Fruit Garden Spacing and Sheep Dipping Practices
An 1890s horticulture note discusses recommended tree and plant spacings for fruit orchards, cautions against interplanting diverse fruit kinds on commercial grounds, and advises on removing intermediate trees as permanent stock grows. It also emphasizes regular sheep dipping, praising tar-based dips for health and wool quality and identifying best timing after shearing to ensure tick and parasite control. It covers transportation issues for berries, noting market access affects prices and recommending Delaware and Niagara grapes for Southern soils.
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Agitt
Wagener
Jonathan
Richard Gibson
Canada
Evan
Avery
Angora goats and cattle poisoning in the west and dairy trade notes
A southern Arizona report expects Jambigg to reach 100 percent this year after 65 percent last season. Winter and ranges are favorable for sheep and grass. Sheep-killing days push farmers to reduce flocks. A government bulletin highlights Angora goats protecting flocks from dogs. An outbreak in Gallatin Basin Montana killed 40 cattle due to Delybinium glaucum. Russia aids dairy industry. Butter trains transport dairy to seaports for Baltic markets. US 1899 fisheries value near 40 million with similar 40 million from the water industry.
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Ilva
Jambigg
Arizona
Gallatin Basin
Montana
Jarkepur
Baron Raab Plans National Pensions in Sweden
Baron Raab a former Swedish army officer advocates a national pension system funded largely by assessments on potential public charges. The plan divides recipients into aged, disabled, and orphans with aim to pay 300 kroner to the elderly and require monthly assessments from workers. Government to oversee funds with employer collection enforcement.
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Baron Gastat Raab
Sweden
Baron Gustaf Raab
Baron Raab
The
Ring
Workingmien
Clagsen
Baron Rann
Stockholm
Gothborg
Steamship Lind Prompts Sweden to Seek US Coal Trade
Consul Bergh of Gothenburg reports Sweden dislikes English coal duties. Sweden imports about 3.22 million tons of coal yearly worth $17.16 million, with export duties costing roughly $776,644 annually. Gothenburg bears about $194,000 of that. Public interest grows in the United States as a coal source, urging a direct Gothenburg to US steamship line to cut transport costs and boost American export. American hard coal is favored in Sweden over English coal.
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Robert Bergh
Gothenburg
Sweden
United States
No Trade With Greenland Declared By Danish Govt
Consular Agent Harria reports Denmark bans trade with Greenland. Danish exports to Greenland include food stuffs firearms ammunition woolen goods implements and tobacco. Greenland sends bear skins seal skins whale oil elder down and arctic furs to Denmark. In 1906 Denmark received 2600 fox skins sold in parcels of ten. Royal Danish Greenland company controls commerce with nine ships and four aging vessels. Other nations cannot touch Greenland ports without Danish consent.
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Guined
Dhainh
Denmark
Greenland
Harria
Royal Danish- Greenland Company
Women Force Swedish Officer to Request Dismissal
The Swedish army officer Berling has been compelled to seek dismissal due to ill treatment of his wife. The regiment's feminine auxiliary, led by Col Bjorn sterna’s wife, pushed the action amid intrigues tied to Berling's first wife's family. The affair shocks society and may reach the ministry and rikssdag. Capt. Berling is described as wealthy, popular, and one of the army’s noted absent men.
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Berling
Bjornsterna
Rikudag
Ewedich
Victor Rydberg
Stockholm
Djursholm's
Gunnar Hazeliug
Hazellug
Skansen
Helsingfore
Finland
Congresa
Wyerum
Norway
Orsa
Sweden
Haldens Minder,es
Charles XII
Predarikshald
Charlotte Wlehe-Bereng
Paris
America
Women's Suffrage Society of
Lbtory
Christiania University
Drotsum
Atorthing
Telemarken
Denmark
Halle Steensland
Madizon
Win
Wil
St Olaf College
Steensland
Ernst Andree
Kolter
Gothenburg
Mirann
Morgenposten
Christiania
Danish zoologist visits 400 Boer prisoners in Ragama
Johan Hen Madsen, a Danish zoologist, reports on his visit to 400 Boer prisoners at Ragama Ceylon. About 350 are foreigners including French, German, Dutch, and six Scandinavians. Three Swedes, two Norwegians, and a Dane among them. They are watched and comfortable though they hate the English and hope to escape to fight them.
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Johannen Madsen
Agia
Ragama
Ceylon
Ito
Hagud Founders Leader Rev Ingwald Bist Dies
Rev Ingwald Bist, founder of Haghe Theological Seminary in Red Wing and longtime Lutheran pastor, died in St Paul from Brights disease. Survived by wife and two daughters Mrs BD We Schmidt of Red Wine and Mise Serviensteinsen. He studied theology in Norway and came to America twenty three years ago. He served as pastor in Minneapolis then Chicago before missionary work, and founded Red Wing seminary where he led as president for two years.
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Ingwald Bist
Insvald Elsteinsen
Haghe Theological Seminary
Red Wing
St. Paul
Bright
BD. We Schmidt
Mise Serviensteinsen
Eisteinsen
Norway
America
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Minneapolis
Trinity ‘Norwegian Lutheran Church
Chicago
Théological Seminary of
Ita
Teelandic Americans in Manitoba and Festival Figures
The article notes Teelandera in Manitoba forming districts and sending a member to the provincial parliament. It also mentions King Oscar of Sweden and Norway participating in a Stockholm press week, with writers and sketches planned, along with various cultural and scientific items from Stockholm, Helsingfors, and Christiania. The piece references railroads, Norse societies, a Danish actress’ contract, and developments at Christiania university.
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America
Manitoba
Uhia
DL. Baldvinson
Icelandia
Winnipeg
Thomas H. Johnson
Bleak Island
Arctic Ocean
Oncenr
Oscar
Sweden
Norway
Stockholm Presa Club
Press Week
Prince Eugene
Elusive King, Garters, and Burglar Jokes In Press Humor
A humorous exchange from scattered lines comments on the King of England issuing orders, jesting about garters and clothing, and a quip about a reformed burglar. The piece references jokes about social entrée and a playful misreading of public offices, with mentions of post offices and society.
Publicity clash and comic jibes in a newspaper milieu
A Mingushman recalls mounting ridicule from newspaper men over humor in a John Bull style piece. The judge denounces Americans as beastly maniacs and insists editors miss the joke. Separately an ad touts Allen's Foot-Ease for swollen burning corns and bunions. The page also notes a tea party where Mrs Brown and Mrs Smith discuss Miss Smith’s singing, and a seven year old confesses dropping a penny down her back while she wasn’t looking.
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Mra. Brown
Mra. Smith
Miss Smith Fay
Tommy Brown
Penny
Pleo a Cure 14 and Various Notes From 1900
An 1900 item notes cures and medicines like Pleo a Cure 14 for throat issues and other remedies. Mentions dainty mousseline shapes, wears lightweight summer skirts, and reports on fashion and orphan asylum care. Mentions Winslow’s Strap and small fashion details.
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Vanburos
Ind
Mats
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