Education and church mission notes in public ed and faith reports
Estimates from the United States Commissioner of Education place the child population ages five to sixteen at 283 000 in thirty states and territories. Massachusetts discusses free industrial drawing classes and a proposed expansion to towns over 5 000. church funding and missionary activity are reported with figures on recipients and congregations.
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Alton
United States
Aix
Asixtebusim
Armhy
Massachusetts
Fournal
New York
Pendi
Syear ‘Ffty
Smaisianany Ny
Sepreaches Tt
Variety and Humor From a Fractured Page Across San Fran
A mosaic of odd items and anecdotes from San Francisco and distant towns. It sketches fashion notes, travel curiosities, a gaslight accident, a King of Sandwich Islands feather cloak, coffin handle jokes, and a dramatic miner tale of a boy nicknamed Rock surviving a well fall in Idaho.
The Washerwoman of Siena and Italian Laundries
Charles Warren Stoddard visits Siena Italy and describes a public washhouse where twenty women wash garments in cold water. He notes lively gossip, busy workers, and a factory-like scene with streams, while mentioning clothespin production in New York and other scattered antiquated goods and curiosities.
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Charles Warren Stoddard
San Francisco Chronicle
Sienna
Italy
Sicona
Garden Tips And Recipes From The German Telegraph
A dense mash of gardening notes and recipes discusses squash, pickles, and summer crops. It offers cultivation steps for cucumbers, manure use, spacing, and thinning, plus health musings on clothing and outdoor work and a testimonial from Margaret praising garden labour and home-grown produce.
The Care of Lawns in Early Northern Fields
Advice from the Country Gentleman on preparing and maintaining lawns. For rough surfaces, either break up and reseed at two bushels per acre with roll or brush, or lay sand to fill hollows and rake level. turfing requires precise edging and rolling for a smooth surface. Weeds may be removed by pulling after rain or by fallow for a season, with surface kept stirred. Top-dress with fertilizer or coarse manure cautiously, avoiding odor and litter. Compost or pulverized bone meal can aid, with superphosphate on some soils.
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sArtinins Home Magazine
James
Lenchthill
PS. Bargson
Ohio Journal
Margaret
Toon
Acre
Farmers should track crop costs to improve profits
The author argues farmers often sell crops at first offers without accounting for true costs. He advises keeping debit and credit records per field to determine crop costs, profitability, and the best returns, using an example of potatoes and manure credits to show method and benefits.
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Wey
Renee
Fragmented text about composting and lawn care instructions
Fragmented OCR passage discusses composting and fertilizer usage on lawns. Mentions early summer irrigation and keeping grass in good condition with minimal effort and cost, suggesting methods to apply compost and fertilizer efficiently.
Thrifty stock and breeding in fattening cattle
The text argues that thriftiness at the start determines fattening success and that a pedigree alone can misvalue animals. It notes variability among breeds and stresses careful culling of inferior stock, better feeding for cows, and that intrinsic animal worth should guide pricing over pedigree prestige.
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Fedde Az
Question on calf sale strategy from the Country Gentleman
A reader discusses calf sale methods, arguing that selling the worst calves and retaining the best for beef or milk yields thrift. The note references a preference for quick sale and questions the common method of selecting thriving calves for higher price.
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sPaur
milk—Co
Country Gentleman
Apple Tree Cultivation and Manuring Experiments
The article reports on experiments by Prof W J Beal of Michigan Agricultural College testing cultivation and manuring of apple trees. It notes limited benefits from close cultivation, with best results from well-spaced, clean culture and cautious pruning, while heavy manuring near trunks and planting in waterlogged sods show poor outcomes.
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Sweet Bough
Jersey Sweet
Baldwin
W.J. Beal
Michigan Agricultural College
Ancient Rome Aqueduct Engineering Uncovered Near Alatri
Excavations near Alatri in Italy reveal a massive ancient aqueduct with arches, pipes, and a four to five mile siphon likely built with masonry or wood. The finds include a water-transport system under high pressure and an underground drainage network, confirmed by Pope initiated work and Father Secchi.
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Rome
Alatri
Father Secchi
Brooklyn Journal of Education
Train Passenger Basket Case Change of Heart
On a Harrisburg train a compartment passenger, a lady with a large basket, faced an usher who wanted to move the baggage. The sight of her baby twins in a basket bed and a displayed picture produced a sudden change in the conductor mood, preserving the family's carriage.
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Harrisburg
Erie Tely
Shim
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