Farmer Letter Confirms Practical Notes From Northern Middlesex
Samuel L. Taylor writes from a northern Middlesex farming community sharing short, practical observations. He discusses corn fodder tests comparing outdoor versus barn storage, moisture benefits for cattle feed, and a sprinkler method, plus reflections on early green peas, corn husking, and a humorous Maud Muller anecdote about setting a hen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Stony Brook
Stevens
Samuel L. Taylor
Editorial on Apple Industry and Pest Control Methods
The piece discusses the American Apple Consumers' League and its limited reach, notes a practical California method to destroy scale pests using mineral oil and caustic alkali, and praises fruit grower J. H. Hale on consistent apple production. It argues orchardists may owe more to management than to nature, praising Connecticut authority on fruit growing.
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American Apple Consumers’ League
Maine
Farmer
Ben Davis
Scientific American
Pacific Coast
J. H. Hale
Connecticut
Rhode Island Redfowl Leads In Fine All Round Bird
A compact note highlights the Rhode Island Redfowl as a promising versatile bird. It mentions manure Fertilizer from stable waste with potash per Prof Morse of New Hampshire Agricultural College. The piece also notes the Grange as farmer power and cites various farm and fruit stories from across the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhode Island
Morse
New Hampshire Agricultural College
Friendly reminiscence from Ephraim A Stevens recalls Westford ties
The letter from Ephraim A Stevens, once a Westford resident now in Mountain View Col, mingles personal warmth with community reflection. He notes church ties, his daughters teaching Sunday school, and a playful query about corn fodder while the speaker laments frigid weather and husked corn freezing to the ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ephraim A. Stevens
Westford
Mountain View
Col
Old First Parish
Practical Advice for Horse Care and Co operative Grain Buying
A Tribune Farmer piece combines horse handling tips with a Kansas cooperative story. It urges gentle training, quiet talk to horses, and proper tack, then details a farmer cooperative that eliminated middlemen, captured most regional wheat, and paid dividends while avoiding politics and officer salaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Kansas City
Cooperative Company
Agricultural colleges and their influence on farming
The piece questions whether agricultural colleges fully serve farmers by aligning with practical agriculture and aiding the 1862 land grant act. It notes farmer concern that colleges may shift minds away from farming, harming agriculture’s value and opportunities, and urges state legislatures to investigate and support these schools.
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Boards of Trustees of Agricultural Colleges
Agricultural colleges should be reformed to serve farming
Aaron Jones of the National Grange urges state legislators to ensure agricultural colleges operate in the public interest. He calls for audits of governance, appointing trustees and leaders devoted to practical farming, and funding for lands buildings and equipment to elevate colleges to first class status. He says those unwilling to align with agricultural advancement should not hold leadership or teaching roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aaron Jones
National Grange
When Poultry Does Not Pay On The Farm
A Northwestern Farmer piece argues hens pay when properly cared for and fed. It cites lack of knowledge, improper feeding, and insufficient care as main reasons for poultry not paying. With apprenticeship in breeding, balanced rations, clean housing, space, and dust baths, a paying flock is achievable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
The Farm Horse Wise Advice From Rural New Yorker
A farmer argues horses gain more value from ages ten to twenty than from birth to ten. Mature horses endure more work with less feed, and handling at the door saves time. He notes neglect, poor collars, and ill fitting harness harm horses and shares care tips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Farmer
H. E. Cook
New Yorker
The Farmer's Debt to Machinery and Home Beauty
The article argues modern machinery relieves farmers from relentless toil, enabling a happier home life. It cites creameries easing daily chores, allowing farmers and wives to beautify homes, read, and enjoy family time. It discusses rising pride in farmhouses and the shift from hard labor to balanced domestic life.
Machinery Blesses Farm Life In Modern Era
A passage by Mrs. A. E. C. Maskell extols machines changing farms into Edenic homes. She lauds piano or organ, gramophones, kodaks, and tractors as tools lifting burdens from labor, increasing time for virtue, worship, and self discovery, predicting a millennial pace of progress and divine blessing through modern industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kodak
God's Church
A. E. C. Maskell
Irrigated San Luis Valley Lands in Colorado
In southern Colorado the San Luis valley is a broad high plain with 2 to 8 feet per mile fall and 9,000 square miles of cultivable area. It relies on sub irrigation via lateral trenches, using Rio Grande water delivered through ditches. Farmers seek mountain recreation during the growing season due to monotony.
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Mountains
Colorado
San Luis Valley
Rio Grande
Christmas Entertains by North Chelmsford Children of Mary
In St John s T A society hall about 200 attended a Christmas program by the Children of Mary sodality with an Olympia orchestra opening and multiple readings songs and a doll drill. Ice cream and cake followed. A new elevator is being installed at Silver Gay s machine shop. Christmas Masses are scheduled at St John s church with 8 am and 9 15 am. Daniel Ready and Frederick McEnaney of St Anselm s college will spend Christmas with family.
