Object Season and Road Reform in Rural New York
The piece argues for county funded road improvement citing farmer and city taxpayer dynamics. It notes education campaigns and voluntary local efforts have aided progress, while farmers resist legal cost shares and city residents fear losing business to countryside markets. It suggests boulevards as contrastive lessons and cites European tests showing macadamized roads support heavier loads.
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New York
New York Mail and Express
Chicago
Milwaukee
Philadelphia
Furnishing the Bedroom for Health and Comfort
A midcentury guidance piece urges minimal, fixed furniture to create a cheerful healing space. It suggests fitting wardrobes into chimney recesses and avoiding garish pictures, favoring bold chintz papers for a bright look and painting floor margins for easy upkeep.
Bedstead Design Revolution in Wartime Homes
The National Review argues for practical furniture choices, praising walnut and wood bedsteads over modern brass models. It notes the value of rectangular carpets that can be reversed and emphasizes ease of cleaning and sanitation, reducing concerns about wooden bed hazards.
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The
National Review
The Large Flying Squirrel Description
The Large Flying Squirrel is a nocturnal creature of striking color and size, about as large as a cat with a rabbit like face. Its chestnut fur, pale eye, and long furred tail accompany a parachute membrane used for gliding up to forty or fifty yards. It climbs trees with ease and lands softly, then ascends slightly before resuming flight.
Man with Primates and the Hand Evolution
A discussion clarifies the term primates as the large mammal group including humans, apes, monkeys, lemurs, aye-ayes, and bats, stressing hand development and challenging misconceptions from casual readers, with a Cornhill Magazine anecdote about a tiny gibbon skeleton labeled Primates in a museum case.
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Girton
Mr. Lefanu
Museum of the College of Surgeons
Early European Postal Events from 1500 to 1516
The Postal Record notes Francis de Taxis being appointed postmaster general byPhilip and regent of the Netherlands in Ghent, managing English mails from Calais to Vienna and Rome. It records 1504 instructions for regular Brussels to German, French, and Spanish capitals posts at 12 000 livres annually and a 1516 contract to sustain routes Brussels Paris Burgos and Naples with two horses per post.
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O. S
Francis de Taxis
Philip
Netherlands
Ghent
Taxis
Calais
Vienna
Rome
Brussels
Germany
France
Spain
England
Henry VII
Brian Tuke
Charles V
Francis and
Baptist de Taxis
Naples
Brussels-Paris
Brussels-Burgos
Brussels-Naples
Uphill All The Way In A Kentucky Jest
A Kentucky judge recalls a night with friends when pranksters swapped his wagon wheels, making the front rise. He returns home at dawn and tells his wife he had been to Louisville with the trek uphill all the way. The piece ends by noting every woman should know how to make a poultice.
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Kentucky
Maria
Louisville
Delsarte
Where Farming Pays
A fragmented line questions farming profitability in the Northwest with wheat prices cited under 60 cents a bushel. The brief notes regional context and uncertain market conditions.
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Decedents Estates
Reeves
Angola
Indiana
W. W. Snyder
Fremont
Bank OF Fremont
Lemont
Dia
Busam Batt
Nawr. G. Bau
Doesseral Banking Business
Hilton House
New York City
Sheeler
Farenos
Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. CO
Wabash
Feliirent Nias
Sultan Houly
Eureka Chemical & M’f'g Co
LaCrosse
Wis
Pioneer Press Company
C. W. Honmice
St. Paul
Eureka Chemical and Urs Co
W. Hossice
Ammunition &c
W. N. McKeehen
Fremont, Ind
Fremont Eagle
Virginia
Tidewater
H. Bovee
Coldwater, Mich
Pam
A. Pilliod
Bryan, O
Cincinnati Express
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Cincinnati
Algorator
Wabash Bay
Detroit
United States
F. B. Daxx
T. C. M. Schindler
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Ledo
Ohio
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