Beet-Sugar Industry of France and Continental Europe
The piece traces the rise of beet sugar from France in 1824 through 1920, noting per capita production, yields, and the spread across Europe. It highlights doubled output over years, sugar content, and prices, alongside agricultural and economic impacts on French farming and related industries. It cites historic yields, farm conversions, and arch inscriptions praising beet sugar's influence on wheat output and cattle fattening.
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France
Seaboard
Germany
Paris
Vienna
Berlin
Presden
Leipsic
Munich
Europe
Canc Augar
Atgar
Valenciennes
Savings Banks Under Scrutiny by Supreme Court
The text notes the decline in speculative savings bank ventures and cites a U S Supreme Court admonition that savings banks exist for depositors. The court stresses managers should not profit at the expense of depositors and that profits and reserves should benefit savers and financial security.
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Orison
Supreme Court of the
United States
Cement for Kerosene Lamps
The article discusses lamp cement options noting plaster of Paris is porous and kerosene‑penetrable. A recommended mix uses three parts sesin to one caustic soda and five water, mixed with half its weight of plaster of Paris, curing in about 45 minutes with strong adhesion. It also notes zinc white, white lead, or precipitated chalk as substitutes though they set slower.
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Plaster of Paris
Polytechnic
Emigration Drives West Across Minnesota Kansas and Nebraska
An official statement shows public land sales last year in Minnesota Dakota Nebraska and Kansas amounting to 80 large, signaling large scale population movement. Emigrants settle in wheat corn and stock farming regions, railroads improve transit, and agriculture now fuels western growth with emigration pushing about fifty miles yearly. The shift reflects organized settlement and rising market access as frontier expansion accelerates.
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Public Landa
Minnesota
Dakota
Nebraska
Kanana
Kansas
Statesmen Needed in British Cabinet Turmoil
The Telegraph criticizes British ministers during the Russo Turkish dispute. Gladstone’s relentless agitation supposedly strained the cabinet yet Beaconsfield kept control and secured a national victory. The piece likens UK foreign policy woes to Ulysses Fish era under Grant, arguing current administration lacks a coherent policy.
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Telegraph
Gladstone
England
Lord Beaconsfield
Fish
Grant
Making Artificial Fuel From Coal Waste Processes
The Germantown Telegraph notes Reading Railroad success in converting coal culm into artificial fuel. It details Louiseau Loiseau Newton Endres methods, including screened coal dust mixed with clay and lime, drying, and waterproofing to form egg-shaped briquettes. Endres uses coal culm with fuel pitch, bricks weigh about fifteen pounds, showing 15 percent economy on the Hudson River Railroad.
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Reading Railroad Company
Germantown
Louiseau
Newton
Endres
E. F. Loiseau
Prime
Anthracite Fuel Company
Rondout
N. Y
Mr. Prime
New York
Connecticut
Hudson River
Adirondack hunter pays for horse shot during excursion
A hunter in the Adirondacks shot what he believed a fine deer. A farmer later claimed $50 for shooting his horse. The hunter paid, laughed at the deception, and left, condemning the excursion’s cheapness with emphatic language.
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Adirondacks
The Partition of Turkey by the Berlin Treaty
The London News outlines the divided Turkish lands under the Berlin Treaty with details on Bosnia Montenegro Serbia Roumania Russia and Bulgaria. It notes accretions and losses totaling about 71 000 square miles and over 3.5 million people removed from Turkish control, plus new autonomous or foreign arrangements for Greece and Crete.
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London News
Livo
Bosnia
Austria
Montenegro
Antivari
Servis
Roumania
Bessarabia
Ehe
Russia
Bessarabis
Pruth
Danube
Bulgaris
Sophia and Widden
Varna
Gilistria
Provisional
Bulgaria
Kara Sea
Black Sea
Burgas Bay
Roumcelia
Greece
Porte
Adriatic
Corfu
Mount Pindus
Salamvria
Mount Olympus
Aigean Sea
Rusia
Betoumia
Alashkerd
Bayazid
San Stefano
Turkey
Kotur
Persia
Crete
England and
Pennsylvania Railroad Drives Down Costs with Modoc Locomotives
The Pennsylvania Railroad reports ongoing experiments to cut operating expenses. Modoc locomotives offer greatly increased power at lower running costs. Additional tests include enlarging driving wheels to boost speed without raising costs, driving a market increase in stock value amid anticipated profitable era.
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Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Poultry flesh quality depends on feeding not breed
The article argues against claims that Asiatic or small poultry are tougher or tastier. It asserts all domestic fowl taste similar if properly fed and cared for from chickhood, and that good feeding, not breed, makes flesh tender and palatable for market or home use.
Old Fashioned Fruit Cake Recipe From Historic Cookbook
A fragment of a vintage kitchen guide outlines a fruit cake: butter, brown sugar, eggs, flour, currants, tala ina, citron, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, molasses and brandy. It describes batter preparation, flouring fruit, baking in a buttered tin pan with a paper lining, and a long bake time with careful cooling and optional tin tube insert.
Minor Morals on City Life and Virtue in the Country
The Rural New Yorker argues morality spans both country and city life, noting thefts occur across areas and that virtue can thrive amid active life. It cites Tweed era corruption, contrast between city and rural governance, and warns against judging morality by dollars, urging an awakened sense of right. It mentions a London pamphlet promoting English emigration to Alabama.
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Solomon
Saya
New Yorker
New York
London
Alabama
Railway Company
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Jordan & Wilcoxon
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Philadelphia
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ContinentalIng. Co
Springfield, F.&m.ing. Co
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Girardns, Co
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Atc
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Illing
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A. W. Pord
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