Up-to-Date Agriculturist Costs of Hauling Crops
Inquiries across over a thousand U S counties show average haul length 12.1 miles, average load 2000 pounds, and cost per mile 26.2 cents, about 4 dollars per load. Advice on horse feeding emphasizes night feeding and two pounds provender per hundred pounds, with 10 to 18 pounds grain depending on work. A veteran farm example details expanding dairy operations, alfalfa crops, and increased profits from a 40 acre to 60 cow system, underscoring stock keeping and continued diversification.
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United States
Department of Agriculture
Crop rotation and soil fertility insights from early agronomy
A historic summary discusses crop rotation, soil nutrients, and root-excreted inhibitors as factors in crop yield. It cites experiments suggesting plants surface-seduce fertility through fertilization and the role of time between same crops to dissipate harmful soil substances. It also notes hog cholera symptoms and a New York farmer’s method to restore fertility on a 56 acre rundown farm by deep plowing and bringing manure and other fertility to the surface.
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Joliet
Ino. McLennan
New York
New Yorker
Syracuse
Poultry Profit and Care Outlined by Ontario Agriculturist
Director A G Gilpert urges farmers to view poultry as a wealth source, noting eggs, young stock, manure, and hen bodies as revenue streams. He advises dry warm housing, modest buildings suffice, and outlines profit ranges, feeding tips, and management practices to maximize returns in poultry ventures.
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Poultry and Agriculture
A. G. Gilpert
Ontario Agricultural Union
Rater Small Pigs
A farmer who prided his fattening pigs bought a pair from a neighbor. At eight weeks, the pigs looked small, prompting the farmer to quip that he might keep the cat shut up for a few days.
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Youth
Alarm for Punctured Tires Warns of Wheel Plunger
A new warning device for motorists uses a plunger attached to a wheel spoke. As the tire starts to lose air, the plunger hits the ground with every wheel revolution and rings a bell. Popular Mechanics outlines the mechanism and potential safety benefits.
First American Glass Factory Site Found in New Hampshire
The Crockery and Glass Journal notes Washington’s claim of glassmaking in New Haven in 1789, but traces roots earlier to 1786 when Robert Hewes selected a site on Kidder Mountain near Manchester. The article describes the region’s landscape and remnants of the factory, highlighting American independence. It also reports the Stockton Arbor Club's drive to water and fund twelve miles of roadside trees to create shaded lanes from Stockton and plans to extend tree planting along four main roads.
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Jahi
Maglian Ile
America
Kidder Mountain
Monacnuck
Temple Mountains
Wilton
Milford
Nashua
Joe English
Manchester
Stockton
Arbor Club
San Francisco Chronicle
Relegated to the Bossies by a sharp tongued tramp
A San Francisco Chronicle item recounts a blunt tramp asking a farmer's wife to permit him to sleep in a meadow behind her barn. She agrees, then he requests to be called at 4 sharp to catch the cattle train to market, delivering a pointed exchange.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Modern envelopes and their origin in Brighton
The article notes that tag envelopes are a relatively new invention, claiming Brewes of Brighton created the present form about 100 years ago. It explains adoption lag, with widespread use not until around 1850, contrasting earlier practice of single-sided letters folded and sealed with wafers.
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Brighton
Brewes
First Russian Jewish elector chosen in Illinois
The Chicago Post reports Julius Liebjing, editor of the Jewish Daily Press and a Chicago resident since 1886, will represent Illinois Fifth District as presidential elector. An orthodox Jew, he has opposed Zionism, and his anti Zionist stance once endangered his finances amid the movement’s rise eight years ago.
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Illinois
Chicago Post
Julius Liebjing
Jewish Daily Press
Chicago
Kangas City Journal
Old Hats Needed for Released Prisoners, Jailer Says
Philip Welch, jailer at police headquarters, urges residents to phone him for old winter hats. He plans to collect discarded hats for inmates released each morning, noting intoxicated men often lose their hats and feel degraded leaving the station bareheaded. He is willing to travel to collect them.
