Home Course in Scientific Agriculture
The article argues restoring soil productivity is essential and compares American and German farming. It urges increasing domestic livestock, legume crops, and humus through rotations and green manures. It cites nitrogen cycling, fertilizer use, and case studies showing yield gains from improved seeds, rotations, and manure returned to land.
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Europe
Germany
United States
Department of Agriculture
Kansas
Nebraska
New York State
Illinois
Missouri
Illipois
Poultry Management Notes on Feed and Hen Performance
Advice stresses careful feeding and management for poultry. Emphasizes that egg output and flock vigor hinge on the caretaker and feeding choices rather than price or abundance of grain. Warns against early overexpectations and notes possible reverses in the first year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stright
Mes
Self Control Demonstrated In Family Chimney Incident
A family tea interrupted by a blazing chimney tests Mr Brown’s self control. He orders calm, scales the roof with awkward haste, uses hose misfired with cow rope, and returns to praise composure as the crisis ends. The tale underscores self control as excellent though uncommon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Brown
Henry
Mrs. Brown
Strange Ha waii nature described by Burroughs in Century Magazine
John Burroughs sketches Hawaii's wild side with a mangled hau tree that writhes on the ground and a waterfall that appears to rise, not fall. He cites tropical harshness and bizarre plant motion as proof of nature's strange mood in the tropics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawaii
John Burroughs
Century Magazine
Tropics
Hawaiian
Pali
Stockton
Lucky Thirteenth Luncheon Feels Odd Superstition
A woman strict about the number thirteen defies superstition by aiming to be the thirteenth guest at a luncheon for thirteen. She notes that while events affect others, the thirteenth person tends to escape harm, a claim discussed in the Philadelphia Ledger.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Definitions and wits from a Boston municipal judge
The Boston municipal court judge delivers quips on pat riots martyrs and cowards with sharp humor. He calls a pat riot a man who refuses to batton his wife's lingerie waist and defines cowardice as remaining single to avoid attempting.
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Municipal Court of
Boston
Not Unlikely: A Youth Faces Parental Legacy
In Harper's Weekly a visitor asks Bobby if he will step into his father's shoes. Bobby gloomily replies that he already wears his father’s clothes since his mother learned to cut them down for him. The scene highlights a boy's confrontation with family expectations.
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Bobby
Harper’s Weekly
Airship Question Puzzles Baltimore Child
A Baltimore American fragment shows a child asking a parent about airships and rheels. The exchange highlights curiosity about flight technology and propulsion in a period style. The line captures a playful street dialogue and the newspaper tone of daily life.
Live Stock Notes Emphasize Cleanliness and Feeding Choices
A disinfectant should be used in the barn periodically and cleaning the stables is crucial for profitability. Dirty pens cause illness in calves while proper rationing and silos save time. Keeping stock well is worth the cost, and many farmers waste feed by letting steers trample it rather than invest in a rack.
Brood Sow Management for Strong Litters
The article outlines sow nutrition during gestation emphasizing feeding for maintenance, growth, and fetal development. It recommends corn as the base with protein and ash supplements like meat meal or tankage, clover, alfalfa, and oats, plus ample exercise to produce healthier litters and cheaper pigs.
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Middle West
Towa
Tamworth hog described as prime bacon producer
The Tamworth hog is noted as a leading bacon producer with the Yorkshire also praised as a top breed. The text contrasts yard hogs and highlights foraging ability disease resistance and rapid growth, stressing feeding and breeding methods that yield large long deep-bodied bacon pigs capable of carrying heavy litters. The boar shown exemplifies a good Tamworth specimen.
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Tamworth
Yorkshire
The Merchant Finds Faulty Yokohama List
A Paris merchant seeking a failed Yokohama firm learns the banker's caution. He proposes a test by naming ten Yokohama firms and asks the banker to identify the one on the list that is real. The banker complies, but the merchant reveals the others are all fictitious and the genuine firm is the one he did business with.
