Nurserymen Gather in Portland for June Convention
Portland prepares for the National Nurserymen's Association annual meeting with about 8000 delegates expected. They will attend the Rose festival and floral exhibit from June 9 to 11, with top professional horticulturists judging Rose show competitions and special entertainment arranged for the visitors.
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Portland, Or
National Nurserymen's Association of Americ
Portland
National Nurserymen's Association
United States
The Wrong Burne and a Calfornian Visitor
An Ayr cottage built by William Burne is noted where his son Robert was born. A Californian visiting Scotland visits the Burne house and jokes about life there. A theater aspirant meets a manager and awaits a verdict. The manager warns that an acting arrest would be a grave miscarriage of justice.
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William F Burna
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Erratic Traveler Quips on Opportunity and Hired Man Incident
A Louisville Coprier-Journal item references a wry remark on Opportunity. It notes a hired man falling from a fence in a meadow lot and asks if he hit ground as someone left, reflecting local humor and a brief incident mention.
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Loulaville Coprier-Journal
Nome
Boy recalls wedding fashion in curious remark
A child from Burney recalls a wedding remark asking his mother if she wore curtailing for her marriage, reflecting a humorous misunderstanding of wedding attire from a young observer.
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Little Burney
Mamma
Best Place to Keep Fruit in the Cellar Shelf Aid
Instructions on storing canned fruit in a first story cellar with beam floor joists forming shelves under the beams. Advice covers constructing firm boards, shaping and fitting shelves, ensuring air flow and even temperature for preservation. Also mentions a unrelated note on Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup and stage directors modifying plays.
Bride Then Wife Aims For A Different Union
In a tense exchange a daughter is told that her proposed marriage to a suitor is unexpected. The suitor retorts that the daughter’s anger is mild compared with his own earlier upheaval when she suggested the match.
Oldest Known Prescription in Met Museum Stone
The oldest prescription, carved on a two faced stone about four inches across, is housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Written in ancient cursive characters, it dates roughly 2,500 years ago in Egypt and describes a fumigation remedy.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Egypt
Man's speeches keep Farmer Corntessel awake
A humorous exchange contrasts a talkative man with Farmer Corntessel who jokes that a speaker would not sleep through his own speech. The dialogue features sharp wit and a rural setting implied by the name Corntessel.
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Farmer Corntessel
Not Many Women Live Longer Now Says Authority
A statistical authority says women are living longer than a generation ago yet questions remain about whether older women will acknowledge changing roles and ownership in society.
Reading geore poetry and music improves life walks
Darwin warns that losing tastes like poetry and music weakens intellect and moral character. Sand cure article notes barefoot sand walking boosts circulation and fatigue recovery, while yellow sand induces sleep. George Eliot quote reflects on guiding hands leading to a safer, brighter land.
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Charles Darwin
Love as Form of Religion
Amiel asserts love at its highest form is sublime and invincible, guiding toward the infinite and eternity. He argues love is eminently religious and may become a religion in itself, speaking directly to the sacred.
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Amiel
Wandering Echoes from China’s Kuling and Nanking Fields
The author recalls travel through Nanking to Kuling along the Yangtze, describing luxury steamers, crowded hulk ports, river pagodas, and the Chinese view of saviors and danger. Foreigners, missionaries, and officials gather at Kuling for health and retreat, amid dramatic river life and pagoda towns.
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Yellow Yangtse
Hankow
Chicago
China
East
Yangten
Kiukiang
Mecca
Beads Like Amber From Chinese Fern Used In Jewelry
Beads resembling amber are made from the Chinese iinko fern, pierced and strung for necklaces. A New York Times writer notes they acquire a natural ivory like polish with wear, are light, and priced per length of the string.
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New York Times
Middletown Woman Credits Lydia E Pinkham Remedy
Mrs Emma EsrpENSHADE of Middletown Pennsylvania says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound relieved severe headaches backache and bearing down pains. She reports improved health enabling her to do housework and help others after first benefits and recommends the medicine with a confidential advice option from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Mass.
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Lydia EL Pinkham
Emma Esrpenshade
East Main St
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
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