The Widening Use of Electric Cars and Road Reform
A long reading argues that urban roads favor horse and bicycle while railways advance, urging centralized highway planning, better standards, and trained engineers. It notes failures since 1888, calls for state and local action, and contrasts American underinvestment with European progress. It cites France, Germany, Britain, and Roman road heritage as models.
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Russia
France
Napoleon
Germany
Great Britain
Macadam
Europe
Virginia
United States
Cholera in China Reported Death Toll Soars
William B. Curtis describes widespread cholera in China with thousands dying in Peking Shanghai and Tien-Tsin. He notes bodies in streets and describes body removal permits and cash offerings for burial outside city walls amid the outbreak.
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William B. Curtis
China
Peking
Shanghai
Tieo-Tain
Bhanghal
Tien-Tuin
Pirate Hunters Strike From Well known Lair
Near Shanghai a lightkeeper witnessed a dramatic clash at a pirate haunt. A large junk with one helm and several sailors was approached by two fast boats carrying about twenty armed men. Pirates fired on the boats, killing the crew, and decapitated the two leaders before throwing them overboard. The junk, believed to be chartered by a mandarin, proved a disguise for the pirate hunt.
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Shanghai
Accident In East Mon Menteth Results In Injury
A man named Prescott was guiding a colt when it whirled and kicked striking him near the hip pocket where he carried a loaded revolver. The revolver discharged and the bullet lodged in the calf or leg, causing serious injury. The report also notes stray humorous dialogue and London migratory smoke observations.
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Tespe
San Carlos
Oaxaca
East Monmenteth
Prescott
Mr. Prescott
Feeding Green Food to Poultry and Cheap Silo Ideas
A Farmers' Home Journal note urges summer green food for confined fowls, favoring large sods for birds to peck. It describes a cheap silo built from stacked hay, with corn stored in a central hole and board surround. Also urged are windfall apples for cows and bone flour to stimulate laying in hens.
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Farmers’ Home Journal
Philadelphia Ledger
Storing Potatoes And Pig Feeding Insights
The article notes ventilation varies with potato storage conditions and lists five guidelines including harvest timing and keeping tubers clean and cool. It also reports a pig feeding experiment comparing bulky versus concentrated rations, finding faster gains with wider rations but similar dressing shrinkage.
Surplus stalks and harrow depth affect oat growth
Agricultural tips discuss stalk plowing to keep soil dry and air gaps, and how deep harrowing improved oat growth with stronger roots and greener plants. Advice on rye cover for poor land followed by clover and timothy sowing, plus smoothing harrow to aid root depth. Also notes on chickens in fall gardens and benefits to weed control and soil. Co operative cheese making in central New York outlines milk to cheese flow and patron share.
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New York
Grape Butter and Butter PackagingAdvice
Grape butter method uses one peck grapes one peck apples eight pounds sugar with water, seeds removed by sieving then apples added and cooked to thick jam like consistency. Glass jars preserve. pound prints of butter advised for retail, avoiding mixing in one package and ensuring market-ready packaging. Manure yields by animal types shown in Professor Roberts experiments with different rations and working hours.
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Roberts
How to Cook Beets and Holstein Breeding Notes
How to Cook Beets describes baking beets for ten hours then peeling and preserving in a vinegar pickup with cloves onion and bay leaf to keep a week. Holstein Grades notes Holstein cows as strong milk producers advising mating best milking cows to heavy milking Holstein sires to build a large herd of 8500 quart cows in tin.
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