Peanuts and the Civil War shaped a nation’s snack
The piece traces how peanuts arrived with enslaved Africans, spread after the Civil War due to soldiers’ habits, and transformed farming in Virginia Tennessee and North Carolina. It notes Virginia’s improved cultivation, the Carolina nut preference, marketing shifts, and Norfolk Virginia as a major peanut center with about one million bushels yearly. It also describes harvesting, processing, and roasting practices and the cultural rise of peanut stands from coast to coast.
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Africa
North Carolina
France
Virginia
Tennessee
Maine
California
North
Carolina
Norfolk
Wild Tooth Pull Turns Dentists Into Doctors Hero
In Silver Ranch a stir ends with Terranteler Tom fleeing a dentist shop. Dr Hopkins uses a galvanic battery to calm Tom before pulling the tooth. Tom pays five dollars, learns nerves fail in the chair, and leaves chagrined yet docile, musing on a possible calling.
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Silver Ranch
Terranteler Tom
T. Tom
Dr. Hopkins
Tom
N. Y. Mercury
Chinese Chow Dog Brought to Baltimore by Sea Captain Highlights Edible Dogs
A Baltimore Sun excerpt describes a Chinese black-tongued chow dog presented by Captain Mahang, noting dogs and other animals eaten in China, with quotes from J. Crawford Lyon on Chinese cuisine. The piece also touches on Roman stoves, patent histories, and a Steele quotation on conversation dynamics.
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Baltimore
China
Mahang
Esquiman
J. Crawford Lyon
Canton
John R. Tait
Vienna
Hans Makart
Baltimore Sun
Electric railway plans and telephony notes from Minnesota to Vienna
A Minnesota legislature proposal seeks a fifty percent reduction in telephone rates. Paris faculty urges antiseptic paper to curb disease spread by phone. Great Northern Telegraph to Commercial Cable cites Yokohama and Shanghai message times. Greenfield Massachusetts forms a temporary group to push an electric railroad to Turner's Falls. Berlin to Vienna and Copenhagen linked by long distance lines. voice quality concerns for high notes over long runs. Boston and Detroit-backed project targets Ontonagon river falls for power to mine sites. General Electric Railway Co incorporated to develop Chicago rail network using new underground trolley. Atchison plans 150 subscribers for a new telephone service at 25 dollars yearly with Harrison equipment. Missouri & Kansas has 250 subscribers. Prof. MacDougal to study electricity effects on plant growth. Springfield inventor offers a live-wire safety device for electric railways, using sectional hangers and automatic disconnection to prevent shocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Paris Faculty of Medicine
Great Northern Telegraph Co
Commercial Cable Co
Yokohama
Shanghai
Greenfield
Mass
Turner's Falls
Boston
Berlin
Hamburg
Trieste
Vienna
Copenhagen
Sweden
Cosmos
Detroit
Ontonagon River Falls
General Electric Railway Co
Springfield
Chicago
Atchison, Kan
Harrison
Missouri & Kansas Company
Atchison
R. T. MacDougal
Minnesota University
MacGougal
Science of Eating and Daily Steps Explained
The article discusses Germany’s experimental class among soldiers to study diets and eating times, arguing nature’s appetite is not innate. It cites a Swiss statistician counting 9,760,900 steps in a year, averaging nearly 27,000 daily, and notes the housewife’s fear of family care as a parallel thought. A London Tit-Bits joke follows about burglars stealing a watch dog after taking nothing else.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
London
Paralyzed Hands Alarm Man After Dinner Evening
False alarm tale from a club dinner ends with Mr McSwat rushing home and waking his wife at 3 a m claiming loss of sensation in his hands after forgetting to remove his gloves. The scene in Chicago Tribune style portrays a comic medical scare.
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Mr. McSwat
To the Public Auctioneer of Lima Shannon Area
Tamm the leading Auctioneer of Lima and of Shannon vicinity invites recommendations for interlarded sales of horses and cattle. He stresses hard work and satisfaction, offering to obtain the highest prices. Address Shannon IL or call six miles east of Lanark. references through J Stott Snively at First National Bank.
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Tamm
Lima
Shannon
Lanark
J. Stott Snively
First National Bank
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Netober
N. Y. Sun
America
Great Britain
Steele
AV Colm
Rush
B. T. Risley
B. T. Risley, i
Laura C. Phoenix
Milwaukee, Wis
Miles Nervine
Novard
LaGrippe
Miles
Milwaukee
Wis
A. HH. Hawk
Chadwick
Illinois
Eldrev At
Humphreys
New York
Albany
U. S. Army
J. K
Humphreys’ Medicine Co
Corner William and John Sts
William and John Sts
Mars
U.S
Dr. Cady
Eldredge Manufacturing Go
Belvidere, Ill
Freuen
Ces
Mee
NEW Home Sewing Machine CO
Orange
Asion Square
N. C
St. Louis
Las Prascises
Cal
Atlasta
Johnnne
Fess
Lanark, Ill
UIT
Rcarpets
Carroll County
Wm. Strickler
Burton Harrison
Spencer Trask
WM. Dean Howells
Albion W. Tourgee
Rudyard Kipling
James Whitcomb Riley
Bimund Clarence Stedham
Sir Edwin Arnold
Remington, Toche
van Shaick
Turner
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Art and Letters
Francisque Sarcey
Frederick Spielhagen
Agnes Kepplier
Andrew Lang
I. Zangwill
Napoleon Ney
Margherita
James Anthony Froude
Edmund Gosse
Cosmopolitan
The
Lanark Gazette
Aumn
Cornish & CO
Washington, N.J. Ee
Inter Ocean
West
Aid
U. S
Times
11S
Alleghany Mountains
Wm. Walton
Stephenson
Freeport
W. H. Hess
Salem Township
W. A. J. Pierce
Washington
F. I. Whitney
G. P
St. Paul, Minn
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