Sweet Potato Culture and Insect Protection Primer
An extended primer on sweet potato cultivation detailing soil warming bed construction, mounding with straw and manure, frame design for bed management, and careful timing for planting. It notes potato growth preferences, weed control, and methods to protect vines. Also covers tree insect protection, buckwheat notes, and general agricultural tips from various regions.
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Ohio
New Jersey
Union
Colorado
Olio
New York
Tinine
Mathort
Sluke
Dover
Mada
Ufayor
Winterad
The Hoop Skirt Craze Returns in Odd Fashion
A humorous retrospective discusses hoop skirts from twenty five years ago. It recalls how hoops of wire brass and barrels formed wild silhouettes, caused wardrobe malfunctions and public amusement, and notes ladies now hear of hoops returning with mixed feelings.
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Annie
Indy Hasso
Senate
Rosie Eisiel Oll
Patrick Henty
Peck
Youth as Overcoat in a Winter Scene
A fragmentary prose sketch depicts Mina, Dorian, and Vitor Myge in a Paris setting near Boulogne. A witty remark about an overcoat interweaves with reflections on youth as an unseen garment, highlighting memory and identity amid cold weather and shifting talk.
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Mina
Dorian
Vitor Myge
Weighing Machines At The Bank Of England
A report from the Bank of England describes weighing apparatus in the bullion department. Invented by Mr. Cotton and Mr. James Napier, the devices test coin and bar weights with precise mechanical action. Gold bars of about 200 ounces are weighed against fixed standards, with safety measures and automatic alarms for weight discrepancies. The article notes the wealth stored, including a vault stock from 21,000,000 to 3,000,000 pounds and a display of an Ashantee king’s indemnity items.
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Bank of England
Cotton
James Murdoch
Napier
Signus
Hallageain
Coffes
Ashantee
Chambers
Plan to add cooking in girls normal school debated
The board of public education may report a plan to introduce cooking in the girls' normal school. Proponents argue it improves time use and outcomes, with Prof George W. Fetter supporting a small addition after sewing and cooking instruction begins. A single teacher and fixtures are needed for several kitchen rooms, with meals offered to many students at cost.
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George W. Fetter
Vetter
Ike
Wainan
Mean Man and a Popcorn Scare Story
In a Brooklyn Eagle letter, a notorious mean man on a train bribes a popcorn seller for three cents, prompting a moral debate on cruelty and sociable value. The piece shifts to reflections on wonder, Plato and Diogenes, and ends with a satirical Wife’s Commandments list echoing social norms and domestic ideals.
Debut of a Piute Girl in Tribal Marriage Customs
The article describes Piute adolescent rites marking womanhood. A grandmother guides the debut, teaching domestic duties and the meaning of marriage. A girl spends twenty five days in a tepee, performs wood gathering, river bathing, and presents attire before being deemed ready to wed. Ban Francises Call
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Wournphood
Wons
Shin
Woman Paid Husband Weight in Gold, Tucson Star Claims
An aged Mexican woman, Joans Castro, living at American King near the Santa Catalina Mountains, allegedly weighed 117 pounds and paid her husband’s dowry with gold. The tale, tied to gold fever in California, recounts her first marriage, church objections, and eleven children before her husband’s death, and her later remarriage to Castro.
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Joans Castro
American King
Santa Catalina Mountains
California
Sonora
EL Jorado
Mr. Castro
Tucson
Average Annual Cost of Living Amid Vast Economic Gaps
A Philadelphia Bulletin report notes a statistician's estimate that eighty percent of Americans subsist on forty five to fifty cents per day, totaling about 164.25 yearly, highlighting wide wage gaps from mill workers to farmers and the stark contrast between extreme riches and poverty.
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United States
Philadelphid. Bulletin
Senator West's Dog and the Crow Tale
The Memphis Appeal narrates a joke about a senator and his clever dog who polishes shoes, follows a preacher, and acts before an audience of dogs. The longer anecdote likens the dog’s antics to a dramatic, humorous sermon.
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Senator West
Loyas
Sedalia
Styles and onions in old fashion trade and farming
An interview discusses how fashion styles originate in The American Tailor, noting editors seek ideas from tailors and others and publish plates twice yearly. The piece then shifts to reasons onions fail to bulb, listing poor seed and sowing, land quality, and weed control as key factors for good yields, with advice on soil preparation and timing.
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Ohn
Judith M. Gardiner
St. Louis Magazine
Thes
Paris
Uns
Sunb Progress
Compulsory Aasensment Night Laughs at Pat Arrest
A humorous sketch from Curl Pretects Weekly about Pat being picked up by a police officer for sleeping on the walk with his mouth open after 1 a m. The wife jokes whether he was drunk, the officer testifies no charge, and the judge fines every man who keeps a rum hole open after twelve.
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Pat
P'Liceman
Junge
Dakota's Chinus to Statehood Hype Claims Big Population
The text argues Dakota Territory will pay more revenue to the post villae department than any of the 32 states, noting a population rivaling Nebraska or Connecticut and nearly twice Vermont and Florida. It cites 2,500 miles of railway, 2,000 school buses and 275 newspapers, alleging more periodicals than most English states aside from Massachusetts.
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Dakota
Chinus
Territory of
Nebraska
Connecticut
Vermont
Florida
Ti Bonsia
Ae England
Massachussett Fargo
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Todiwatelat Trevites
Dons Flar
He Teage and Commerce of
Venezuela
Europe
United Sur
Leis
Belxiuvai
Fee
Faden Poultry
S.M. Smith
Green Bay
Wisla
Wilson
Indiana
William Crites
Green County
Worthington
Tsaac Stalcup
Rocky Mountains
Baw York
Ascot
England
Marino Shrep- Shearing Association
Middlebury
J. B
Buttolph
Hig, Thirwell
Bridport
Japan
Florida Commission
Anotfher
Tia
Westeurn
Canada
Texas Tins
United America
Lincin
Kangas
Jay
Minter
Seine
Kaye
Edo
Lorren
Wonton
Voltaire
Pole
Plata
Plato
Diogonus
Diogenes
Brooklyn
Eagle
Ehidron
Ji Ian
Apri
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