Disjointed Vision of Progress and Language Dominance
A retrospective essay notes Columbus and immigration, cites Scribner's on poverty in New York, and explores hopes for ramie fiber steellike, pneumatic tubes, and English as a global lingua franca. It discusses press speed, future food, and colonial English influence, ending with a Yankee Blade note on a cow and calf wedding rite.
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St. Louis
Yor Mail
Exgeese
Gotham
Albany
India
Laugh a Little Bit Motto in Grim Tales
A quirky motto urges resilience through humor as misfortune looms. The lines entertain grim imagery with a beldam and gloomy shadows, insisting grit and wit can yield relief by laughing. The verse keeps a sunny face amid eerie challenges.
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Beldam
Editor's wooing in a city tale ends in unexpected union
The editor Karl Rubens courts Blanche Ainslie amid luxury and poverty, faces rejection of her writing, and wrestles with love and duty. Blanche seeks work as a writer to support herself after her uncle George’s failure, while Rubens contemplates offering support as their bond grows. Meanwhile, a note on Africa's tsetse fly describes its spread northward, its impact on livestock, and local observations.
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Karl
Blanche Ainslie
Chance
Mr. Rubens
New York
Blanche
George
Miss Ainslie
Carl
the Shiner
Kaya
Shail Tooma
Karl Rubens
Diana Rubens
Carlyle
Shiner
Diana
Oan
Africa
South Africa
Animala
Mr. Swan
Katanga
Congo
Lieut. le Marine
New York Sun
Hoard’s Dairyman
Evar
Columella
Subterranean Stream Found During Oil Drilling
Report from Sandusky County near Toledo describes a drilled hole reaching 1100 feet in Trenton limestone when it suddenly dropped 200 feet and hung. The cavity was completed this afternoon at 480 feet deep containing ice-cold water rich in iron with rapid flow from northeast to southwest. Chicago Herald notes the discovery during oil drilling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Rivers
Farina
Sandusky County
Toledo
Ohio
Plants Without Roots a Surprising Botanical Fact
The article surveys rootless plants, noting seaweeds as the largest such group and describing their nourishment through water. It mentions Mackeyalis reputedly reaching vast sizes, and other rootless species like semua, duck meat, water house, leek, and Gulf of Mexico fuscu s. The witch plant is highlighted for its leaf-stalks growing from a single stool on bare ground.
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Atlantic
Pacific
Indian Oceans
South Pacific
Georgia
Gulf of Mexico
St. Louis Republic
Variegation in Leaves Shows Nature's Survival Drive
Variegated leaf color in geraniums and coleus, termed sporting, arises from defective growth and is not seed propagated. Cuttings produce green and white stems. stronger green stems prevail due to vigor. A similar case with a purple striped potato shows nature’s effort to survive by producing seed and new growth from a weak tuber.
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New York Times
Beans for horses and other notes from the farm
A collection of farm and garden notes on beans for horses, turkey eggs under hens, fruit storage, good cows, pruning pears and apples, growing peas with oats for sheep, duck and turkey care, beekeeping cellar temperature, and related husbandry practices from various sources.
The Bee in the Mails and Pigmy Hogs Notice
The article notes a Treasury ruling admitting foreign bees free of duty for breeding, despite past tariff changes. It explains a beekeeping advancement with a four inch wooden mail box by Dr. Benton allowing healthy shipment of bees, including a queen and workers. It also mentions London Zoo pygmy hogs from Australia, and a comic petty hiring exchange regarding a servant girl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Post Office Department
Dr. Benton
Department of Agriculture
Washington Star
Queens of the May in a threefold election
A playful verse recounts three girls voting for each other to be queens of the May, creating a whimsical mock election among companions. A separate vignette from Patagonia describes a doctor’s ritual cure for a sick child using ceremonial skins, paints, and talismans, ending with relief and a tobacco fee. The piece also notes a crowded Paris bird market scene and a humorous exchange about a neighbor’s revenge through making an architect live in a house he built.
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Patagonia
Asaya
Paris
Also Mentioned on This Page
Indiana Progress
the Cousty
Columbus
Scribner's Magazine
Jacob Ana
Tropics
San Francisco
York
London Times
Ens
Atcom
New York Gazette
Germany
Russia
Sven
German Cameroons
Sierra Lzoné
San Pedro
Nile
Niger
Great Lakes
Gunhole
Mindia
Japan
J. Edmund V. Cook
St. Nicholas
BY Helen Forrest Graves
Rubens
Havana
Mias Diana
Blanche Amelie
Mise Dina
Miss di
Richard
Yike
Tiorses
Spain
Italy
Austria
St. Louis Globe Democrat
Boston
A. P. Reed
Wario
Massachusetts
Morgan County
New York Herald
London Zoological Gardens
Australia
Chicago Times
Spinks
Childrews
Gussie
Dees
Dee
Youth
Yankee Blade
Notre Dame Cathedral
St Nicholas
Detroit Frees Press
Washington Post
Schaeffer
Conjon
England
London
Howe
Nova Scotia
Canada
Mer Ehae
Wikcere Hie i
Sen Bok Soren
Norman Kerr
Lynn E. Pinkham
Eiffel Tower
Floria
Mick Mane
Pera
Monmouth
Maine
Dr. Isaac
Mr. Powell
Hood
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