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Philip Welch
Keneas City
Likely to Be Quiet
A fragment from the Louisville Courier Journal quotes a man asking about a companion who appears intoxicated and implies luck that the other man will not have to leave. The text presents a terse courtroom or social scene without full context.
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John
Louisville Courier- Journal
Trade Review Signals Steady Fall Ties Its Rise
R G Dun weekly trade review notes mid-summer quieting augmented by broader contraction across trade and industry yet crop progress boosts confidence for fall business. Raw material price swings slow cotton goods gains while hides and leather rise due to cattle scarcity, shoe factories continue. Steel mills see fair new business, dry goods clearance sales strong, rail freight and repairs decline in pace with seasonal lull. Overall, inventories shrink as mills and furnaces scale back but wider resumption likely larger than recent months.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Weekly Review of Trade
Trade and Industry
Markets and the style of action driven writing
A concise comparison of writers and doers, noting the Dial and Spectator views. It argues that genuine spontaneity and event-driven urgency fuel powerful prose, while professional writers often lack the immediacy of those who act, making them less able to write compellingly about doing.
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Dial
The
London Spectator
Bure
Walter Dagehot
Landscape Architect Delivers Garden Truths in Town and Country
The magazine contrasts a modern landscape architect who misses nature’s grave, with a layman of artistic bent who captures nature’s fickle spirit. Nature exacts subtle revenge as gardens reveal truths professionals overlook.
Nature Mystery And Coral Reef Fact Fragments
A fragmented clipping discusses the Great Barrier Reef described as the largest coral reef system, roughly 1 000 miles long and 80 miles wide. It mentions seedless fruits as a mystery in science with claims about natural genesis rather than human cultivation. includes stray lines about diseases and a street address.
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Cdass
North Australia
Great Barrier Reef
Suffered Twenty Five Years Then Cured by Cuticura
Mrs. J D B Renaud of Montreal writes that a long lasting skin condition on her leg led doctors to advise amputation. After two Cuticura treatments swelling subsided and in two months new skin formed. She claims seven years of cure and credits Cuticura with saving her life.
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Wezema
Cutiura
Tventy
J. DB
Renaud
Montana St
Montreal
Que
Promise of the fields for revival and voters in doubt
The piece links good times to farm profits rail freight and beef prices with a full dinner pail as the reward. It blames politics and the New York Mail for disillusion while urging action to realize the promised revival.
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Nature
Vile
New York Mail
Allen's Foot-Ease advertised remedy for foot comfort
An 19th century style advertisement for Allen's Foot-Ease powder claims to relieve corns bunions swollen sore hot and aching feet and ingrown nails. It promotes its use for new orthopedic shoes and urges purchase at druggists and shoe stores 2 cents per box with samples offered by mail to Olmsted LeRoy New York.
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Allen
Olmsted
LeRoy
N.Y
First Daily Paper The Daily Courant of London
The Daily Courant of London began on March 11 1702 by E Mallet against the Dutch at Fleet Bridge. It was a single page with two columns and claimed to present only foreign news.
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Daily Courant of London
Deserters in Mexico Warned by Harsh Punishments
The Baltimore American notes desertions from the Mexican army are rare and ill advised. Senor Jose de Minaldez of Nueva Leon explains that fugitives face likely capture and severe lashings in view of comrades, deterring others from leaving military obligations.
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Mexico
Senor
Jose de Minaldez
Nueva Leon
Baltimore American
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promises Relief
The advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as highly effective for women's ailments. It cites thousands of testimonials from women, claims to have saved many from surgery, and emphasizes a plant based, drug free formula made in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Lydia EB. Pinkham
Lydia S. Pinkham
Seaweed as Hawaii’s potential gelatine industry
Seaweed in Hawaii may fuel a large industry as edible seaweeds, over seventy species exist with about forty used by natives. M Reed of the Hawaiian Agricultural Experiment Station proposes using seaweeds to produce gelatine glue starch and related products.
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Hawaii
M. Reed
Hawaiian Agricultural Experiment Station
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Wilke
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J. F. Weathers & CO
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