New Autographs and Inventions Stir Nineteenth Century News
In 1892 reports touch on autograph collecting becoming scarce as typewritten letters rise, European dueling wanes, and American observers note wealth distribution and a possible California perfumery setback. A New York woman tests rubber coatings for china while Miss Bertie Burr earns a Treasury gold medal for daring rescue. Also described are benevolent pawnshops, urban flying car experiments, and a German citizen’s return home after a child’s plea reaches the Empress.
Tidying Farms and Field Care Across the Nation
A compilation urges careful field cultivation for potatoes to avoid rot and muddy leaves after rain. It also calls for better sheep shearing practices, practical wool handling, and presents a broad push for tidy, well kept farms with fenced fields, sheltered implements, maintained gates, and orderly grounds to boost land value and farmer standing.
Preparing land for meadow and value of draught horses
The text discusses draining a millpond edge for meadow use, favoring lime and thorough plowing, sowing with timothy red clover and fowl meadow, and seeding rates. It then extols draught horses as farm workhorses, noting lower costs, higher sale value, faster market readiness, and overall efficiency compared with other breeds.
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New York Times
Rize of Beehives Opinions Differ on Hive Size
Beekeepers debate hive dimensions with the New York World noting that prior to clover harvest space should allow the queen to lay, while on the main harvest many top beekeepers push to contract the brood nest to a smaller area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saya
New York World
Say
Practical bee contraction and orchard tips from 19th century notes
A mix of agricultural guidance covers brood-chamber sizing for bees, division-board contraction, and crop planning. It includes Professor Lazenby’s orchard advice, zeroing in on tree depth, mulching, variety counts, and a home-use apple strategy, plus stray quips on poultry, fowls, and a gossip anecdote about Chauncey Depew.
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Miller
National Stockman
Compass Plant Guides Travelers By Its Vertical Leaves
The compass plant, found on the western prairie, bears long base leaves that stand vertically with edges north and south. This orientation, due to both leaf surfaces receiving light equally, makes the plant point toward the south, aiding travelers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danver Gal
Plough and Rain Blessings In Simple Farmer’s Verse
A rustic spiritual poem reflects on how rain and soil respond to tillage. The narrator recalls an old farmer speaking of how plowing brings moisture from heaven, turning barren land into a yielding earth. The piece notes that God’s way guides nature as the plow advances. The author Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney hints the farmer’s insight carried a deeper message.
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A. D. T.whitney
Family Religion And Sunday Home Duties
The text argues the family as society’s cornerstone teaching church and state, urging daily instruction of children in faith, obedience, and virtue. It covers parental guidance, the harms of early missteps, divine guidance via Providence, and the Saviors Bible, plus Sunday home practices and Sabbath study from a 19th century religious perspective.
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Fife
Miracle recovery after Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
Detroit merchant C B Northrop, long thought dying from locomotor ataxia, regains strength and returns to work after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. Northrop credits the pills with his remarkable improvement, cites cases in Hamilton and Lockport, and promotes the remedy as a blood builder and nerve restorer. The article recounts his fall, paralysis, and eventual restoration, urging readers to verify the Detroit case locally.
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Detroit News
C. B. Northrop
Woodward Avenue
Northrop
Williamy
Lockport
N. Y
Williame
William Pink
Hamilton
Onto Times
John Marshall
Little William St
Ont
Royal Templars of Temperance
Mohfseen
Mehiersvall
Williams
Pink P
Marshall
Nort
Dr. Williams
Mr. Northrop
Williamd
Dr. Willi Medicine Co
Schenectady
Brockville
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Detroit
Northrup
Rival for the Bar Rooms in a Temperance Debate
A Chicago Sun piece by H C Dodge argues against liquor culture and urges temperance reform. It cites three young men at a bar and contrasts saloons with proposed coffee houses styled as social centers. Rev Thomas Dixon Jr echoes the need to replace drinking spaces with wholesome public gathering spots.
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Tom
Harry
Devil's Bar
H. C. Dodge
Chicago Sun
Thomas Dixon, Jr
Frank Leslie
New York
Vendome
Hoffman House
Jay
Board of Health
Cass
A Sensible View of Total Abstinence
The Sunday-school Times argues for total abstinence from wine, warning of danger in drinking and temptations to excess. It claims abstainers never become drunkards, emphasizes protecting family and community, and asserts the Bible allows abstinence as a duty for Christians seeking safety for themselves and others.
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Sunday-school Times
Bose
Hin
Immense Copper Coins From Sweden At Chicago Fair
Gustavus Steinberg a Chicago dealer displays a 16th century Swedish copper coin collection at the World’s Fair. The coins range from four inches to over a foot squares, with values from 30 cents to four dollars and weights up to four pounds each. They reflect an old craze for copper money and were carried on by the wealthy due to the heavy burdens.
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Gustavus Steinberg
Chicago
Custom House
Sweden
Shannina
Found $20 in a Horse's Hoof
A blacksmith on Chestnut Street near Thirtieth relates a curious find while shoeing a horse. He uncovered a gold double eagle embedded in the hoof, a moment of luck described amid the work of hammer and bellows.
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Chestnut Street
Thirtieth
Vulcan
Temperance News and Notes in California and New Orleans
Nine California counties enforce prohibitory liquor ordinances. Joliet Woman's Christian Temperance Union distributes 1500 bouquets for penitentiary flower mission day. Libriote output curtailed but prices unchanged. John E. Thornton hanged at Fort Smith for murder of his daughter. he urged spectators to abstain from liquor. Louisiana WCTU expands, vows to advance white ribbon cause. Navy Secretary cites court martial on Burdette C. Gowing for drunkenness. found guilty, two years suspension.
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Temperance News
California
Joliet (Ul) Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Penitentiary
Flower Mission
Libriote
John E. Thornton
Fort Smith
Ark
Louisiana Women’s Christian Temperance Union
New Orleans
Secretary of the Navy
Burdette C. Gowing
New York
World’s Fair Horticultural Exhibit Attracts Visitors
An overview of the Columbiana Exposition displays celebrates the Horti cultural Building with a 998 by 250 foot plan, a central dome, and extensive plantings. It notes 500000 shrubs, an island of 15 to 16 acres for displays, and diverse exhibits including wines and global fruit species.
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Indiana
London
John Habberton
France
Au Francisco Examiner
The
Boston Globe
Constantinople
New York Sun
New York Independent
United States Treasury Department
Bertie Burr
Nebraska
Burr
Lasell Seminary
Auburndale
Mass
New York City
Society
Maxim
Taussi
Bernard Schmit
Germany
Kansas
Magzie Schmiz
Tsat
Berlin
Schmit
Maggie
F. W. Howe
Atchison
FOE Farm and Garden
Boston
Bell’s
Fez
Lazenby
Ohio
Phlox
Columbus
Mr. Depew
Chauncey Depew
Miss Polly
Ceard
Jesus Christ
Elizabeth M. Rowland
Congregationalist
Temperance
J. W. Tillbrook
McKeesport
Penn
Willie
Mirseley
Great Britain
Kcian
Joan Curea
PB. Hoxsie
Buffalo
N.Y
Japan
Pittsburgh Chronicle
Telegraph
Sir Denis
News of the World
Associated Press
United Press
Wat
Darius Waterhouse
Manooga
Tenn
Beecham
Steve "Fonisa
Johnson
Colorado Mountains
James A. Lee
Jefferson, Col
W. L. Douglas
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