Practical Guide for Seed Sowing and Garden Maintenance
Time tested advice on seed germination, cold frames, and precise sowing depth. Tips cover soil preparation, watering, thinning, and transplanting for a strong start. Also includes household hints for preserving meat, cleaning brass, and improving celery and butter quality.
Doctors Puzzled by Immigrant Girl's Paralyzing Episodes
Dr Daniel J Brennan in New York reports a mysterious case of a near eighteen-year-old girl from Forsyth near Delancey who experiences episodes of limb paralysis and insensitivity to pain while in a trance. In recovery she speaks fluent English, a language she does not know when well, prompting ongoing study by Brennan and colleagues.
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Daniel J. Brennan
New York
Forsyth
Delancey Street
Williamsburg
Brooklyn
Miss Eisner
Unclear Correspondence Mentions Tubers and Stock
Fragment discusses dyes and plants, noting young tubers and stock in a London garden correspondence. The fragment is incomplete and lacks clear events or entities.
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London Garden
Origin of Poultry From Gallus Bankiva In Asia
Asia is the home of our most valuable domestic fowls except the turkey. The goose and duck have no fixed native quarter. Gallus is Asiatic and wild in India and Java, providing sport to hunters. All varieties derive from Gallus Bankiva, with color and markings varying under domestication.
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Asia
Turkey
India
Java
England
Poultry World
Worth Inspires Egyptian Garb Idea For Healthful Beauty
In a Parisian chat Worth tells American women to adopt the Persian costume of a loose waist short skirt and trousers without excessive fullness. He says he made it beautifully in Paris but women won’t wear it and must suffer until persuaded to adopt it.
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Worth
Europe
Paris
Old Time Country Store Advertisement 1805 Dorchester
An 1805 Dorchester advertisement reproduces a rustic store listing from the Noris Repository. It notes salt pork and powder, tea and snuff, cloths, hardware, medicines, books, and groceries offered opposite Milton Bridge. The piece frames Samuel Temple’s era as memory and honors Jay’s Treaty with a patriotic inscription. It ends with a wary promise to pay later and a June 1805 Dorchester dateline.
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Valery
Boston Journal
Noris Repository
Deadha, Maas
Herman Mann
Norfon County
Samuel Temple
Orange
Mess
Dartmouth College
Temple
Thay
Dorchester
Milt Lower Mills
Milton
Jay
Milton Bridge
Fever tree questioned as medicine in scientific study
The article notes skepticism about eucalyptus globulus medicinal properties. It cites research finding no true medical benefit from the plant itself while highlighting its aggressive growth and heavy water needs. Roots may dry surrounding wet ground as the tree matures.
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Halls Journal of Health
A. P
Walling
Worcester
Mass
Syme
Lawson
James Cooper
Messrs. Lawson & Sons
Sterson
Bugs Lee
Anderson’s & Dexter