The Cow Pea and Hides in Southern Farming
A reconsideration of the cow pea as a top fodder crop for the South reports yields of four tons per acre in prime conditions and argues beef cattle can reach one thousand pounds in three years at one cent per pound live weight. Practical tips cover hog curing, saltpeter usage, pepper mixtures, and proper skinning to preserve value, plus soil preparation and tool care for better yields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
American Agriculturst
Fernvale
The Stock Ranch. Smog-haising and hog rearing
The article argues hogs are profitable but heavily affected by drainage and water quality. It urges selecting well drained lands with good wells, avoiding farms with polluted or stagnant water, to reduce hog disease and losses. It notes practical adoption is unlikely but individual farmers should seek proper land and water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Srue
Correspondence Breeders' Gazette
The Poultry Yard Remedies for Gapes and Roup
A Poultry Keeper writer prescribes treating gapes with roup by fumigating fowls. Use a shoe box as a heat box, place a brick to heat, then position chicks in the large end. Add a hot brick under the small division and pour about one tablespoonful of carbolic acid to generate fumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pouultry
Poultry Care and Bird Thievery from a 19th Century Guide
The article covers gas euthanasia for chickens, handling, and predation by chicken thieves. It advises careful gas exposure times, humane catching with a gauze bag, and warns of pilferers. It then gives feeding schedules for chicks and layers, grain mixes, and suggests eggs' value and meat usage. It quotes a New Yorker on egg quality and feed efficiency.
How to Make Good Butter and Care of Young Calves
Practical guidance on dairy farming from Harvers' Review. It covers calf rearing for first year profitability, maintaining calf nutrition when milk is scarce, and detailed butter making steps from milk quality to churning temperatures, cream ripening, washing, salting, and packing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvers’ Review
Household tips for bread cutting and salads
Practical household guidance on cutting hot bread with a warm knife and napkin use. It covers vegetable salads with dressings, ingredient choices, and handling. plus tips on preserving cucumbers, avoiding bruising, steam stove cleaning, and stain removal for white and colored fabrics using boiling water and chloride of lime.
Home Dressmaking Patterns Are Reliable and Used Widely
The article highlights patterns reliable for dressmaking and cutting garments for men women and children, noting their broad use, availability and practicality in home sewing.
Color and pattern rules for stylish sewing at home
The piece explains choosing patterns that suit the wearer, proper bust measurements, and careful material cutting to ensure good fit. It discusses color theory using art examples, recommends black silk outfits with lace for young women, and emphasizes patterns that stay stylish across seasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meiseonier
Rembrandt
Roybet
Madrago
New York
Graphic
Hash Variations and Scalloped Dishes From Lunchroom Kitchen
A household cook explains hash making with hash gems and roll pans, using ham, veal, or chicken. It covers scalloped hash variants with crackers or bread crumbs, eggs, milk or water, and butter, plus tips for timing, browning, and serving hot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sumner
The Family Doctor. Cooked Air Debate in Philadelphia Ledger
A Philadelphia Ledger writer labels indoor air as cooked air in cold weather. The piece satirizes sealed rooms, closed windows, and fuel-saving janitors that trap stale air, urging better ventilation and moisture for health to prevent colds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Ledger
Portraits of Cleveland and Bride Offered to Subscribers
