The Reliable Partridge Cochins and Farm Advice
An article extols Partridge Cochins as meat birds with large eggs and good table quality, urges market-focused breeding, and offers household recipes and farming tips. It covers lice control, early chick production, cheap window flowers, feeding strategies, seed storage, green fodder benefits, and home grounds design for farms and homesteads.
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Plymouth Rock
Wyandotte
Cochin
Stegetter
New Orleans
Wrnter
Lec
Benner predicts 1904 price slump and 20 year upcycle
New York report on Samuel Benner's 1904 prophecies says prices in iron, rail stocks, and many commodities will fall this year while a long inflationary period follows. He forecasts a Republican victory, a trade revival after 1904, and a decade of higher prices until 1911, with $4 billion in prior declines possibly recovered.
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New York
Benner
Wall Street
Samuel Benner
Ohio
Perigree
Republican Party
Care of Pavements and Asphalt Standards
Asphalt pavement lasts with proper care and wide tires for heavy loads. Chicago plans to pave downtown with asphalt, noting narrow tires damage streets. Cities set tire width minimums, and this city requires three inch tires for loads over 3000 pounds, with wider tires for extra heavy loads.
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Asphalt Journal
Chicago
A Divided House
Life recalls a conflicted pair with a creed split over holiness beauty, one woman expressing regret after his death. The divide centered on differing beliefs about holiness and beauty.
The Czar's Mild Mannered Autocrat of Manchuria
A London Mail profile of Admiral Alexeieff portrays him as the youthful yet stern Russian viceroy in the far east. The article recalls his roles in Siberia and Manchuria, his command of Russian forces in the Pacific, and his influence in Russo-Japanese era developments, with a note on his loyalty to the czar and potential for further action.
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Manchuria
London Mail
Far East
Alexeieff
Nicholas II
Asia
Siberia
Pacific
England
Alexeleff
Russia
Japan
Tts
Europe
George Clarke
China
Peking
Alexeteff
Peehili
Far
Admiral Alexeieff
The Passing of the Hearth from the Wisconsin West
An elderly Wisconsin woman recalls life sixty years ago in the young west when the hearth and fireplace defined home. She describes daily tasks, cooking, preservation, spinning, and the social role of the fireside, noting the shift to cooking stoves ending an era of fireside life.
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Chicago
Inter Ocean
Wisconsin
The Mad Mullah in Military Gossip and lore
London Chronicle reports active gossip in military circles about a forthcoming large advance against the Mad Mullah. Abdulla Achar, tall and learned, is described as a Somali with sharp wit and a favored pupil of Tariqa Mahadia leader Sheikh Mahomed Salah.
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London Chronicle
Abdulla Achar
Mecca
Mahomed Salah
Tariqa Mahadia
Mahomet
Tales of Two Snakes and Two Prospector Partners
An aged prospector recalls Mike the educated snake and Rastus the sentimental rattler in Arizona mining camps. The tales recount how Mike smoked a pipe and smelled color to find pay dirt, while Rastus saved Pete from hanging before dying in sorrowful loneliness.
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Washington Star
Pertickler
Bill
Arizona
Mike
Jim
Pete
Rastus
Rewan
Leadville
Walt
Holt
Hisself
Prairie Dog
Freak Shipments At Rail Depot Highlight Odd Cargo
A Washington Star report recalls freak express shipments to the north and the toll on depot workers. Alligators terrapins parrots and other live cargo travel at owners risk with double charges. workers endure noises and delays as crates are loaded. A railroad messenger recalls a parrot joke at Atlanta and notes the oddity of parrots bound north.
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Washington Star
Pennsylvania
Express
Polly
Atlanta
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ICAL
Sai
Joseph
Roosevelt
Mad Mullah
Raetus
Vigilance Committee
Tennyson
Harper's
J. C. Thomson
America
Mr. Thomson
Q'gantic
West
Atlantic
Minnesota
Argentina
Egypt
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