Prairie fruit optimism grows despite climate trials
The article notes rapid rises in growing apples plums and cherries across the three prairie provinces amid varied soils and winters. It cites trial orchards in Manitoba12 stations and urges beginners to select a few well tested varieties such as crab apples Osman Columbia Robin and Dolgo while warning about hardiness concerns for other apples and plums and highlighting hardy local varieties and promising hybrids for trial.
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Prairie
Dominion
Manitoba
Prairies
Osman
Columbia
Morden
Assiniboine Mammoth
Valley River
Cheney
Barter Theatre Pioneer Turns Barter Into Cashless Stage
Robert Porterfield in Abingdon Virginia runs Barter Theatre with one dollar capital and 22 actors. Food replaces money at the box office as patrons trade milk chickens calves and pigs for season tickets. Shakespeare and Shaw draw full houses in the Blue Ridge town where arts thrive on barter.
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Robert Porterfield
Abingdon
Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains
Porterfield
Shakespeare
Shaw
Rehearsals Cost Estimates and Palindromic Note
The text notes that rehearsals of great orchestras cost $100 per minute. It also defines a palindrome as a word or sentence that reads the same backward or forward.
Modern parable on crime blame and social causes
The piece argues foreign born crime shares are small nationally and in New York City, urging focus on social maladjustments and remediation. It contrasts John Buchan’s visit with praise for hospitality, then offers a California parable of pelicans learning to fish, illustrating self-reliance and enterprise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Russell Sage Foundation
New York City
Manhattan
America
Christian Science Monitor
John Buchan
Columba University
Ben
New York Times
California
Santa Monica Bay
Santa Monica
Port Arthur News-Chronicle
St Kilda Natives Used Fulmar Bodies as Lamps
Early inhabitants of St. Kilda Island used fulmar petrel bodies as lamp fuel due to their high oil content. The text notes the carcass burns readily, and adds a tip about keeping brown sugar from lumping by storage in a cool place covered with a damp cloth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Kilda Island
Snakes on a Royal Menu From 1552 Dinner
A Wine and Food Society display shows a 1552 menu served during Queen Mary of Scots visit to the French Royal House. The list includes venomous vipers and adders as dishes reflecting historic tastes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
The
Wine and Food Society of
Great Britain
Mary of Scots
Proper attire for Tynemouth police off duty
Chief Constable Tom Blackburn orders all force members to wear blue suits bowler hats kid gloves and collars and ties when off duty. The directive emphasizes a formal appearance for the police in public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tynemouth
Tom Blackburn
Gideons Present 100 Bibles to Prince Arthur Hotel
Will J. Green of the Gideons explains Bibles borrowed from hotels are not theft but aid unfinished reading. He notes Bibles are often returned to the office or railway lost articles office. The Port Arthur News-Chronicle adds that frost reaches most U S locations except some Florida keys.
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Will J. Green
The
Gideons
Prince Arthur
Port Arthur
Economic factors in Western Canadian sheep ranching
Lawrence F. E. Kindt of Agriculture Economics notes lamb per ewe, lamb weight, and unit size drive success in Western Canadian sheep ranching. A three year study by Dominion experimental farms and economics staff covers Saskatchewan Alberta and British Columbia.
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Lawrence FE. Kindt
Agricultura
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Canada
Experimental Farms
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Lethbridge
Cardston
Bow Slope
Tilley Fast
Mr Kindt
Ottawa
First public piano in England 1767 at Covent Garden
An Observer correspondent notes the May 16 1767 Theatre Royal Covent Garden performance of The Beggar’s Opera marked the first public pianoforte appearance in England. An old playbill records Miss Brickler singing with Mr. Dibdin on a new instrument called piano forté. The earliest piano likely reached England via Father Wood in Rome in 1711. The era’s luxury yacht Hiron delle, built 1911 for Prince Monaco, has become a proletarian asset amid sale in Boston to a banana importer.
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London Observer
Theatre Royal
Covent Garden
Messrs
John Broadwood
England
Father Wood
Rome
Samuel Crisp
Virginia
Fulke Greville, Esq
Hirondelle
la Seyne
France
Prince Albert Honore Charles of
Monaco
Boston
Jerome W. van Orman
Mexicana Banana Importing Company of
Providence
Christmas Not a Legal Holiday in Kansas
A Kansas ruling states Christmas Day is not recognized as a legal holiday. The note clarifies that official government offices may remain open and that workers might not receive holiday-specific benefits or closures.
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Kansas
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Barter Theatre
Royal Artillery
Welney
Fen
Roosevelt
Florida Keys
H.M. Orion
Royal Yacht
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