Varnish and Rug Advice and Roads Progress Notes
Instructions describe a two part waterproof varnish using turpentine linseed oil and litharge, plus guidance on dining room rugs and flower room decor. It includes Maryland road cost comparisons, good roads advocacy, and a Baltimore free roads pledge by the United Railways Company with mileage figures.
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Harper’s Bazar
Baltimore
United Railways Company
Baltimore City
Baltimore County
York Road
Hartford
Belair
Highway Work by Convicts and Prison Labor Trends
A report from the Industrial Commission lauds New York for recognizing the moral and economic value of highway work by convicts. California and North Carolina also fare well. Roadmaking fits with other state labor, though Northern climates limit outdoor work several months each year. Indoor labor, like clothing production, fills gaps during bad weather, often leading to overproduction and idle periods.
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Maryland Geological Survey
Maryland
Department of Agriculture
New York State
Massachusetts
America
England
France
General Assembly
Geological Survey
New York Sun
Industrial Commission
New York
California
North Carolina
Government road costs prompt party and Congress scrutiny
A government official reports an annual loss of 500 million dollars due to bad roads. The statement urges serious attention from political parties and Congress to address the economic impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Dry periods for cows vary widely among farmers
Inquiries among farmers show cows remain dry for 10 to 57 days on average, with most reports clustering between six and twelve weeks and eight weeks appearing most often. The article also notes the value of a steady walk for horses, and presents a self closing cow stanchion design by W H Pelsue with a mortised bottom piece fitting a stanchion post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Pelsue
Stanchion design and strawberry culture notes
The article explains a cow stanchion with adjustable latches and pins for selective confinement, a movable piece, and how to install and operate the latch system. It also presents Virginia Experiment Station advice on strawberry cultivation including plant selection, spacing, mulching, and seasonal care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Experiment Station
Virginia
Unsettled Weather Hinted By Editor's Reply
A Cumberland Presbyterian reader asks about next month's weather. The editor answers that it will be very unsettled, a remark prompted by the subscriber's question about future conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland Presbyterian
the Inquirer
Promoter Claims Riches from Fictitious Mine Stock
A promoter boasts of a discovered mineral marvel and sells stock at five dollars a certificate. The Washington Star notes a Revolution in Water Travel with propeller designs inspired by fish. Various ads and quips mix in, including tonic claims and humorous lines from periodicals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Star
Hoatotter
Purifying Blood and Transit Facts Mixed in 19th Century Notes
An 1870s health claim extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as purifying blood and boosting vitality. A long paragraph then cites New York elevated railway figures from 1871 onward and compares U S interstate rail passenger totals to city lines, with a humorous parrot anecdote from Chicago.
That the utmost reliance can be placed upon this great medicine
An appeal to women approaching menopause promotes Mrs. Pinkham’s guidance and free advice from Lynn Massachusetts. A separate fragment shows a penniless woman begging for Sunday newspapers and a buyer praising Tetterine for a long cured skin disease, offered by J. T. Shuptrine in Savannah Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. O. Cantrell
J. T. Shuptrine
Savannah
Two Joneses and Brown at the wrong door
Brown visits a neighbor by mistake and confronts a crabby servant who denies being at Mr John Jones's house. After a correction Brown repeats the ring and triumphs by asking who said it, then walks away. The clipped item also advertises remedies and quips from various periodicals.
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Joneses
Brown
John Jones
Geronimo Dies in Captivity After Four-Year Confinement
The famed Apache leader Geronimo has died while imprisoned at Fort Sill Oklahoma after four years of captivity. The government spent about 1 million dollars pursuing and securing him, ending a long era of conflict with early settlers in the Southwest.
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Geronimo
Fort Sill
Oklo
Lock and Key
Berty
Fort Sil
Victoria
Miles
Lawton
Four Peaks
Prescott
Ariz
Florida
Philadelphia Bulletin
Flirtatious Laugh Sparks Egg Sack Incident Tale
A misadventure in a corner grocery ends with a loud laugh as a flirty man uses a telephone and accidentally tops a paper sack of eggs. The demure clerk and a housewife observer share amusement while the egg-sack slips to the floor and the grocer intervenes, letting the man slip away.
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Detroit Free Press
Clothing Echoes of Family Ties Across Cultures
In Yucatan and Central America sisters dress alike with identical bows buttons and hair flowers. Large tropical families cluster in same outfits making kinship easy to spot. Anam people mirror each other in apparel while Cree men and women share similar dress differing only in vertical versus horizontal leggings ornamentation.
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Yucatan
Central America
Tropics
Anam
Hair of Extraordinary Length and Health Promises
The notice touts extremes in hair and beard lengths and promotes medical books from the Peabody Medical Institute. It advertises The Science of Life and a Gold Medal Prize Treatise, with pricing, mailing details, and the promise of health, vigor, success, and happiness. The institute lists 4 Bulfinch St, Boston as contact.
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Peabody Medical Institute
Bulfinch St
Boston
Mass
America
Prospectus
Best in the World. The Bane Girl and the American Girl
A fragment from the Philadelphia Record features a dialogue among titled women and a doctor. The American Girl names Minster in a satirical exchange about marriage and money, with an aside about a panacea marketed to fix financial worry.
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Minster
Phiadelphia
Philadelphia Record
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Bowery
Phi Wait
Auitor
Puck
Gnove
Bigga
Adams
Bluery
Carter
Leander
Chicago ‘Tribune
New York City
City
Manhattan
Bronx
United States Inter-State Commerce Commission
United States
Atlantic
Pacific
St. Lawrence
Rio Grande
Scribner's Magazine
O George
Mr. Ferguson
Chicago Tribune
Mitchell
Hall & Ruckel
London
Hor Springs
York Co
8. C
Anderson County
Charleston
Memphis
J. L. Nichols & GO
Austell
Atlanta
Ruumatol Co
NewYor
Boc TV
Aihantee
Lydia E. Pinkham
Detroit Journal
Louisville, Ky
Allen
Allen S
Olmsted
LeRoy
N, Y
St. Peter
New York Weekly
E.W. Grove
von Blumer
Witherby
Parker
Fredonia
N. Y
Hall
Winslow
Piso
J. W. O'Brien
Third Ave
Minneapolis
Minn
Young Larimer
Miss Cora
Mrs. Higging
Harlem
Putnam
TWE Sou
Ayer
G. L. Alderson
Ector
Tex
J. C. Ayer
Lowell, Mass
Malsby & Company
Broad St
H. H
Green's Sons
Box B
Winchester Repeating Arps CO
Winchester Avenue
New Haven, Conn
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