Drummers and the Wolf from Napoleon's Moscow Retreat
Jean Petoir and Antoine Savary, French boys from Yonne, join Murat's forces during the Moscow retreat. Cornered in a snowbound hut by a pack of wolves, Jean drums to deter them while Antoine fires his musket. Wolves scale the roof as the boys hold the door, awaiting rescue and hoping horsemen arrive.
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Napoleon
France
Jean Petoir
Antoine Savary
Yonne
Russia
Jean
Antoine
Moscow
Czar
Prince Murat
Cossacks Rescue Two Musicians During Napoleonic Retreat
In a snowy hut siege during Napoleon's retreat, Jean and Antoine repel wolves and signal for aid. A party of Cossacks arrives, mockingly saluting the brave youths, who then join the grand army under a white flag and return to their regiment. The tale recalls the famed campaign and their near capture by wolves and frost.
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Jean
Antoine
France
Yonne
Grand Army
Steppes
Napoleon
Big Wolf
Don
Plenty of Time and the St Louis Mississippi Spirit
John Swain in Ainslee's praises St Louis as the Mississippi's great city with time honored by river trade. The piece contrasts St Louis thriving on southern traffic with Chicago and New Orleans influence, noting the drummer culture and river-forward hospitality that bind the city to its market and future growth along the valley.
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St. Louis
Mississippi
Chicago
Lakes
New York
John Swain
Ainslee’s
New Orleans
Crescent City
T. Louis
South
The Valley of Decision paraphrase by Edith Wharton
A reflective tale of a man who spends his life wishing for different lives. Upon death he is surrounded by a crowd of spectral doubles, each identical, answering that they are the different lives he might have led.
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Edith Wharton
Valley of Décigion
Early muskmelons and cowpeas for northern farms
Eastern markets face growing competition from western melon growers aided by Arkansas River irrigation. The Cornell station offers methods for early muskmelon production in hotbeds or greenhouses with bottomless boxes, heat from conical boilers, and careful watering to prevent damping off. It also covers storing soil, transplanting under favorable sites, and timing in Niagara County. The article then discusses cowpeas varieties for the north, recommending Early Black and New Era for seed at central New York, and Whippoorwill and Wonderful for vine use, plus advice from American Cultivator on profitable potato culture and clover seeding tips for wheat fields.
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Arkansas River
Cornell
N. Y
Rochester
Niagara County
New Yorker
New York
New Jersey
Desirable Mixture of Corn and Soy Beans for Late Summer Fodder
Hatch station guidance suggests a corn and soy bean mix as a top fodder crop for late August into September. Recommend medium early or sweet corn varieties such as Canada or Longfellow with soy beans, especially medium green Soybean. Plant corn May 15 and June 5 for two sowings, mix ratio about ten quarts corn to seven quarts beans, harvest starting Aug 20 with yield about twelve tons per acre and 3600 pounds of digestible matter. fodder corn alone also good green feed.
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Amsenchuse
Canada
Cooling Moth Threatens Apple Growers Controls by Spraying
The cooling moth, a major apple pest, may threaten regions where apples grow. Oregon shows similar fruit injury to other regions, with two overlapping annual broods. Eggs on fruit surface, most active above 75 degrees. Birds aid natural control. foreign birds and fungal or bacterial sprays unlikely to help.
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Oregon
Willamette Valley
Corvallis
Public Local Law Repeal Denton town sections amended
Maryland General Assembly enacts to repeal and reenact multiple sections of Article Six Public Local Laws Caroline County Denton and adds two new sections 104 F and 104 G. It details town boundaries elections taxation officers clerks and duties. sets election procedures for commissioners and tax collection responsibilities. outlines oath requirements and property valuation rules within the town limits. The act clarifies extension powers and tax administration for property real personal and mixed within Denton.
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Public Local Laws
Caroline County
Denton
General Assembly of
Maryland
T. A
Queen Anne’s
Choptank
United States
Justice of the Peace
Caroline
Denton Town Tax and Ordinance Provisions Enacted
The act grants Denton commissioners power to collect taxes by a bailiff, seize and sell property after 30 days, and report real estate sales to Caroline County circuit court for ratification. It authorizes fines up to fifty dollars for by law violations and sets penalties for boisterous conduct, with jail time up to ten days. It provides quarterly funding of two hundred dollars to Denton for street repairs, allows a five percent tax payment discount, and mandates able-bodied male labor one day a year with penalties for noncompliance. The act takes effect on passage, approved April 1902.
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Circuit Court
Caroline County
Denton
Maryland
John Walter Smith
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