Inventions, seas and travel in a mixed era of science
A sprawling digest covers beans dominating future inventions, sea cruelty debates sparked by Ballou, a Newton Michigan puller for railways, and odd anecdotes from trains and farms. It notes Canadian opposition to Russian language in Finland, a boa constrictor incident, and humorous misheard quotes about a traveler and local figures.
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Finland
Tha
New York
William Hosea Ballou
Montreal Star
Ballou
Watch Your Horse Feet And Litter For Cows
A collection of farm and garden notes covers horse hoof care urging barefoot work when possible and regular shoe changes to avoid bungling. It warns owners to study hoof shaping, addresses cow stable litter with hardwood dust for odor control and fertilizing value, and advises on gear fit to prevent harness sores and improve animal welfare.
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Times-Democrat
New York Times
Larden
Farming and Poultry Advice From the Gardener and Driver
Practical notes urge careful care of draft animals using smooth leather harness kept dry and oiled with neatsfoot. It offers poultry tips: avoid overcrowding, provide warm dry quarters in winter, manage moulting, feed scraps with milk, dust lice, and mulch strawberry beds with straw and corn stalks. A beekeeping note backs fruit growing, and readers are urged to mark seed packets.
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Boston
The Poor Man's Fan Through History and Craft
The common Chinese palm leaf fan is oldest and most utilitarian. Canton and Nankin produce vast quantities and elegant fans from bamboo palm leaves silk and other materials with sandalwood tortoise shell ivory and pearl sticks. In Persia Egypt Greece and Rome fans appeared early and Rome favored perfumed wood tablets for ladies. A wheel like round paper disk on a split handle folds to a stick. In Italy during the Middle Ages fans bore mounted love scenes or city views with inscriptions.
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Canton
Nankin
Persia
Egypt
Greece
Rome
Italy
Turtle with 1810 initials sparks family origin claims
Hartford Courant notes Erastus North of Berlin caught a turtle last week that his father captured about fifty years ago. Shell bears initials L J Lamb A S E N 1810. Albert Sanderson lives in Durham. Lamb and Erastus North are dead. Witnesses recall marking the turtle in 1840 and letting it go free.
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Erastus
Berlin
L. J. Lamb
A. S
E. N
Albert Sanderson
Durham
Mr. Lamb
Eraatus North
Hartford Courant
Gold Nugget Found by Duck Brings Chinatown Fame
A fabled Auriferous Duck owned by Bing Lee in Chinatown found a gold nugget valued at 75 cents in a duck’s crop. The discovery stirred great excitement in Celestial mids as fowls were slaughtered to feed Chinatown, yet no additional gold emerged. The wealthy fowl originated from Alpine where locals fed nuggets when corn ran low.
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Bing Lee
Chinatown
Alpine
San Diego Daily Sun
Rail speed fever as steam rivals swiftest birds
Rapli Transit argues that even if flying machines fail, locomotives could soon exceed bird speed. English and American engineers favor broader gauges and better track grading to safely push steam power to 100 mph. Proposals include twenty foot engine wheels and six foot car wheels to reach such speeds.
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England
America
York
Pulpit of the Present Weak in Spirit Power
A religious column recounts a night near Aberdeen when a minister refused to ignore a drunken man. Praying on his knees, the minister leads the man to salvation, later confirmed by a cottage praye r meeting with the host family. Five years on, the man remains a living witness to God’s power.
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Aberdeen
Maan
Luder
Thave
Providence
Bessie
Tower
Drunkenness in France Raises Alarm Over Alcohol Link
A Lyons congress report cites Dr. Garnier noting 8899 examined by a special infirmary from 1849 to 1855, with 8139 deranged. Alcohol related lunacy rose from 29.34 percent in 1853 to 24.91 percent in 1883, nearly doubling alcohol‑driven cases over fifteen years, with women increasingly affected.
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France
Lyons
Paul Garnier
World Temperance Congress and beer life expectancy notes
A survey notes Munich beer consumption linked to shorter life spans among ale house keepers and brewers. The World Temperance Congress planned for Chicago in 1893 draws praise from the Glasgow Reformer, urging broad international representation and strong temperance action.
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Munich
Thasamenota
Germany
Bavaria
World's Temperance Congress
Glasgow
Scotland
National Temperance Society
Chicago
American Temperance Union
Friends's Union For
Sea Girt
N. J
Thoee Friends' Union
For Pina Hoi Labor
Friends of Temperance
Fragments of Tales and Oddities from an Old Paper
A garbled cross section of stories describes fainting at a concert due to flare ups and a spectator’s interruption. It includes club disputes over dues, a horse theft exhibit in Indian Territory, urged nostrums, and a note on London drivers benefitting from a strike.
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Boston
Drt
Zama
Ora
Awell
Indian Territory
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New York Commercial
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Ilungo Park
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Atlanta Constitution
French Sheldon
Africa
Florzas
Dixey
Dovizht
Altaa
Prime
Dwight
San Francisco
New Orleans Picayune
John Doe
Niezara River
Richard Roe
Richard
Ebenezer Dick
Queenstown
Warrre
Bilkins
Particulr
New York World
Louisana
Arctic Ocean
Goda
China
Adirondacks
Washington
Arizona
Oberamergau
Gregnor Lechner
Judas Iscariot
California
Australia
South America
Osborne
Russia
Edinburgh
Esquimaux
Marcus P. Hayne
Koontenai
Levan
Minneapolis Journal
OUE
Wade
Temperance
Locomotive Engineers Monthly Journal
Toth
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Temperance News
Helena
Mont
W. CT. U
Frances Willar
Nauvoo. IM
Paris
Frances Willard
United States
Philadelphia
Sam Jones
Lake Shorea & Michigan Southern Railroad
Ecchart
Ind
Lake Shora
Dr. Pierce
Good
J.S. Parker
Fred
N.Y
Hall
Lord
London Board
Dr. White
London Omnibus
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Horsie
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F. B. Adams
Perry, Hine
ST. Jacobs Om
Plso
Philadephia
Sper Eerian Busines College
Eiecans Estalogee
Seeman Coenes
Heumime Bryast’s College
Balm
Daffalo
Laas Soper
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