Man tackles storms with cannon to protect vineyards
Prof Garrett P Serviss reports on a new method used in Northern Italy and Southeastern France where up to 15 000 guns shoot at gathering thunder clouds to break up hail forming storms. Batteries guard vineyards and night firings create rain while insurers cut rates. Potential use in the U S Midwest is suggested as science moves toward weather control.
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Italy
France
B. W. Hilgard
Middle West
Liman
Xreavers
Ple
Waithuns
Garrett P. Serviss
New York Journal
Socrates on virtue over wealth in ancient Athens
A Socratic saying notes that Socrates valued virtue over wealth. He wandered Athens and claimed a person is judged by qualities, not by possessions or appearances. The quotation emphasizes inner character as the measure of esteem.
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Socrates
Athens
How a Tornado Starts Observations of an Eyewitness
An 1889 Nebraska tornado account by A H Gale from Bassett records the event’s start. Mr Brown, northwest of Johnston, watched a light whirl lift cow shed straw then gather color, blacken, and swirl violently. The funnel formed from a low cloud, linking with a 40 acre area, producing an eight to ten foot ground width and an 18 to 19 mile path with a two and three quarters mile eastward stretch.
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Nebraska
Weather Bureau
A. H. Gale
Bassett
A. Brown
Johnston
Mr. Brown
Theodore Walters
Ainslee
Lamps as odd monstrosities in green enamel furniture
The article surveys lamp designs and green enamel bedroom sets, noting pale willow green as a cool, attractive option. White and blue enamels give way to green wicker chairs and green enamel pieces, with no gilding desired. The green chiffonier is highlighted as a pretty item.
Care of Linens Stain Removal Method
Stained linens may be cleaned by moistening spots with water and holding them over fumes from burning sulphur or matches. Wash at once in water with a little ammonia or soda dissolved. Sulphur vapor can remove stubborn stains, but the fabric must be washed promptly afterward.
Quaint and Curious Reports From Old Times
Curious notes recount ages of whales through bone size, railway poles planted as shade and support for wives, and rare divorces in China. It recalls Colonial giants like Daniel Leake of Salisbury who logged 300 acres and produced vast sugar, then shifts to monarchs and their jewelry obsessions, from William II to Marie Antoinette, and ends with a Sultan wearing a gold chain shirt and many rings.
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Savannah and
Statesboro
Georgia
Daniel Leake
Salisbury
N. H
Wiliam II
Nussia
Marie Christine
Italy
Leopold
Belgium
Marie Antoinette
Frugal Cookery: Transforming Stale Cake and Leftovers
A homemaking piece urges thrift in the kitchen using suet, drippings, and odds and ends. It describes making a pudding from stale cake with buttered moulds, raisins, currants, nut meats, eggs, milk, sugar, and a fruit sauce, boiled in water for an hour, to yield a delectable dessert. The article emphasizes lavish seasoning and inventive use of leftovers to avoid waste.
HogStrozD Recipes And Vintage Potatoes And Desserts
A collection of kitchen directions describes Oak Hill Potatoes baked with hard boiled eggs in buttered layers, the method for mayonnaise dressed eggs, brown bread steamed with corn and rye meal, Dutch Peach Cake with peaches and cinnamon sugar, and a decorative peach pie with puff paste lattice and cornstarch cream filling.
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Oak Hill
Curious Facts From Aged Times Spark Oddities And Inventions
The item describes a legless inmate Jesse Feary in Cincinnati requesting a pardon via a teeth-written letter and a Holland Michigan man receiving wooden shoes stuffed with stamps. It notes Dr Johannes Brester of Freiburg Silesia opening a psychiatric museum, a Missouri man finding curiosities in a ravine, an Austrian inventor patenting a speaking clock, and writer Henrik Obsen using a tray of grotesque figures for inspiration as quoted from Cosmopolitan referencing Ibsen.
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Jesse Feary
Cincinnati
Johannes Brester
Freiburg
Silesia
Henrik Obsen
Cosmopolitan
Ibsen
The Nurse in Domestic Care and Education
Chambers's Journal argues that personal attachment enhances nursing care and should be fostered in households. It suggests women gain opportunity through home care experience, lectures, and readings to elevate domestic nursing and reduce reliance on hired trained nurses.
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Chambers
New Uses For Blotting Paper and Other Details
A quirky early 20th century humor piece contrasts kitchen items with odd statements then shifts to a New Uses For Blotting Paper column. It lists applications from bottle stoppers to bandages and non-conductive material, and notes a 100 horsepower induction motor at Geneva water works driving a centrifugal pump to 460 feet. It also reports Argentine locust control data with 33 tons of eggs destroyed in 1897-98, largely in Santa Fe.
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Geneva Water Works
Santa Fe
Albuquerque Rifle Club Practicing in City West
A group of Albuquerque ladies formed a rifle club and by afternoon observers could see them practicing at targets in the western part of the city. The quotation from Uncle Nathaniel in Harper's Bazaar is cited as a note on encouraging two hoses for use in the future.
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Nathaniel
Woman's Progress
Albuquerque
N. M
Journal-Democrat
Blacksmithing Without a Fire in Chicago Horseshoving Parlors
The Chicago Inter Ocean reports on horseshoving parlors where patent soft metal horseshoes are hammered without heat. No forge, smoke, or sparks. the shop resembles a modern store with a reception room, $200 rug, manager desk, chairs, and palms facing a long work floor where horses are shoed with no fire.
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Chicago Inter-Ocean
Forestry Needs and Timber Trade Across Countries
A Median's Weekly excerpt argues American forestry clings to preservation rather than profit driven tree culture. It notes Europe relies on artificial forests in France and Germany, with England importing vast foreign timber at roughly ten million dollars annually. It cites Canada’s foreign trade rising by forty six million dollars in the past year.
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France
Germany
England
Beware of Mercury in Catarrh Ointments and Hall’s Pills
Warning against mercury containing catarrh remedies and urging use of mercury free Hill's Catarrh Cure from KF J Cheney. Mentions Hall's Vatard Ouro and Hall's Family Pills as endorsed products and notes two old British ships still sailing last year.
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Hill
KF. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Hall
Ohio
F.d. Honey & Co
Best for the Bowels and Other Odd Notions
A fragmentary ad page notes Cascaners Candy Cuthartle promising easy natural movements at ten cents to start a health return. It mentions Imitations beware and a metal box with C.C.0 stamp. Other items claim dyeing without experience, rising rural land values in Colorado due to mail delivery, and various medicine pitches including Piso’s Cure and Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic. Paris consumes over 2000 tons of snails annually.
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Colorado
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Piso
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