Watering Grapes and Fermentation Limits in Winemaking
The text explains how added water affects must sugar and acid balance, noting that dilution lowers acidity and can produce poor wine unless grape extract is high. It cautions against post fermentation water addition and highlights exceptional cases in Australia and other regions where limited dilution may aid dry wine production.
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F. T. Bioletti
Californian
Balline
Europe
Australia
London Jobelet Parade of Oddities?
A fragment from the West mmeter Gazette describes a Frenchman addressing a London police officer with a guidebook, asking for the nearest route to the four mile radius. The officer’s somber demeanor gave way to a restrained smile as busmen glared and a cabman asked for directions.
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Four Mile Radius
London
Four Mile
Stadius
Pall Mall
Coliseum
Curious Candle Fish From British Columbia Coast
A description of a small fish known as en lanchon or candle fish, about an inch long, resembling a smelt. Indigenous peoples dry and smoke it to produce a bright fume and use its oil as a butter substitute. sometimes a woolly wick is threaded through the dried body to light the tail as a candle for winter food.
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Pacific
British Columbia
Beekeeping Site Choose for Hive Arrangements
A bee keeper should select level ground for many hives and space hives properly. Place hives away from roads unless a fence or trees separate them, and face entrances east to catch morning sun. Keep at least 6 feet between hives in a line and about 12 feet between lines for multiple rows.
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America
Production of Useless Drones in Beekeeping
The article argues for reducing drone production to save honey. It notes 1000 drones consume over four ounces of honey daily, and in five weeks a hive with 38 square inches of comb may use about nine pounds. It advises early spring removal of drone cells to boost worker comb and honey harvest.
How to Purchase Bees From Local Hives Near You
The text advises buying bees as close to home as possible to avoid long shipping. It suggests selecting a queen to change strains later, noting differences among colonies of the same kind. It compares bees to cows, with some colonies producing high honey flows and profitability while others do not. An American authority is cited on the existence of good and poor honey producers among bees.
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Nother
Beekeeping Tip on Requeening Weak Colonies
The instruction notes that a beekeeper should identify colonies that yield little honey and replace the queen to strengthen the hive. It compares building up a weak apiary to improving stock and other farm branches.
Actress Boucicault in Brompton Court suit over groceries
In Brompton County Court Miss Boucicault the actress wife of Edward Kelly faced a £20 claim from Wright and King for groceries and bills. The cross examiner pressed her on bank access and payments made from her husband’s account before 1905. The judge noted possible agency in the household and found for the defendant.
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Nissa Boucticault
Sie Boucicault
Brompton Counts Court
Edward Herbert Kelly
Sussex Villas
Kensington
Messrs Wright and King
Plaintill
Dboucicault
Edward Welly
Selwood Place
Kelly
National Provincial Bank
Jielre Selfo
Excess of eating and drinking in modern society
A quote from Strand Magazine cited by Dr W K Sibley notes that the commonest cause of many trivial ailments beginning before middle age is excess eating and drinking. The line underscores health cautions in contemporary life.
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W. K. Sibley
Ino
Strand Magazine
Strange clairvoyance case reported in Occult Review
Mr J. E. Hough describes his sister’s second sight read under blindfold with a book on her lap. She reads print as two to three inch letters while blindfolded and in mesmeric influence, without telepathy, using new books unseen by others in the room.
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J. E. Hough
Occult Review
Mesmeric Reading Test At Social Party Described
A Liverpool correspondent reports a social gathering where a man blindfolded, using his sister, tested thought reading. The sister allegedly read a page of technical diary content aloud and wrote from the diary, though she stumbled on shorthand characters.
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Liverpool
Daily Mail
Miss Hough
Wealthy readers author home histories with artful charm
An article reviews Charles Van Raalte and wife's Brownsea Island history lavishly bound with abundant color illustrations. It notes a trend of affluent homeowners writing local histories and lists other prominent contributors including Lady Warwick, Lady Algernon Gordon-Lennox, Vernon Watney, Andrew Carnegie, Sir Hiram Maxim, and the Astor family with titles like Triumphant Democracy and Pharaoh's Daughter.
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Charles van Raalte
Poole Harbor
Brownsea
Brownsea Island
van Raalte
Lady Warwick
Warwick Castle
Warwick
Algernon Gordon-Lennox
Broughton
Tudor
Oxfordshire
Vernon Watney
Wiltshire
Littlecoty
Carnegie
Hiram Maxim
Astor
John Jacob Astor
New York
William Waldorf Astor
Sforza
Valentina
Daily Mall
Married Women Debts Debate at Drapers Chamber
The Drapers Chamber of Trade discussed Paquin Limited versus Mia Holden. Lords split on whether a wife should be liable for goods ordered with private arrangements with her husband. Suggestions urged legal reform. proposal to refer to the parliamentary committee for action.
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Drapers
Drapers' Chamber of Trade
Paquin Limited
Mia Holden
Court of Appeal
House of Lords
M‘cormack
Chamber
Prichard Jones
Messrs
Dickins and Jones
M'Cormack
Messie Paquin
Untitled fragment on old photos and critique
Fragmentary note discusses why current photography images show unusual creases and mental strain. Mentions a critique titled Ari Crit in the Biudjo.
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Ari
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