Household and Farm Agricultural Notes and Tips
Agricultural items cover crop choices in England with fruit and orchard figures near Cheltenham. Practical advice includes carp disease treatment for cows, critique of carp as food, and gardening tips for vines and berries. Readers are urged to prune currants lightly, plant grapes on sunny sides, and stake fruit bushes for upcoming season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
Beford
Cheltenham
Englaf
Steele
Mobile Register
Ohio
Painted dresses among early New York stage costumes
The piece details early painted stage dresses worn by actresses like Miss Fanny Davenport and Cora Tanner. It notes artists such as Mary Anderson and Miss Louise Brudie painting costumes in oil, with some watercolors but fading. critiques embroidery for lacking accuracy in form and color.
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New York
Fanny Davenport
Mary Anderson
Louise Brudie
Syracuse
Cora Tanner
Misa Georgie Lamson
Brooklyn
Rona Kerone
Dori
Panter
Tamaon
Laura Nonn
Churning Dairy Tips And Straw Feeding On Farms
Household notes advise careful cream tempering to avoid souring and to ensure butter. Skim cream after twelve hours and add salt during each churn. Also discussed are feeding straw to livestock, housing barns, and a brief piece on seed corn and mingling stock for health and growth in mixed herds.
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New Hampshire
Setting Out Plants and a Country Courtship Tale
The article blends gardening advice with a serialized domestic romance. It outlines best practices for rooting geranium cuttings in sand and soil, watering and sun needs, then shifts to a dramatic tale of Erma Weston posing as a daughter in Mrs. Webb’s house. Teacher Harris and Erma fall in love amid misunderstandings, a missing mother, and a hopeful engagement once truth and poverty are faced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma
Snan
Rata
Mr. Harris
Sin
Erma
Harris
Ee Me
Eric
Abe
Troynst
Ulrich the Swiss boy guides to Napoleon Alps ambush
Ulrich, a fearless seventeen year old Swiss herdsman in May years ago, accepts a dangerous mission guiding a traveler across the Alps for Napoleon’s army. He outwits a robber, earns reward, and learns to read and study, shaping his future as he journeys with Yokli.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon
Alps
Airiei
Iresons
Counyce
Alrady
Yokli
Ulrich
Senner
Ulei
Senuor Yoki
York
Ulric
Yoklin
Ulriel
Yok- Hie
Yaklr
Stonker
Ultiel
Dirichat
Yokh
Lowing
Erie
Briel
Ulrici
Uledei
Bin
Nouiains
Ile
Slehen
Ehrich
Nevi Leary
Yokti
Ulriei
Yok
Field Ulrich
Wontilawa
Naspalupu
Aas
Ulriet
Lili
Rantra
Proper Nouns In A Town Tune
A playful lyric mocks flattery as a town paper cites a string of poetic comparisons to unnamed beauties. The piece frets over overused proper nouns tossed at every girl, ending with a wry note from the Ronre Sentinel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ronre Sentinel
Suitor's Gamble for Fortune on Erma's Twentyfirst Birthday
A fragment recalls Harrie wooing Erma while Harris delayed marriage awaiting a better position. Weston leveraged influence to help him gain a stake, and his industry kept it. The text hints at social maneuvering around inheritance and status on her twenty first birthday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Harrie
Erma
Witty Waits and a Halfshell Wedding Toasts
A jumble of light humor and regional sayings. A Greenwich girl keeps achoel, a blunt editor seeks a real old fore head, and a Cincinnati book agent meets Irish wit. A married pair visits an oyster saloon, a waiter quips about the half shell, and Austin trader John Hodges laments a clever son on four dollars a month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Achoel
Greenwich
Wayback
Rochester Post Dispatch
Cincinnati
Pat
Uncle Nash
Dan
Detroit
Hodges
Pittsburgh Merchant John Homes Dies and Bequeaths 125000
John Homes a wealthy Pittsburgh merchant died leaving 125000 to be divided among charities including Home for Aged Protestant Women Home for Aged Protestant Men Pittsburgh Orphans Asylum and Home of the Poor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Homes
Pittsburgh
Leghany Orphan Asylum
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Addie
Ault
Penneyvania
Sdv
F. Gooding
Mingis
Stark
la Coy
Lord and Loraes
Patsh
Eame
United States
Ignia Fatuus
Boston Courier
Jonathan Bowers
Blanchester, C
Guysolt
Erma Weston
Paya Weston
Brea
Erin
Mrs. Webb
Ernna
Mra.Webb
Iriia
Raatie
Venus
Rowe
Helen
Kate
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