Wonderberry or Sunberry hailed as great garden fruit
Luther Hurbank originated the Wonderberry or Sunberry and John Lewis Childs introduced it. People across the country praise its taste and hardiness with reports from John Burroughs, John Powers, K S Enochs, and others noting high yields, early fruit, drought tolerance, and abundant crops even in sand or drought.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luther Hurbank
John Lewis Childs
Reedsman
Floral Park
N. Y
John Burroughs
Theodore Roosevelt
New York Agricultural Experiment Station
Canada
Hall
Wichita
Kan
Enochs
Hammond
Mia
J. J. Powers
Kenwood Avenue
Chicago
J.P. Swallow
Kenton
Ohio
Rey. H. B. Sheldon
Pacific Grove
Cal
W. T. Davis
Enon
Morrow
U. S
Childs
Hattie Vincent
Hayden
New Mexico
Nevertheless the young poet serves the muses
The Catholic Standard and Times notes a dispute about a budding Roman poet who vows lifelong devotion to the muses. His elder counters by saying the poet mistakes Bacchus for a muse, highlighting a clash of ambition and wit in a brief cultural reflection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bacchus
Standard and Times
Remarkable Weight Gain With Household Remedy Praise
Mrs. Maria Goertz of Orienta Oklahoma endorses Perma the Household Remedy and Dr Hartman’s advice and books. She claims her husband, children, and herself were cured of asthma, earache, stomach catarrh, and throat catarrh, and her weight rose from 100 to 140 pounds after use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perma
Maria Goertz
Orienta
Oklahoma
Hartman
Shipwreck tale opens on a stranded party conflict and hunger
A steamer sinks leaving Miss Genevieve Leslie and Lord Winthrope with Blake, a rugged American, and Tom Jake aboard. Stranded on a mud bank they contend with thirst, sun, sharks, and broken nerves while improvising water and food from reeds, fish, and a Coryphene as tension and tempers flare and a fragile rescue plan forms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genevieve Lowh
Lord Winthrops
Tom Jake
Blake
Misa Lenlie
Jenny
Hmlake
Rinke
Winthrope
France
Blake Returns in Calm Tide Watch at Shore
In a dead calm sea within reefs Blake returns, not seen until he struck shallow water and stood to wade ashore. The tide had begun to ebb as he began landward, and though a powerful swimmer the long pull wore on.
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Blake
Winthrope
Miss Leste
There are two volumes of this for my library
A tale from Harper's Weekly about Henry Miller selling two rare volumes to Col lis P Huntington. Huntington denies buying them, but Miller reminds him he said they were valuable for his library, concluding with the humorous twist that Huntington did indeed purchase them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Miller
New York
Collis P. Huntington
Mr. Miller
Mr. Huntington
Milllionaire
Harper's Weekly
Brokers boast of quick sale in mining scheme
A dialogue shows two brokers praising a mining scheme with one boasting that they sold every share before finding the mine, signaling possible hype and risk in the venture. The exchange reflects speculative investment language and unnamed speakers.
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Drummond
Davis
Robert Ames Bennet
Ray Walters
A. G McClurg & Co
Mise Lesiie
Marie
Mr. Winthrope
Miss Leslie
Leslie
Drake
Make
Pinko
Deuce
Huntington
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