Home and Garden Trends and Recipes Featured in 19th Century Columns
The piece compiles agricultural tips and kitchen lore: soil depth for trees in dry soils, strawberry planting with heavy manuring yielding 5000 quarts per acre, and Germantown Telegraph advice on soil treatment. Also includes Johnnycake recipes and notes on ring-bone prevention in horses, plus praise for pure honey as a daily product.
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Chicago Journal
Pennsylvania
Germantown Telegraph
N. Y
American Bee Journal
The Rocky Mountain Sheep and Its Habitat
The Rocky Mountain sheep inhabit the northern range to about latitude 48 and higher ridges near the Pacific coast. They form winter and spring herds of thirty to forty, with wild, alarmed behavior after firing. Some compare them to Asiatic Argali, with horn curvature differences. others suggest Argali origins across Behring Strait. Fat rump and possible ties to Caucasus breeds are noted, as is a biblical note on the Patriarchs.
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Rocky Mountain
Great Mountain Range
Pacific Coast
Rocky Mountains
Hudson's Bay
Drummond
Behring’s Strait
American
Anderson
Caucasus
Youth stabbed girl then wed after advice from lawyers
A New York youth stabbed the girl he loved and was arrested. The wounded girl asked to refuse testifying but was denied. The case continued and the prisoner was released on bail. The couple later married before a priest, with lawyers contending New York law bars a wife from testifying against her husband even for prior events.
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New York
New-York
Rifaat Bey's Exile Drama and a Scene of Mourning in Cairo
The Cairo scene shows Rifaat Bey leaving for Malta with a Circassian guard as his wife accompanies him to exile. A distraught mother pleads at the carriage, then returns to her group, while the Bey remains impassive. A Nubian eunuch moves to quiet the disturbance.
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Rifaat Bey
Cairo
Mahmoud Sami Baroud
Mme
Rifaat
Malta
Thor
Story Land
Gm Yi
St. James Gazette
Anagrams and Acrostics in 19th Century Puzzles
The text surveys word games such as anagrams and acrostics, noting their appeal to scholars and their later decline. It mentions Pope and friends engaging in playful anagram challenges and Sterne or Maran. It references Niediis and a poet of the seventeenth century who coined themed self references.
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Ana
Vaeus
Staria Pope
Sayings of Great People Stir the Imagination
The piece argues that personal expressiveness in sayings outlives mere wit, with figures like George III, Madame de Pompadour, Louis XIV, Pitt, Burke, Chesterfield, and Johnson vividly shaping our memory. Dignity in appearances and the power to imprint character elevate these phrases above plain wisdom.
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George III
Madame de Pompadour
Louis XIV
Madame de Maintenon
Pitt
Bath
Europe
Burke
Lord Chesterfield
Dr. Johnson
Two Kinds of Pail and a Door Sign Mixup
A Detroit column reports a storm door mishap on Larned Street in front of a saloon. Residents debate signs to guide customers with Pull or Walk Right In as the door is damaged and a boy assists with instructions.
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Larned
Avader
Det
Wardy
Our Young Readers Nannie Nutter and Her Butter
A playful verse from Our Little Ones about Nannie Nutter who adores butter. She longs for bread and butter in every form and imagines living on butter alone, while friends note her fixation and humorous spendthrift appetite.
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Nannie Nutter
Nannie Nutweter
Brave Dorothy Courage on a sea rescue
A nineteen year old village girl named Dorothy crosses foam and surf to reach a life boat station. She braves peril to save six sailors from a schooner stranded on rocks as the village watches in fear and hope. Her daring ends with the crew saved and her steadfast spirit unchanged.
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Dorothy
Worothy
Norrad
Rainy Day Play in the Barn
A girl recounts a long rainy day with Aunt Nelia and cousin Danny. They imagine keep house with dolls, then shift to barn games with dental role play and a mudding boots mishap in Uncle Eben's rubber boots. Danny's stubbornness toward dolls contrasts with playful chaos and a muddy rescue.
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Neia
Danny
Dotty
Sissy
Dolly
Helena
Rose
Violet
Matilda
Nelia
Eben
Uncle Eben
Grace Darling Reward Questioned by St James Gazette
The St James Gazette remarks that Grace Darling would likely question any offered reward and see no reason to accept one, given her actions.
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Grace Darling
St. James’ Gazette
Phrase of duty and time echoes in a physician’s counsel
A reflective line quotes a physician urging action for others. It contrasts helping promptly with an hour lost to neglect, emphasizing responsibility and the enduring value of timely care.
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Rocky Mountain Sheep
Cicero
Cunsar
Charles II
England
Oxford
Jonson
Shakespeare
Adams
Hood
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Vay Jago Ob
Hares Cott
Butters
Ylidie
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