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St. John’s
Ernestine Murphy
Madeline Perry
Gertrude Quigley
Rose Marie McEnaney
May Tucke
Annie Curry
Rosanna McTague
Annie Walsh
Katherine Ready
Annie Kane
Vernie Lowe
Esther Pope
Agnes O'Connell
Jennie Tole
Bessie Larkin
Etta Cox
Bertha Tucke
Little Babe
Margaret Mulligan
Lottie Lowe
Josephine Ready
Mary Ready
Children of Mary's Sodality
Silver & Gay's
St. John’s Church
Christmas Vacation and Holiday School Events at South Chelmsford
South Chelmsford village school closed Friday for Christmas vacation. Children enjoyed an afternoon of singing, games, and gifts from peers and teachers. Sunday school held a church concert with choir selections, Scripture reading by Superintendent C. F. Metcalf, solos by Marion Bickford Rose Fish Alta Byam, readings and recitations by multiple students, two child performances, and remarks by Rev. Williams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. F. Metcalf
Marion Bickford
Rose Fish
Alta Byam
Orlo Stearns
Lucy Byam
Annie Williams
Minnie Handley
Rose Fadden
No Price Too High Telegram Sparks Family Purchase
A New York businessman's wife, away from home, sought his approval to buy laces worth 2000 dollars. He sent a telegram saying no price too high, prompting her to spend 8000 dollars on laces and other goods. Upon his return, he saw the telegram and realized it read No price too high. She had misread the phrase as an allowance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maud Muller
Maad
Maud
Toronto Star
New York City
More Adventures of Captain Kettle in Pearson's Magazine
Pearson's magazine presents Captain Kettle handling a delicate diplomatic mission in Africa with an unexpected encounter with a French woman. The issue features six illustrations, a new Indian Nights' Entertainment series, opening chapters of Rafael Sabatini's historical romance, complete stories, Photography in Cloudland, Tsar home life on Christmas, Wonders of the Transportation World with photographs, and a humorous Christmas Games piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Captain Kettle
Cutcaffe Hyne
Pearson’s
Kettle
Africa
Sarath Kumar Ghosh
India
Rafael Sabatini
Russia
Imperial Palace
Notable Authors and Stories In a Lively Magazine Issue
George W. Smalley opens a series on personal qualities of statesmen like Kors teberg Balfour Campbell Bannerman and Grey. The Forest Runners continues Stewart Edward White. Telegraph Talks and Talkers by L C Hall. Cyrus Townsend Brady on David Crockett at the Alamo. Cleveland Moffett explores the Great Pyramid. James V of Scotland and Boer War tales by James Barnes. Poems by William H Hayne and Paul Kester.
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L. C. Hall
Cyrus Townsend Brady
David Crockett
Alamo
Cleveland Moffett
Great Pyramid
Robert Barr
James V
Scotland
James Barnes
William H. Hayne
Paul Kester
January Ladies' Home Journal highlights and features
The January issue opens with Miss Brownell's photographs and an article on How Uncle Sam Guards His Millions. It includes Kipling’s baby lion experience, Cardinal Gibbons on The Restless Woman, Riley’s Home Folks, and plans for A 6000 House and a Garden. Eight pages cover new fashions and rural scenes Along Country Roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Home Journal
Miss Brownell
Uncle Sam
Mr. Kipling
Cardinal Gibbons
James Whitcomb Riley
Will Bradley
Lilian Brooks
Curtis Publishing Company
Philadelphia
Good Housekeeping January preview with new departments
January issue presents a bright 1902 outlook with a new department on economical living and breakfast diagrams. Features include Mrs George Cornwallis West interview and portrait, H W Wiley on formaldehyde dangers, articles on Russian copper finds and ideal nursery teachings, and domestic science discussions plus strong regular sections.
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Good Housekeeping
George Cornwallis-West
Phelps Publishing Company
Springfield
Mass
Prince Reckless Leads The Smart Set January Number
The January Christmas issue features Arthur Gris som's purely romantic novelette Prince Reckless about a young European prince's infatuation with an American girl. Alfred Henry Lewis contributes One Fighteenth-Century Day, Elizabeth Duer writes Sinful Sara on gambling dangers, and Edgar Satus presents The Enchanted Rug.
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Arthur Grissom
Alfred Henry Lewis
London
Elizabeth Duer
James G. King Duer
Sara
Edgar Satus
Gertrude F. Lynch
A. 8
Duane
M. Maurice Pelot
John Regnault Eliison
New Year's number features Madame Eames bio sketch
The issue highlights a Gustav Kobbe biographical sketch of singer Madame Eames, plus a social history chapter on Zoar by Landon Knight and a piece on bird hospitals by Elizabeth Kinney. Other items cover Curious Marriage Customs in Persia and Australasia, Midwinter at Valley Forge, and The Society of American Women in London. The fiction includes The Reincarnation of Captain John Radnor and stories by Clark, O Becket, and Fawcett.
