Farm and Garden Notes on Livestock and Feeding
Rural World carries opinions on farm practice from Poultry World to Homestead. It covers tarred-paper poultry houses, dangers of swill feeding to cows, the usefulness of carts for manure, and dumping wagons on farms. Dr E L Sturtevant summarizes dairy feeding conclusions on breed, merit, and butter versus cheese outcomes, urging feeding to the animal’s production limit with concentrated foods for butter. Three eggs and milk at table.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nesta
Aden
Thad
Tarre Bayer
N. FE
England
Vosny
E. L. Sturtevant
South Farmingham
Mass
Historic Christmas Pudding and Baking Guide
A fragmented recipe list presents varied Christmas treats and basic bake notes. Items include life nutihieg flour mixes, five cups flour, butter and lard, raisins currants molasses, cit ron, and cream of tartar. Also there are directions for Christmas Poppine, Hipxonry nur Caxte, Bert Bawns, and Brown Bread with corn and rye meal, molasses, vinegar, saleratus, and steam times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert
Singing Mice Sing From Deer Island Fireplace
Mrs Underwood writes to the New York Evening Post about mice aboard Deer Island Boston Harbor singing in a vented fireplace. She describes the mice feeding on canary seed and one small mouse sitting out to sing softly on September 27, noting the nightly visits and her fear that the singer may have died after several mice were caught.
Meteoric Stones and US Falls in Past Decades
Over the last eighteen years twelve meteoric stone falls occurred in the United States with specimens gathered. Eight falls were in the prairie West from Ohio to Kansas and Kentucky to Wisconsin, totaling about 1 000 kilograms. Prof. J L Smith maps these events in the American Journal of Science and Arts, noting their locality and a weight of roughly 2 300 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Prairie
Ohio
Kansas
Kentucky
Wisconsin
J. L. Smith
Louisville
American Journal of Science and Arts
Smith
Saint Nicholas the Christmas Bishop Across Europe
The article traces St. Nicholas legends from Lycia to Bohemia and the Netherlands, noting his gifts for good children and rods for the naughty. It describes varied guises from bishop in a white horse to a sheet and pillow headwear, and scenes of children awaiting gifts in homes across regions, with customs of leaving shoes or stockings and secret preparations by bakers and households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cna
St. Nicholas
Saleb
Myra
Lycia
Constantin
Bohemia
Santa Claus
Holland
Smiklaus
Switzerland
Sonnoe Klas
Heligoland
Vorsilberg
Zemmiklas
Nether
Austria
Niklo
Niglo
Krampus
Tyrol
St. Luco
Germany
Netherlands
Belgium
Miribile
Hair Styling on Roof Advised by Contemporary Mentor
A contemporary guide urges young Indies to arrange hair in a fashionably dramatic way. Let it all down and comb with a crosscut saw, then stand on a roof as wind plays with it. Finish by tying a black bow of ribbon and letting the front remain styled.
Waterbury Teamsters Dispute Shuts Narrow Courtway
Two Waterbury teamsters blocked a narrow courtway by sitting on their wagons facing each other all day. They refused to move and unhitched horses after dark, leaving the carts in place. by morning each had secretly moved the other’s cart away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterbury
Conn
Turbulent War News From Europe and Asia
Reports from the Balkan front describe Osman Pasha still holding Plevna though provisions dwindle and a relief force under Sulieman Pasha and Mohammed Ali advances. A decisive battle looms that could free Osman or seal a Turkish defeat and push Russians toward Constantinople. In Asia, Erzeroum is besieged while naval action remains surprisingly minor amid sweeping hostilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bulgaria
Armenia
Osman Pasha
Plevna
Sulieman Pasha
Mohammed Ali
Osman
Constantinople
Balkans
Adrianople
Europe
Bosphorus
Erzeroum
Weary Amid the Glitter Washington Letter Contemplation
A Washington letter describes a high government official’s wife in her grand home longing for simpler days with her husband, seeking quiet and genuine life. She laments the demands, receptions, and superficial social games, yearning for honest happiness, and requests political influence for music and monolith hobby notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Will
Bettie
Hon
Porcelain Fiddle from Venice Captures Scientific Interest
Venice is excited over a unique porcelain fiddle, possibly the only one of its kind. A former Saxon porcelain worker, with a helper, created a fiddle whose resonator is china, strings are metal, and the bow forms a near semicircle. The instrument promises a pure, rich tone and could influence use of china and glass in acoustics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venice
China
Scientific American
Noted Courtship Exchange Hints at Union
A fragment shows a suitor seeking a future marriage while the woman answers with a cautious hope. She remarks she is tired of suing men for broken promises, signaling strain in romantic prospects.
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!