Practical Rural Topics for Farmers and Housewives in 19th CenturyAgriculture
A dense summary of agricultural guidance covering potato fertilization with potash, grasses suitable for rotation, and broomcorn cultivation trends. It notes that sandy soils lack potash harming potatoes, lists grasses like meadow foxtail and alfalfa for early forage, and explains broomcorn risks, costs, and market fluctuations across Illinois Kansas and the South with price upswings and supply concerns.
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Agricultural College of Colorado
Earliesr
Chicago
Short Horn Cattle Beef Quality and Global Trade
The article notes extensive adoption of thoroughbred short horn cattle across North America and into Europe. It highlights superior flesh quality, profitability from calf to mature steer, and long productive lifespans for bulls and cows. Export figures for early 1885 emphasize demand for live bullocks and carcasses.
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United States
Territories
Canada
North America
Atlantic
Pacific
Texas
New Mexico
Europe
Great Britain
England
America
Oxford
Beear
Long Island
Simmer
Lewis J. Allen
Harper's Magazine
The Orchardist on Hardiness of Fruits
The essay argues two approaches to fruit hardiness, starting with improving delicate varieties or strengthening hardy ones. It notes risks with climate intolerance and disease, likening methods to progressive heredity and game logic, and compares to how populations adapt to deadly circumstances.
Hardiness in fruit trees through gradual acclimatization
Dr. B. D. Halsted argues that plants adapt to new climates by slow exposure rather than abrupt change. He cites Iowa fruit varieties and mountain seeds to show hardiness develops through natural selection and deliberate acclimatization, suggesting nurseries should test gradually and use hardy stock from severe climates.
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Iowa
B. D. Halsted
Michigan
Cooling milk critical for butter quality in the West
The Dairyman notes cream-gauge variability in butter yield and urges creameries to require patrons to cool new milk to 10 degrees before sending to the creamery. He cites experience near Elgin where cooled milk preserved skim-milk for 24 hours, arguing this practice protects calf feed and sustains patronage.
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J. N. Muncey
Jesup
Iowa
The
Dairy World
Elgin
West
The Poulterer Fermin on Turkeys and Poultry Profit
Practical notes on turkey care including lice control with warm water and soap, kerosene cautions, and feeding tips for hatchlings. Discusses turkey profitability from $20 to $39 yearly, plus foraging efficiency, range needs, and comparisons among duck, hen, goose, turkey, and various breeds like Brahma, Plymouth Rock, Black Spanish, and Leghorn.
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Plymouth Rock
Fosse Lessenger
Sweet Clover as Honey Plant and Roadside Beauty
The Prairie Farmer notes sweet clover as a superb honey plant and roadside adornment, comparable to white and Alsike clover or basswood. It grows biennially, spreads slowly, and can be extirpated by cutting in bloom before seed maturity.
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Professor Cook
Farmera
Beekeeping Traditions and Planting Tips From Egypt
A Victorian note describes hardy plants for waste places and roadside planting, plus a London correspondent recounts Egyptian beekeeping customs. Bees migrate in pyramidal boats along the Nile, with hives numbered and tracked, as each bee returns to its own hive with remarkable memory.
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Daily News of London
Nile
Egypt
Perenne
The Housekeeper Paper Bags Usefulness
A brief note on repurposing paper bags stored in the kitchen. Use them to cover lamp chimneys after cleaning keep flies and dust off baking items cover glass canning jars to prevent darkening and cap ice pitchers when no pitcher is available.
Useful Household Hints From Old Texts On Cleaning And Dye
A collection of practical tips on coffee making with distilled water to preserve tannins, painting floors and woodWork to reduce scrubbing, and care for fabrics and stains. Includes home remedies for glycerine ointment, handling coffee stains, fruit stains with ammonia, and lime chloride and vinegar laundering methods.
Fever and inoculation methods for cattle and other items
The article reports on dairy cattle milk fever precautions before calving from T. 8. Cowper and describes Pennsylvania notables on pleuro-prentonia vaccination, including state inoculation practices, virus selection, and economic savings for farmers and states. It also includes brief anecdotes about trials and a humorous exchange with a boy buying candy.
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Cowper
Legal precedents on contracts and property in early courts
The case notes cover several rulings: omission in bankruptcy schedules voids judgments. state courts may grant specific performance in patent transfers when parties share a state. statements about debt do not always interrupt statutes of limitations. tenants altering buildings risk waste. a letter can be a paper for mailing improper matter. railroad employer not liable absent unsafe switches, with new blocking devices not mandated by law.
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McMillan Vs. Knapp
Nicholas
Marsh
Supreme Court of Michigan
Gerhard
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Brock
Thomas
State
Supreme Court of
Indiana
Bar
Justice Craig
Mulkey
Shope
Magruder
Bureau Junction
Wharton
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company
Londergan
Supreme Court of Illinois
Disensions of Heaven and Popocatapetl Features
A Columbus Ga Enquirer excerpt discusses a biblical scale calculation of heaven from Revelation and measures Popocatapetl in Mexico. It notes a 17 800 foot summit and a 24 mile crater circumference with a 1 000 foot depth and sulfur deposition at a ton per day.
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Popocatapetl
Grand Union Botel and Grand Union Hotel Offer Cheap City Stay
The notice touts the Grand Union Botel opposite Grand Central Depot with 612 rooms, fitted for one million dollars. It markets low daily rates from $1, elevator and restaurant services, and an elevated railroad access to depots. It claims families can live better for less at the Grand Union Hotel than at other first-rate city hotels.
