God Cares For His Children In All Wisdom And Love
A devotional meditation on God’s constant care, knowledge, power, and presence for believers. It cites Jesus calming the storm in Mark, urges trust over fear, and uses anecdotes to illustrate God’s omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, and boundless love guiding through trials.
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Peter
God
Jesus
Earth
Father
Paul
Christ Jesus
Lord
Christ
Minneapolis
Chair and Broomstick Tricks for Boys and Girls
An American Boy feature describes chair and broomstick stunts to test balance and flexibility. It explains passing under a chair with careful spacing, lifting and rebalancing, and using a broomstick to practice limbering shoulders and arching movements while stressing safety and gradual progress.
Mice Run Thread Mill in Historic Scots Invention
David Hatton of Dunfermline built a mouse powered thread mill around 1820 to produce sewing thread. Inspired after observing French prisoners’ toys in Perth prison in 1812, a pair of mice reportedly ran 10.5 miles daily, earning small wages while producing up to 120 threads per day, with a projected cathedral-scale mill for 10,000 mice planned before Hatton’s death.
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David Hatton
Dunfermline
Dun
Perth
Hatton
Curiosity Coffee Room
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
The Father of the Banjo
Frank B Converse known as the father of the banjo has died in New York He popularized the instrument and educated many old time players He helped develop it from a simple contrivance to its former prominence His widow is Harriet Maxwell Converse and the decline followed the waning of minstrel interest. In Maryland Edward M Gillet loses 2750 to prize ginger snaps causing the death of 11 Hereford cows from overeating.
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Liverpool
New York
Father
Strone
God
Baptist Union
England
Church of St. Alban
Holborn
Frank B. Converse
New York Sun
Mr. Converse
Westfield
Mags
Charles Converse
Elmira
London
Pony Moore
Christy Company
Edward M. Gillet
Venora
Baltimore County
Dickenson Gorsuch
Glencoe
Four Legged Hen Between Frames in Pittsfield
Minot Street resident M Goodman displays a rare Rhode Island Red hen born May 5 last in Pittsfield Maine. The curious fowl has two legs forward for walking and two that grow backward with feet held closed most times. The bird weighs around three and a half pounds and is reportedly in good health.
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M. Goodman
Minot Street
Boston
Pittsfield
Mr. Goodman
Rhode Island
Hands and nails care and aging beauty tips from a bygone era
A collage of home care advice covers handling skin on hands with careful washing, rubbing emollients into palms, massaging fingers, and trimming nails with emery powder. It also notes avoiding tight rings and small gloves, and contrasts nail care with polishing and filing. Additional sections offer infant sleep tricks, fabric color setting, and simple tips for opening oysters.
Small Waist Craze Prompts Corset Pressure, Health Risks
A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune correspondent details the fashion push toward tightly laced corsets that shorten the waist and press in at the hips. Modiste shops reportedly decline customers with waists over 22 inches, citing risk to reputation and sales. The piece warns of internal complications, including heart and lung issues, and notes many debutantes and young girls shrinking waist measurements as a result.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Handsome Corsage Ornaments Trend In State Fashion
A Brooklyn Eagle note describes a year of fashionable ladies rich in jewelry. Women will display diamonds rubies pearls and pearls on state occasions with rings brooches earrings clasps tiaras and elaborate sets balanced by their purses.
Traveling Mail Box On Wheels For Home Delivery
A Rural New Yorker description outlines a device to move a mail box between road and house. Ground level routes pull the box along a wire with pulleys and a crank, using wheel grooves and cords to raise or lower the box as needed. Additional posts extend reach, and the system claims to deter interference by youths.
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Uncle Sam
New Yorker
Dair y Crop Rotation for Wisconsin and Ohio
A system ensures comfortable keeping of 40 cows on 5 acres. The Wisconsin example implies 65 acres of good land can annually support 40 cows. A Ohio correspondent asks for a rotation for corn and pasture. The dairyman says rely on corn and alfalfa where possible, with limited pasture, raise corn for silos and cribbing, and keep hogs to utilize skim milk. Alfalfa is not yet recommended for short rotations, and local soil, climate, and markets must guide choices. consider clover and possibly wheat oats and barley if conditions permit.
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Wisconsin
Ohio
Dairy Storage Room Heating and Butter Quality
A writer describes inadequately stored butter in a cellar and its impact on quality and price. The author notes damp musty conditions in a combined chore room and ice house and warns farmers to improve dairy buildings to fetch top market prices.
Storage Room Design in Ice House Shows Temperature Control
E F Brown describes a side hill storage room under an ice house with a double floor and roof. Water drains through a slanted watertight second floor, vented by large windows. The porch entrance and storm door allow entry without disturbing internal temperatures as butter is kept near 40 degrees above zero in summer.
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E. F Brown
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Mark
Lake of Galilee
Faegal Ia
Abraham
Frances E. Townsley
Rocky Mountains
Baptist. Union
Banjo
Congress
N. Y
Ing Antistis
Griggleby
Judy
Y. Mail and Express
Washington Star
Papa
Jack
Chicago News
Chicago Daily
Brooklyn Eagle
Alamonds
Traveling
Ace
Kee
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