New Orleans Hosts World Largest Farm Warehouse Project
Louisiana built the world’s largest agricultural warehouse in New Orleans to store cotton and other commodities. The 150 acre complex includes 23 acres under roof, 2 million bale cotton capacity, 22 miles of railroad tracks, and four miles of runways. Built with about 5.5 million dollars financed by bonds, the project aims to cut handling costs by about 40 percent.
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New York
Philadelphia
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Invention to Sort Apples by Electric Size and Grading
An electrically driven apple sizer and grader, with capacity for two to three car loads daily, is being tested by orchard firms. It cuts sizing costs to two cents per box and sorts apples into two grades as they move along a forty eight foot conveyor. The machine deposits uniform apples into fourteen boxes, improving packing speed and consistency. The higher quality output may drive widespread adoption of powered sizers in large orchards.
No Heart
A tramp quips about having no heart and being so broke he must sleep outdoors. He recalls telling a teller he was destitute. The cher asks a follow up. the tramp says the teller claimed he was doing the same and had to pay a doctor for the warning.
Laughs and Riddles from Collected Queries
A humorous collection of Q A style wordplay and jokes. Puns about love canals cross babies and ships, and playful digs at manners sailors and brides. Contains dated humor and regional wordplay with many proper nouns and playful definitions.
Interesting New Inventions Highlight Day's Trades
A vintage list of inventions includes an electric flatiron with a 4 candlepower headlight and a current indicator, a tin hood to quiet roosters, a saw filing device bending teeth to equal angles, an illuminated fishing boat with a storage battery, a narcotic grooved bullet and antiseptic for wounds, streetcar entry counters, a putty knife with a push plunger to force putty, and related oddities.
Temple Under Mud of Nile Discovered at Memphis
The University of Pennsylvania Museum reports a great temple from the Ramesses II era unearthed near Memphis Egypt after spring and summer digs. One hundred expert diggers worked three months, revealing a vast hall of columns and excavations reaching the original soil beneath Nile mud and desert sand.
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Memphis
Egypt
University of Pennsylvania Museum
Nile
Things About Women Men Can't Understand
A speaker mocks the feminine code of ethics, arguing women are self-appointed moral judges yet behave inconsistently. He cites dress, chastity, truthfulness, gambling, honesty with money, and social hypocrisy, noting double standards and selective truth among women.
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Lucy
Jane
Larae
Reform
Uke Charly
Abe
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Japan Adopting Ways of the West in Dress and Decor
A Japan Magazine piece notes Western influence reshaping Japanese dress and tableware. Western fashion inspires louder colors and showy designs even among Japanese women, who historically favor austere tones. Yokohama ware and aishikide porcelain gains local use as export goods influence domestic taste, with glassware and larger plates becoming common.
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Saya S. Takagi
Japan Magazine
Adies
Japan
Yokohama
Mushrooms Education and Food Value Across Europe
Bulletin No. 175 from the Department of Agriculture reviews the food value of mushrooms and other fungi, noting European efforts to educate citizens, French canning of wild varieties, and U S imports of dried mushrooms from China. The bulletin describes 150 species with photos, marks poisonous types, and adds cooking recipes. A bizarre closing line claims flanged steel rims for deflated tires to grip rails.
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France
Rouen
Saxony
Germany
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China
Roast times for meats puzzle cooks in kitchen chart
A clipped kitchen table clarifies roasting durations for common meats and game. Beef ribs 9-12 minutes per pound, beef round 19-16 minutes, chicken 12-15, duck or goose 18-20, filet 30, fish small 15-35, game birds large 40, game birds small 15-25, mutton leg 12-15, mutton saddle 10-12, pork and veal 20, venison 10-12 minutes per pound.
Table Donts For New Matrons In Social Dining
A newly made matron learns etiquette for hosting a dinner. Avoid mixing couples or bright pairs, and seat guests with compatible interests. Be ready early, oversee the table details, and keep conversation broadly inclusive rather than strictly between couples.
