Wheat and oats yield and value by state for last year
Government estimates show total wheat area 37.4 million acres yielding 456 million bushels valued at 859 million dollars. Oats cover about 26 million acres producing 659 million bushels valued at 359 million dollars. State readings vary with drought and recent rains improving conditions.
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Washington
Eement of Agriculture
Texas
Kentucky
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
Illinois
Missouri
Kansas
Lungs and breathing machinery described and praised
The passage extols lungs and breathing apparatus as wonderful but prone to clogging from unwanted matter. It claims all throat and lung obstructions from cold to pneumonia are harmful and promotes Boschee's German Syrup at 75 cents a bottle as the certain remedy, to be bought from any druggist.
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Boschee
Vote counts in Dakota division and local option
Gov. Church proclaims Dakota vote totals with 70 693 on division and 61 331 on local option. The official majority for division, about 4 967, is urged as the territory’s will, while standard campaign claims note broad support for division despite sparse local votes.
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Minneapolis
Gov. Church
Dakota
Aly
Ferry onion seed annual offers culture guides from Detroit firm
Information highlights an annual publication by D. M. Ferry & Co. promoting onion seed growing and sale as a leading specialty. The tract claims to provide permanent value to onion growers and gardeners and invites readers to request the annual from Detroit, Michigan.
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D.M. Ferry & Co
D. M. Ferry & Co
Detroit
Mich
Premium offer to all Capital subscribers for Our Family Physician
The Capital announces a liberal premium to every subscriber on or before January 1 1888 a free $3.00 book Our Family Physician with each renewal or new subscription. The paper seeks to double its circulation by paying old subscribers to recruit new ones and invites non subscribers to inspect the book at its office while stressing the book’s value and potential life savings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dakota
Mircneell Printine Co
California Fig Syrup Remedy Promoted as Headache Cold Cure
The advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as the best method to dispel headaches colds and fevers and to cleanse the system. It claims gentle effective action that strengthens organs for better habits. Manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Company in San Francisco and sold by H. Scallin.
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California
California Fig Syrup Company
San Francisco
Cal
8. H. Scallin
Magnolia Sugar Plant’s Advanced Process in Louisiana
The Magnolia sugar house showcases modern methods from cane shredding to vacuum boiling and bone black filtration. Sugar goes from juice to masse cuite then through centrifugals to yield firsts and seconds, with thirds stored in wagons and aged for thirty days before final processing. The piece contrasts old methods with Magnolia’s innovation and explains the economics and equipment behind high quality sugar production.
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Magnolia
Louisiana
I. V. Smalley
How We Met: a brief verse on love and fate
A poem excerpt explores a fleeting summer romance. It contrasts slow, reluctant affection with unspoken desires and the suddenness of parting. Fate punishes pleasures begun and Retribution spares none, as love is measured by loss. Louise Chandler Moulton’s lines appear through Cosmopolitan.
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Summer
Louise Chandler Moulton
Cosmopolitan
Chinese Masonic Lodge in New York City Revealed
The New York World reports a Chinese Masonic lodge at 18 Mott Street with 300 members and distinct Chinese emblematic decor. It operates independently of the Free and Accepted Masons using a traveling red-silk card and rites akin to American lodges.
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F. A. M. Old Masons
New York
Mott Street
China
Father
Supreme Lodge
San Francisco
New York World
Observations on Caracas Streets and Society by De Hesse Wartegg
De Hesse Wartegg notes Caracas is safe and orderly with open doors by day and quiet streets after 11 pm. He praises the lower classes for docility and kindness, contrasts their poverty and ignorance with honesty, and compares night streets to Pompeii at Mount Vesuvius.
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Plaza Bolivar
Vencezuelanos
Caracas
Mount Vesuvius
Pompeii
de Hesse Wartegg
New York
Tin Supply From Malay Peninsula Mines Described
The bulk of the world’s tin comes from the Malay peninsula's Straits Settlements. Mining yields blood tin from lowland pockets, ten to twenty feet below ground, appearing like coarse black sand. Ore is smelted on site, shipped to Penang and Singapore for re smelting into slabs, purified, and re shipped. Chinese control mining, capital, and labor.
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Straits Settlements
Malay Peninsula
Malacca
Asia
Penang
Singapore
Cigar Holders Linked to Cheaper Smokes in Opinion
A retail cigar cleaner claims users of cigar holders tend to smoke cheaper cigars. He notes exceptions but says the pattern holds even among the wealthy. He adds that older smokers who chew on cigars prefer brands from ten to fifty cents. Judge cites a motto for a dime museum: Wonders will never cease.
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New York Sun
Women as Night Workers in New York City
The New York Car column notes a rising number of women and girls working after dark in clerical, retail, and other jobs. It describes safety levels, social attitudes, and a shift in norms as women gain independence and self sufficiency through night employment.
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New York City
New York
Worlingman
Washington Post
Antwerp Fortifications Questioned By War Correspondent
In a New York World dispatch C Crawford questions the defense value of Antwerp. He notes a parade of 10,000 Belgian troops, criticizes their dress and drill, and argues German forces could outflank the fortifications if Antwerp's neutrality is to be guarded.
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Austria
Russia
Europe
Napoleon
Marlborough
Hungary
New York
Joe Howard
Antwerp
Belgium
France
Jt, C. Crawford
New York World
Impure Milk and Farm Feeds Challenge Dairying
A 19th century critique argues that milk quality is less affected by still fet milk than by the widespread use of injurious feeds and poor water. It notes water scarcity, fermented brewers grains, and sulfuric acid treated glucose grains harming cows and milk, while distillers slops may be worse.
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M. W
Science
Morning drink habit sparks public commentary
A Philadelphia Times reader quotes a gentleman condemning secret drinking and recounts an observed man slipping into a third rate saloon on Sixth Street below Vine, ashamed by the sneaky act. Town Topics adds banter about Chateaubriand and a beefsteak invention as light разнообраз.
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Teddy
Sixth Street
Vine
Philadelphia
Limes
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Venezuela
the Soldiers of
Chateaubriand
GEO, A. Macbeth & CO
Pittsburgh, Pa
Ric J Luis
Stinson & Co
Portland, Maine
L. W. Adams
Ewine
Iso
First Street
Main
Mitchell, Dakota
M.aneapolis
St Louis
Wees
Albert Lea
St. Paul
St. Ita
Des Moines
Owa
Fort Dodge
Watertown
Oak
ST. Louis
Mississippi Valley
Union Depot
Manitoba
Northern Pacific
Duluth
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Magniffic
Puliway
Horton
Reening
Palace
Pwu
Duliy
Levyenwert
Atchison
Kansas City
Unicon Paerle
Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe
Boyd
Iness
John D. Lawler
J. E. Gilbert
A. M. Bowdle
Pres’t
N. Grant
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