Love in the orchard revisited at spring’s urging
In a Rhode Island orchard two years after a broken romance, Dolly Humphreys and Aiken, once lovers, reconnect. He confesses lingering feelings and asks for another chance, while she hesitates, then agrees to walk by the lake and consider reconciliation as apple blossoms bloom around them.
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Tafete
California
Eiwerd Bellamy
San Wpmaciece
Kaweah
Keweah
Bellamy
Wallomy
Chronicle
Rhode Island
Carrie
Charley
Dolly
Miss Dolmer
Aikens
Dorothy
Charley Dennison
Miss Humphreys
Mr. Aken
Aiken
Feil
Dolly Humphreys
Eles
Mamma
Irwin
Penn
Broocks
Sharpeburg
Etna
Broocke
Snocasa
Irwin Lock Firm
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Beyond the Stars Poem Fragment
A lyrical fragment explores love and faith beyond the stars. It contemplates a vast realm of light where death shows no mercy, yet humans trust in prayer and seek safety beyond the heavens. The imagery presents cold glittering orbs and a hopeful, solemn tone.
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Supreme Court of Mich
Millage Herald
State Daily Press
Sarah Barnes
Robert B. Moore
Miefsickmem
Moore
Meewwe
Crocs
Maress
Baesband
Fastest Train in the World and Timetable Comparisons
The article notes the fastest scheduled trains between Washington and Jersey City on the Baltimore and Ohio New York and Washington limited using Central Railroad of New Jersey and Philadelphia and Reading lines. It compares speeds with the Royal Blue line from New York to Washington and highlights fast stretches on Reading and Jersey Central lines and other European services.
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Washington
Jersey City
Baltimore and Ohio
New York and
Washington Limited
Central Railroad
New Jersey
Philadelphia
Reading
England
London
Rugby
Crewe
Royal Blue Line
Baltimore and Ohio Road
Baltimore
Reading and
Jersey Central
Great Northern
London and Northwestern
New York Sun
Wonders Wrought by Pressure in Nevada Mines
A St. Louis Republic report describes how immense pressure in Nevada's Comstock mines has transformed oak timbers into polished sticks as hard as iron. The article notes the timber shrinkage to walking-stick thickness, the weight bearing from all directions, and sections appearing where cave-ins displaced workings.
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Comstock
Nevada
St. Louis Republic
Grafting Teeth Implantation Practice Described
A Reading physician reports successful local grafting of teeth, distinguishing implanting from transplanting. With cocaine anesthesia, a socket is drilled in the jawbone and a prepared tooth set in place. healing is rapid and the grafted tooth functions like a natural one within two weeks.
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Philadelphia
Household Cookery Notes From Various Papers
A collection of practical kitchen tips and recipes including tomato ham dish with eggs on buttered toast, baked haddock with parsley sauce, apple dessert with meringue, and general guidance on puddings and kitchen utensils. Also offers advice on making soap-savers and repurposing old carpets into rugs.
Canning Shrimp Trade in the Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf shrimp fishing season spans four months with two in spring and two in fall. New Orleans serves as the trade hub, packing about 100,000 cans daily. Shrimp schools are netted, headed, cleaned, salted, steamed, and sealed in gauze bags before canning, then heat processed far above prior levels.
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Gulf of Mexico
New Orleans
Chinese Farm in Flatbush Stuns Brooklyn Neighbors
A six-foot Chinese farmer named Lee Ying Hing leased land on East Broadway and New York Avenue in Flatbush with cousins to grow a crop called cabiti a vegetable whose leaves resemble turnips and taste like spinach. Despite early weeds and roaming livestock he irrigated and weeded, harvested crops sold to Chinatown grocers for about 10 cents a pound, and earned about a quarter per head, signaling a profitable venture and the first Chinese farm in the area.
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Flatbush
House of Farmer Garden
New York Avenue
East Broadway
Brooklyn
Gordon
Lee Ying Hing
Long Island
China
California
Ying Hing
Flatbush Avenue
Brooklyn Bridge
Mott Street
Chinatown
New York Sun
Wood Resisting Fire Demonstrated by Redwood Roofing
A Pacific coast fire tested California redwood's fire resisting qualities. Despite gale winds 30 miles per hour and delayed water access, redwood laths burned only downward to the plaster while the roof remained largely intact. Fire smoke poured from gaps under the eaves, yet the redwood prevented ignition of surrounding areas and stalled flame spread, illustrating its fireproofing potential.
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United States Signal Station
Chicago News
Champion Lock-Picker Sidney Brooks Arrested in Pittsburg
The Champion Lock-Picker Sidney Brooks was arrested in Pittsburg for stealing a suit of clothes from Charles Hood, a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad engineer. The theft occurred from a locker under Hood’s cab seat while Brooks slept in Hood’s engine after the fire was drawn. Brooks is described as a renowned thief in the United States.
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Sidney Brooks
Pittsburg
Charles Hood
Baltimore and Ohio
Hood
French Treatment of the Blind in Paris Institutions
The Boston Transcript notes Paris praised for blindness treatment. Clinique Ophtalmologique des Quinze-Vingts preserves and restores sight, with 108,798 patients since 1880 and a 95 percent cure rate, at under seventy francs per case. L Ecole Braille educates blind youths to be breadwinners, enabling savings for business starts.
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la Societe d’ Assistance Pour Les Avengies
Paris
Clinique Ophtalmologique Des Quinze-Vingts
L’esole Braille
Clinique
Ecole Braille
Boston Transcript
Plant Detested by Animals Says Horticulturist
A horticulturist notes the castor oil plant is universally detested by the animal world. Birds and beasts avoid it, with even goats refusing to eat it and horses sniffing and turning away from its leaves. The remark highlights the plant’s extreme unpalatability across species.
Alphabet of odd pairings and a giant garden tale
A strange feature lists odd word pairs then shifts to a Detroit Free Press style description of Cathay s vast gardens near Shanghai claiming 530000 square miles equivalent to New York and Pennsylvania. It recalls a circus dressing room for child performers and a vivid Yukon Eskimo liquor anecdote.
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Cathay
Detroit Free Presat
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