Mustard Greens Cooked With Corn Meal Method
Wash mustard leaves thoroughly and cut in shreds or grind in a chopper. Place dripping wet greens in a tightly covered saucepan over the tire and add water sparingly to avoid liquid on the greens. Season with salt and cayenne, stir in a teaspoon of corn meal, cook until greens and meal are fully done.
Cream Custard Pie Instructions
A home recipe outlines mixing sugar flour eggs and gait with milk to form a custard filling. Bake in a hot oven until the pie shakes, then remove. The guidance emphasizes not overbaking to preserve the custard’s texture and flavor.
Delicate Rice Eggs and Rhubarb Sherbet Menu
Rice eggs are formed cold, baked in buttered dish with egg yolk glaze. Parker House rolls and butter balls accompany. Rhubarb sherbet with orange juice and gelatin, strained and frozen, served with candied kumquats. Simple seasonally presented salad completes the menu.
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Dandelion Wine Recipe Steps From Old Text
Instructions describe soaking six quarts of dandelion flowers in one gallon of water for three days and nights, straining, adding three pounds sugar juice of two lemons and three oranges and half a cake of compressed yeast, standing four days, straining, placing in a stone jar and continuing to strain until no scum remains, then bottle.
Asparagus and Sailors Brush Up on Style
The note describes washing asparagus and trimming ends, boiling until tender with butter, pepper, and salt served on dry toast. It then comments that the new straight-brimmed sailors are slimmer than last year, with crowns a mite higher.
Recipes for Fruit Soup Ginger Drops and Rabbit Cheese Fondue
This collection presents several old fashioned kitchen preparations. Cherry and blueberry fruit soups are described with water boiling, thickening with cornstarch, lemon peel, and serving suggestions. Ginger Drops mix eggs lard molasses sugar ginger soda flour in a dripping-pan, then bake. Rabbit dish guides washing, salting, parboiling, ginger to curb wild flavor, and suggests a thick gravy pie. Cheese fondue combines crackers milk cheese eggs and baking briefly for a quick serve.
Cocoanut Pudding Recipe From Historic Page
This recipe lists ingredients including flour butter sugar one egg, three ounces coconut, baking powder and milk. It instructs to cream butter and sugar with the egg, mix dry ingredients, combine with milk, then steam the batter in a basin for about two hours for a tender pudding.
Square dishpan fits sink shape with built in strainer plug
A patent style notice describes a new square dishpan made of heavy reinforced ware. It matches the sink shape better than prior pans and includes a bottom plug with wire netting to drain water while catching food particles.
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Tach
Simple Jam Tart Recipe From Plain Kitchen Notes
A short vintage style recipe lists four ounces of flour, four ounces of lard or butter, two ounces of castor sugar, and ground rice, with milk to form a paste. Roll, bake until lightly browned. Top with jam, then a coconut sugar mix bound with egg white.
Stuffed Tomato Salad From a Classic Recipe
A vintage salad recipe describes using six large tomatoes, shredded cabbage, and lettuce leaves arranged on a dish. Tomatoes are hollowed from the stem, filled with curled celery, and served with dressing. Celery is curled by cleaning, slicing, and soaking in cold water. A simple egg and lettuce garnish finishes the presentation.
Ice cream recipe—cocoa coconut color layering method
Describes a simple confection method using half a pound cocoa nut, two pounds sugar, half a pint water, and two drops cochineal. Sugar and water boil, coconut added, then reheated with constant stirring. Half the mix is greased into a tin, the rest colored with cochineal and poured atop for a two-layer chocolate ice confection.
Mixed Vegetable Salad Garnish A Classic City Tip
A recipe notes mixing boiled peas string beans young carrots turnips foverettes of cauliflon er beet root celery root asparagus points together with mayonnaise without breaking them. Serve on a bed of lettuce with mustard and cress garnish while noting wealth attracts attention.
Private observatory in Macon lights up the sky
John A. Koch of Macon starts a model observatory on his lawn with electric lighting and a seven inch refracting telescope. The facility hosts moon parties for the public, supporting church fundraising and education while preserving Indian relics and offering free viewing and explanations by Mr. Cook.
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