The American Farmer Publication Description
Devoted to farming stock raising fruit growing market gardening and the dairy poultry yard with fertilizer coverage reports from farmers clubs and practical home household tips. Published twice monthly on the 1st and 15th at 1 a year Baltimore Maryland printers address listed and offer free extra copies for clubs of five.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic States
Delaware
Georgia
SON
Staltimore St
Baltimore
Decline of Public Baths and Attitudes to Cleanliness
The Argonaut notes a shift from public to rare private bathing as Christian norms rose, recounting historical habits from the 12th to 18th centuries. It cites 17th century ladies avoiding facial washing, hands rarely cleaned, and French court practices, contrasting with modern English and American hygiene standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Franklin
Richelieu
Louis XIV
France
Europe
Health of Army Horses Reveals Slant Stall Dangers
The French cavalry reports nearly 8,000 horses die yearly with $1,000,000 in losses. Lieut. Col. Hennebert attributes ill health to slanted stalls that force back muscles, causing distress and aversion to stables. Backward inclines are discouraged. level floors improve fatigue tolerance, ending use of sloping stalls in England.
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Hennebert
Col
England
How a Runner Builds Bottom for the Track
The New York World advises aspiring runners to jog two or three miles daily for two or three months to develop bottom or leg strength. They should live plainly, abstain from alcohol and tobacco, sleep well, and train six days a week with one rest day. Tobacco is warned for drying the throat and hindering breathing and nerves.
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New York World
Misread Text Turns Quote Into Rent Sermon
A Scotch clergyman as a child misquoted a biblical line saying except ye pay the rent ye maun a Tea the parish. The note suggests he misunderstood the preacher or revised the passage except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish. The Youth's Companion cites The New York Industrial Educational association with about 4,400 pupils studying drawing carpentry sewing and cookery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Industrial Educational association
Lawyer’s Obscure Will Sparks Prolonged Litigation
Youth’s Companion notes the case of Serjeant Maynard, a renowned black letter lawyer, who crafted a will with wording aimed to trigger court disputes over fine legal points. The deliberate ambiguity led to extended litigation as the courts addressed the issues Maynard wished unsettled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Serjeant
Maynard
Signs of Exhaustion in Oil Regions Warn of Decline
Knowledge argues that oil and gas supplies are nearing depletion within a generation. Geologists Lesley and Carll foretell no new fields adding significant output, as remaining reserves dwindle and extraction costs rise. By 1885 production neared peak, with prices rising while net value declines, signaling abandonment of Pennsylvania and western New York oil fields and the collateral industries tied to them.
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Lesley
Carll
Pennsylvania
New York
America
Old Indian Legend of Seven Stumps and Gold Rich Land
An old Tallapoosa Journal piece recounts Creek Cherokee clashes over a gold rich section near the Seven Stumps in Tallapoosa. A Cherokee medicine man allegedly hid the exact mine location, claiming it would stay secret until descendants reclaim the land from the Great Spirit.
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Tallapoosa (Ga
The Derby’s Itinerant Photographer
The wandering photographer thrives at the Derby taking tin type portraits in galleries for 15 or 25 cents. Derby visitors, eager to keep a permanent souvenir, pay half a crown per picture, about 62 1-12 cents, as described by T. C. Crawford in the New York World.
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T. C. Crawford
New York World
Fashion Notes from Far Islands and Large Planing Machine
Fashion notes describe Johanna Comoro customs with strict marriage rules and a vivid wife sale concept, plus a red calico Mother Hubbard gown and blue teacup headgear. A Glasgow firm unveils a 35 ton planing machine designed for steel plate prep for New South Wales railway girders, able to plane plates 38 feet long.
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Far Islands
Johanna
Comoro Islands
Mother Hubbard
Boston Journal
Glasgow
New South Wales
Chicago Herald
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Maryland
Buffalo Pitt
Stevens
WEBSTER FARM
Economist and
South Bend Chilled Plows
Caroline county
Shannahan & Wrightson Hardware CompAny
Geo. F. Stoan & Bro
LIGHT STREET WHARF
BALTIMORE, MD
EvIitts & HOLBROOK
DEHN TON
RELIABLE HOUSE
M.S. YOUNG
M. J. Young
M. J. ZOUNG
Masonic Building
Ingram
W. J. BLACKISTON
THE
W. H. PARKER
Dalfinch street
Boston
Masa
W.L.STORK & CO
BALTIMORE ST
Bank
Bridgetown
W.R. BUSTEED
DENTON
F. W. REDDEN
bay
Destox Flour MILLs
T. S. PAGE
West 31th St
N.Y. City
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO
Wall St
CLINTON COOK
aim
RoyaL of ENGLAND, North Brivis and MERCANTILE OF
EXaLann
Commercial Union of ENGLAND
LIVERPOOL
LeNpox
GLONE
PHOENIX
Hartrorp
Conn
GLEN Falls
Fine ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA
IArtrorp
PHILADELPHIA
Agricultural Mutual Aid Society
Main street
George T. Melvin
JAMES H. COULBOURN
COULBOURN & MOYER
North Front St
P. W. Downes
Denton National Bank
J. R. Godwin
Millsboro
Del
TL. W. Gadd
Dukes & Hocker
Millville
J. M. Wooters
Cordova
John A. Nottingham
Capeville
Eli Saulsbury
Dover
Goslin, Bros
Clarendon
COR
HANOVER
J. F. DARROW
OCCIDENTAL HOTEL
NEW YORK CITY
GEORGE
WOOM, DR
LUCAS
J.K.SAULSBURY
RIDGELY, MARYLAND
FRANK TOLSON, M. D
HENDERSON
Marydel
J. W. Bryant
T. Phiny Fisner
BRYANT & FISHER
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Caroline
hes
HOBBS
DENTON, Mo
counties
MARSHALL
MUTCHLER
DENTON, MD
Olive
Masonic Hall
court house
M. RUSSUM
HENRY KK. LEWIS
The International Cyclopedia
Dodd, Mead & Co
Broadway
A. C. WILLEY
Eastern Shore
Greensboro
RUSSUM & LEWIS
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Caroline, Talbot
Queen Anne
W. TILGHMAN
Easton, Mo
J. E. TYLOR
EASTON, MD
B. T. BUSH & SON, Publishers
Pearl St
N. Y
WILLIAM T. KELLY
Preston
Greensborough
Eatow St
DR. TEACKLE
Park Ave
W. H. COULBOURN
Seaford, Del
North Carolina
Heart & Sap
JOHNSON
South St
MODEL CLOTHING House
Acme Hall
Hurst, Purnell & Co
The Men’s Department
The Boy’s
John Swann
CASSEBUYERS
JOHN T. COMEGYS
C. C. Seymour
THIRD STREET
gay
Pama Aanedee
suru
seppryey
stump
CROWN MFG CO
Vine St
Cincinnati
OEHM &CO., Props
Charles St
N. B
JOHN H. McALVIN
Lowell
Mass
CHASE BROTHERS
Rochester
Walter A. Wood
St. VICTOR L. EMERSON
Edwin Arnold
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