Sugar maple as dominant tree across northern regions
The sugar maple appears as the predominant tree in New England states New York southern Canada northern and western Pennsylvania and parts of Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin and Minnesota. In the Southern Appalachians it occurs in scattered stands with similar climate. Near northern New York and adjacent Quebec the forest is nearly pure maple and farther south it remains dominant where beech and birch join. In Ohio Indiana Illinois similar mixes exist but maple recedes to richer damper soils as hills decline.
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New England
New York
Canada
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesosota
Appalachians
New York State
Quebec
Iinois
the Department of Agriculture
The Fascinating Danzon Across Havana Floors
A vivid, dated critique of the Cuban dance the danzon, noting its odd appeal. The piece describes dancers moving all night on a small floor, the trance like steps, and music shifting from hidious to mesmerizing with hints of African and voodoo influences.
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Havana
Africa
The Bloody Meadow Sisters and Historic Anecdotes
The piece cites Charles and John Wesley quarrelling over a speaker at a conference and hints at truths enduring through history. It closes with a note on Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire where the War of the Roses battle is reenacted annually at the Bloody Meadow at the Avon Severn confluence.
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Wesley
Charles Wesley
John Wesley
Charles
John
Tewkesbury
Gloucestershire
Avon
Severn
London
London Mirror
Free Hand Sketches Impress Professor in Portfolio Review
The professor compliments Miss Brownsmith on her free hand drawing as she insists the sketching is entirely free. She lowers her gaze and waits for the next comment after the remark.
Personal column tester in Chicago Tribune dialogue
A short exchange shows the editor warning a new reporter about handling a letter marked personal. The young writer explains he is doing the personal column today and notes there was no other item available.
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Chicago Tribune
It Might Have Been Worse
Lydia vents fury at Charlie after he kissed her just before the girls, while Georgette half jestingly says it’s better than kissing all the girls beforehand.
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Lydia
Charlie
Georgette
Hetter
Mathematics. Mother Jean and the half apple tale
A playful dialogue from Nos Loisirs where a mother asks Jean to give half her apple to her sister. The exchange highlights a pun on sharing and halves, ending with the line that an apple shared is halved.
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Jean
Delinquent Guest Dodgy Past Mentioned at Hotel
A traveling man questions the clerk about Dodsy’s conduct at the hotel. The clerk recalls Dodsy used to stay there but never paid any charges.
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Dodsy
One of our Queer Customs and the Election
The Buffalo Courier notes that citizens and officials alike are notified of elections through public knowledge rather than through a formal commission for the president and vice president. The Constitution and Electoral Count Act do not provide a commission or official document for their election.
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United States
Senate
Buffato Courier
River Captain Eats Ice Cream With Paper Wrapper
A well known riverman at a Pitts burgh dinner eagerly ate an ice cream in its paper cup, wrapper and all, declaring he would consume the ship and cargo. Nearby Louisville guests were shocked, while Banks tries to mollify a quarrelsome home dispute over a new dress as dinner ends in renewed tension.
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Pittsburgh
Louisville
Louisville Courier Journal
de Moneys
Banks
Failing Fate and Chaucer’s Face in Stone Highlight Oddities
A Newark News note describes a town incident where a sharp dressed man climbs a telephone pole and taunts a follower before a life insurance agent notes a second escape that day. Also in the issue a British museum exhibit features a stone replica with a perfect miniature Chaucer portrait.
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Tia
Jast
Newark News
Chaucer
British Museum
Minor mishap at shop leaves eggs unbroken
A sixteen year old woman slips on a banana peel in a shop and sinks onto a stack of eggs. A courteous shopkeeper helps her up and reassures her the eggs are merely bent, not broken, in a lighthearted London Globe anecdote.
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Londor Globe
Time's Changes on Morning Stairs
A restrained domestic exchange unfolds as a woman glides downstairs with gloves remarking on past value, while a man checks his watch repeatedly and questions a perceived delay, revealing tension over time and worth.