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New York City
Grand Union Botel
Grand Central Depot
Grand Union Hotel
Novel names and heroines hint at author secrets
A reader recalls a conversation in a bookstore about novels where heroines are women with unfamiliar names. The piece notes how each book seems tailored to local tastes and places, likening authors to elusive figures and suggesting writers remain hidden away.
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Cem Ind
Nuraganset Pier
Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Promises Health
Shakspeare notes debt fate, but Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery claimed to aid healing of sore throat bronchitis catarrh consumption and other pulmonary diseases caused by scrofula or bad blood. It is not a cure all but advertised as invaluable with strong alterative action and available through druggists.
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Pennsylvania
Washington
Europe
New York
Maryland
New Jersey
Delaware
Harrisburg
Shakspeare
Pierce
Hood
C. I. Hood &Co
Apothecaries
Lowell
Mass
Sweet Seventeen and the Peach Bloom Glows
Two young ladies share a moment of realized emotion. One speaks earnestly while the other listens. A playful exchange follows as one relays a kiss like a pact, with the line You mustn t fall like that to me.
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Alexander
San Frrancisco Chronicle
Fever Fire Versus Dr Piorca’s Golden Medical Discovery
A vivid contrast is drawn between devastating house fires and the daily toll of lung fever. The article touts Dr. Piorca’s Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy to tuberculosis and related consumption, promising relief from a deadly disease.
Religious Outreach Prompted by Clergy and Averted by Racial Slur
A minister invites John to church and Sunday school to save his soul. The reply from a Chinese immigrant mocks Christians and refuses conversion, stating he would rather remain heathen and warning that a Christian would tinker with his window. The Boston Courier reports the exchange highlighting xenophobic attitudes of the era.
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John
Chinaman
Boston Courier
Earn money from home with Hallett and Co in Maine
Letter offers work at home with profit from 1 to 25 dollars daily and more. Some earn over 50 dollars daily. No capital required. All ages and both sexes encouraged. Free particulars from Hallett and Co in Portland, Maine. Urges immediate reply for new opportunity.
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Hallatt & Co
Portland
Maine
Hallett & Co
Montgomery Ward & CO
Waboxh Avenue
Chicago
Wien Warrine
Weed
Firth Street
Sioux City
Iowa
Avspitet Brakertuate
New York
Ibr
Wood
Eye and
Medical Journal
Warrinero Apvenriinasa
Methusaleh's Nine Hundred Year Death Question
A Sunday school teacher explains Methusaleh lived 900 years, prompting a humorous exchange with Tommy Yerger about how his sons in law might have reacted. The clipping includes a note about Joan Roach's throat cancer resembling Grant's and a theater anecdote about Michael Strogoff actor G C Staley being cured by Red Star Cough Cure.
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Methusaleh
Alexus
Tommy Yerger
Methus
Tommy
Texas
Joan Roach
Gen. Grant
Michael Strogoff
G. C. Staley
Oakland, Cal
Garden party recollections and quack remedies in brief
A compact collage of social notes and advertisements. Mentions of a Saratoga garden party, various named individuals, errors and hints of medical cures, household products, and pest remedies. Includes references to St Jacobs oil, Piso's Cure, Rough on Rats, and Rough on Kote amid a string of informal notices.
A Quick Recovery Reported For Pneumonia Remedy
A merchant near death from pneumonia fully recovered after using Dr Williams Hall’s Balsam for the Lungs. The statement credits the remedy and urges public benefit by sharing the experience to help others.
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WM. Halls Balsam
Why He Was Discharged. Angry Father-Well, how came you to be dismissed by the firm?
A humorous exchange between a father and son about job dismissal, highlighting the son's late or ill-timed responses and the father's critique of promptness versus waiting. The piece ends with an advertisement for Prence's Favorite Prescription noting its tonic properties for delicate conditions.
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Philadelphia
Dn Prence
Browning Brow n Bronchial Traches Reviewed
A Baltimore Stew witticism notes that old comforts like shirt buttons and coffee are vanishing and asks what constitutes family comforts today. The item Browns Bronchial Traches is praised as a proven remedy for sore throat and coughs with a strong reputation.
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Baltimore
New Time System Proposed Dividing Day Into Parts
Prof Lindon proposes a reform to time division splitting the day into twenty four hours, each hour into one hundred parts, each part about a minute and a half, and each of those into one hundred, or just under a second.
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Prof
Lindon
Wells' Health Renewer Promises Quick Revival
Thin people seek vigor as this health tonic claims to cure dyspepsia impotency nervous debility consumption wasting diseases and general decline. It asserts thousands have been cured and promises to cure you.
Wells' Health Ariewer Elegant Tonic Advertisement
An 19th century style ad touts Wells' Health Ariewer as a cure for heart pains palpitation dropsical swellings dizziness indigestion headache ague liver and kidney complaint sleeplessness. Suitable for adults and children.
Life Renewer Claims to Strengthen Digestive Organs
Advertisement for Wells Health Renewer asserts it targets weak life spots and improves digestion. It is promoted as an appetizer aid that strengthens the stomach liver kidneys and bowels.
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Col. McCann
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Woods
United States Supreme Court
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George W. Cable
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Uncle Remus
Edward Eggleston
Russia
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George Kennan
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Century CO
Mason & Harilin Organ and “Piano Co
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