The Princess Sarah and the Enchanted Spinning Wheel
Princess Sarah leaves in pursuit of fortune and, after a treacherous path driven by her jealous sister, finds a cruel giant and an invisible prince. She spins a magical net and cloak to aid her escape, the prince killing the giant. Sarah marries the prince, while Leila dies of rage upon witnessing the wedding.
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Saif
Sarai Avag
Sarah
Leila
Phen
Lelia
von Tau
Aaid
Sam
Working Suit for Farmers of Jabot fit fab life
A vintage advertisement describes a durable, low cost working suit for farmers. It features a one piece blue drill garment with front sleeve detail and rear neck fastening, designed to fit over other clothes. The outfit aims to prevent tearing and soiling, saving on regular clothing and enabling hot weather wear.
Popular and Attractive Annuals for the Garden
The article extols the Aster's rapid rise in popularity and advises deep rich soil and mulching. It covers growing in seed beds or frames, spacing for showy beds, and staking tall varieties. It then lists BArsaMm Impatiens and Pansy Viola Tricolor as popular half hardy annuals, with guidance on soil, spacing, pinching, and flowering through seasons.
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Aster Nat. Ord
Asparagus bed making and care from old roots to seeds
The guide outlines starting an asparagus bed using old roots for earlier yields and details digging a foot and a half deep, lining the bottom, mixing soil with manure, and planting with roots six to eight inches below the surface. It warns against too deep blanching by keeping tops covered with manure and notes that seeds require half full beds and careful spacing.
Asparagus Bed Management Through the Seasons
Garden notes advise planting asparagus 4 to 6 inches apart in trenches and covering with iron bags as beds fill. Do not cut after the bed reaches a yard high. let it mature to ripen seeds and preserve root health through July.
The New Railroad Plans From Foreston to Chicago
A proposed Foreston and Chicago Railroad would branch from Illinois Central at Foreston, run airline to near Chicago, connect with Chicago Southern, and enter Great Union Depot. The project aims to compete with Chicago and Northwestern by creating a direct Upper Mississippi corridor, shortening distance to about 100 miles.
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Foreston & Chicago’ Railroad
Sinois Central Railroad
Chicago
Central
Dunleith
Chiago
Chicago & Northwestern
Upper Mississippi
Foreston
Ilinois Central
Freeport
Chicago Southern
Great Union Depot
Lake Street
Dubuque
Galena
Aurora Beacon
Whitewash Recipe for Spring Cleaning and Durability
A period piece describes making whitewash in a water tight barrel with half a bushel of lime slaked in boiling water. Add two pounds zinc sulfate and one of common salt, then mix. Optional colorants include ochre or lamp black for cream or stone tones. The wash yields a hard, crack resistant coating and can be applied with a whitewash brush.
Burial Alive: Young Woman in Jacksonville Illinois Case
The Indianapolis Journal reports a seventeen year old girl who died after using chloroform for toothache. She was buried, then exhumed when relatives moved away and found her corpse with hair clutched in hands and clothing torn, indicating she had awoken in her coffin. The incident describes a fatal misdiagnosis and a chilling wake in death.
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Jacksonville
Illinois
Indianapolis Journal
A Cold in the Head Remedy Exposed
Dr Palion of St Foy France claims a new cure for cold in the head in New England. Inhaling vapors from an ammonia smelling bottle, applied briefly to the nostrils seven or eight times in five minutes, restores smell and clears mucus. The method favors singers and is presented as easy and rapid.
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Palion
St. Foy
France
New England
Odd day observation on streets and carts
Pat remarks on the oddity of meeting a cart going in the same direction on a hot sultry day. The line highlights small urban moments and a wry, observational tone.
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Pat
Treaty sale of Russian America doubles US Pacific coast
The 1867 agreement transfers sovereignty over Russian America and adjacent islands to the United States for 7 million gold dollars. The cession includes all land west of 141 degrees longitude, about 394,000 square miles and a four hundred mile coastal strip, expanding American reach from Lower California to Behring’s Straits.
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Senate
Désia
Russia
United States
Russian America
North America
Pacific
Lower
California
Behring’s Straits
British Columbia
Aneh
Brecken
St. Brands
Ortila
Chace
Cali Arkpia
Armerica
Allins
Rocky Mountains
Behring’s Sea
Porcupine
Yukon
Knitchpek
Arctic Ocean
Louisiana
France
Florida
Texas
Oregon
Census Bureau
United States of America
Climate, coast line and riches of Russian America
Dr Horace Bushnell argues Gulf Stream effects raise Alaska coast temperatures and temper. Smithsonian and consul details describe winter rain, light snow, sparse settlements, and potential riches in fisheries, timber, coal, and agriculture from Prince of Wales Island to Behring Strait. Expansion would yield seamen, ships, and trade with Asia. Knitchpek River hailed as major waterway. 1867 territorial growth tallied to 3.6 million square miles for United States.
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New
Purchase
Europe
America
Horace Bushnell
Hartford Courant
Asia
Scotland
Baird
Smithsonian Institute
Polar Sea
Prince of Wales’ Island
Behring’s Straits
Washington
Collins
United States
Seward
Amoor River
Oregon
Coppermine
Maleate
Newfoundland
Atlantic
Cape Cod
Russian America
Pacific
Pacifh
Tela
Codice
California
Boston Hack Ride Confusion Ends In Comical Mistake
A Western visitor in Boston hired a hackman to United States Hotel paying 50 cents for a ride. In disbelief his Boston friend learns the fare was only a dollar in New York, while the guest insists the trip proved Boston by a price error and a peculiar misperception.
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Boston
New York
Hackman
United States
Jarvey
Western Depot
Letreet Cpceathty
President Johnson's memorial veto hung in his office
A Boston Traveler correspondent reveals that Johnson had the Freedmen's Bureau veto printed large in course type and framed to hang in his business office ante-room. The piece reads like a defiant banner of his policy hanging on the walls.
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President
Boston Traveler
Johnson
Freedmen’s Bureau
Masons Convene in Springfield Under Northern Jurisdiction
Mason A A Carson Consistory and appendant bodies will hold a convocation in Springfield from Tuesday April 30 to Friday following. Killian H. Van Rensselaer M P Sovereign Grand Commander of the rite for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction will preside.
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the New Railroad
Fisheries
Kerridge
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