Practical farm and household tips from old periodicals
A compilation of household and farm advice including cooking with eggs and apples, cake recipes, fire safety tips using salt, carpet cleaning with Indian meal, stock rations from D W Kendrick, carriage maintenance advice on bolts and cleaning, and hog feeding with hay. Also notes on composting farm waste and care for pet birds highlighting diligence and humane care.
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Detroit Post
Boston Post
D. W. Kendrick
Bristol
Mass
Nebraska
Troy
N. J. Post
How Typhoid Spreads Across Milk Supply Insight
A New Jersey typhoid outbreak traced to a dairy illustrates milk as the transmission vector. Historical cases cite London’s St Pancras from a single milk source, where a sewer-well contamination near a farm caused widespread infection, linking contaminated milk to borough-wide illness.
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New York
New Jersey
New York Island
Carmansville
Board of Health
Pall Mall Gazette
St. Pancras Vestry
London
St. Albans
England
Chicago
Disraeli’s London Vision as Imperial City Redevelopment
Describes Disraeli’s imagined overhaul of London with grand plans like Wren’s approaches to St Pauls, Whitehall rebuilt, embankment statues, and a St Peter’s cathedral in Stepney, contrasted with the costly tax burden. Mentions Napoleon II, Baillie Cochrane, and Lord Lamington as part of the debate on urban grandeur and public pride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bisraeli
London
Kaiserstadt
Imperial Town
Napoleon II
Paris
Baillie Cochrane
Lord Lamington
Buckhurst
Coningsby
Aylesbury
Bank
Exchange
Disraeli
Wren
St. Paul's
Palace of Whitehall
Inigo Jones
Stepney
St. Peter
Temple Bar
Lending Money Advertisements Stir New York Clerks
A clerk recounts his experience with an apparent salary loan ad service run from Van derbilt Building, Beekman and Nassau streets. He borrowed fifty dollars, paid high fees and a ten dollar premium, and faced a hidden rate near 250 percent annually. The story warns that hundreds of clerks fall prey to usurers. A separate note mentions a ship bringing an eagle to New Bedford and a single black porter in Montague, Texas.
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W. Rodman Winslow
Vanderbilt Building
Beekman
Nassau Streets
Nassau Street
N. Y. Cor
Philadelphia Times
Diamonds for Drills and the diamond bit workings
A rock drill maker explains that diamond bits used in drills are real diamonds, mainly one and two caret stones costing about twenty dollars per caret. The hollow steel bit holds diamonds in three rows, edges project to cut rock, and edges are reset as worn. Drills run 400 to 1000 RPM with various machines. Brazil supplies most diamonds with Siberia and Africa also contributing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazil
Siberia
Africa
Evolution of the English Post Office through the centuries
The piece traces English postal roots from James I establishing the first foreign mail service to Charles I expanding to a domestic line and pursuing a profitable monopoly. It covers Dockwra’s district post in London, memorials accusing him of revenue loss, and the Postmasters General Cotton and Frankland urging postage reductions and warning about privateers, with vivid anecdotes and admonitions about postal reforms.
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James I
England
Charles
House of Commons
London
Dockwra
Chicago
Robert Cotton
Tomas Frankland
Lords of the Treasury
Franks and mail service clerks and curious items of lore
A survey of old post office habits reveals fears of debt arrest for besieged officials and odd consignments such as hounds, cows, and stockings sent with ambassadors. The piece notes franking abuse until 1784 and the shift from horseback to coach and rail, plus the 1840 rise of money orders and later telegraph and parcel services.
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Dublin
Thomas Frankland
Petersfield
Chester
Clarke
Foreign Packet Service
Methuen
Crichton
Crown
Portugal
London
Junius
Liverpool
Manchester
Savings Bank
Soarcels
Luray Caves Highlighted By MIT Paper In Virginia
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s organ describes Virginia’s Luray Caves known since 1878. It details the entrance passage, the fish market formations, Pluto’s Chasm, Giant's Hall with the organ column, helictites, and cautions against touching formations with fines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Tech
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Luray
Virginia
Pluto's Chasm
Proserpine
Shenandoah Valley
Moose Hunting and Moose Physiology in Extinction Narrative
A descriptive account warns of imminent moose extinction due to year round pursuit by Indians and hunters, detailing the animal's size, fur color, antlers, gait, and vulnerabilities. It explains the cow moose’s birth of one calf early and two later, and lists hunting methods such as crusting, driving, creep, and calling.
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Gaston Fay
Harper's Weekly
Finny Jester At Sunfish Pond Nests Reveals Dace Life
In a quiet sunfish pond scene, observers note dace perform playful courtship and nest building. Males and females collect pebbles to form layered egg beds, creating dome like monuments two feet across while kingfishers watch. The piece blends natural wonder with a second item on burglars and a sleepy clock awakening in San Marcus.
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Golden Fields
C. F. Holder
Harper's Magazine
Also Mentioned on This Page
New Bedford
Montague, Tex
George Arstingstall
Arstingstall
Pallas
Bridgeport (Conn
Cor
New Haven Register
Luray Caves
Indianapolis Journal
San Marcus
Bex
Chzages
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