Importance of Seed Change and Horticultural Tips
The article discusses benefits of changing seed sources across regions to improve vigor, notes crop rotation, and warns against seed adulteration in imports. It also offers practical advice on potato bug control, growing watermelons with hill methods, and methods to rid canaries of lice using elder perches to trap lice.
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London
Ireland
Russia
Holland
England
United States
Germany
Tyrol
Europe
Taunton Gazette
The
Gardener's Monthly
York
Hints for the Housewife Graham Bread and Desserts
This reader recipe column presents three home dishes. Eureka graham bread uses buttermilk syrup soda and steam then bake for a rich crust. Apple Charlotte layers apples bread and sugar with buttered bread for a soft baked dessert. Cocoanut Pudding combines grated coconut brown sugar butter eggs and nutmeg with a rich crust of flour butter and milk.
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Painesville
Apple Charlotte
The Bishop and the Publican in Torrington Tale
A London Telegraph retells a Devon anecdote where Bishop Temple, journeying from Torrington to Barnstaple, imparts his intent to walk. A publican delays licensing a cart, fearing fines, until the Bishop reveals his identity. The episode ends with the Bishop's rescue by a Barnstaple carriage and the publican boasting of his shrewdness. A second brief overheard chat notes a bereaved man recounting his infant’s death after failed remedies and doctors’ interventions.
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Barnstaple
Boniface
Exeter
London Telegraph
Calico Fashion Reign With New Floral Polonaise Trends
Calico returns as a stylish norm with floral sprigs and lush patterns. Dresses pair calico with silks and grenadines, and accessories like crape wraps, lace, and ribbons define morning and evening toilettes.
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Grenadines
Paris
A Sailor’s Turbulent Crossing and the German Line
An account of a sea voyage on a German liner moving from England toward Europe. The narrator describes seas and storms with humor and rueful self mockery, detailing fear and relief as waves, winds, and crew cope with a brutal voyage.
A Question of Memory Poem Excerpt
The speaker vows that if memory forgets a beloved person then true forgetting will occur. They declare that dreams and thoughts about the beloved fill daily life and that only when such things are forgotten will the world itself fade from memory. The verse urges the beloved to remember and contrasts memory with the call to forget familiar landscapes and faces.
Amusing Bits From a Busy Page of Oddities
A collection of brief anecdotes and jokes from a 19th century column. Highlights include a Detroit musician quip about a hand organ, a Ports mouth mail note about Patrick Flynn, rail workers ready for quick competence, a Montreal editor joke about manuscript rejection, a quip on capital letters, Ayeste Pratt on polygamy, a Ellsworth wager about a man dressing and undressing, a vegetarian named H.G., a mustache dye joke, a Iowa schoolyard kiss tale, and an absent minded physician prescribing a draught once every three years.
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Detroit
Portsmouth
N. H
Patrick Flynn
Alabama
United States of America
Montreal
Ayeste Pratt
H.G.1
Iowa
Owego
N. Y
Mahneman
Dazed Swim at the Salt Water Task in a Traveler’s Tale
In a Chamber’s Journal excerpt, a party cools after a dusty ride by leaping into a clear salt water. The swimmers slip and tumble in comic fashion as Arabs on shore laugh. Freshman and Black stumble through chaotic buoyancy while salt stings their cuts, yet they endure for the tempting chill.
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Narragansett
Newport
Abraham
Black
Ciamber
Badly Sold Vermonter Ends Up Cracking Up
An Eastern exchange reports a vermonter visits a chemist with a bundle in a yellow bandana and proclaims he has gold. The doctor tests the metal by burning it and finds iron pyrites. The man laments marrying a widow who owns a hill of the substance.
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California
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White Mountains
Muttonhead
Continent
St. Peter
Friedrich
Plymouth
Dead Sea
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