Engraved crayon portrait of President Cleveland and Bride issued by AIKENS CRAMER for WEEKLY WISCONSIN subscribers. Uniform style with Garfield and Grant portraits, 10x24 inches, not for sale. Send $1 for new or old subscribers to Milwaukee address. postpaid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Bride
Cleveand
Wisconsin
Garfield
Grant
Cramer, Aikens & Cramer
Milwaukee
Wia
First Train Boy Known as Col Harry Ashby in Chicago
The train boy who sold papers on the Chicago to Omaha route recalls Col Harry Ashby, now proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel and a New Yorker by birth. Ashby early on sold papers on the Hudson River Road with friends including “Lucky” Baldwin and Charles Bush, later enlisting in the Civil War and rising to colonel. The reminiscence contrasts Ashby’s youth with his later fortune and cites the doctor in a quip about Dr. Foll and Pierce pills as a humorous aside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Omaha
Col
Harry Ashby
Metropolitan Hotel
New Yorker
New York
Lucky’ Baldwin
Charles Bush
Hudson River Road
America
Ashby
Albany
Charley
Baldwin
Omaha Railway News
Marriage mixup ends in proper license next day
A man and woman from Wapella appeared before a Mattoon Justice to wed. The groom handed a bull pedigree instead of a marriage license, causing a halt. After discovery and embarrassment, the ceremony was repeated with the correct license, and happiness followed for the couple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wapella
Mattoon
Indianapolis Sentinel
Grand Union Hotel Promises Comfort and Modern Elevations
The advertisement touts the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot with 613 rooms, a one million dollar fit, daily rates at one dollar, and an elevator served restaurant. It claims lower living costs for first class lodging versus other city hotels and convenient transit connections to depots. A Vienna Letter tale recalls a murder trial where lottery numbers influenced a judge, and a separate item promotes a patent medicine claim of miraculous recovery from consumption after nine bottles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Taurant
Vienna
Question of Bugs in Court Sparks Legal Debate
A West End furnished house with several dozen bugs prompted a legal question. Justice Mathew ruled the number was insufficient to eject the tenant, who nonetheless left when attacked. The case raises broader questions about when infestations justify eviction while preserving legal rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Mathew
Pall Mall Gazette
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Vicks Magazine
Carr
Loile
dTousehold
Foll
R. V. Pierce
Dr. Pierce
San Francisco Post
St. Jacobs Oil
Calcutta
Patti
Gerster
Andry 80
Philadelphia
Grothe
Brooklyn Board of Health
Boston Courier
Buckingham
Atlanta
Ayer’s
Tennessee
John Kuhn
Lafayette
Ind
Taylor
Wall Street
Nea
Lower Bowal
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Mainstreet
Buffalo
N.Y
Ethel
Maud
DeSnook
Courier-Journal
Boston Beacon
Macbeth Simmons
Si Jackson
Lyon
Kate Field
John Brown
John
Tate
W. H. Shanp
Des Moines
Towa
Nursi
Albert Leesley
Greenwood
Brown
Brown Chemical
Baltimore
Simmons Liver Regulator
Simmons
Simmons Liver
J. H. Zeilin & CO
Love Prorrierons
Price
DR. H. H. Green & Sons
H. Green & Sons
Jones Avenue
Athan
W. A. Taylor
28Th St
G.& C.merriam & Co
Springfield
Mass
Eggleston Truss CO
Isaac Thompson
John L. Thompson
Sen
Warren
ERS
Warren Featheruone CO
F. A. Slocum
Pearl
Pearl St
Clighthomse Racheaster
Druggtats
Ot Lord & Thomas
The
Humane Reaxpy Company
Randolph the
A. P. Laory
Washington, D.C
Kidder's
Tin
Sirecharlestown
Bdiay
Bafety Rein Holder
Holly, Mich
Pullman Palace Car Co
Maron & Uamlin Organ & Piano Co
New Orleans Exposition
London
Nero Orleans
Lenastare Bussia Cement CO
Freby
Gloucester
H. D. Knowron
Holeland
Piso
Audubon
Iowa
Marina
Miss R. A. Studlex
Cornwall Bridge
Conn
Gro. W. William
C.N
Wes
Ower
Anterneus
A.J. Tower
Almmons St
Boston
Maas
Marielin
Bend
Marlin Fire Arms C.O
Haren
Ek As
nac'Beck
U. S. Secret Service
Allan Pinkerton
Bry
Lincoln
Washington
Secret Service
Knights of Liberty
Richmond
Loyal League
McClellan
Pope
Battlee
Antietam
Pinkenton
Charles P. Hatch
Hartford
M.A
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