Farmer's Friend editor Dyke Fortescue in odd rural gag
Dyke Fortescue, fresh from Denver, takes over a rural papers office for two weeks. He entertains visitors, discusses ensilage and farming, and clashes with a skeptical farmer. The tale blends farce with a cautionary note on agricultural publishing and a family saga about deception and tragedy.
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Dyke Fortescue
Farmers’ Friend and Cultivators
Champion
Denver
Tie
Tam
Duke
England
Duke Fortesque
Texas
Thunder Storms and Lightning Safety
A public guidance note explains how to estimate storm distance by the flash to thunder interval. It notes that lightning causes hazards to barns and homes and urges readers to seek cover and avoid exposed positions as storms approach. The method uses sound travel at 1,142 feet per second and multiplies by the seconds between flash and thunder.
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Iin Exchange
A Romance of the Ering Gage Case Details
A fragment from a trial describes a mystified romance with a sister figure. Testimony from an Illinois physician references the woman as the defendant’s sister and as honestly insane, with the defense avoiding introducing the woman during cross examination.
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Jt Kring
Ilinois
Hone
Courtship of Savages in Australian Aboriginals
Describes traditional courtship practices among Aboriginal Australians, including capture and forced marriage methods. A young warrior uses coercive tactics to obtain a wife, including stunning her with a war club or abducting her after signaling a camp. The captive submits, begins a life of toil, and is not released until death.
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Charles Kring
Charles F. Kring
Kring
Germany
Enmma
St. Louis Cor
Australia
Chinese Civilities Described In Respectful Manners
The passage notes that Chinese people show singular personal civility through posture and gestures. Men join hands at the breast, bow, and perform reverent inclinations. When meeting after long separation they kneel and touch faces to the earth, repeating the act two or three times.
Ceremony mocks natural affection in Chinese manners
The speaker decries ritualism replacing genuine feeling among Chinese, noting their responses to health, praise, meals, and favors as evasive or ceremonial. They argue ceremonies convey little true sentiment and imitate social proprieties rather than express real affection.
How the Apostles Died religious account
A compact, period tone summary lists the apostolic deaths with traditional fates. Peter crucified in Rome head downward. Andrew bound to a cross for two days. James the Great beheaded by Herod. James the Less thrown from a high place, stoned, then beaten. Philip bound and struck. Bartholomew flayed. Matthew killed by halberd. Thomas pierced by lances. Simon crucified. Thaddeus killed. Matthias's death uncertain. Judas Iscariot fallen, bowels gushed. John died of natural causes. Paul beheaded under Nero.
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Peter
Rome
Andrew
James the Great
Herod
Jerusalem
James the Less
Philip
Bartholomew
Matthew
Halbert
Thomas
Simon
Thaddeus
Mathias
Judas Iscarriot
John
Paul
Nero
How to Spoil a Husband Snarl at Him
A list of domestic missteps to ruin a marriage urges wives to nag scold neglect chores and overspend. It advises quarreling over meals finances and children to show contempt and alienate the husband. The tone is a cautionary but provocative guide reflecting outdated gender norms.
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Thei
Crass-Prich
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Langworthy
Greenwich
Torusedl GI Ghnghig Disbares
Cael
Gghansten
Wiverly
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N. A. Langworthy
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LR Locke
A Langworthy
T. T Woods
Clevaland Atedical College
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May
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Hornellville
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Pot Lewis Hats
Contesnoness
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PA. Lewis
Filereof
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Sproy
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Vewark
Ohio
Fate
Iehatowm
JOB & Letterpress
Ball
Thatcher
Navona
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Tweney
Canada
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Rand
United States
H. D. Thatcher
Sturuy
Potsdam
Deuggists, Neves
Richardsons CO
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John B. Gough
Lyeryons
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