Rich Reporter Darlington Snapper Makes Night Desk Buzz
In a brawling city scene at the St. Snob hotel Henry O. Sniff hosts a dinner for Darlington Snapper and 16 reporters. Snapper flouts editors, plates beaming with notoriety as the party spirals into a festive, gossip filled afterglow.
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Darlington Snapper
Whiff
Snapper
Mr. Pickle
Night City
Mr. McLennon
Tenderloin Police
Henry O. Sniff
Bu Lee Whang
St. Snob
Darington
Early Printing History in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania
The first U S printing press came from Adam Ramage in Philadelphia about 1795. By 1810 Philadelphia hosted two press factories with $26 000 in products and two hydraulic engine manufactories with $25 000 in products. Pennsylvania’s first press was erected in Philadelphia in 1686, four years after the colony’s initial English settlement. Franklin’s magazines began in 1741. In 1810 about 500 000 volumes were printed yearly in Philadelphia, and after the Revolution the city led U S printing with the first daily paper in 1784. Around 110 wooden presses operated there, more than any English-speaking city save London. The American Company of Booksellers promoted publishing fairs from 1802 in New York and Philadelphia. In 1810 Pennsylvania had 73 newspapers, eight dailies, more than New York. In 1817 George Clymer invented the Columbian handpress, first in the U S able to print both newspaper sides at once, used in England from 1818 to 1860. By 1900 Philadelphia housed 622 printing establishments with $23.02 million capital and $23.45 million in products.
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United States
Adam Ramage
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Telegraph
Pennsylvania
Franklin
London
American Company of Booksellers
New York
New York State
George Clymer
England
Hemphill Leads Debate at Southern Publishers Meet
The Charlotte Observer reports Charleston News and Courier editor Hemphill dominated remarks at a Southern Newspaper Publishers meeting in Charlotte. He mocked NC claims to Andrew Jackson’s nativity and noted racial taunts during exchanges with North Carolina partisans. He quipped about Charleston’s city traits and stirred laughter with a sharp reply to a question about the city.
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Charlotte Observer
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Hemphill
Charleston News and Courier
Tar Heels
Mecklenburg
North Carolina
Andrew Jackson
Roland
Oliver
Col. Hemphill
Charlotte
Observer
Association
Hackman
Air
Dream of the Miner and the lure of gold
Joaquin Miller recalls how early miners chased wealth with wild hope to find houses of gold or colossal fortunes. He notes miners often earned little while gold itself fueled global wealth and that true massive nuggets never existed. He cites California's placer mines as being discovered mainly in the first three months.
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Joaquin Miller
Sunset Magazine
Cortez
Australia
California
Value of a Good Yawn
The article argues yawning signals fatigue and muscle strain, not laziness. It advises letting yawns occur, stretching simultaneously, and even performing a full body yawn routine in a straight backed chair to relax tense nerves and rest the body.
Costly St Nicholas Relics Spark International Feud
Russian Gen Bogdanovitch offered Bari Cathedral 1 000 000 rubles for the authentic bones of St Nicholas on display there. The relics are said to be water-springing and crossed, drawing attention from Bari to Russia amid religious prestige and royal visits. The offer was refused and observers doubt any further bid will succeed.
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Boril
Venice
St. Nicholas
Bogdanovitch
Cathedral of
Bari
Russia
Czarowitz
Helena
Itea
Device for Berry Growers Solves Runner Disposal Problem
An old hoe blade repurposed as a trimming tool lightens the labor of spacing and removing surplus runners in strawberry beds. The article describes turning a worn hoe into a sickle blade and using simple contrivances to cut canes while standing, with emphasis on giving plants room and time after bearing to prune.
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Orange Judd Farmer
Farm Water Supply Warnings From Indiana Farmer
A correspondent reports many wells on farms sit in low areas with surface drainage risk. Most farms use a single well for house and stock. experts urge locating wells away from seepage and polluting runoff. Recommend near the house with a distant stock tank and abundant pure water.
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Indiana
Farm Notes on Cultivation and Dairy Care
Cultivation should curb weeds with light dry well ventilated stock barns and molasses as a good feed for farm animals including dairy cows. Dairying needs careful cows. Weeds occupy waste places and prepare ground for grasses. Potato vines half grown spread lateral roots. cultivate over roots not through them. Dairy cows require five times as much carbon in food as protein to produce heat and energy.
Freezing Cure From France Claims Dyspepsia Cure
The practice involves placing a subject in a steel fur lined cylinder for quarter hours while a 110 degree below zero acid solution circulates through double walls. After eight sessions a man reportedly cured his 16 year dyspepsia. German heirs fined 12500 dollars for understated income and taxes. Lord Kelvin awarded honorary Doctor of Science by University of Wales for scientific services.
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France
Lord Kelvin
The
University of Wales
The Sheep Industry Faces Price Pressures in Dull Times
The sheep industry has thriven despite dull periods with high prices offered for Jamba drawing farmers to deplete stocks. Shuka of the Paseree should be kept for, mavedies 2.
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Paseree
The Sin of Land-Murder in Agricultural Practice
The Progressive Farmer argues land erosion and gullying threaten the South more than the Midwest. It compares land ruin to harm against a human body, urging shame for wasting soil and noting historic shifts in land value fail to reflect long term damage to posterity. It cites James J. Hill on North Carolina’s past wealth and current soil loss.
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Aouth
Middle West
James J. Hill
Washington
North Carolina
South
Straining Jelly Method From Farm and Home Reader
A high school cookery pupil shares a jelly strain method using a chair as a stand. Cheesecloth bag tied to chair legs drains boiling juice into successive bowls, with mosquito netting spread over the chair and straining left overnight.
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South Kensington
London
Eng
Bracing a Corner Post With Iron Hook and Wire
A Prairie Farmer guide explains bracing a corner post using a wire hook formed on a piece of inch iron and threaded on the opposite end. The wooden brace and wire wrap provide support for the corner joint as shown in the illustration.
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Ajiy
Germ theory advocate predicts animals replace drugs in future medicine
Prof Wright of England argues serums will replace pills and hypodermics, with laboratories housing hundreds of horses and thousands of guinea pigs. He cites pasteur and Koch era advances, notes Europe and America moving toward serum therapy, and describes humane yet fatal use of animals to test antitoxins for human disease.
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Wright
England
Rogers
Cornell
Europe
America
Middle West
Detroit
Pasteur and Koch
Back to Lamarck Modern Scientists Rally for Lamarck Over Darwin
A debate reopens over the origin of species as Lamarck’s views gain renewed support among scientists. The piece traces Lamarck’s ideas on environmental influence shaping species and contrasts them with Darwinian natural selection, noting renewed interest and Harvard holdings of Lamarck sketches.
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Charles Darwin
Tota
Ike Huxley
Naturaliot
Arovn
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Farm Water Supply
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Battle Royal
Darwin
Bazentin
Picardy
Jean Lamarck
Harvard University
A. Agassiz
Paris
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