Tea raising in the United States promises new tablet tea
The Department of Agriculture reports experiments that compress tea leaves into small tablets to save space and improve storage. Pinehurst Summerville South Carolina grows US tea with high quality leaves, showing potential for a domestic industry. Domestic consumption and import patterns are discussed, with historical attempts noted.
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Department of Agriculture
Summerville
S.C
B. T. Galloway
Bureau of Plant Industry
Pinehurst
S. C
Agricultural Department
Orient
United States
Middleton Barony
Ashley River
Charleston
Junius Smith
Forties
Greenville
Asia
Patent Office
South Atlantic
Gulf States
Inter
United States Department of Agriculture
Malt coffee boosts soldier weight and digestion says doctor
Afalé Coffee as Food reports Dr Cyrillus Koljago of the 2d Turkestan Rifle Battalion conducted ten day trials with ten men on malt coffee and tea. Malt coffee raised weight by 832 grammes per man while tea dropped 520 grammes. After restoring to tea the malt coffee group lost 660 grammes each in ten days. The doctor concludes malt coffee chiefly enhances digestive function allowing better nutrient extraction from all foods.
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Turkestan
Cyrillus Koljago
London cabman warns fat lady about horse content
A London cabman tells a fat lady to walk the other way to avoid the horse he's carrying for a shilling. He claims the horse would have a fit if it sees what she has paid for. The exchange is delivered with exaggerated politeness and humor.
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London
Philippine towns with populations over ten thousand
Manila is the only incorporated city in the Philippines, with inhabitants numbering 244,732. Four towns exceed 10,000 residents, and thirty-five exceed 5,000, according to the latest counts.
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Philippines
Manila
Islands
The Docking of Horses Seeks Legal Change
agitation promises to urge passage of laws against docking horses and owners are urged to join a crusade. dealers rarely sign petitions, asserting docking is not painful and justified by easier life. some say tail shortening aids cleanliness and prevents a draggled tail in mud and dust.
The Watch Trade in a Kraal King
A white explorer enters a native king's kraal where six warriors with tooth necklaces escort him to an ivory dais. He displays a brass watch as a marvel, offering it for six tusks. The king tests it with a monocle, returns it, and recalls trading a wooden war club for brass trinkets in London, noting none worked for long.
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London
Non Possibility Under Cross Examination In Court
A lawyer questioned a Southern backwoodsman on a witness stand. The witness defined a non-possibility and offered a blunt example about enlarging the mouth by not moving years forward.
Was a Proper Judge in Baby Weight Claim
The last Cleveland baby prompted a weighing joke as President Cleveland weighed the infant at twelve pounds to confirm his own scales. Dr. Bryant noted an eight pounder, but Cleveland insisted the nurse’s report was wrong, claiming he used the same scales for fishing.
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Cleveland
Death Message Drifts From a Cautionary Verse
A dramatic poem personifies Death as a vast powerful microbe that infects all ages from youth to old age. It describes Death quietly working through laughter and sunlit days, claiming victims by breath and life, and feeding on each slain soul to continue its harvest.
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G. BE
Lfe
Tig
Jewel tombs, rails, and world riches from history
A mémoire of vast sums: jewels valued at over 12 million lie on Makhomet's tomb, a railroad to the Mont Blanc summit progresses, Jerusalem Jews largely of a bland type, Mexico yields about a third of global silver, over 500000 acres in India grow tea. Abandoned Spanish gold mines near the Panama route to reopen, Khedive of Egypt owns a $70000 gold saddle, Dr. Glennon, 42, is the youngest archbishop in St. Louis, and marriage rites were not churchly until 1198 under Pope Innocent III.
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Dr. Glennon
St. Louis
Ants Resume After Dismemberment Headline
A reported observation notes that an ant can survive a head severance and endure prolonged submersion without apparent loss of function, resuming activities as if unharmed. The account highlights resilience of insects under extreme injury conditions.
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Guy Elliott Mitchell
India
Pinehurst Gardens
Pinehurst Tea Gardens
United States Department of State
Dragon’s Pool
Hangchow
China
Britain
Colonies
Ter
Ana Dosall
Philippine
TySa Moo
Makhomet
Summit of
Mont Blanc
Jerusalem
Mexico
Sir Henry Irving
Kelnton
Mandeville
Panama Canal Route
Egypt
Innocent III
Selley Co Dept
East
Boston, Mass
Hillside Nursery
Somerville
Mass
Waterman
Suite B
Lexington
N.Y
Watson-Stillman Cory
St. N.Y
H. T
Wire Lewine Macune Co
Cleveland, Ohio
H. D. Hemenway
Hartford School of Horticulture
Doubleday, Page & Co
America
I. D. Hemenway
Hartford
Connecticut
Goodwin
J. H. Goodwin
Broadway
New York
Pele
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