Reverend Braidwood and the spring romance of Sarah Bartlett
The Rev Ralph Braidwood, a long serving clergyman, reflects on a youthful mishap with rustic Sarah Bartlett at a spring during a northern October. Years later, while visiting a dying patient in a hospital, the memory resurfaces as Sarah reveals a troubled marriage and child loss, accusing his brief kiss at the spring of breaking her heart.
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Ralph Braidwood
Braidwood
Mr. Braidwood
Sarah Bartlett
Chicago Ledger
Switched Out the Sacred Flame at Baku Hindu Temple
Narrative notes reveal a Hindu idol-temple at Baku misdescribed as Zoroastrian. The sacred flame, once said to burn for millennia, was extinguished by a Russian engineer’s heat and only lit for visitors since. Also cited is a disinfection method for whooping cough and a claim about rattlesnake poison components in a potato.
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Baku
Caspian Sea
Murray
Drecary Peas and Drainage Benefits Highlighted
The article discusses the decline of dwarf pea popularity due to lower yields versus larger varieties. It explains drainage as essential to healthy soils, preventing waterlogging, warming soil, and enabling effective manure use. It includes Mr. M. W. Stratton’s tile drainage results improving corn yields, pasture health, and pig feeding outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eople
Fruit-raising orchard pests and a spraying remedy
Cor. Marmer’s Review discusses fruit pests and a spray method using paris green and london apple to control worms. The writer shares personal trials, urges thorough, seasonal spraying starting when fruit is pea sized, and notes an excellent yield with minimal worm damage.
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Spy
Baldwin
Cook
London
Paris
Cor. Marmer
Trimming Pine Trees and Forest Conservation Debate
A correspondent argues trimming live limbs from pine saplings can improve lumber quality if done correctly in winter. Poor cuts cause bark damage and crooked growth. removing select lower limbs may benefit small thicket trees and saplings used for clapboards. The piece also notes European forestseed programs and Lake Champlain shoaling due to deforestation.
Beginning the Stock Business and Its Humble Start
A narrator recalls starting in stock breeding with a few Plymouth Rock chickens, selling eggs to buy two pigs, adding a sow, and saving all by feeding pigs with dish water mixed with grain or milk.
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L. B
Jural New Yorker
Plymouth Rock
Honey price unions urged by Illinois beekeeper
George I Robbins of Mechanicsburg Illinois argues in the Journal that producer coalitions can fix honey prices but warns many buyers resist high costs. He notes a Springfield lawyer and druggist produce about two thousand pounds of comb honey sold at 24 cents per pound, highlighting cash needs and varied market power.
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George I’. Robbins
Mechanics
Burgh
Ill
Jee Journal
Springfield
Bees in Spring Work Habits and Beekeeper Strategies
The article outlines spring bee management from cleaning the hive to ensuring strong colonies. It discusses the need for suitable nectar sources like buckwheat and white clover, risks from pests and weather, and the beekeeper’s duty to provide forage and proper boxes to secure honey production and hive health. It stresses careful study of bee habits and diligent management for profit.
Save the Pieces in a Housekeeper’s Practice
A British or American period piece on frugal household management outlines the credo Save the pieces as a maxim for all good housekeepers. It details using leftovers creatively from meals and fabric scraps to minimize waste.
Household Hints From an Old Almanac Fruitful But Faulty
A collection of domestic cautions and tips on cleaning, cooking and care. It covers washing windows with whiting or ammonia, preventing odors on stoves, using lemon juice for fever, pickles in glazed ware, ear cleaning, lamp cleaning, jewelry cleaning, a perspiration remedy with alum and egg, and skin care with warm water. It ends with social hints and a quip about a faro bank.
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Luke
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Ani
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M. W. Stratton
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Breeders’ Gazette
Des Moines Register
the Forester
Europe
Burlington
Charlotte
France
Germany
Champlain
Housekeeping
L.£. Beardsley
Clinton # Ltd Sts
Deatrick
L. E. Beardsley
Defiance, Ohio
Baltimore Bakery
R. Brown
Baker and
Corner Forth
Clinton
Sutr Shen
Vington Nic E
John W. Winn
Henry Wonderly
Bill
John Dowe
Wight
J. Clemmer
David Miller
Michael Gorman
J. Sheets
Fred Schultz
Albert Gerry
B. W. Slagie
W.F. Coughanour
C. E. Bereaw
Common Pleas
Side Edie
Evan Clerk
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Ane
Arshal
Kate Hoover
Tiedeaman Block
Mays
S. D. Potter
D.d.sdentat
Defiance
Ohio
H. B. Harris
Cameron
Harris & Cameron
Ars Torneys
Stone Front
del Ais
National Bank
W. D. Hill
W.W. H. Hubbard
Hill & Hubbard
Mr. Hill
Old oMee
Keystone Block
H. G. Baker
Preisendorfer’s
Henry Hardy
Milton BE Orcutt
Omee
Wertheimer
Court House
W. C. Travis
LAW and General Collection
Omles
Morse
First Streets
Charles 5. Bronson
Kittners
Frank W. Knapp
Ollee
Barlington
J.I. Hale
Word
Karst & Tengen
Perry Street
Wabush Depot
Corwin &Kisel
Eureka
Corwin & Kiser
Bet
Deflaunce
Farmers of Defiance Co
Defiance County
Charles E. Bronson
N. W
Cer Giasa Ead Ad
F. Heitzwable
Peter Dickman
Burgland & Shead
North Deflance
Petyh Dickman
Mackinac
Detroit
Mackinac Island
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Whitcomb
Gon's Pace
Cleveland
J. L. Scottt
Clinton and
Third Sta
Ransact
LL Mosses
Hoffman Bros
Undertakers
Opera House
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FEMAN
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Travis
L. Morse
Defiane
Hay
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Kuhn Bros
Steem
Luis
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