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Madame Eames
Gustav Kobbe
Zoar
Landon Knight
Elizabeth Kinney
Persia
Australasia
Valley Forge
Society of American Women In
London
John Radnor
Kate Upson Clark
J. J. O’ Becket
Edgar Fawcett
the Crowell & Kirkpatrick Co
Springfield
Ohio
Journey through Kentucky districts featured in Frank Leslie's Monthly
The January issue opens with EB Carl Litsey’s first hand survey of Kentucky districts, detailing social conditions and feuds. It highlights fiction by Tan Maclaren and Hamlin Garland, with humorous pieces by Ralph Henry Barbour and E. S. Chamberlayne and Marion Hill’s “In Honor of the Infant” blending wit and pathos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Litsey
Kentucky
Frank Leslie
Tan Maclaren
Hamlin Garland
Ralph Henry Barbour
E. 8
Chamberlayne
New Books and Editions From Little, Brown & Co
OCF OSG Literary Notes reports Little, Brown & Co. published about two hundred new books and editions in the past year. Highlights include Hale’s Collected Edition final volume and Mahan’s new volume Types of Naval Officers issued November 30. Also noted are fiction, biographies, travel, and juvenile works, plus a rise in popular titles by Mary W. Tileston and the 30th anniversary illustrated edition of Little Men by Louisa May Alcott. Brandes to receive annual Danish pension of about $1250 as government delays and honors him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little, Brown, & Co
Edward Everett Hale
Alfred T. Mahan
Balzac
Dumas, Lever
Truth Dexter
Sidney McCall
Mary W. Tileston
Miss Alcott
Little Men
Little, Brown & Co
George Brandes
University of Copenhagen
Brandes
McClure's January Number Highlights Soldiering Tales
The January McClure's features "Army Jack" by W. J. Carney and Chauncey Thomas in top honor for its soldierly frankness. A dog story also shines, while Henry W. Phillips' "The Demon in the Can" and "Edgar, the Choir Boy Unspecial" add to the issue.
Secret History of the Court of England reprint and plate collections
L C Page & Co publish The Secret History of the Court of England from George IV accession detailing Princess Charlotte mystery and Duke Cumberland's valet Seulis murder. Two volumes richly illustrated, London 1832 edition reprint, $7. Right Hon Lady Anne Hamilton listed as author. Ex Libris collectors receive two key book-plates by M F Mansfield & Co New York titled Fifty Book Plates Engraved on Copper and One Hundred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. C. Page & Co
England
George IV
Charlotte
Duke of Cumberland
Seulis
London
Anne Hamilton
M. F. Mansfield & Co
New York
New Holiday Books and Limited Editions Announced
Publishers unveil limited editions and new releases from Putnam Bowery Silver Burdett and Co. Bowen Merrill and Little Brown plus a strong showing for Kim. Editions include Dred Book Plates by Moring bound in antique boards with 100 copies for America and advance subscriptions. Mon Sieur Martin by C Grant Robertson: Swedish wars tale. Charles G. Roberts notes his pre 1898 verse collection. Uffington Valentine’s The Ship of Silence dedicated to James Lane Allen. Kim sales surge to 6319 copies in a single day.
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Thomas Moring
America
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Martin
C. Grant Robertson
London
Charles G. D. Roberts
Silver, Burdett & Co
Bowen-Merrill Company
Edward Uffington Valntine
Baltimore
James Lane Allen
The Genius of Labor in Stevenson's Life and Work
A briefing on Robert Louis Stevenson ascribes his success to persistent self-improvement, recounting his youth as a dedicated student of writing. He kept two books, read and wrote, and practiced by mimicking admired authors to learn rhythm and style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Louis Stevenson
Graham Balfour
Hazlitt
Lamb
Wordsworth
Sir Thomas Browne
Defoe
Hawthorne
Montaigne
Baudelaire
Obermann
Christmas Day in the Tsar's Palace
A Pearson's Magazine feature paints Tsarskoe Selo Christmas rites with a grand tree, officer gifts, and palace hospitality. The Tsar and Tsarina send presents to Europe, while the English-influenced menu and care for Miss Orchard highlight affectionate imperial conduct and domestic warmth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Pearson’s
Tsarskoe Selo
Europe
Miss Orchard
Alix
Printing and Office Stationery Quality Noted
The article highlights that printing and all office stationery are well done when executed properly. It emphasizes craftsmanship, consistency, and attention to detail in materials, typography, and finishing processes.
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Agriali
Taney
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South Chelmsford
Book World
Ohe Magazines
Pearson's
Lippincott’s
John Luther Long
Will N. Harben
Paris
Albert Payson Terhune
St. Peter
William Roscoe Thayer
Edmund Vance Cooke
John B. Tabb
Buffalo Bill
Edwin Markham
James Williams
Oxford
Charles F. Thwing
Western Reserve University
Evelyn B. Baldwin
North Pole
Laurier
Cy Warman
Beauford A. Mason
Frank Hix Fayant
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
James L. Ford
Woman’s Home Companion
Tsar’s Palace
Bill Heads
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