Varied Global News Reflections From Late 19th Century Gazette
A digest covers changing paper quality in Australia, Florida orange exports to Europe, and librarians correcting Britannica errors. It notes volatile Latin American leadership since 1821, Krupp’s view on Chile Argentina, and a new international penal institute prize system. Southern state taxation, port exports, and rising prosperity are charted, along with a court capacity case on will validity and eccentric family jokes in wills.
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Wagrover
Supreme Court
I Moda
Bestar
Leodd Gi Oheis
deLenny
Michigan
New York
Twelfth Night party reforms Kattys fate with love
Kathleen Dilkes longs for social life and a Twelfth Night party sparks change. Miss Dorothy Purple inspires departure from isolation, arranging cake ice cream and decorations. Harmon Dilkes returns home to propose, Dorothy accepts, and Kathleen witnesses a merry cascade of weddings and renewed hopes.
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Mr. Dilkes
Kathleen
Miss Purple
Miss Dorothy
Uncle Dilkes
Katty
Purple
Harmon Dilkes
Santa Claus
Black Jack
Little Dick
Raphael
Harmon
Dorothy
Dorothy Purple
Pye
Dorothy Pueple
Young Manly
Josephine Kirk
John Jocelyn
Miss Dorothy Purple
Bella
Dilkes
Farmer Dilkes
How Old is the Potato in World History
A compact survey traces the potato from the Americas to Europe. It notes Columbus likely tasted a sweet potato in 1492, later misattributed. Vienna's 1588 garden plantings. Raleigh's Virginia specimens. and Ireland’s naming as the Irish potato. It highlights culinary and industrial uses and the potato’s role in whiskey and starch production.
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Europe
Christopher Columbus
Cuba
Genoa
Atlantic Ocean
Claudius
Vienna
Walter Raleigh
Virginia
England
Royal Society
Scotland
Leland
New York Herald
Love’s fleeting dawn and enduring end in verse
A poem fragments three vignettes of love from childhood to old age. Children whisper by a stream, a couple pledges deathless vows, and an elderly pair feet fade along a quiet shore. The narrator, Arthur J. Lamiy, offers a reflective closing about love surviving beyond life.
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Arthur J. Lamiy
White House
Salting Butter in the Churn and Farm Crops Talk
A Huard correspondent explains the simple knack of salting large batches of butter in the churn by keeping granules cold and washing with water after milking. The piece covers salt timing, churn rocking, and preventing lumps, plus notes on green manures like rape, mustard, and vetch or tares for sheep feeding and soil preparation. It cites silos research by F. H. King, recommending 24 feet deep round or square silos, top-fed silage, and partitioned round silos for efficiency, plus timber as best initial silo material. The advisory also discusses soil fertility as the foundation of farm improvement, the value of proper manure, and shelter trees for homesteads.
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Huard
New York Times
F. H. King
Wisconsin
Near York World
Boaton
Snow Thirst Anomaly baffling medical observers
A St Louis Globe-Democrat letter notes that eating snow increases thirst while melted snow provides the purest drinking water. Travelers in cold regions often drink snow to relieve thirst, yet feel worse. sucking ice helps briefly. Suburban cisterns filled with snow during frigid spells yield noticeably better tasting water. The author asks for a reasonable explanation.
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St.Louis Globe-Democrat
Cure for Rheumatism Farce Told by a Fisherman
A seventyish fisherman recalls a quack’s odd cure. He was told to fill a kettle with spring water and shoot a robin. The shadow of the robin cast into the water, boil the shadow for three hours, then rub the legs with the hot water. The tale exposes the absurdity of the remedy.
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Buffalo Enquirer
Botocudos of Brazil Burnished by Savage Ornaments
An ethnologist describes the Botocudos of Brazil as among the most remarkable savages. Children receive lip and ear implants, creating large loops and wooden discs. warriors adorn themselves with bright body paints and horns of shells. They wield heavy bows, long bamboo arrows, and armadillo skin calling trumpets. They live in palm shelter huts, cook meat with fire kept carefully, and practice harsh punishment in marital disputes.
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Brazil
Washington Star
Remnants of Cannibalistic Tribes and Shifting Ship Trade
The text notes the Botoeodom hunted by the Portuguese and described as a remarkable yet vanishing race, mentions cannibalism rumors, and quotes a ship chandler lamenting changes in commerce. He recalls booming days of clipper ships, now replaced by steam trampers and lean profits, with American ships scarce and old-country vessels provisioning for return trips.
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Tribune
South Street
Madoin
Old Country
New York Tribune
Old Icelandic Bible in Icelandic Thor jakson edition from 1584
A rare Icelandic Bible copy printed in 1584, bound in leather with brass clasps, held by banker George Wilson. The item, 9 by 14 inches and 412 inches thick, shows wear but is well preserved and highly valued by a language enthusiast. Only two other copies exist in Europe.
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America
Gudbrand Thorjakson
Holm
Iceland
George Wilson
Europe
Skandinavisk Antikvariat
Copenhagen
Denmark
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Indiana Progress
M EU
United
Banta
Sluet Shcine
Australia
Thas
Florida
Mediterranean
Liverpool
Spofford
Congressional Library
Washington
Encyclopadia Britannica
Canaresa
Russia
Iturbide
Maximilian
Krupp
Chile
Argentine Republic
Exch
South America
Fora
Hilaendorff Institue
Franz von Holtzendorff
Devon Criminal Law
St. Louis Republic
Dom Pedro
Harper's Weekly
Francis
Spain
Vineyarch
Epinay
Isabella
Arc de Triophe
Paris
Manufacturers’ Record
Baltimore
South
New Orleans
Galveston
Charleston
Newport News
TELEN
Hayes
Bru
Hiv
Mr. Dukes
Griggett’s
Mally Griggett
Josh Kirke
Mally
Joshe
Kathleen Dilkes
Diskes
Cone City
Honse
Nataleen
Mise
Pennsylvania
Door
Dave
Upper Peninsula of
Shayera
Chicago News
Trenton
N. J
Karlchen
New England
London
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