Midsummer morning romance on a baying city luncheon
In a sunlit Central Park cafe Dick, an impecunious suitor, confesses love to Honoria Gangham amid luxury talk and fears of poverty. She muses on wealth and artful living before quietly accepting his proposal, ending with a joyous declaration that they are now engaged.
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Honoria Gangham
Long Yand
Central Park
Devia
Myra
Honoria
Ables
Elcar
New York
Llanorta
Old Croesus
Sonica
Tonoria
Elonoria
Ed Croesus
Estin
Paris
Gibraltar
Shane
Ionoria
Eonoria
Sherry’s
Delmonico's
Flonoria
Mick
Vonoria
Fonoria
Caribou Swimmers Dressed in Oiled Wool and Cork Jackets
Ernest Thompson Seton notes in Scribner's that caribou swim with unusual height and speed, wearing cork jackets and dense fur, seeming more a water creature than land animal. He cites sightings by Mr. Munn along a broad bay, where a slight deviation could have allowed shore passage, yet the herd preferred water travel.
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Ernest Thompson Seton
Scribner’s
The Cockatrice Origin Explained by Parliamentary Gossip
The article mocks popular lore about the cockatrice. It cites a Pall Mall Gazette description claiming a seven year old cock lays an egg watched by a toad, which hatches into a creature with a cock head and serpent body, noting its fantastical and fantastically odd details.
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Puall Mall Gazette
How Death Feels Sermon Refers To Out of Body Experience
In a St Pancras parish sermon the bishop of London described death as an out of body sensation during anesthesia. He said the body seems dead while the mind remains active and the spirit feels drawn toward God during the momentary separation.
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St. Pancras
London
London Telegraph
The Blind Man from the Storage House
A man confronts a blind stranger seeking a trunk marked BE Jacobs in a storage room. After a tense pursuit, the stranger pursues the trunk, threatens violence, and falls to his death at the stairs, leaving the trunk’s owner unidentified and the deeds inside lost to the search.
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A. Whitehead
Britney
Larkis Street
Bos
Russia
Jacobs
Ile
Prudencs
M. Quad
Movable hay barrack roof design and frame details
The article describes a movable hay barrack roof raised and lowered by four chestnut poles set in the ground with holes for bolts. It covers corner posts braces plates and roof boards of light white pine and explains rounding corners to allow slight rain entry to cause minimal harm.
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Ohlo
Onion Maggot Threat to Michigan Crops
R. H. Petyit explains the common onion maggot is the offspring of a small fly resembling the house fly. Eggs are laid on young onions in spring. Several generations occur in a season. Remedies include repelling adults and promoting vigorous growth with commercial fertilizers.
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R. H. Petyit
Michigan
Cottonseed and Linseed Meals in Animal Feed
Cottonseed and linseed meals have been standard feeds for several decades. Their position in the feeding world is well established, and as good wine needs no bush they ought to need no further demonstration of their merits, yet they are still too little used, particularly linseed meal.
Garden hints for cucumbers peppers and beets
Garden hints advise sowing cucumbers in open ground from late May to early June and keeping frames sunny with good airing. Transplant sweet potatoes and eggplants in late May to June with protection from potato beetles, border with curled parsley, and use nitrate of soda to boost beets and greens. Early tomatoes may be set out late May if warm. cover plants during cold spells. Flea beetles fear dry ashes lime or tobacco dust. Bordeaux mixture with Paris green is suggested for potatoes. plant Brussels sprouts and peas for succession.
A Mohammedan Custom in Expressing Gratitude
The Mohammedans have a custom of thanking God first when receiving a present and then the giver. They may say I thank God for your kindness to me. Some comply thoughtlessly, but many say it with their whole heart, reflecting an inherited tradition from their fathers.
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PinkHam
Marion Barsmr
North Adams
Lydia E. Pinkham
Marion
Barser
Bracewell
Avon
Mass
Plain tale of a fickle heart and sharp wit
In a clipped quotation from a column, the speaker laments a beleaguered romance. The speaker notes a temperamental woman and asks who the “poor man” is, highlighting social attitudes toward marriage and folly.
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Lottie Brown
lLife
Scarborough Chief Constable’s Bold Pledge
William Pattison appointed chief constable of Scarborough in 1865 announced he would keep the town so clean that a watch could be hung on a lamp post without molestation. The following night the post office clock was stolen.
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William Pattison
Scarborough
Wagland
Doan's Kidney Pills Promote Kidney Health
Claiming to cure sick kidneys Doan's Kidney Pills are advertised as restoring health when kidneys and bladder are inflamed or swollen. A Galena Illinois resident Mrs Wm Doran testifies the remedy relieved back pain and kidney symptoms after use. Manufactured by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents with price 50 cents.
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Doan
Wm. Doran
Dewey Avenue
Galena
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
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