Woman Daring and Doing in Wartime North Carolina
James Robbins moves with his family to rural North Carolina amid Civil War tensions. Copperhead threats drive families to defend homes with revolvers while a new regiment forms locally. Rosa Robbins rejects selling and upholds loyalties to the Union as neighbors clash over politics and fear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Robbins
Cairo
Navy
Foote
James
Harry
Pen Tve
St. Louis
Illinois
Rosa
Emaline
Chi'iren
North Carolina
Effects of Animal Excreta in Water in Public Health
Professor Charles F. Chandler explains that decomposition of animal matter in water produces highly dangerous impurities not detectable by taste. Sewage contamination spreads typhoid and cholera, with historical cases in Munich Pinsfield Staten Island Exeter London and Brooklyn illustrating how polluted wells and pumps caused outbreaks. Clean water and sewer systems greatly reduced these epidemics, underscoring the need for pure water supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles F. Chandler
Munich
Pinsfild
Massachusetts
Cesspool
Edgewater
Staten Island
Stephen Smith
Providenet
Croton
Exeter
England
London
Southwark Company
Lambeth Company
Southwark
Lambeth
Broad Street
West End
Brompton
Thames
Hampstead
Central Park
Twelfth
Brooklyn
van Brunt Street
Wales
Teeland
Awarc
Algiers
Chestnut trees on the Great Plains and Kansas success claims
A letter argues chestnuts are not a failure on the Great Plains, noting Kansas farmers with chestnut trees yielding nuts and comparisons to New York and Pennsylvania. The writer supports continued trials and criticizes blanket statements of failure while highlighting local factors and fourteen years of tree planting experience. The Rural Clubs in Colorado and Territory progress receive brief comment with a call for more societies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Plains
Kansas
New York
Pennsylvania
J. W. Sponanun
Colorado
Industral Progress
Denver News
Greeley Farmers Club discusses walnut planting and soil analysis
The Greely Colorado Farmers Club reports arrival of hickory and black walnuts at Spencer's store priced 75 cents per peg, debates planting methods, and shares an agricultural analysis from M L Dunlap on Colorado soil versus Illinois. The discussion covers alkali effects on beet sugar, irrigation cautions, and sugar factory processes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grexiey
Colorado
D. Boyd
Mr. Blodgett
J. H. Poster
N. C. Meeker
Illinois
Greeley
Zuyderzee
Dunlap
Foster
Acre
Germania
Chatsworth
California
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Business Gaiis
Highland Nursery
F Street Bridge
Denver
F.C. Taylor
P. J. Rogers & Son
Main St.e
Black-Smith
W. Hilton
Walnui Street
J.D. Buckley
J. Leavy
Urseryman and Florist
Main St
Grant
Sherman
G. H. Webster
J. 8. Scott
Pine
Madison Street
DD. B. Bennett
Spruce Street
Barnum Hovnee
L. van Gohren
Walnut Street
A. B. Cannon
Ivery
Fred Stable
Maple Street
Colorado House
L. Childs
Boston
Colony Hall
Harvey Townsend
Walnut S
Park
J. Henry
Madison
Main
Walnut
I. Hf. Paine
Spruce St
Madison and
Jefferson Avenues
B. Talbot
Hollister & Savage
Dreoss
Sovor
Babcock & Taylor, R
U. S
F. M. Babcock
Philip Taylor
J. Percival
Arpenter
Walnut and
Madison Streets
Geo
F. Inyean
Zacher
A. McPhail & Co
Adams Avenue
Chestnut Streets
A. Z Salomon
E. Lowndes
Winchester Arms Co
New Haven
Conn
Adams and
Oak Streets
Adams
Monroe
Bapist Church
Jorade
Daniel Witrer
Arapahoe County
Denver City
Washington
Gresley
Wil
Maple and
Jackson Sts
Arthur Hotchkiss
A. Mars&s
Main Street
Ames J. Armstrong
Walpa
Shernan Streets
E. Heaton
Withart Street
Dana
F. L. Marin
Edgerson
Colo
Kodana
Weet
Lebanon
N. H
Rosa Robbins
John Logan
N.C. Meeker
Copperhead
Missouri
Knights of the Golden Circle
New England
Johnson County
Colokrado
CLUP
Union
Prairie
Tetal
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