How Sorrel Is Preserved In French Agricultural Trade
A French industry at Varales near Meaux makes preserved sorrel in tins and casks for global export. Started in 1860, it uses about eight horsepower plus 17 horsepower steam, artesian water, and 294 acres of land rotating crops. Four years of sorrel are grown before field reset, with six workers handling leaf picking and rapid washing before boiling in digesters.
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Vareales
Meaux
France
Scientific American
Irrigation Project in Porto Rico Nears Completion
The article notes a $4,009,000 irrigation project in southern Porto Rico nearing completion. It contrasts sharp wits and folly while reflecting on saving and time. The piece weaves aphorisms with the milestone, highlighting progress and humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porto Rico
Genealogical Rumors Trace Roots of Notable Bloodlines
An Indianapolis note reflects on ancestry myths from the crabapple to Beranger and the far reach of lineage. It recounts an English weekly account of Beranger’s ancestral path through a son named Lucien Paron, his exile to Reunion, and descendants including Augustine Adelaide and Wu Tu, highlighting how tangled lineage can become across continents and generations.
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Ben Davis
Bishop Quayle
Methodist Episcopal Church
Isle of Man
T. P. O'Connor
Beranger
Lucien Paron
Augustine Adelaide
Wu Tu
Indianapolis
Cheap Laundering Prices and Practical Persuasion
A New York Press opinion argues laundry costs depend on method from private home washing to wholesale services. It notes dozens of town laundries using neighborhood scavengers, charging ten to twelve cents per sheet, and compares wholesale rates of sixty cents to a dollar and twenty five cents per hundred pieces for washing and ironing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Press
Troublesome encounter on a Virginia foot journey
A Washington man, famed for long treks, meets a melancholy hobo under a tree who asks for a dime with a quick touch. Nearby, a farmer seeks labor and offers a coin to send the man toward work. The hobo bows and suggests he might walk that way by chance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Virginia
Harper's Magazine
Twelve Polar Animals Riddle Wins Full Marks
A boys high school geography test presents a tricky prompt asking for twelve animals of the polar regions. A clever pupil answers with six seals and six polar bears, prompting the instructor to award a perfect score for wit and understatement.
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Achoor
Lippincott's Magazine
The Mysterious Apple Trick Exposed On Stage
A performer demonstrates an apple trick using a string and two pierced goose quills to control the apple with tension. The apple allegedly stops at commanded points by adjusting the string between hand and foot, while the angle inside the fruit directs its motion.
Butterflies’ Grand Migration Captivates Harper’s Readers
A Harper’s piece recalls a milkweed butterfly migration along a sunny afternoon. Tens to hundreds of these frail travelers drifted to a tree, clustering like beads on twigs while the writer offered a hands-on close view, counting over three hundred as they fluttered and settled.
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America
Carolinas
Gulf States
Harper’s
A Changeable Picture
Instructions for a cut up picture activity on cardboard divided into six sections. Draw a pig or animal and align lines so movable pieces can form different poses. The pig runs for dinner in one arrangement, stands still when legs swap, and can swap tail sections to alter pose.
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Philadelphia
Strange Tools Lodged in Fish Across Years and Waters
Accounts of unusual finds in fish include a three and five eighths inch knife hidden in a Gloucester cod from 1886, a haddock ripper found in a forty five pound cod from 1884, and a curious ring with initials L. H. B. recovered from a twelve foot shark stomach on a voyage by the steamship Hypatia in 1908 after baiting with salt pork.
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Vinnie M. Getchell
Gloucheste
Mass
John M. Getchell
George's Bay
McEachern
A. & Gifford
le Have
Lars Petersen
New York
St. Lucia
Petersen
Doctor Says Aen Should Live Century
Lawton Oklahoma physician Dr A H Stewart argues in Medical Record of New York that humans can live beyond 100 years. He questions Methuselah claims and the notion of a fixed three score and ten, citing biology and sanitary science as lengthening life. He says maturity timing links to lifespan and envisions broader longevity if genetics and environment align.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
A. H. Stewart
New York
Stewart
Europe
Poise Advice for Hand Etiquette and Gestures
A guidance piece on controlling hand movements during conversation. It warns against fidgeting, gripping rings, and excessive gestures and advocates resting hands in laps or by sides. It emphasizes that only deliberate, well-timed gestures show eloquence.
Printing Uncle Sam Money and the Bureau’s Plates
The article explains the Bureau of Engraving and Printing uses lettered notes A to D and plate-identity numbers, with one-dollar notes showing plate usage above 4800. It notes stamps, bonds, and securities are printed there, highlighting the universal demand for its work and the safety of government printing as a stable investment.
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Bureau
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Bureau of Engraving
Internal Revenue
The Dangers of the House Fly in Disease Spread
Mr Gordon Newitt spoke at the Microscopical Society in Manchester on the house fly Musca domestica. He showed flies carry germs on their feet and body, illustrating with a photo of a culture plate where a captured fly walked and colonies grew. He cited experiments linking flies to bacteria causing anthrax cholera tuberculosis and typhoid fever.
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Gordon Newitt
Victoria University
Manchester
Hewitt
Westminister Gazette
Business Girl Should Value Punctuality And Diligence
The article stresses maintaining high work standards and punctuality for women in business. It cites a secretary whose lack of timeliness led to dismissal despite competence, contrasting her with a punctual coworker. It notes the need to be cheerful, reliable, and respectful of business hours, and warns against careless attitude toward duties.
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Miss Jones
Transformation Trick: From Ten-Point Star to Five-Point Star
Five wooden matches bent into Vs form a ten point star and lie on a smooth surface. Water dropped into the center causes the arrangement to gradually morph into a five pointed star without touching. The effect works best with small matches and is an easy after-dinner trick.
Beavers Build Multistory Dwellings Along Pond Edges
Observers describe beavers forming small colonies after dam completion. Dwellings are oval, beehive like, five to ten feet across, two to four rooms, two to three stories high with thick mud walls. Each hut has land and underwater doors to access provisions and preserve pond communication.
Knicker Jones Claims Yale Affiliation
Knicker-Jones proclaims himself a Yale man while noting he never attended but funded his son's education there.
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Knicker—Jones
Yale
Bocker
Balking Folks Kick A Great Deal More
A concise observation notes that people who resist or balk at a proposal tend to push back harder, increasing friction and opposition in decision making. The remark highlights how reluctance can amplify tension and slow progress.
New Trimming Ividescence Inspires Snakeskin Fashion
A trimming blends weight and filmy beauty to imitate a snakeskin using gray net as a foundation and gunmetal beads. Irregular diagonal bead lines create a mottled shimmer that pairs well with gray or green, promising a captivating scarf design that entwines white shoulders with a sinuous, artistic beauty.
How to Clean Furniture With Soap and Silk Shine
To clean furniture mix tepid water with castile soap and wash surfaces thoroughly. Rinse well, then rub with a piece of old silk until the piece shines and looks like new.
Russian Toffee Recipe Prep
Instructions describe making a simple toffee by combining half a pound of raw sugar half a tin of condensed milk and a quarter of a pound of butter then stirring for about fifteen minutes after the mixture begins to boil.
Goats Milk Rich Diet From Swiss Keeps Family’s Cottage Cheer
A New York Sun account recounts an Illinois household favoring two Toggenburg goats over cows for milk. Peggy and Nancy, Swiss-bred and well cared for, yield three quarts daily, cost under five cents, with goats praised for intelligence and gentleness, adaptable to small lots and even winter milking inside.
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Peggy
Nancy
Switzerland
Lok
New York Sun
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