, early German silver analysis, and 19th century developments. It covers ore sources in Saxony, Saxony nickel alloys, corrosion resistance, magnetic properties, and early United States and European coinage adoption including Belgian and German silver coins and penny changes.
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China
India
Europe
Saxony
Constadt
Sudil
Chatham
Conn
Lateaster
Penn
Mine la Motte
Colorado
New Mexico
Sweden
New Caledonia
Switzerland
United States
Belgium
England
Jamaica
See
France
Arsenic and Life's Forms in Natural Development
The piece surveys development laws and life’s diverse forms, arguing nature pushed abundant variation across epochs and that the fittest organism survives via defense and aggression. It then reviews arsenic effects, proposing a chemical oxygen exchange mechanism to explain poisoning and preservation of organic matter.
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Popular Science Monthly
Earth
Lieberg
Baked Indian Pudding Recipe From Historic Kitchen Text
This item gives a stove top to oven method for Baked Indian Pudding using Indian meal molasses butter milk and salt. It describes mixing heating thickening baking two hours then finishing with a final stir and brief extra bake. Riddling line asks a joke question: When is a cup like a pair of shears When she is a clipper.
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Nickle
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Hene Meyer
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