Masks and Masquerade In a NY Hunt Club Ball
A narrator on a train encounters a dangerous stranger with a pistol in a pawnshop and later attends a masquerade at the Hunt Club. He worries about the ten of hearts card and its link to danger as he navigates disguises, alliances, and chance encounters through a moonlit night. The scene shifts from a curio shop to a grand ball with playful intrigue and looming risk.
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Apter
Suffy
Vyhim
Friard
Jersey City
Door Committee
Blankshire
Mouquin’s
Wood Inn
Hunt Club
Teddy Hamilton
Teddy
Munich
Columbine
Hooker association proposal recalls Bull Run era
Capt. Isaac P. Gragg recalls the push to form a Hooker association in Massachusetts on Gen. Hooker’s birth anniversary. The tale covers Col. Cowdin’s resistance, Sumner and Wilson’s hurried camp departure, and Hooker’s Massachusetts roots, ending with memories of Josephine Rogers and old Mr. Rogers at Gettysburg.
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Hooker Association
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Isaac P. Gragg
Fighting Joe
Gen. Hooker
Connecticut Valley
Hadley
Capt. Gragg
Andrew
Col. Cowdin
Washington
Bull Run
McDowell
Richmond
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California
Scott
Sumner
Wilson
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Col
Cowdin
Emmetsburg Road
Rogers House
Josephine Rogers
Dog's Devotion to Master Ends in Tragic Farewell
A Newfoundland dog mourns after a drowning master. The animal swims the lake to the body, attends the funeral, guards the grave daily, and eventually dies beside the master, joining him in the cemetery after weeks of despair.
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Ter
Foraging Episode With Sheridan in Shenandoah 1864
An old soldier recalls a foraging night during the 1864 Shenandoah campaign under Sheridan. Soldiers pried eggs, captured a hen and a turkey, and feasted on the turkey that evening while lighter packs and lighter burdens brought sudden relief after marching.
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Sheridan
Shenandoah Valley
National Tribune
John Snider
Jersey
Lincoln on Citizenship Tells Lincoln Story from Hoosier
Jeremiah C Lotz recalls meeting Lincoln during the Civil War and a July 4 1863 flag unfurling at the treasury building South End vacant lot. Lincoln kept the ceremony brief saying The people must keep it there while ensuring the flag rises. The anecdote contrasts brevity with florid oratory.
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Jeremiah C. Lotz
Lincoln
Mr. Lotz
Indianapolis Star
How to Build an Eight-Frame Dovetail Hive
A New Jersey beekeeper outlines plain pine plank selection planing and cutting tips for eight-frame dovetail hives. Details cover rabbet ends hand-sawing, flat nailing surfaces, lift cleats, corner squares, tin rabbets, and precise inside length to ensure proper frame fit. It also covers covers bottoms and bee spaces, edge clearances, and frame construction using long ripped strips with a mitre-box for uniform sizes.
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New Jersey
Farm Journal
Poultry House Ventilation by Cloth Front Windows
Miller Purvis argues a cloth front poultry house provides better ventilation than glass when sited on dry ground. He notes warmer interiors, less dampness and odors, and healthier fowls after six weeks, based on a study at an eastern experiment station.
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Miller Purvis
Breeders’ Gazette
Poultry Notes on Egg Quality and Roosting Habits
Householders stop buying eggs when confidence fades. Keep a dust bath for hens year round to deter lice. Roosting in exposed places reduces winter egg production. A noisy coop signals active egg laying. crowing and singing show healthy hens. Farm and Home.
Preventing roup in poultry herds
Advice stresses keeping the poultry house dry and separating sick birds. It warns that roup is hard to cure and often recurs, even after treatment. It urges immediate repair of broken glass to prevent reinfection and cautions against introducing new blood into the flock to avoid spreading disease.
Real and Bogus Relics of Famous Figures Highlighted
The piece notes prices paid for alleged relics such as Napoleon at St Helena, Kant’s wig, Descartes’ skull, Newton’s teeth, and Heloise’s tooth, with Rousseau’s waistcoat and a tradesman’s claims about Voltaire and Rousseau relics. It cites overstatements and fraud in a Paris trade.
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Napoleon
St. Helena Pas
Kant
Terne
Descartes
Ereas
Isaac Newton
Heloise
Rousseau
Voltaire
France
Gum profits spark caution on self remedies
A concise editorial note from the Detroit Free Press notes that even though multiple individuals earned fortunes from chewing gum, they did so through business, not by relying on the product as medicine.
