Costly Edition of Jade Investigation Published for 155000
Reginald Lieber Bishop completed a two volume work titled Investigations and Buddles in Jade after twenty years of labor. Only 190 copies printed at 155000 dollars each, with ninety-eight to libraries and royalty. Philadelphia Library holds copy 91. Volume 1 covers jade in detail including sources, value, colors, and methods, while Volume 2 catalogs items at the Metropolitan Museum.
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Reginald Lieber Bishop
America
Philadelphia
China
New Zealand
India
Asam
Europe
Metropolitan Museum
Levant
Philadelphia Record
Domestic Chaos and the Return of a Squirrel Hero
A narrator recalls courtship with Jennie, jealous rival MacWalters, and domestic trials after marriage. Jennie’s cooking school, coffee grinding battles, and barber Tantino influence daily life until a pet squirrel named Hero is brought back from Mary to restore energy and order.
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Macwalters
Jennie
West One Hundred and Fourteenth Street
Mary
George
Tantino
Old Mary
Hero
Rice and muscular power linked to polished rice
The article explains that Japanese strength amid the Pekin advance traces to rice polishing. Removing the outer husk and bran reduces nutrients and flavor, yet yields a smoother kernel. The note cites Professor Knapp’s findings on rice processing in Asia and its impact on nutrition.
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Russia
Germany
England
France
America
H. S. Chubb
Philadelphia Vegetarian Society
Agricultural Department
S. A. Knapp
China
Japan
Olive preparation and oil extraction in Spain
The article describes Spain’s olive industry focusing on green olives prepared for bottling and pickling. It notes sorting, cold water soaking, urine baths for flavor, and limited demand for ripe olives. It outlines primitive oil extraction methods using horse mills and lever presses, leading to inferior oil used in soap.
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Spain
Uses of Palm Trees in Ceylon Island
The article explains the diverse uses of palm trees in Sri Lanka. It details how the coconut palm supplies sap for spirits, nut kernels for curry, milk for visitors, oil for lamps, fibre for nets and rope, leaf byproducts for rafters roofs blinds and wood, and even leaf rib bundles used as broom and bird cages before the tree is grown.
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Ceylon
Too Many Churches Strain Town Clergy
The piece argues that America has too many churches in small towns with multiple congregations. These towns cannot fund capable preachers, forcing young ministers to devote almost all time to preaching, neglecting pastoral duties. A clergyman notes the method is unsustainable for business and church health.
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America
Costs of Celebrities Hair Fetch Bargains In Paria
An exchange in Paria offers locks of hair once worn by famous figures. Nelson’s two dozen hairs sold for 625 dollars, Wellington’s at 7.50 per lock, Napoleon’s vary from 5 to 100 dollars, and Lord Byron’s hair sits around 97.50 as demand dictates.
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Paria
Lord Nelson
Duke of Wellington
Napoleon
Lord Byron
Fashionable new rich and their so called elegance
The piece mocks the display of wealth with phrases about a gown valued in hundreds of dollars and refers to a country house as a “little box.” It critiques self conscious affectation among the new rich and their pretentious taste.
Breeze in Oklahoma Describes Extraordinary Wind
A Kansas man who moved to Oklahoma recalls a cyclone sighting last year. He and his wife fled to the cellar as the house vanished before their eyes, the wind so fierce they could not see through the air, yet their three children remained safe in the basement. He challenges scientists to explain the phenomenon.
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Kansas
Oklahoma
Kansas City Times
French Laughs In Paris Start Le Rire Gallois Society
A Paris medical student group forms to revive hearty laughter as a social virtue. They claim laughter reveals character with types tied to Ha Ha, Heh Heh, Ho Ho and Huh Huh. The aim is to promote merriment to boost spirits and aid goodwill in society.
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France
Paris
Lone Don Clebe
The Java Resident and Scenic Cast of Old Enigmas
A colonial tale describes a Java resident revered by locals, a comic mishap with a secretary in a toppling chase, and a cholera scare prompting a widow to seek burial near the resident. It also recalls a past Java government bounty on crocodiles and the trickle of crocdile tails used for illegal bets.
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Java
Farm Sanitation Emphasized by Marion County Society
Dr F A Morrison warned of unseen germs in drinking water at a Marion County A H Society meeting. He urged boiling impure water, noted that freezing does not always kill bacteria, and stressed cleanliness in dairy areas to prevent contamination of wells and farm surroundings. Indiana Farmer
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Marion County A. & H. Society
F. A. Morrison
Indiana
Gravel Shell and Bone in the Gizzard of Fowl
The article explains how the gizzard grinds food using shell, gravel, and bone. It notes gravel is common but useless to the fowl, while shell and bone both grind food and contribute lime and nitrogenous material to circulation. It also mentions fowl seek sharp fragments and that gizzard tissue remains unharmed.
Poultry Notes on Feeding Clover and Plant Neatness
A yarded flock benefits from a mellow seed bed sown with alfalfa and netted to let hens pick leaves without trampling stems. Keep the plot weed free in year one by clipping. Essentials cited include good location healthy early maturing fowls and active interest. Neatness and practical layouts boost convenience and economy.
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Keith
Indigestion in Calves Remedy and Causes
Indigestion in calves results from excessive rich milk irregular feeding long fasting and poor maternal fodder. Symptoms include colicky pain diarrhoea constipation vomiting a staring coat and emaciation. Remove the cause and feed regularly three to four times daily. use alkali and acids timing with meals limewater and charcoal or ammonia for tympanitis.
Wheat Bran as a Feed for Milk and Growth
The article argues wheat bran provides essential albuminoids for milk production and muscle growth, outperforming straw and many grains. It notes bran’s albuminoid ratio of 1 3.9, supports calves and pigs, and cites Sir John B. Lawes on bran valued manure. It also lists bran grades: common raw twenty, ship-stuff thirty, middlings forty, sharps fifty pounds per bushel.
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U.S
John B. Lawes
Live Stock Notes On Feeding, Breeding, And Fattening
Practical guidance for cattle sheep and swine including drying cows before calving feeding needs during winter gestation for ewes timing of ram introduction with Southdown and Cogswold crosses for quality lamb and mutton pork fattening with cooler weather emphasis on variety of clean fodder corn oats and bran proper rationing salt availability and avoiding waste for economical farm results.
Economy in Farming to Improve Land Use
Economy is the key to making high priced land pay. Farms hold waste areas ponds seepage bogs and slopes prone to erosion need drainage fertilizing and grubbing brush. The piece urges economical farming methods and greater soil fertility conservation as essential for profitable agriculture.
Breeds of Fowls Plymouth Rocks and Wyandottes
Plymouth Rocks are steady sitters and good layers with brown eggs and strong mothering instinct. They grow quickly, make fine broilers and capons, and are reliable for autumn tables. Wyandottes are speckled, bred true, handsome, more fashionable, and in good demand at paying prices.
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Plymouth Rocks
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