California Farming Life in the San Joaquin Valley
The Great California harvest text describes crops sown from December to March in milder winters, with wheat oats and corn yields in the San Joaquin valley. It notes long-lasting fruit seasons, abundant beets and potatoes, and superior hay and cattle keeping. It praises alfalfa yields and rapid tree growth including eucalyptus and fruit varieties.
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Ffericulture
California
Aliforni
Sangeo
San Joaquin
San Valley
Colorado
Sacramento
Popular 19th Century Reading Selections Featured
A roundup of Heath and Home June issue praise, Harper's Bazar notes, and Appleton's Journal while Peterson's Magazine and The Aldine receive acclaim. Cooper's Deerslayer edition highlighted. Living Age lists major articles. Scribner's July features West Point, women in smuggling, and essays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper's Bazar
Huguenot Lovers Picture and Notable Works Featured
The July issue includes Mil lais famous picture of the Huguenot Lovers with a remark able beauty poem. It also features St Bernard Convent and Lake, Ella Rodman Church and Miss F Hodgson with fine stories, and a poetry piece by Eleanor Donnelly. Price two dollars a year. Published by Deacon and Peterson, Philadelphia.
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Taz Lapy
Millais
St. Bernard
Ella Rodman Church
F. Hodgson
Eleanor Donnelly
Deacon & Peterson
Philadelphia
Ladies Repository July issue highlights Danish literature and national park sketch
The July Ladies Repository features an engraving of Yellow Stone Valley below Boettler's, praised as grand as Yosemite Valley. It includes Hon. M J Cramer’s piece on Danish Literature and a sketch by Hon. B R Cowen titled Our national Park. Hitencock and Warps Cincinnati.
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Yellow Stone Valley
Boettler
Yosemite Valley
M.J. Cramer
U.S
Denmark
B. R. Cowen
Our National Park
Hitencock & Warps
Cincinnati
Harper's Magazine Highlights and Contributors
Harper's Magazine this month showcases essays by Constance Woolson on In Search of the Picturesque and Lyman Abbott on The City of the Saints Rome with illustrations. Hiram Hitchcock surveys Di Cesnola in Cyprus, Conway profiles Mazzini, Nordhoff on California, and B canning on Virginia militia. Includes serials, fiction, poetry, and editorials.
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Harper’s Magazine
Constance F. Woolson
Eytinge
Lyman Abbott
City of the Saints
Rome
Hiram Hitchcock
di Cesnola
Cyprus
Mr. Conway
Mazzini
Charles Nordhoff
California
E. W. B. Canning
Virginia
Miss Thackery
Mr. Trollope
Francis Eastwood
Thunder Bay
Lake Huron
Miss Woolson
Mary B. Dodge
Thomas Dunn English
Akeratos
Atlantic July number reviews and features
The July issue highlights Jefferson, the Reformer of Old Virginia by Parton as a top chapter in Jefferson’s life. It includes The Poet at the Breakfast Table and Holmes’s verse, De Mille’s Comedy of Terrors, Bayard Taylor's Diversions of the Echo Club, Bolles on Semmes not being tried, a John Brown piece, and generally strong departments in literature, art, music, science, and politics.
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Septimus Felton
Jefferson
Old
Virginia
Parton
Bayard Taylor
Echo -Club
John A. Bolles
Semmes
Alabama
John Brown
Fifth Year Opens for Western Literary Magazine
The issue launches the fifth year and ninth volume of a western literary publication. It features articles on General Halleck, the Magney-Century Plant, Samoan history fragments, Twenty Hill Follow, and a poem In Southern California by Joaquin Miller. The magazine upholds its devotion to the development of the country and is endorsed as highly readable. Published by John H. Carmany & Co. San Francisco at $4 per year.
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Ron Jeny
Halleck
Monterey
America
Southern
California
Joaquin Miller
Sierras
United States
John H. Carmany & Co
Washington Street
San Francisco
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Horace B. Fuller
Boston
Jack
Appleton
Julian Hawthorne
Peterson's
Peterson
Cnas
Prisrson
Chestnut Street
Round Hill School
George Bancroft
Cogswell
Harvard University
Messers Ruperts Bro’s
Aldine
Genererally
F. Beard
James Sutton & Co
Liberty Street
Messers. D. Appleton & Co
New York
Fenimore Cooper
Cooper
Livise
China
Quarterly Review
Blackwood’s
Giant Planet
Cornhill Magazine
Pall Mall Gazette
Spectator
Tite Canadian
Economist
Thomas Carlyle
Seaford
George Canning
Hookham Frere
Macmillan
General Chanzy
M. Gambetta
Saturday Review
Germany
Sker
Skellings
Jean Ingelow
Phaeton
William Black
Lirrenn & Gay
Scrisner
Ron July
West Point Military Academy
Scribner’s
Benson J. Lossing
Academy
Draxy Miller
Vandalia
ST. Louis
Chicago
Louisville
Pullman's Palace
Chicago Express
Fourth St
Cor. Chesnut St
F. M. Colburn
St. Louia
Thos. Corwin
Ag’t
J. BE. Simpson
Indianapolis
C. E. Follett
Republic
Freeport
H. C. Borchard
D. Atkins
G. J. Bliss
C. B. Bidwell
F. W. Hance
Farmers Fire Insurance Company
Coxon Opera Building
C. M. Shaffer & Son
MM. Shaffer & Son
Lily
Munn's
Ilinois
THE
Sparks
Stephenson Street
Tt. Perkins & CO
J. E. Spencer & CO
N. Y
Pelton, & Bigler
Illnois
Allita
Glazer
Andam
Lam
Brewster House
G. M. Ulayton
Zape
Stephenson
Court House
Baltimore
H. M. Buckman &Co
Billiard
Buckman’s
Aveaport
Timals
Fry
Ashton
Liverpool
Butter & Egg Depot
Galena Street
Geo. Ruston
Lyr
Henry Hartman
Frederick Hartman
J.P. Byerxy
DELL
Great Western
West Side
Canal Street
Canal
Madison
Pullman’s Palace
Briggs House
Sherman House
Board of ‘Trade
Parmlee’s
Great Central Depot
Lake Street
Wentworth
Gen’s Pass
Weatern Ry
Delamarre
Garanociere & Dupont
Rue Lombard
Paris
France
Price
Joe Moses
Cortlands
Bryan
Cortlandt Speet
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