Selecting a Coffee Estate Ground and Planting Practices
Francis J. Dare outlines coffee finca life in Central America. Indians, or mozos, perform labor under tight supervision, with four to six years of hard work before returns. Ground choice favors well drained hillsides, and nurseries grow twigs for eight feet spacing. Harvest relies on corporal overseers and weekly wage checks.
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Central America
Guatemala
Finca
Francis J. A. Dare
New York Times
Tartness of the Cuban Montero
Edward L. Wakeman portrays the Cuban montero as indolent yet attached to a simple life. He argues wealth burdens him, sun and climate provide comfort, and family roles are unpressured. The piece contrasts montero serenity with American household pretensions.
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Edward L. "Wakeman
A Wanderer in Kan-tchou-foo Stirs City to Turbulent Excitement
Thomas Stevens describes a scene in Kingan-foo where crowds react with squeaks and cries as a stranger passes. Merchants close shops while shoppers flee to cover convergent alleys. The crowd's frenzy echoes the noise of monkeys and devils, framed as a vivid travelogue moment.
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Kingan-foo
Grand Trunk Road
India
Kan-tchou-foo
Thomas Stevens
New Method Proposed for Fixed Standard of Length
Popular Science News reports Michelson and Morley developed a method to measure light wavelengths with purported accuracy to one ten millionth. Using sodium yellow light with a wavelength about one forty thousandth of an inch, the method promises a practical invariable standard of length reproducible anywhere.
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Messrs. Michelson
Morley
Popular Science News
Mace Evolution from War to Ranch Life
The piece traces the mace from ancient weapons to a horseman’s tool and ecclesiastical stand in church canon. It notes variations from iron heads to phalanges and crowns, used with saddles and cords, plus a hammer form for longbowmen. It then moves to Roosevelt commenting on ranch life and reading by the fire.
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Globe-Democrat
Theodore Roosevelt
Free trial bottles boost business at Foxer’s drug store
Local outlet reports booming trade after offering free Dy King’s New Discovery trial bottles for consumption relief. The ad touts cures for coughs colds asthma bronchitis croup and throat and lung diseases with a one dollar large bottle and a full warranty. The Chronicle notes a humorous London reference in a separate four o clock in the afternoon Brexit style quip.
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J. F. Foxer
Dy King
California Cat-A-Cure advertised for consumption cure
An advertisement touts CALIFORNIA CAT A CURE from Butte County as a remedy for consumption and other ailments. It claims Santa Arife the king of consumption and promotes W B Mason with bottles at 1.00 or three for 2.50 and mail order at 1.10. Circulars offered free.
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Butte County
California
Santa Arife
W. B. Mason
Brace Up with Electric Bitters Not Stimulants
A history of low spirits and aches points to Electric Bitters as a purifying blood alterative. It promises restore vitality and liver kidney action, available at J. F. Fezer's drug store for 50 cents, amid a page of patent remedies and light humor from the era.
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J. F. Fezer
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