Fall and Spring Plowing Benefits and Lime Use Critiqued
The article argues fall plowing is beneficial under certain conditions and that lime broadcast after plowing improves soil with frost action aiding clod breakdown. It notes lime's effects on soil texture and the preference for crass plowing in spring. It discusses beetle control on melons and cucumbers using coal oil admixtures and reports on corn fodder nutrition focusing on stalks husks and leaves.
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Philadelphia Record
W. W. Hilboro
Treating Young Fruit-Trees and Garden Notes
A Prairie Farmer summary warns that neglecting young fruit-trees after planting leads to losses. It urges clean cultivation, avoiding grain sowing among trees, and applying potash to the soil. The piece covers pigeons as yard pests, culling flocks, and cautions about sheep stock, plus potato scab remedies using wood ashes and duck flavor from celery-fed ducks.
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Hollister Sag O
Poultey Sates
Train Trick Leaves Official Laughing At Montana Rails
A Great Northern Railway official in Montana becomes the butt of a joke after mistaking a parallel track and chasing a looping Northern Pacific train. He climbs down to wait, only to find the same conductor on the opposite train and ends with the coach laughing and cigars for all.
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Montana
Great Northern Railway
Minneapolis Tribune
Butte
Helena
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Eastern
Village of Italize and pile dwellings near Venezuela name origin
An article describes Italize at the Mississippi mouth with its pile dwellings reached by pole ladders. It notes similar villages along the Venezuela coast and Amazon estuary, mentions Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci, and explains how Venezuela got its name from a Gulf named Venice. A small note from Harper's Young People closes with a store sign about heating grain.
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United States
Mississippi
Venezuela
Orinovo
Amazon
Alonzo de Ojeda
Columbus
South America
Amerigo Vespucel
Vespucel
Venezula
Ojeda Gove
Venice
Venizla
Little Venice
Coquibacoa
Lake
Maracaibo
Bay of Venezuela
Harper's Young People
Marital Records Thread Through Centuries
A Washington News item notes curiosity about multiple marriages in history. Examples cited include Elizabeth Mass of Florence who married seven husbands and preferred her fifth, a soldier with five wives, and a Bordeaux man who wed sixteen times. It also mentions a couple in Essex with 91 years of marriage in 170%, and a St. Clement Danes story of an 85 year old woman marrying a sixth husband in 1882.
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St. Jerome
Elizabeth Mass
Florence
Bordeaux
Essex
Church of St. Clement Danes
Amusing Tales On Boiled Eggs And A Street Car Calamity
A traveler recalls a country hotel egg riddle about soft versus hard boiled eggs and how to tell them apart if dishes swap places. A Washington Medical Congress anecdote follows about a doctor toppled on a streetcar who asks for a collision and hears Collusion. The piece closes with Annie's curious question after a funeral about how her father enjoyed himself.
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New York
Washington
Virginia
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