California orange groves and picking methods described
An article describes orange cultivation in Southern California, detailing grove labor, picker techniques, packing, and aging trees. It notes irrigation, maintenance, and removal of pests like the white scale with a ladybug solution from Australia, plus historical mentions of missions and early plantings.
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Caustry
Los Angeles
California
Crower
San Gabriel E Oa
Riverside
Amerot Boys
Spain
Arabia
Versailles
Nice
Australia
Gas Cooking Cheaper in Tests at Dessau
A German study in Dessau showed cooking with gas costs less than half of cooking with wood or coal. The tests indicate gas as the cheaper energy source for meal preparation.
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Dessau
Bits of Pleasantry in a Petite Paper
A collection of humorous snippets and dialogues from a small town scene. Couples discuss wedding preparations and letters, a professor riffs on birds of passage, a precocious pupil, romantic one liners, dialect humor, and a joke about lighting a room after turning off electric dirt. A note ends with a woman offering verses for publication for a fee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yabsley
Uncle Eben
Oficer MceGobb
Edison Eyes Argon and New Elements in Air
Edison plans experiments on argon and possible other air elements, noting air analysis missed new constituents. The piece also includes an ad citing Hall's Catarrh Cure and a reward claim for cure, plus a testimonial style plug for Stomach Bitters and a miscellaneous line about a grand jury foreman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas A. Edison
Edison
Lord Raleigh
Mr. Edison
Future Russian Empress Visited Coal Mine in Wales
The future empress of Russia once descended a coal pit at Ruabon to watch coal cutting. Princess Alix used a mandrel to break coal and kept a block as a memento while Archdruid Morien held the lamp and saved the pick among his treasures.
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Russia
Ruabon
Alix
Ales
Morien
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