Farm and Household Curiosities and Tips
A roundup of domestic advice from various papers on farming and home care. Topics include weekly pest control for apple trees, curing horse balking with blinders, swamp land transformation costs, fashion notes on colored linen, tarret feeding guidance for horses, making apple ice, raspberry planting in autumn with detailed soil and manure guidance, and Indiana dog law on sheep-killing dogs including reporting penalties and fines.
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Detroit Post
Michigan
Chicago Tribune
Cincinnati Times
N. Y
Chicago Times
Corns in Horses Foot Care And Shoe Pressure
Corns in horses feet are often caused by shoeing and improper trimming. The piece outlines open heels, equal bearing, careful use of a knife to relieve pressure, and shoeing adjustments, including bar shoes for severe cases, to restore natural foot shape and reduce pain.
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San
Franisco Chronicle
Dyspepsia overview and causes in digestion disorders
The article defines dyspepsia as a condition of difficult digestion affecting the whole digestive tract not just the stomach. It lists causes such as overfeeding, hard-to-digest foods, hurried meals, insufficient rest, mental strain, worry, and social excesses, noting medicine cannot cure without addressing the root cause.
How He Won the Squatter on the Arkansas Road
An Arkansas traveler questions a local over when the next train might stop near a wood-yard. The old man deflects with evasive humor and boasts of his knowledge, while the stranger grows frustrated and threatens upheaval. The dialogue reveals tension and rural life in a fragmented exchange.
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Arkansas
Noah
United States
Arkansaw Traveler
The Female Managing Editor and the Unruly Visitor
A mad man storms the St Louis Chronicle office aiming to kill and confronts Miss Fanny Bagby the young editor. He collapses in fear as she blinks and trembles yet proves plucky in emergencies, never arming herself yet capable of slapping and scratching when needed.
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St. Louis Chronicle
Fanny Bagby
Nc Vward
Chicago News
Judge Poland in Congress Recalled for Washington Likeness
Washington Cor. Troy Times recounts Vermont judge Poland who resurfaced in Congress after 1874. In a White House east room crowd, a Quaker family teased a portrait frame to rival Washington while Poland, in a swallowtail coat, stood unseen. The moment shaped his future remarks on his own image.
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Judge Poland
Vermont
Congress
George Washington
White House
Washington
Duakes
Poland
Fernando Wood
Washington Cor
Troy Times
Hungarian Versus German in Buda Pesth
A Saturday Review piece notes the Habsburg Empire’s diverse makeup with German excluded from public signs in Buda Pesth though Francis Joseph is German. It argues this fosters Hungarian national pride, hurts foreigners like English travelers, and complicates items such as Baedeker’s Stadwaldchen naming.
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Hapsburg Empire
Buda-Pesth
Francis Joseph
Schwab
Brussels
Prague
Buda- Pesth
Baedeker
Stadwaldchen
Varos Liget
Hungary
Saturday Review
Poles Exiled to Siberia Build Lives and Impact Region
Polish exiles from the 1863 4 insurrection in Siberia settled into varied trades and crafts. Some became shopkeepers, bakers, or farmers while others pursued science and medicine. Their twenty year stay reportedly improved local manners and culture, and many have now returned home per the imperial manifesto.
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Seebeer
Siberia
Cor
London Times
Barbershop Dilemma and Whisker Fashion in a Street Visit
A tall, neatly dressed man visits a Sixth Avenue barber shop seeking a shave, haircut, and grooming tips while exchanging slang about whisker styles and old medical practices. The barber and patrons discuss styles like mufstaash and English split-chin, then joke about pomades and potions before the tall man hurries off to catch a job.
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Sixth Avenue
Neyah
Jobson
Yankee Engineer Cools Sheridan OJT Story From 1863
In 1863 a Boston correspondent recounts a Nashville & Chattanooga line reconnaissance toward Bridgeport Tennessee. Nash, a railroad man, and Major Hopkins clash with Sheridan at Cowan. Nash coolly defies orders, mocks Sheridan and asserts command of the railway, and the train reaches the river safely. A South Australia heat note and an injury tale near Camden, New Jersey, follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brage
Boston
Hingham Journal
Washington
Nashville & Chattanooga
Bridgeport
Tennessee River
Nash
Taunton
United States Military Railroad Service
Jupiter
Butterworth
Sheridan
Cowan
Tantalion Tunnel
Myr. Nash
Hopkins
Engineer Corps
Major Hopkins
Briarwood
Killikinick
Crow Creek
The Future of the Banana Trade Promises Growth
Cor. Cincinnati Huequirer argues bananas will transform tropical agriculture. Humboldt cites land efficiency and multiple annual crops, while market demand grows as banana consumption rises. Prices vary by region, with ripe fruit fetching high value and improvements in transport could cut spoilage and expand storage.
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Tropics
Humboldt
Atlantic
Rio Grande
Cincinnati
Oaxaca
Gulf Coast
New Orleans
Milwaukee
Cor
Huequirer
What Can Be Done at a Soap Bubble Party
Forty guests attended a soap bubble party with forty decorated pipes, five rosettes per color, and eight color groups. Umpires led the bubble contests, aiming for the largest unbroken bubble, then the grand prize was awarded after a close final. Other games tested bubble endurance and ceiling reach, concluding with prizes and speeches.
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George B. Bartlett
St. Nicholas
Hair tradesmen thwarted by monk in Russia
A monk named Serafin founded a sect in Pskof that admitted only women who cut their hair as devotion. The hair was sent to his Moscow barber brother for free, funding the venture. police intervened, Serafin imprisoned, and the hair supply to wigmakers in London and Paris halted.
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Auray
Quimper
London
Paris
Pskof
Serafin
Serafinofski
Russia
Moscow
Boston
Cake figures showcase in New York window display
An enterprising New York baker displays in his show window a pig's head a turkey a bologna sausage and a platter of sausage all baked from cake artfully arranged for passersby to view.
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New York
N. Y. Mail
Fashion Notes From Brooklyn Eagle Runway
A survey of current styles cites Zouave jackets and white silk jerseys with crystal beads, heavy braids on Jerseys, lower shoulder lines on Worth dresses, and elaborate hats. Jewelry in amber glass and hammered gold, beadwork, ostrich plumes, and plush accents dominate, with dark Egyptian red and Indian red house dresses and long back fronts.
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Mother Hubbard
Newmarket
Astrakhan
Louis Quinze
Brooklyn Eagle
Wonders at Wentworth Falls in NSW Delights a Sailor
A Sydney correspondent to the Baltimore Sun extols Wentworth Falls in New South Wales. He describes the first fall of seven hundred feet and a second leap of eight hundred feet into a vast gorge. The valley below forms a fifty mile amphitheatre, walled by cliffs, unreachable from below due to a second precipice.
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Baltimore Sun
Sydney
N S. W
America
Wentworth Falls
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Fillmore’s
Baffalo, N. O
Judge
Phil. Sheridan
South Australia
Samuel Cook
Camden
N. J
N. Y. Herald
Fashion Notes
Wonderful Falls
New South Wales
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