Agricultural notes on soils and crops from 19th century broadcasts
Agricultural topics outline soil nutrient loss from potato farming and the need to replenish potash and phosphoric compounds. Included are sunflower cultivation in India for oil and dye, Beaver Lake land disputes in Indiana over riparian rights and public lands, duck versus hen egg production experiments, beekeeping yields in New York, and a waterproof gutta percha cement for boots and shoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nichols
Journal of Chemistry
New-Eng Jitu
Beaver Lake
Indiana
United States
Congress
Public Lands Committee
Hendricks
Gen, Milroy
Notice on Patent Office plan for public patent drawings
The Commissioner of Patents outlines a plan to publish an abstract with patent drawings in the Official Gazette at five dollars a year. Debates in Congress praise rapid disclosure to spur invention, with L Meyer and Hoar arguing it benefits science, industry, and the public. A new English method for copying designs rapidly uses a varnished metal plate and electrochemical transfer to produce Prussian blue copies at about one hundred per hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Meyer
M. C
Pennsylvania
House of Representatives
House
Senate
Hoar
Massachusetts
Patent Office
England
M. Eugenio de Zuccator
Engaged or Married In Church Pew Clue
A humorous rule of thumb notes that if two young people sit together in the centre of a church pew they are engaged or about to wed, while if one sits at the head and the other at the foot of the pew they are married.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Women and dress folly in a heated public debate
Aunt Nabbie laments women’s obsession with finery while urged reform. Readers clash over fashion, propriety, and the meaning of true elegance as another note condemns public etiquette breaches and a Reading man quits swearing after his wife’s dramatic retort.
Frugal Household Cures and Tips
A collection of thrifty home remedies and quick recipes. Include a hand cleaning wash using a corn meal and vinegar mix, plus a jab at waste of meat. Also describes Poor Man's Poppix e a sour milk cake batter boiled or steamed with fruit. Recipe details and playful quips on domestic tasks.
Miscellany notes on New York City and England ballot plan
The item details New York City metrics including area of 22 square miles with 29 miles of water front along Hudson East Rivers and Harlem Spuy ten Duyvil Creek, 460 miles of streets with 291 paved miles, 19 000 gas lights, 340 miles Croton water pipes, 275 miles sewers, population 942 252, thousands of vehicles and horses, and a May report counting 16246 vehicles. It also describes England’s ballot design with a stamped paper listing all candidates and a method to erase undesired names before depositing the ballot. It ends with an old gentleman seeing a ladder against his daughter's window and shouting fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Island
Hudson
East Rivers
Harlem River
Spuyten Duyvil Creek
Croton
Ordnance Squad
Broadway
Benxxert & Co. Advertise Unbeatable Cash Prices
An Tyreorrant Fact reports Benxxert & Co at Tower Haxn No 518 Market Street promising cash purchases at the best rates. They claim prices cannot be matched elsewhere and guarantee the lowest possible prices under any circumstances, with locations between Fifth and Sixth Streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benxxert & Co
Tower
Haxn
Market Street
Pine Tree Tar Cordial advertised by Philadelphia store
Dr Wiszanr's Great Family Medicine Store at 232 North Second Street Philadelphia invites readers to review cure certificates and patient testimonials for the Pine Tree Tar Cordial and Great American Dyspepsia Pills. Claims of hundreds of cured patients nationwide accompany offers of free advice, with prices at 11 per dozen and mail orders available.
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L. Q. O. Wissant
M. D
North Second Street
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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Agricultural
India
Qramey
Bee Keeper's Association
Cleveland
Ohio
St. Johnsville
Commissioner of Patents
U. 5
Washington, D. C
M.D. Lecerrr
Scientific American
Nabbie
Flora McFlimseys
Frome
Harry
Arthur's Home Magazine
Reading
Saoorz
Bluebeard
Edward A. Wilson
South Third Street
Willamaburgh, N
Galen
Jenner
Walker
Ineeredittons
America
Lrox
Lyox
A. H. Franciscus & CO
Isaac Dixon & Son
South Eleventh Street
Philadelphia, PA
Macneill's
South Fifth Street
Madera
Tenth Street
Chestnut
Equitable
W. T. Fronccs
Arch St
Phila
Ateh St
Hourhound
Phthisio
Chas, Neher, JR
Wishart
L. Q
Wisnarr
Arble
Warner
Mississipni
Kio
Missouri
Tinos
Tenessee
Cumberland
Arkansas
Red
Colorado
Brazos
Rio Grande
Pearl
Alabamma
Mobile
Savannah
Roanoke
James
Watkwe
J.walker
R. KR. H. McDonald & CO
San Francisco
Cal
Car
Washington
Charlton Sis
New York
Brownfield & CO
North Water Street
A. Lipsy
Brattleboro
Don Oren
American Stock Journal
N. P. Boxer & CQ
Parkesburg
Cheater County
Shoe
Connecticut
York State
Penneylvania
Deck-Iy
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