Blanching Methods for Early Celery on Small Farms
The article outlines several small scale celery blanching methods. Boards placed along rows use vertical positions to shade plants, with spanners or hooks for support. Drain tiles four inches in diameter offer a cleaner method, while tying leaves aids tile placement and light exclusion. Celery quality depends on timely removal and care to avoid blight and weight loss.
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Michigan
Ohio
New York
Escaped from a Clock Tower to Seek an Honest Life
A nameless narrator recounts a perilous capture while spying on a faction, locked in a clock tower toward a dangerous escape. He survives by climbing the tower weight and rope to the roof, then flees across continents ending in the United States under an assumed name. Willis Stephenson signs the tale.
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Hhe House
Sexton
Australia
Alaska
United States
Willis Stephenson
Just What He Needed Story prompts humorous medical moment
A man accompanies his wife to a physician. The doctor inserts a thermometer and, after a tense silence, the husband breaks it with a quip asking what the doctor would take for the instrument. The New York Times notes the witty exchange.
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New York Times
Error as Lesson: Embrace Mistakes to Improve
The guidance urges rapid acknowledgment of errors and learning from them. It emphasizes noting the cause and using it to improve processes and outcomes going forward.
Favorite Prescription Boosts Expectant Mothers Health
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for prenatal care, claiming it reduces childbirth pains and supports healthy mothers and babies. It cites testimonials from mothers noting no after pains and larger newborns, plus praise for Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pellets as aids for health and digestion.
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Dr. Pierce
Hood
C. A. Briggs
Millwood
Douglas Co
Oregon
Dr Pierce
Hermit Crabs and Courageous Advice in One Page
Reading includes a Chambers Journal note on hermit crabs fighting for shells and a tale about a dog scaring a cat, followed by inspirational guidance urging perseverance and moral steadfastness. It blends natural history with a university anecdote and a schoolmaster’s exhortation.
Health Insurance and guarding health through illness
A brief urging to insure health as a wise precaution for oneself and family. It notes disease often attacks via the liver and presents in many forms, emphasizing vigilance and preventive care. The fragment implies action at the first signs of illness.
The Limbs In Walking And Egyptian Humor Notes
The piece discusses how arms balance leg motion during walking or running by opposing trunk rotation. It also cites a Sudan handbook noting beads and bracelets as currency in undressed areas and advises tourists that only crocodiles may be shot from steamers, though this is warned against for risking riverine people.
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Sudan
Ancient Scottish ship tales and a boarding house plan
An article notes a grim Scottish practice of casting lots to identify ship troublemakers with dogs sometimes bound for the sea. It also includes a brief dialogue about clothes and seeking a boarding house, reflecting clipped humorous bits from the Philadelphia Record.
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Scotland
Heiress Clarifies Farm Venture Amid Losses
A young heiress explains her farming hobby and the many difficulties she faces saying she really is a farmer and that almost all she plants she loses. A rising physician at her table counters that in his case all he loses he plants.
Definition of a question mark by Lady Wortley Montagu
The passage recounts how Pope despised Lady Wortley Montagu and tells of a famous exchange in which a deformed, dark poet asked her to define an interrogation mark. She called it a little crooked black thing that asks questions.
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Wortley Montagu
England
Pope
Ivory Carving Traditions and Prices in Modern Craft
The ivory carvers of this country focus on decorative toilet and stationery items. Tools mimic wood carving but are lighter. work is tedious and usually in low relief. Carvings feature Persian designs, cacti, palms, and Alaskan influences, with a guarded staining secret to enhance moisture absorption. Mirrors in plain ivory sell for 10 to 12 dollars, carved ivory mirrors 100 dollars or more, small carved pieces 5 to 25 dollars, and toilet sets up to 500 dollars.
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New York Herald
Deed of trust sale of Hotel Appledore area preserves exclusions
The sale covers the Hotel Appledore and Pavilion complexes and the unfinished Hotel with surrounding story structures, stables, shops and tenement houses. Excluded are the Wheeler Parsons tracts and any residence lots or villa sites with outlet streets. Personal property on site including hotel furnishings and vehicles may be sold. One-fourth cash, balance in three annual installments secured by deed of trust. Commissioners George E Sipr Greenle ed Letcher.
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Appledore
Ing
Wheeler & Parsons
Glasgow Investment Co
H. Letcher
George E, Sipr
Greenleed, Letcher
Commissioners
Vast 135 Acre Kentucky Farm for Sale With Mills and Orchard
Detailed real estate list describes the Tan Core Known as the Taner Bi Moore place in Welch with 135 acres on Whistle Creek, including a large mansion, barns, a dairy, a cistern, timber, and fruits. Also offered are a 76 acre Alum Springs road property with dwelling and spring, a 400 acre South Buffalo tract with a saw mill and timber value, Mountain View homestead on 206 acres with multiple outbuildings, parts of Green Valley Bath county near All Healing White Sulphur Springs, a 150 acre combined tract near Lexington with extensive improvements, and a 214 acre Oak Dale parcel with good buildings and timber, all priced with varied terms.
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Welch
Whistle Creek
Lexington
South Buffalo
Mountain View Foray
Lawkeys
James River
Yih
Green Valley
Bath County
Rairoad
Longwood
Oak Dale
Rockbridge
Public Sale of Rockbridge Decree Farm and Dowers
Public sale in Lexington Virginia on June 6 1902 at 12 m in front of the Rockbridge County Court House of the David Orbison estate farm on North River near Kerrs Creek with the widow s dower 80 acres and the mansion house and outbuildings. Terms require one fourth cash and balance in three annual installments with interest or one third cash with security. bond and notes to Clerk s Office of Rockbridge County Court. Bond of Special Commissioners confirmed May 22 1902 by Clerk R K Witt.
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Atlantic City
Capa May
Sea Tale City
Ocean City
N.J
Mid
Rehoboth Beach
Del
Baltimore & Ohio
Kt. K
Circuit Court of the United States
District of
Virginia
F. W. Breed
Glasgow Investment Company
Cedar Creek
Natural Bridge
Logo Acres
Gcourt
Rockbridge County
M-Dold
David Orbison
Lesington
Baid County
Rockbridge
North River
Kerr's Creek
Ieult
M. Dold
Witt. Clerc
R. Kt
Witt
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International Monthly
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Ureka
Arness
la Nassau
New York City
Jini
Natural Bridge, VA
Natural Bridge Hotel
G.D. Letchem
J.P. Moore
Cour's
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BB. K&o
Lim
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Harrisonburg
Southern
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ORM
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Tephenson
Winchester
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Capon Road
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Southern R. Ra
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TiSam
B. & O. Railroad
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T. E. Jarrett
D. B. Martin
Lynchbag
Richmond
Buena Vista
Lynchburg
Froee
O. S2
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Clifton Forge
Cixctsnart Axp
Louisville
Balcony Falls
Castle
Virginia Mot Springs
Inmativs
Pullman
Kinsati
St. Konts
Ifton Forge
5. O. Campbell
Joan D. Potts
Asat
G. P. Agt
Richmond, Va
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Northboun
Basle
Luray
Hagerstown
Pullman Sleeper
Harrisburg
Roanoke
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