Jenny Lind Helps Poor Boy's Daughter Become Noted Contralto
Adelaide Phillips, a Boston girl of humble means, was encouraged by Jenny Lind after a chance concert meeting. Lind funded her European training, enabling Phillips to debut in 1856 and gain lasting fame as America’s leading contralto until her death in 1882. The tale, recounted by Max Strakosch in 1892, credits Lind with discovering and supporting her talent.
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E. J. Edwards
Jenny Lind
Boston
Philadelphia
Addie Phillips
Singer's Hotel
Addie
Jennie Lind
Europe
Adelaide Phillips
America
Max Strakosch
Mr. Strakosch
Miss Phillips
Polka and Prudent at a Weekend Gathering
A compact comic sketch set at a christening party where host hospitality meets guests capacity. Mr MacTavish bids farewell to everyone, insisting he will not stay yet offers a humorous good night while the evening is young. A study in social wit and midwestern humor from period newspaper excerpts.
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Saturday Evening Post
Editor Says Cristofal Built First Piano in 1710
A Padua native Cristofal is identified as the producer of the first piano in 1710. The Exchange comments that the miscreant's name is now known and the editor expresses confirmation.
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Cristofal
Padua
Sesser
All He Had to Do With I And You Consented
Dialog captures a moment of political involvement. A speaker recalls that consent was required for his wife to run for office, but the response clarifies that the speaker acquiesced rather than consented. The exchange highlights tension over involvement in a spouse’s political ambitions.
Prudence Questioned in Brotherly Dispute
A man is accused of imprudent choices harming his brother in a terse, fragmentary report from EWSPAPERRAAGHIVE. The text offers little context beyond a warning about borrowing pleasure today at another’s expense.
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Tau Urrow
Good House for Chickens Emphasizes Dryness and Draught-Free Design
A short guide advises constructing a simple chicken house focused on durability, dryness, and ventilation rather than elaborate framing. It stresses avoiding drafts while keeping the structure secure and practical for poultry care.
Curtain Front Hen House Design and Construction Notes
Guidance for building a curtain front hen house using a concrete foundation for sanitary flooring, wood framing with yellow pine siding, and a tight roof. Emphasizes ventilation from the south, damp-free roost and dust control, shed roof for light, deep pens sized for 50 hens and two cocks, with a 12 by 20 foot pen plan and window/ventilation arrangements.
Breeding and Laying Poultry Pens Specified
The speaker outlines pen dimensions for poultry housing noting 12 feet by 12 feet pens could hold many hens with a single cock. They add that for a laying house a larger size is more economical and advisable.
Interior of Poultry House for Winter Use
Mr F W Reynolds sends a diagram showing the end view of a poultry house arranged for winter use. The design features a slanting floor creating a dead air space, level roosts, a false ceiling, a curtain, nests, and a droppings gutter. The setup allows easy removal of the curtain and ceiling for spraying and cleaning during warm weather.
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F. W. Reynolds
Poultry on a Good Farm: A Profitably Tailored Enterprise
The article surveys U S poultry farming, noting chickens turkeys geese ducks and other birds as major products. It cites high per capita egg consumption and rising poultry egg values, advocates farm specialization while warning that scale requires experience, and advises working on a large chicken ranch to learn breeds feeding housing and incubation before expanding to broilers capons and turkeys.
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United States
Fountain Built for Ducks in Dry Drinking Design
A dry duck drinking fountain is described by the American Agriculturist. A square galvanized wire mesh panel 18 inches on each side is secured to a wooden frame and placed to keep ducklings dry while they drink, helping feather development.
Poultry Care Tips From A Practical Farm Guide
The guidance covers separating ducks and chicks, inspecting young birds for lice, keeping charcoal sand and water handy, feeding small grain, daily cleaning and disinfection of brooders, feeding raw potato peels in moderation, monitoring chick growth, collecting eggs before noon or twice daily, starting chicks with goodHabits, feeding often to grow, separating sexes to avoid retardation, moving outside brooders weekly, inspecting yards annually for rye barley or oats, and using carbolic acid in interior wash to deodorize.
Nationality of an egg by inspection debated in court
A Lancashire firm faced evidence over selling Russian eggs as Irish, leading to acquittal. Experts split on whether eggs can be identified by origin from exterior appearance. Defense witnesses argued birthplace cannot be known. one even said bad eggs render nationality indeterminable. Purchasers, the article implies, must rely on trust. It also notes guidance on feeding hens for egg production. It ends with advice that medium turkeys, fifteen to eighteen pounds, sell better than larger showroom types.
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Lancashire
England
Russia
Baltimore Star
Baltimore American
South
Maryland
America
The
Star
the Star
Felix Acsus
C.c Fulton & CO
American Building
Baltimore, Md
United States
Abbott-Detroit
Capital Power of a Fine Script
A remark on how a small written note by a Rockefeller can legally become worth fifty thousand dollars, illustrating the perceived value of capital and savvy leverage in business.
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Rockefeller
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B. Johns Melvin & Johnson, Publishers
Adelaide Phillipe
Wiggins
Maud
Wiseman
Boston Transcript
Uncle Eben
Houston Post
Glenn T. Sponenbergh
Oswego County
New York
Mr. Sponenbergh
Wood
T. W. Wood & Sons, Seedsmen
Richmond, Va
Thomas O’connell
OG Marset Street
Wilmington, Delaware
UC. US
Sam
Otto
Gail
Otto Shops
Denton
Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station
Peerless Oyster Co
Fort Ave. and
Lawrence St
Baltimore
Raleigh & Son
Nenton, MD
Nisi
Oscar Clark
Ida E. Carter
Circuit Court
Caroline County
Equity
J. Kemp Stevens
Abbott
Detroit
Rices Abbott
Bes Us
Abbott Motor Company
Michigan
J. ©. Foster
Federalsburg, MD
Doan
J T. Moore
Third St
Duffey’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Dean
Hl. C. Jarvis
Park Avenue
Mulberry Street
Watchens& Free
Peerless Watch CO
Dept
3D St
Chicago
Ilia
San Jose Seale
A. G. Gelletty
P. O. Sparks
den Ion
Periencza
Stoers
His. V
Willson
KE. H. Ringgold
Field & Willis
Destro, Pac
Gohiy & CO
Del
Va. Ry
PA M. AM
P. BE
Baltimore Ar
Salar
Lewes
T. Murdoch
J. &. Jones
Willard Thomson
R. W. Silvester
Jeab College Park
Fe Ue
J. B. Tull
Seventh St
Brethren Church
Fourth Street
T. Pliny Fisher
Denton, Md
Sixth Street
E. M. Garey
Holt Construction Co
Basisabie Biden
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