Abalone Export Linked To San Pedro Venture By Harris
Louis Harris of San Pedro develops an abalone export industry harvesting green meat offshore from White's Point. Five Japanese divers and two crews work launches taking about thirty tons monthly, dried to one tenth weight for shipment to the Orient at high prices. Shells fetch up to $80 per ton in Philadelphia. Fishing spans from Santa Barbara to Catalina, with divers operating four hours per dive.
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San Pedro
Louis Harris
Orient
Los Angeles Times
Harris
Epicurus
California
White's Point
Philadelphia
Santa Barbara
Newport Beach
Santa Barbara Islands
San Clemente
Santa Cruz
Catalina
Abalone Divers and Dried Oyster Process Unveiled
A report details abalone diving off California with six divers working in twenty feet of water without suits. Each diver yields 100 pounds per basket, and six divers equal one suit diver in a day. Abalones undergo drying, brining, washing, cooking, smoking, and final cleaning before shipment, with a six week drying period and a two year growth cycle. Harris plans to add a cannery to serve Honolulu and American markets.
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Harris
California
Honolulu
A Strange Maltese Dress That Casts Malta in Mourning
A Philadelphia Inquirer report describes Maltese women abroad in black robes and silk mantles with bone stiffened hoods. The garb conceals features, leaving only eyes visible, giving streets a funeral impression as if Malta were in mourning.
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Malta
Philadelphia Inquirer
In Search of a Blue Rose by Sir Harry Veitch
Sir Harry Veitch, England's premier gardener, pursues a blue rose as modern horticulture’s great goal. The Veitch family, famed for six decades of plant introductions, funds global exploration for rare orchids and foliage plants. A traveler recently returned from Tibet survived a three year trek with bandits to protect specimens, underscoring the risks of collecting new flowers.
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Harry Veitch
England
James Veitch
Veitchs
Equatorial
Harry
China
Celestial Land
The Love in Fiction and Life Drama Pleads for Varied Emotion
A periodical argues plays should explore emotions beyond love. It notes the difficulty of creating heroes who reflect diverse feelings, citing a Pompeii wall saying a man without love is not a gentleman.
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Detroit
Lippincott's
Pompeii
Keep the Children Moving Readiness for Play
An essay argues that play far surpasses other self improvement efforts for personal life. It defines play as any harmless, joyful activity beyond routine such as walking, rowing, gardening, or wood chopping. The piece laments adults neglect their own play and suggests teaching children to play to reduce heaviness and gloom.
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Bright
Stockdale
Mey
Utica
Dee Moines
Towa
From Bad to Worse in Blame's Wake
The passage recalls Senator Bristow in Salina discussing Cornwallis era troops. He humorously contrasts Blane's wife who fears burglars with Blanc’s quip that burglars are silent, leaving Mrs Blane waking her husband in a blue panic even when there is no noise.
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Henrietta
Bristow
Salina
Cornwallis
Blane
John
Blanc
Senator Bristow
Adams Wit at Cambridge noted Neptune discoverer and wit
Professor Adams of Cambridge University famed for discovering Neptune mixes science with humor at a Philosophical Society dinner. A speaker praises benevolence as both philanthropy and citizenship. The page also includes brief consumer ads for bowel relief and a cold remedy.
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Adams
Camridge University
England
Philosophical Society
Society
Professor Adams
Cornhill Magazine
Women shoppers drive ads and retail success in Decorah
Ernest Ackerman argues that women control 85 percent of merchandise sales and influence ad strategy. He urges Decorah merchants to study female buyers, abandon flashy fakir selling, and adopt a practical, customer focused plan to build local trade and compete with international bidders.
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Venice
Decorah
Crawfish Menace to Mississippi Levees and Crops
An official notes crawfish as a persistent hazard to levees and fields along the lower Mississippi. The pest bores into dikes and damages early crops, with floods increasing activity. Plantations may see thousands of burrows per acre after night rains, prompting gathering of labor to stab holes with clubs.
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Mississippi
Lower
Biological Survey
Department of Agriculture
Acre
Dinner test in Siberia as measure of a bride’s education
A Siberian custom uses a bride’s self prepared dinner for her husband’s family to prove her education and family instruction. The piece notes this as a gauge of merit and a critique of political arguments that ruin friendships.
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Siberia
Daily Paper Pricing for Winneshiek County Readers
The Decorah Republican offers a combo with Chicago Record Herald and prices listed for Winneshiek county subscribers. Outside county, packages cost higher with rates for Record Herald Tribune or Journal and an extra Sunday issue.
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Decorah
Chicago Record-Herald
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Journal
Sunday Record-Herald of Tribune
Winneshirk County
Record-Herald
Tribune
Journal
Cucumbers Pickling Methods From Old and New Recipes
Instructions for cucumber pickling cover several methods. Directions describe peeling and seeding medium cucumbers, salting and draining, packing with onions in wide bottles, and sealing with hot cider vinegar. Additional recipes include soaking ripe cucumbers in brine, mixing with onions peppers seeds and sugar, then canning in glass jars.
Late Pickling Hints For Household Canning
Do not use tin copper or brass vessels for pickling as acids corrode metal. Color pickles with fresh nasturtium horseradish grape or cherry leaves placed on top, not boiled in. Make strong brine by dissolving as much salt as water allows. a brine that floats an egg is strong. When salting cucumbers some add water some do not. a little water helps prevent shriveling.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promises Recovery
Letters from Mrs Henry Leiseberg of Elgin Illinois and Mrs G B Whittington of Kearneysville West Virginia praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing female weakness and other "woman's ills" after doctors failed. The Pinkham Medicine Co of Lynn Massachusetts notes thousands of grateful letters and offers confidential advice from women.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
G. B. Whittington
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Standard
Marcus Aurelius
F. S. Landers
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The
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Victor Records
Rosario Bourdon
Leter Light Opera Company
Conway
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Victor Minstrel Company
Raggedy Man
James Whitcomb Riley
Manon Lescaut
M. J. Soukrup
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Northern Arms
Mobile
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Panama Canal
Mobiles
U. S
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Ala
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Des Moines
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