Aunt Janes Only Offer The Missee Tibbs Wedding Tale
The three Misses Tibbs and Aunt Jane discuss marriage, age, and offers. Aunt Jane recalls her single life, a near marriage to Harvey in youth, and a life lesson from an unexpected visitor in the kitchen who asked for food and offered marriage. The piece blends domestic comedy with social expectations of romance.
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Fifth Avenue
Eitels
Jun
Jone Shew
Josephine
Joseph
Ained
Jane
Taue
Bil
John Henn
Joln
Chicago
Tillie
Jennie
Penn
Maud
Avery
Charley Keeler
Mandie
Miss Option
Anntio
Josephing
Han Lig
Uncada
Pete Ting
Mund
Dennie
Wintie
June
Tilby
Jape
Margaret
Harvey
Murope
Gray
Margaretton
Xathier
Alwayy
Sam
Aunt Margaret
Eto
Ant Margaret
Prancy
Paris
New York City
Aunt Jane
Underwood
Mary Ani
Mary
Rai
Tio
Sith Lin
Fragmented News Snippets Include Coins and Social Critique
The item blends notes on rare US coins from a Philadelphia catalogue with social commentary from Chester, Illinois and Kansas City. It quotes a Chicago rail interaction and references urban fashion costs, private wedding gifts, and criticisms of Henderson, Kentucky society, highlighting contrasts between wealth and daily life.
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Chicago
Loni
Thirvin
Wn Louis
Kim
Kansas City Times
United States
Philadelphia
SGC
Caroling Elephant
America
Kha
Moe
Jack
Manitoba Wheat Frost Disaster Hits Qu Appelle Valley Farmers
The Winnipeg Globe reports heavy crop losses across Manitoba and Ontario due to late sowing and insufficient rainfall. Frost finished what drought began, with many farmers overcultivating land and delaying planting. Fall plowing and April sowing mitigate losses where acreage is kept moderate.
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Manitoba
Winnipeg
Northwest
Ontario
Qu’Appelle Valley
Manitobia
Burating of Bubbles and the South Sea Craze
A compact historical note traces the South Sea bubble mania of 1711 to 1720. It highlights the flood of speculative companies in London, from sea wages to perpetual motion and garden improvements. Shares soared from four to fifty pounds, triggering mass beggary before prudent financiers foresaw the collapse and financial prostration.
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London
Rob
Vries
Hus
Bam
The Potaty and Its Many Virtues in Cookery
A long, antiquated essay extols the potato as an American origin vegetable later valued in Europe. It covers cultivation, safety, preparation, and a wide array of recipes from frying and boiling to baking, mashing, and inventive dishes, with detailed instructions and cautions on prep and cooking.
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Europe
America
Tieta
Soltiere
W. Mattien Willums
Mia
Lincoln
Bakuy Porroxs
Buorra Potators
Sleeplessness and death by own action in Lancet notes Bangor dean
The Lancet article discusses the death of the Dean of Bangor attributed to self-harm amid severe sleeplessness. It warns against narcotics masking danger, stresses that rest is essential, and describes how a lucid mind may calmly plan suicide during mental decline. It emphasizes the physiological nature of sleep loss and warns against stimulants or sedatives that imitate sleep.
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Bangor
Gon- Yenan
Duman
Tur Home Circle and Farm Agricultural Mincellany
A rural column discusses preferred draft horses, praising heavy Clydesdales for field work and orchard safety, while recounting domestic life of a farming couple. It blends homely advice on husband and wife love, and practical notes on feeding cows and dairy efficiency for farmers. Des Moines Register notes on milking, feeding, and transportation costs.
Hold On to Virtue and The Oyster Recipe
Esteemed guidance urges restraint and virtue in youth, warning against anger and misdeeds. The passage then provides a curry oyster dish recipe: open twenty five large oysters, reserve liquor, simmer butter curry powder flour onions, add oyster liquor water beef stock, lemon juice, add oysters, finish and serve with rice.
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Did
Weir
Butiers Porven Bates
Chen
Johnston
Wulf
Reus in Winter Feeding Advice for Cows and Poultry
A Tribune Farmer correspondent reports on winter feeding for poultry and cows. The piece urges warm drinks, ample gravel, and a mixed porridge using scraps like meat, beans, hominy, bread crusts, and corn meal. It also notes using greasy water thickened with bran and stresses warm morning feeds despite rising corn prices for butter.
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The
Tribune
Morse's Eyes and Horse Eye Disease Treatment
The article discusses recurring periodic ophthalmia in horses also called moon blind. It prescribes thorough treatment including epsom salt, hyposol, zinc sulfate dilution, and topical antiseptics. It advises avoidance of corn, feeding scalded oats and linseed, and keeping the stable clean to curb inflammation.
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Morse
Anishaa
Dairy herd tests weigh value of milk output and feed
The piece argues herd tests are the reliable measure of breed worth, noting that one cow's high yield may stem from superior feed, while differing breeds respond variably to feeding. It cautions against relying on isolated tests and emphasizes yearly production records as essential.
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Jersey
Very Big Oysters
A Philadelphia Times recounts an American banquet where a famed oyster feast astonishes guests. Two waiters unveil a colossal plate with twelve oysters including Long Fox from Old Point Comfort and giant Groducka. The spread features a Fridsonas clam and two hundred fifty pound lobster salad, provoking laughter as the English guest accepts the culinary extravagance.
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Philadelphia Times
American Corn Grows Among Ornament Flavors in England
An American visitor reports at Came bridge England that American corn is grown among ornamental flavors. A professor points to an ear misread as a bad one. Another professor who attended the British Association trip then visited Washington and Philadelphia.
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Camebridge
England
New York
Thi ‘Tribune
Ornaimentas
Jo British Association
Otra
Washington
Philadelphia
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