Brag and the evolving test of gold and man
A quotation on how bragging shifts with age from parents to self to children. It contrasts a traditional touchstone for gold with a moral measure for people, suggesting integrity tests persist across life stages.
Making It Right. First Lawyer Lien Bo Yaoie
A dialogue fragment shows two lawyers discussing a dispute and a plan to avoid causing the client further trouble. The muttered exchange hints at legal maneuvering and negotiation steps between counsel.
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Lien Bo Yaoie
Playing the Piano. A View From the Past
The article surveys piano history and types from the harpsichord era to modern grands and uprights. It notes the instrument's social image, use in tin pan shacks, and evolving tech like self playing attachments and novelty practices in earlier days.
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Chicago Post
Eailer
Four Great Sauces in French Culinary Mastery
A Frenchman claims man created the culinary art and notes the famed sauces Spaniard Veloute Bechamel and German. He recalls Spanish and Veloute dating to the seventeenth century and Careme's eighteenth century refinements. Bechamel blends Veloute with cream while German adds egg yolks.
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Careme
Raphael
Farm stock and goods to be sold in multiple auctions
Listings show several auctions scheduled in March across Lancaster area farms. Amos H. Witman, Hiias Kby, A. B. Keller, and Cyrus Gibbes announce sales of farm stock, household goods, livestock, implements, and tools at sites near Penn township Win wick Brownstown Oregon Reinnerville Wisslers mill with dates March 6 8 12 and 18.
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Parsons
Clay Township
Darlach Ta Mt
Ira Hf. Blantz
Millway
J. H. Retz
Leber
Hphrata
Jos. W. Jaker
Warwick Township
Kissel Hill
Ttorhsville
John M. Behmer
Jovi H Rudy
Mary Behmer
Ephraia
Middle Creek Meeting House
Meadow Valley
David W. Kurtz
Lititz and
Lexington Pike
Elvin M. Brucaker
Cay Township
Clay
Schoeneck
Durlach
Daniel B. Loose
Zook’s
Brunnerville
Lincoln
Clayton KR
Warwick House
Litliz
Durkach
C. B.nyder
Springville
Ephrata
Township
Stevens
Curtis M. Fasnacht
Rome
Jenny Linda McCall
Henry Eekert
Manheim
Oregon
Litltz Pike
Oregon Hotel
Milton K. Wenger
Frank Rentchler
Manheim Township
Crickerville
Lititz
Brubaker’s Mill
Gideon Schmuck
Elizabeth Township
Speedwell Mill
David Frederick
Amos H. Witman
Gibbes Farm
Penn Township
B'S
Tve
Winwick Two
Bronnerville
Hiias Kby
Keller
Brownstown
Reinnerville
Wisslers Mill
Cyrus Gibbes
Elm and
Penryn
A.B. Dommy
Brannerville
Abraham Bittner
Jacob G. Hershey
Penn
Durlack
Lancaster County
Storm King
Hwa
Durham
Messinger
New Holland
Wallace
McCormick
Osborne
Sny Dica
Snavely
T. Hacker
KK. Romig
W. J. Gerhart
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Guo
A. Exemprer
H. L. Keith
B. Wolf
A.V. Walter
Farmers National Bank
Lilux
U.S
U. S
Total
Ing Bank
Lancasur
Breitegan
Jas
W.S. Buuh
J. M. Miller
C.T. Risser
USNTR
Wartownship
Houshold
Lexington
C. H. Royer
Fresh & Close Springers
Trange P
Novell
G.o. S. Demimy
The
Degker and
J&nsser
Janssen
J. B. Young & Son
E. Orange St
Isaac Larah
John D. Bear
Sean
Henry Weill
Sale and Exchange
Christi St
Lancaster
Iowa
John D. Bair
Blue Ball
Kansas & Nebraska
Jos. W. Baker
Manso Kurtz
E. Engnx
W. D. Fichthorn
Bow- Rudy’s Meatman’s Bakery
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