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Detroit Free Press
Real Lover of Old Port Remembered by Diner Chronicle
A famed English diner devotee, long a devotee of old port, abstained almost entirely before his ritual tasting. He began the day with porridge and milk for breakfast, a lean chop for lunch with brown bread, and a single cup of tea in the afternoon as part of a disciplined, pure palate.
Tobacco Use Before Evening Port Enjoyment
A fragment notes that the subject's daytime tobacco use prepared him for full enjoyment of his port at night, implying a routine linking daytime habits to evening pleasure.
Armies of Europe Estimated at 9.5 Million Soldiers
A statistician calculates Europe houses 9.5 million men under arms. If gathered, the armed force would stretch about 1,500 miles in a single line.
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Europe
New Yorkers Fond of Autos
New Yorkers show strong car ownership with automobiles in the city valued at about 70 million dollars. The figure reflects broad ownership and the city’s demand for motor vehicles.
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New
Hay Feed For Laying Hens A Winter Tip
A tip suggests steaming Clover or alfalfa hay cut into quarter inch lengths and fed with grain as a capital food for laying hens. The writer urges readers to prepare it this winter and give it a try.
Green cut bone as egg producer for hens
Green cut-bone is presented as an effective egg producer for hens, usable two or three times weekly. The note emphasizes its value in poultry care and feeding routine.
Leg weakness attacks cockerels more frequently
Leg weakness is noted to affect cockerels more often than pullets, indicating a gender or development difference in susceptibility. The observation suggests possible behavioral or physiological factors influencing injury risk among young birds.
A Constant Water Supply For Stock And Poultry
A practical device uses a water tight barrel and a box to provide a continuous water level for hogs sheep or poultry. Water flows through a vent until the barrel recharges then resumes as the vent is opened.
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Iowa
The Winter Layers
Hens with dull heads can be revived in two weeks using a regimen of fasting, bread and pepper soaked bread, charcoal and a deep litter diet. A mixed grain ration, whole corn, grit, shells, and dry bran follow, with chopped raw meat added next day. If no laying resumes in three weeks, market the hen as a winter layer.
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Montreal Herald
Morning Prayer for a Busy Day
A devotional verse prays for a day of cheerful duty and steady work. It asks for laughter in tasks, kindness in dealings, and contentment at day’s end before a peaceful sleep.
Give the Sheep a Chance
The article urges flock owners to protect newborn lambs from parasites and disease, noting many lambs are free of internal parasites at birth. It argues success comes from ordinary care and attention to small factors that support thrift and health, enabling sheep to resist disease and thrive.
Hogs Benefit From A Farm Bath Tub
A Prairie Farmer instruction suggests building a hog bath tub five by ten feet and 15 inches deep with a galvanized iron bottom. Set in the ground under a shed near the feeding area and fill with water to ten inches, then add crude oil. Hogs will use it in summer and fall, reducing mud and lice while saving oil and preventing skin diseases.
Stock Advice for Thriving Hogs and Housed Pigs
Large thrifty sows yield better litters. provide ideal conditions to boost profits. Feed bran and oats to ewes with occasional corn. A stunted colt won’t reach potential if not grown vigorously from start. Farrowing sows need exercise yards. constipation from inactivity causes losses. A quarantine pen is essential for new hogs until danger passes.
Tillable Land Should Get First Consideration
The article argues that tillable land, the main revenue source for farms, deserves primary focus. It notes farmers' institutes over twenty years have concentrated on field crops and quotes a director who says success with field crops justifies limiting diversification for now.
Farm Seeds Planning for Spring Planting
Farmers use winter to plan the coming season and decide which seeds to order early. Seed selection hinges on germination tests to ensure crop potential, with replacements possible if initial lots fail. Seed quality strongly influences potential yields and is better understood now than a decade ago.
Boar Housing Needs Space and Exercise Area
Breeders often keep the boar in a dirty pen with no yard for exercise. The guidance says give the boar a strong pen and about an acre yard separate from the herd.
Sheep Growing Encouraged for Wool and Mutton Trade
Farmers urged to expand sheep farming to boost wool exports and provide affordable mutton for households, arguing the country should grow its wool and raise mutton to reach every table.
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