Stark Trees Sell Best Nurseries Claim Superior Deliciou s Apples
Dependable Varieties extols Stark Trees as the standard nursery stock for apple Deliciou s pears peaches and plums. The Stark Fruit Book is praised by commission houses noting Deliciou s apples fetch higher prices in Chicago and eastern cities. The ad cites 100 year old Delicious trees and claims 1 250 000 trees available with demand outpacing supply.
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Washington
Chicago
Jonathan
Grime
Golden
Rome
Alexander
H.woods Co
Commission Merchants
Ill
The Chinese Hoe and the Farmer's Skill Across Lands
London King describes the Chinese farmer as unmatched, relying on the hoe plow and harrow. The hoe dominates labor, replaces the spade in England, and reveals generations worn hands. The piece praises ingenuity and agrarian grit with vivid scenes of hoe use in soil, leveling, and ditch-dredging.
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England
London
Examination Humor and Health Weights in Early Training Notes
The piece surveys student jokes on topics from William Blake to Cromwell and notes on bodily weight trends. It cites Dr Brandreth Symonds on life expectancy, finding underweight individuals live longer than those at or above normal weight, with fat people scarce past eighty and various diseases linked to weight.
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Normal Echoes
William Blake
Cromwell
Sodom
Gomorrah
Manchester Guardian
Brandreth Symonds
Bright
Symonds
An Englishman at Newport Tells an Ancestry Tale
In Newport a titled Englishman entertained ladies with a tale about ancestral pride. He quoted a duchess who contrasted a vain boastful marquis with his own lazy, dissipated forebears. The duchess asked how such ancestry would feel about him, delivering a sharp moral about pride and lineage.
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Newport
Great Britain
Meaning of The Charge of the Light Brigade
A schoolroom joke as eleven year old Thomas Jones explains the phrase half a league by saying it means they could not gather enough clubs for a full league. The quip ends with a comment that someone had blundered.
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Light Brigade
Thomas Jones
London
Not a Bargain. The Right Bone in a Bone of Wit
In a humorous exchange a speaker recalls a priced bull terrier and a remark about paying 4.50. The dialogue shifts to playful banter about theater plans and a pun on a wishbone, reflecting lighthearted humor from two newspaper quotes.
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Fred
Kansas City Independent
Heiress Seeks Genuine Love Amid Identity Doubts
In Illustrated Bits, Count de Broke questions whether his beloved heiress is truly affectionate or if a case of mistaken identity haunts their romance. Suspicion lingers as the guilty fear exposure.
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Count de Broke
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