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Paris
Japan
Frm
Yokohama
Fim
Hog care tips emphasize exercise and housing health
Professor J M Evrard of Iowa State stresses that abundant exercise improves pig offspring vigor. He advises letting sows exercise by following cattle, scattering ground feed, and placing bays in racks. Optimal hog houses require warmth, dryness, ventilation, sunlight, dry bedding, and regular litter changes. laxatives like bran and hay aid bowels, with an Epsom salts dose as emergency farrowing aid.
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J M. Evrard
Lows Station
The Stable Care Guide for Horse Health
The stable must stay clean and dry to protect the horse’s feet. Manure freezes at night and prolonged damp conditions invite thrush in the hind feet, so keep the area free of standing water and foul waste.
The Human Factory as Metaphor for Self
Gerald Stanley Lee compares a human to a factory with a basement of sub commissioned parts that toil unseen while the head at headquarters pursues new ideas. He argues growth strengthens the inner machines which power dreams and powers to live.
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Gerald Stanley Lee
Atlantic Magazine
Proclamation of William I as German Emperor in 1871
The German Empire formed after negotiations in the Franco Prussian War with the North German Confederation urging William of Prussia to become emperor. Princes of German states and three free towns joined in the imperial crown, proclaimed at Versailles January 18 1871, first reichstag opened March 25 and constitution adopted April 14 1871.
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North German Confederation
Baden
Hesse Carnstadt
Bavaria
Wurttemberg
William of
Prussia
William I
Versailles
Berlin
Not So Serious at London Mall
A doctor arrives to aid a supposed missing sovereign on a doorstep, only to learn the caller misidentified the coin as a sovereign. The woman explains the loss was only a halfpenny, restoring calm in a light street vignette from the mall scene.
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London Mall
Unnamed Man Refuses Hotel Stay After Incident
In a brief exchange cited by the Philadelphia Press, Loschman's wife questions his excuse for a troubling condition last night. He admits no hotel would accept him, framing his answer as a lack of available lodging.
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Loschman
Philadelphia Press
Knights Rejoice and Modern Courtship Contrast
A Baltimore American snippet jokes about old knights' joy at lady love and compares it to modern suitors who receive a mild response when their advances are rebuffed. The quip contrasts chivalric roguishness with contemporary manners.
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Knights of Old
Baltimore American
Never Near Relative
A fragment from Chicago Record-Herald quotes a man asking who Sirs. Grundy is and describes her as an old lady always believed to belong to another man’s family.
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Sirs. Grundy
Chicago
His Mistake Fogg and the Widow's Union
A brief exchange notes Dobson married a rich widow and Fenderson contends the misunderstanding exposes a fault in judgment. The Boston Transcript framing suggests a sharp wit about social alliances and misread motives.
Ghostly Ships Haunt Seas in Ancient Log and Legend
The Bacchante diary entry July 11 1881 cites Flying Dutchman crossing bows amid widely told phantom ship tales. Reports recount spectral vessels seen from New Haven to Cape Cornwall with inland appearances and doomed crews, including Porthcurno hauntings and a famed inland goblin ship near West England shores.
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Bacchante
Beare
High Seas
Vanderdecken
Holland
Cape of Good Hope
Cape
New Haven
Conn
The
St. Lawrence
le Maine
Cap d'Espoir
Gospe Bay
England
London Globe
Cornwall
Porthcurne
Robert Hunt
West of England
Bodelan
Leven
Chygwiden
Slithers Hints At Marriage Motive In Mourning Mickley
In a Harperg Weekly snippet, Slithers laments Mickley’s death as a terrible blow and reveals a guarded motive about possibly marrying Mickley’s widow. Jimpson questions the reasoning, leading Slithers to fall silent amid the awkward exchange.
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Slithers
Mickley
Poor Comedy Snippet Cites Party Exchange
Fragmentary dialogue details a party statement about age and prudence. The text reads as a stray dialogue about a comedian and a dislike of his work. No clear event or outcome is established, but the exchange hints at tensions over content and reception.
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