Rose Comb White Leghorn origin and egg legacy
The Rose Comb White Leghorn arose from a Hamburg cross about fifty years ago and rose to prominence as an egg powerhouse. It blends Italian and Dutch traits, improved by selective breeding to produce smaller, regular combs and heavy laying. Leghorns are egg specialists, valued for large output though carcass size varies. The piece also notes contrasting breeding aims with Plymouth Rocks and warns against poor stock and unfocused experimentation.
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United States
Hamburg
Plymouth Rocks
Breens
Mischievous town figures and rural wisdom in verse
An old verse reflects on a famed local judge, preacher, doctor, editor, and their rough beginnings, praising childlike mischief and later virtue. A Korrespondents column answers poultry care questions with blunt, practical advice on fat hens, overcrowded chicks, and feeding tankage or cockleweed alternatives.
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Kurios
Feathers and eggshells in a poultry tale of farms and ships
An amalgam of farm notes on poultry fertilizer improving Riverside soil, a Hanover fancier hatching a four legged chicken, and the Welsh Prince steamship provisioning hens and eggs. It covers poultry advertising, photo quality, and cost studies from Harper Adams and MIT, plus cautions on enthusiasm and wise investment in poultry ventures.
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Riverside
Hanover
New York
Japan
Philippines
Harpers Adams College
England
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Agriculture
Fermat’s Propositions on Sums of Powers Probed by Scholars
The article discusses Fermat’s claim that any sum of two powers other than squares cannot itself be a power of the same degree. It notes the 250-year-old problem, the missing original proof, and partial results for powers that are multiples of 3, 4, 4% and certain primes, with attention from leading mathematicians and the London Sphere.
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Fermat
G. A. Miller
London Sphere
Phantom ships haunt seas with ghostly reappearances
London Standard reports a legion of phantom vessels said to sail near wreck sites. Sightings include the Packet Light and the lost Eurydice, with tales of fire forms shaping into ships before vanishing. Royal observers from the Bacchante era are cited as witnesses in diaries.
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George V
Duke of Clarence
Bacchante
English Channel
Isle of Wight
London Standard
Wanted to officiate in archaic custody case aboard Argonaut
Officious midshipman Jones, able seaman of HM Virgin Queen Veron, pleads for extra leave to stand as godmother to a baby linked through a convoluted family claim. The scene unfolds with misheard names, mistaken kinship, and a commander’s exasperated demand for the real reason.
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Jones
H. M
Vernon
Eau Manjer
Jezge
Janes
Argonaut
Silent alms appeal by maids at Paris wedding
A New York Sun report notes a French wedding custom in the Madeleine Paris where maids of honor pass through the guests making a silent alms appeal for the poor. Attendees donate coins to a small silver receptacle hung on a bouquet arm, a gesture observed amid lavish attire and expenditures.
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The
Madeleine
Paris
London Balloon Ascents and a Dublin Knighting
The 1784 London ascent by Lunardi included a cat, a dog, and a pigeon as passengers. A jury acquitted a prisoner to avoid missing the spectacle, and King George III paused a council meeting to watch. In 1785 Dublin undergraduate Maguire flew a balloon and was knighted by the lord lieutenant.
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London
Lunardi
George III
Dublin
Maguire
Calf in distress prompts improvised treatment in Extremis
The passage notes a calf growing worse and two powders from a doctor used as interim care while awaiting a veterinarian. A second fragment from Joy Rider on a telephone mocks delays a car, while a Satire entry critiques a garage bill.
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Jim
Little Joe
Joy Rider
Real Estate Offerings by Hershey and Gibbell Lititz PA
Advertises multiple Lititz area properties including 2 acre tract with 2 story frame house priced around 150, 20 acre tract with 2 story frame house and improvements, near Lititz, and several other houses on Front Street Warwick Broad Street and Orange Street. Also mentions bank stock and 6 percent bonds and terms for payment.
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Hershey & Gibbel
Lititz
Cocalied
Titaeres
Front Street
Cass
Davelling
Lutite
New Street
Warwick
A.B. Reidenbach
Timber Land Sale in Warwick Township Proceedings
On Saturday November 30 1912 executors of Rufus Kline late of Warwick township will sell at public sale at Thomas Eitnier Brannerville a tract of timber land three acres thirty perches along the Brannerville to B Snavely mill road adjoining Aaron Eline Emanuel Kith Joseph Bucher and others Chestnut timber some fit to cut sale starts at 2 PM terms to be announced by Phares Kline Wayne J Kline executors as trustees. I L Ranlinman auction Geo L Kvith clerk.
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Orphans’ Court
Lancaster County
Rufus Kline
Warwick Township
Thomas Eitnier
Brannerville
Lexington Roa
B. B. Snavely
Aaron Eline
Emanuel Kith
Joseph Bucher
Phares
Kline Wayne J. Kline
I. x. Ranilinun
Geo
L. Kvith
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C. Hassler
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