Bookwalter Warns of Low Wheat Prices and Global Trade Shifts
Special correspondence reports John W. Bookwalter, Springfield manufacturer and investor in Kansas-Nebraska railways, warning that rising Indian and Argentine wheat exports plus Europe’s demand shifts threaten American farm prices for several years. He notes past price cycles, warns against relying on grain storage, and urges diversification beyond farming. He plans another Europe and Far East tour.
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New York
John W. Bookwalter
Springfield
Nebraska
Kansas
Mr. B
Shawnee
Fountain County
Ind
Illinois
Sol
India
Argentine Republic
England
Chicago
London
Liverpool
Nevada
Colorado
Europe
Berlin
Jonas Harrison
Eggleston
Lela
Seaboard
Mr. Bookwalter
Far East
J. H. Beadle
Not In Vain After All
A reporter and artist visit Erie basin in Brooklyn to view the disabled steamers Celtic and Britannic, meet closed gates and warnings. They instead tour Squattersville, a vast slum of makeshift dwellings built from junk, noting harsh conditions, persistently crowded with children and animals, yet oddly ruddy and resilient.
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New York
Celtic
Erie Basin
Brooklyn
America
J. H. Parke
Curious Arkansaw Museum Shows Vast Grass and Wood Library
A New York Times summary describes a Little Rock collection by Professor Thomas including 155 kinds of grasses, cereals like cotton and corn, and glass jars holding fruit specimens. The museum also features a unique library with books made from various woods, praised by visitors including Jay Gould. The exhibit claims Arkansaw could produce items across four degrees of latitude.
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Little Rock
Arkansaw
Thomas
Florida
New York
Jay Gould
New York Times
The Arkansas Cracker at Home
Octave Thanet writes of a southern plantation life in a humorous letter. The narrator recalls Thomas Jefferson as a versatile worker who aids in building a cowshed and later a coffin. The piece contrasts hopes with delays and a casual, resilient approach to daily tasks on the plantation.
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Arkansas
Thomas Jefferson
Sam Lawson
Henry
Octave Thanet
Fall River Advices: Profit in Faith-Filled Life
A brief quote highlights embracing one’s God given path over chasing a grand career, urging contentment in simple purpose rather than worldly ambition. The item appears as a civic or religious reflection from Fall River Advices.
Mocking bird imitation awes Guiana traveler
A South American traveler in Guiana awakens to cries he believes are a man in danger. The guide reveals the sounds come from the tion Kou or attention bird, a brilliant yellow neck bird that imitates English French and Spanish speech as well as animal cries, inspiring the remark that it has eaten a whole menagerie.
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M. D'Orbigny
Guiana
South Africa
Shah Orders Tehran Hospital Run By American Missionaries
The Shah of Persia authorizes American missionaries to establish a Tehran hospital open to all relief seekers. Dr Torrence appointed director. immediate funds of 85,000 and 10,000 more to complete setup are sought. The Shah elevates Torrence to Grand Officer of the Order of the Lion and Sun in recognition of his relief work.
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Shah of Persia
Teheran
Torrence
Grand Outfit Tree Address Trees & Co
Augusta
Maine
Roan Rolla Hen Lays Daily Egg For A Year
A half black Spanish and half game hen in Rolla Missouri began laying on May 10 1886 and has laid an egg every day since. She sits on the nest each day except for water and food in the morning and has hatched one egg daily except during the first three weeks. After a year she is mother and butcher of 344 chickens evenly split between pullets and roosters.
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Rolla
New York Sun
Conductor Suspended After Elmira Encounter
A Pullman conductor on the Delaware and Lackawanna faced a brusque exchange with a man wearing an eyeglass and cane at Elmira. In New York he was suspended for ten days for incivility to passengers. The stranger, a spotter, asked if they were bound for Buffalo.
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Delaware and Lackawanna Road
Elmira
Buffalo
New York
Judgment By A Wife In Chinese Folklore
The Brooklyn Eagle recounts a Chinese tale where a wise mandarin asks his wife to decide a dispute between two mothers and a child. She orders the child’s clothes hidden on a fish then cast into the river, and the true mother is identified when the survivor shouts to rescue the child.
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Solomon
Brooklyn Eagle
Dr Talmage to Write Weekly Syndicate Letter
The Publishers' Bulletin reports Dr Talmage will soon begin a weekly syndicate letter for numerous newspapers. His sermons already appear in a large syndicate with a circulation of about 2 000 000 weekly.
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Bulletin
Talmage
Auburn inventor endurance linked to one daily meal plan
An Auburn man claims he has worked 760 days or ten hours daily over the past two years with few Sundays off. He attributes his stamina to a simple regimen of eating only one meal every twenty four hours.
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Auburn
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Bookwalter
Mwe
Information About
Fall River
AW Hospital
Portland and Loutviile Cement
Plaster OF Paris
Cross Paints
Usk
Marshall and Welch
AEP Eee
J. K. Thompson
East Greeley
Main Street
Greeley, Colorado
KE. Hart
SPURS
Addres
George Stryson & Co
Portland Maine
D. Davieson
Olive Street
St. Louis, Mo
G. Cook
Heaton
Cook
Greeley
Walnut Street
Madison Avenue
H. A. French
A. Z. Salomon & Company
Tory A. L. Welch & CO
Greeley and Weld County
Sixteenth and
Champa Streets
Jellen Worbles
Coto
Denver, Colorado
E. Brooks
England Conservatory OF Music
Boston
Mass
Tourjee
Franklin St
Lawrence St
Denver
Jas. G. Kilpatrick
OD. W. Elliott
Castoria
HL A. Anca
M.D
Oxford St
N.Y
Tus Centary Company
Fulton Street
N. Y
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