Good Horses in Favor as Prices Soar in Market
Arnold Lawson notes demand for quality horses rises with dwindling supply and rising prices. Wealthy buyers returning to stables drive carriages and show horses, while dealers corner the market. Dreamword and Lawson's own stock suggest a robust fall for horseflesh, despite auto travel. When lamb reaches weight, sell for top price to improve pastures.
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Arnold Lawson
Boston
New York Herald
Building a Cheap Hog House
A Missouri writer outlines a simple hog house built into a hillside to reduce cost. An excavation forms the space with north embankments, posts and two by fours support boards, and a north slanted roof for sun exposure. Ventilation is emphasized to protect rock sows from weather, noting that uninsured horses are often killed by lightning.
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W. PD. Neale
Missouri
Fine Points of Good Pony
A study of a pony describes a well built mare with a clear head full round eye and barrel shaped body. It notes she was raised in England and won the first premium at the royal show in Gloucester.
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Ingland
Gloucester
Much Profit in Livestock and Legume Farming
A farmer‑writer argues for growing legumes to feed top quality hay and livestock. He claims sustainable practice returns most of the soil’s value, restores humus, and traps nitrogen while balancing mineral losses by selling animal products.
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W. Scott Hickox
Trn
Arrange to Keep Stall Dry
The device pictured shows how to keep a stall dry by placing two by fours one inch apart to form a second floor. A sloped barn floor directs water backward to be absorbed by manure and bedding, preventing horses from being stained.
Farm Advice Urges Quality Stock and Careful Feeding
Dry sows are in good condition and on good pasture and need little else. The scrub cannot compete with first class stock when profit is the object. When you feed the chickens watch the young turkeys to avoid overfeeding corn and indigestion. When hens drink from a mud puddle provide clean water. Eggs are becoming scarce as hens molt. Heredity matters more to the breeder than the pork producer. Do not give stimulants during molting. proper feeding and care are essential.
Stranded in Paris As Tourists Fail to Secure Return Passages
An article notes many American travelers in Europe face unintended entrapment in Paris and London as steamship companies run full. Unwilling prisoners lack return tickets, spending saved funds on stay and costly cables home, while some become willing captives awaiting later passage.
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Paris
London
Europe
Oberammergau
Paris Boulevards Bother U.S. Visitors With Beggars
Americans in Paris face a growing nuisance from a beggar American who roams the boulevards selling questionable cards and asking for money. The piece notes some travelers return broke after paying hotel bills and transport, while others simply need a watch or a cable to manage expenses.
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Paris
New York
Farmer Has New Vegetable
Humboldt Tennessee farmer Henry P. Cole claims a new tomato and pepper plant hybrid called the peppermate. The plant allegedly yields a tomato with a detachable pepper pod, allowing market use of tomatoes while consuming peppers separately. Cole compares the innovation to Burbank level plant science and suggests it may interest scientists.
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Humboldt, Tenn
Henry P. Cole
Burbank
New Bug Blood Poisoner Threatens Pottsville Resident
In Pottsville a resident, Frank Ebach, may lose his right hand after being stung by a greenish insect described as mosquito like. The bug is spreading in Schuylkill County causing blood poisoning in several cases and is compared to the destructive seventeen year locusts.
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Pottsville
Frank Ebach
Schuykill County
Machine to Separate Coins in Harrisburg
Daniel Crawbaugh of Cumberland county plans a factory to produce a brass plate coin separator. The device uses perforated plates to sort coins by size, dumping mixed coins into separate piles with a crank. Two models will cost 65 and 76 dollars, aiming to put coin sorting within reach of banks and counting rooms.
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Harrisburg
Daniel Crawbaugh
Cumberland County
Drawvaug
Queen Mary's Bill Set for Likely Passage in Parliament
London reports that the plumage bill to ban sale or exchange of birds slain for fashion may become law with little opposition. The controversy divides millinery houses as interviews reveal shifting attitudes toward killing birds for hats and possible shift of trade to Paris.
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London
West End
Tion
Paria
Cures of Skin Diphtheria Reported at St John s Hospital
London reports a series of remarkable cures of skin diphtheria using diphtheria antitoxin at St John s hospital. Skin diphtheria with impetiginous eczema caused by the diphtheria bacillus was until now among the most intractable skin diseases under antitoxin treatment.
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London
St. John’s Hospital
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