Sunday Excursions and Base Ball Provocation
A Freshwater reader condemns a Farmers railroad excursion on Sunday to a Starkweather baseball game. The letter denounces violating Sabbath rest, notes Rogation Sunday, laments church and state laws ignored, and urges the railroad to stop such outings, praising last year’s editor for discouraging Sunday baseball.
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Freshwater
Inter-Ocean
Farmers Railroad
Starkweather
Husbandman
Ramsey County
Devils Lake
Farmland for Rent Near Dry Lake and Garske
For rent two farms in North Dakota listings. One 160 acres cultivated with 20 acres summer plowed and 100 tons hay capacity four miles northeast of Penn at Dry Lake. Another 480 acre farm five miles west of Garske with good hay land and buildable living structures. Enquiries to M P Nett & Co Devila Lake ND on Mrs M A Degnan.
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Penn
Dry Lake
Garske
M. A. Degnan
M. P. Nett & Co
Devila Lake
N. D
Winter in Summer Impacts Ramsey County Investors
A Ramsey County business leader reports a Minnewaukan township farmer’s group faced a 48 hour blizzard in Alberta with two to three feet of snow and drifts up to eight nine feet. The note contrasts droughted Canadian Northwest claims with thriving local wheat, flax, and seeded crops, urging locals to invest in solid homes and stock rather than speculative land.
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Ramsey County
Minnewaukan
Alberta
Inter-Ocean
Canadian Northwest
English Girls Sample Paris Bakery Bread
Two English girls enter a Paris bakery and order milk from a French soda fountain. Lacking vocabulary, they misidentify bird seed as bread and eat it with gusto, convinced French cooking is a delusion while a waitress muses that the English are eccentric.
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Paris
Fog Signals at Sea Point to New Fog Tracking System
A system tested at Fame Point on the Gulf of St. Lawrence uses four fanwise fog horns each with distinct blasts. From 15 to 20 miles audible, a ship hears the most prominent horn in its current arc, identifies direction, then tracks position as it moves.
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Fame Point
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Chambers
Avarice Healthful in Old Letters of a Philadelphia Physician
A Philadelphia Record piece argues passions affect health. Avarice is praised as healthful, cooling the temper, promoting regularity, abstemiousness, and longevity, while rage harms the heart, hatred wastes strength, fear harms nerves, and grief can trigger severe bodily effects including lung bleedings and temporary blindness.
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Philadelphia
Pair of Notable Mules Highlight Missouri Pride
Missouri advances two claims to prominence through its mules. A Hereford mare, eight years old, stands six feet at the shoulder and weighs 1,706 pounds, destined for an exposition. A Joplin resident owns a 32-year-old male mule so gentle it serves as a playmate for the owner's children.
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Missouri
Mike Murray
Hereford
Tts
Joplin
Corn-Wheat grain grown in eastern Washington
A new grain called corn-wheat is being cultivated in eastern Washington. It combines corn and wheat traits with the fattening qualities of corn and a wheat-like appearance. Grains are about twice as large as ordinary wheat and it yields between 60 and 100 bushels per acre, potentially solving hog fattening in the Pacific Northwest where corn is hard to raise.
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Washington
Pacific Northwest
Pedrail traction engine walks upstairs like elephant
The Automotor Journal of London describes a new pedrail traction engine that literally walks upstairs with decisive stride and surefire steadiness. It hauls loads far beyond those movable by traditional wheeled engines.
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Automotor Journal
London
Progressive euchre contest yields prize for all
The Long Island Daughters of the Revolution held a euchre contest where each attendee received a prize. Participants contributed prizes not to exceed 25 cents, with gifts mostly femme use items or ornaments. Prizes were wrapped to conceal contents, with clever packaging including a bonbon dish in a cracker box as a highlight.
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Long Island
Daughters of the Revolution
Brooklyn Eagle
Census Costs Then And Now Compared In Six Questions
The article notes per capita costs rising from 1.13 to 15.5 cents between 1790 and 1900. It cites Virginia as the most populous in 1790 with 747,610 people and a 1790 enumeration cost of 7,553.90 dollars, including underpaid assistant marshals who supplied their own blanks. Maine in 1900, with about 700,000 residents, incurred 84,560.90 dollars for the twelfth census, nearly three-fourths of the 1790 U S total, yet enumerator pay in 1900 matched typical day-labor wages.
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W. R. Merriam
Virginia
Union
Treasury Department
Maine
United States
Sparrows Prove Brains With Grain Railroad Trick
A Philadelphia Record account from Girard Point grain elevators describes sparrows feeding on fallen wheat kernels. The birds carried corn to the rails, allowed a passing engine to grind it into meal, then ate it, demonstrating surprising cleverness and problem solving.
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Girard Point
Philadelphi
Government Irrigation Aims to Transform West
The Minneapolis Journal notes federal backing for west irrigation. A Snake River Idaho dam with two main ditches will reclaim 340,000 acres, supporting about 8,500 farms and up to 50,000 residents plus additional growth in villages and cities. The program foresees watering up to 100 million acres.
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Minneapolis Journal
Snake River
Idaho
Sam
American Girls and Foreign Titles List
The article catalogs American brides who married abroad, noting twenty six German titles, twenty English peerages, three French duchesses, five French countesses, seventeen Italian noblemen, six Russians of rule, two Dutch baronesses, one Bavarian countess, and Monaco’s sovereign princess among those listed. It highlights the spread of foreign titles acquired by American-born women through marriage.
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Holland
Bavaria
Monaco
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