Poultry and Livestock Care for Two Day Old Fowls and Teeth
A poultry writer warns that two day old fowls lack teeth but can grind food with a gizzard. Do not feed exclusively cooked food as it harms grinding ability and may cause disease. Horses require better dental attention from foaling. light thumb-pressure lancing can ease tenderness. Butter packing for winter favors glazed ceramic and proper brine with dry salt, stored in a cool dry cellar in firkins or cleaned crocks.
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Rellovo
New York
Witnet
National Floree Breeder
New Fork Press
Extracted honey yields and hive management lessons
The article argues extracting honey from combs is faster and safer for hive health, doubling potential honey output. It notes bees stay productive with ample space, reduces swarming, but warns that ripening and sealing cells delay harvest. It states extracted honey offers higher average profits and is easier for most beekeepers to master.
Practical farm advice on walks and livestock care from Washington Star
Farmers should build durable walks around homes using burnt stone and tar for long lasting surfaces. The piece also covers handling ducks, lambs, wheat and oats planting, seed quality, incubators, seed bed prep, and the need for clean stalls, water for calves, and general poultry care.
Construction notes for a portable cheap-congenient pen
Fragmentary instructions describe building a portable pen from timber and spars. The text specifies two durable timbers and lengths such as nine inches and fifteen feet, plus rounds and ends, with four scantlings and baling referenced. The passage is incomplete and lacks coherent steps or context.
Construction of a movable hog pen with half flooring
The article details building a portable hog pen with one half floored using ash or oak plank and the other half dirt floor. It covers framing with two by four scantling, mortises at corners and midpoints for posts, slanted roof for drainage, a sliding door to separate sections, and the method to move the pen by hitching a horse. It emphasizes comfort, cleanliness, and mobility to avoid filth buildup.
Russian Cavalry Lags Behind German Forces in Horse Quality
A Miditarisches Wockenblitt writer notes Russia's horse stock, despite census showing 20 million animals. Eighty six percent are village ponies unsuited for war, while only 18 percent of 4 million stud-breds produce riding horses. Southlands bred horses fill the gap but have poor cavalry suitability and Cossack stock worsens yearly.
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Miditarisches Wockenblitt
Household Laundry and Vegetable Care Tips From The New Fork Press
Practical household guidance covers stain prevention and salt rinsing for fast colors, soaking and washing garments, and ironing starch. It also offers vegetable cooking tips, including using soft water, salting water, soaking onions, and proper cutting methods, plus a collection of recipes for coffee jelly fricandeau of veal lettuce salad tapioca cauliflower gratin and egg bread.
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Marline
Washington Star
Fricundeau
Gogar
Hat Finishing: The Unhealthful Side of the Hat Trade
A semi annual report from the Hat Finishers International Union notes twenty one deaths among finishers in six months. Many deaths are linked to consuming diseases and unhealthy shop conditions. sizing offers a healthier alternative. Older workers are scarce in finishing as employers shun gray hairs and skilled aging.
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International Union
Connecticut
Duke Doctor Aids Tyrolean Eye Patients in Moran
His Royal Highness Dr Charles Theodore, Duke of Bavaria, and his wife, with Dr von Zenker, have treated poor Moran eye patients for eight weeks. About 1061 under care before Whitsun recess, 195 operations, including 68 cataract cures, with the Duchess nursing and aiding. The Tyrolean people welcomed the visitors with grateful demonstrations of esteem.
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Moran
Austrian
Tyrol
Tegern-See
New York Tribune
Death of a Remarkable Cripple Silas Wilson 45
The Picayune recalls Silas Wilson who died at forty five living in New York City after a life marked by extreme disability. He never used his legs below the knees and spoke little due to paralysis. He rose from poverty in Philadelphia to make a living selling soap and later wax flowers in Buffalo where he met his wife. Walking on his knees, he stood three feet tall when upright and wore neat clothing with a cane. He endured with a cheerful spirit and was seen as an unrecognized local hero.
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Ninth Avenue
New York City
Philadelphia
New York
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Mammoth Forty-Pound Turtle Slaughtered in Stratford
A giant turtle captured near the Housatonic River by Drew and Baldwin was slaughtered in Stratford, Conn. Twenty five pounds of meat were consumed as turtle soup by thirty men. Fragments filled twelve baskets. The head goes to Peabody Museum, the hide to be tanned for shoes, and shell kept for a chicken-house roof. Claws and other parts are preserved in alcohol. It is the largest known in the region.
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Baldwin
Housatonic River
Consolidated Road
Stratford
Conn
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Peabody Museum of New Haven
Beardsley
Nang Junction
Watchmaker Details Two Gold Watches With Complicated Dials
A Boston watchmaker undertook a rare task to set two gold cases worth 400 Bas each. The larger dial features four smaller dials showing the diagram of the moon, a date dial, a day of month dial, and a day of week dial.
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Boston
New York Tribune
Charcot’s Cat-Woman Patient At Paris Hospital
Kiats-Crn in notes report that Dr Charcot has drawn attention to a so called femme chat housed at Salpetriere. A girl about fourteen shows catlike transformations when aroused, including convulsed eyes, snarling mouth, four paw movements, arched back and purring sounds before returning to normal.
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B.paris
Courrier Des’ Kiats
New York
One Living Chance at Monmouth Track
A Mor ris stable boy, age 28, beloved by patrons and staff at Monmouth track, learns from his doctor that medicine cannot help. As his life wanes he clings to a single hope and asks the physician to "put every thing on her one living chance."
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Monmouth Track
Morris Stables
Atricken
New Fork Sun
Fiddlers of Cumberland Island Described by Coral Cumberland
A Cumberland Island correspondent recalls fiddlers marching on the sands by the inlet. The tiny crabs are varied in color, some with large claws keeping time like drum majors. They move backward and sideways and produce a lip-smacking sound.
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Cumberland
Savannah Netea
Whole Family of Comets Observed by Lick Observatory
Professor E. Holden reports from the Lick Observatory in California that a comet found by Mr. Brooks of Geneva New York was observed by Mr. Barnard with two companions. One companion has a clear tail. In addition to the three comets, four nearby objects are likely part of the same family. The phenomenon is rare but has precedent.
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Lick Observatory
California
Brooks
Geneva
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Barnard
Sayings and Saids Puzzle and Gold Yield Report
The text plays with words like says saids and that that that that man said. It notes a thirty one word limit for that that insertion. A separate item states Queensland gold yield for the past half year reached 390000 ounces, up 166000 from the prior half year.
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Queensland
Origin of Washington's sobriquet
The nickname The City of Magnificent Distances is traced to John Randolph. He observed that early Washington, with its widely separated department buildings Capitol and White House as chief centers, resembled a city of splendid poverty and magnificent distances.
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John Randolph
Capitol
White House
Randolph
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