Winter Dairying and Field Practices From Indiana Farm Editor
Rural readers are urged to study feeding costs and grain prices as grain stays cheap, with notes on John Johnston and farm accounts, and lessons from winter dairying. The piece details bedding, manure, seed-bed preparation, and farm routines for winter milk, including barn design, ration, water, and record keeping to maximize profit and steady yields through colder months.
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Johnston
The Poultry Yard and Beekeeping Tips
A early 20th century column advises poultry keeping with winter feeding to sustain lay rate. Feed as much as hens eat, supply warm meals in cold weather, mix scraps with bran, and give meat twice weekly. Emphasizes ventilation and warm roosts. Also offers ant control and bee sting remedies with cautions on corrosive substances.
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Ottawa
Canada
New York World
Delil Amar
Remedies for Bee Stings From Historic Texts
A dated guide describes removing stings to prevent further venom spread and recommends rubbing the wound gently, not with nails, to avoid pushing poison deeper. It suggests ammonia, alkali solutions, ice water, salt and soda, camphor for severe blotches, and careful extraction of the sting to minimize venom entry.
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Quimby
Cook
Removing a Cinder From the Eye and Ears Boxing
Instruction on removing a cinder from the eye using the lower lid as a broom or a camel hair brush and when to seek a physician. Warnings from the Kansas City Medical Record on boxing a child’s ears and the risk of ear drum rupture, infection, and potential brain complications from head injury.
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Home Journal
Kansas City
W. J. A. Stewart
Ife
Cullir F
Millions homeless in flood district in China
The City of Rio Janeiro from Hong Kong brings Chinese and Japanese advices to August 21 aiding news of floods in Ohli and Shan tung. Four million homeless in Ohli with widespread misery and cholera prevalent in Shanghai and northern districts. The widow of Gen Fremont is destitute and Canada relations noted.
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Fremont
San Francisco
Rio Janeiro
Hong Kong
Yokohama
Victoria
B. G
Yellow River
China
Ohli
Shantung
Shanghai
Destitute Fremont Family Seeks Aid After General’s Death
A telegram from A Vovelsang to the Native Sons of the Golden West says Gen Fremont's family in Los Angeles is destitute and in need of assistance. The executive committee has no funds for relief. Pension gaps and delayed congress action leave Mrs Fremont in poverty, aided previously by magazine contributions. Her living situation remains frugal, with support from her daughter.
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San Francisco
Native Sons of the Golden West
A. Vovelsang
Los Angeles
Fremont
California
Congress
Sir John Macdonald on Canada United States trade talks
Sir John Macdonald, premier of Canada, spoke at Morrisburg on Canada U S trade relations. He questioned the McKinley tariff's motives and warned its passage would curb trade between the nations, but urged Canadians to respond with resolve and adapt. He noted post 1854 reciprocity break fostered new trade channels and pledged to meet changes boldly.
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Orrawa
Ont
Sir John MacDonald
Dominion
Canada
United States
Morrisburg
United States Congress
John
Fashion and Hygiene Tips From a Past Era
A fragment discusses simple household remedies and dress care. It advises physicians and housekeepers on cooling throat discomfort with glycerine, handling silk underwear gently, binding dresses with velvet to avoid dye transfer, and using hanging clover to repel flies. It reflects period concerns with cleanliness and modest styling.
Thy Kitchen Jelly Toast And Other Old Fashioned Recipes
A collection of kitchen adages and recipe snippets detailing Jelly Toast with stale bread fried in fat and fruit jelly, Gold Feather Cake ingredients and technique, Vit n ilta rice dish with cream, sugar, and vanilla flavor, sugar cake batter with eggs and vanilla, and small cucumber pickles preserved in brine with mustard seed and mace. It captures period cooking terms and measurements, including unclear OCR spellings and archaic phrasing.
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Chen
Taming Mighty Niagara Tunnel Contract Let
BurFravo Sept 18 The Niagara Falls tunnel project to boost manufacturing begins with Rogers & Clement awarded the contract. Groundwork starts within ten days with 200 workers, three shafts 10 by 20 feet, 200 feet deep, rising to 1,000 workers as work expands. An international commission in London studies optimal power utilization with a prize for plans. Earnest Saulter of Geneva arrives with a proposal for consideration.
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Cataract Construction Company
London
William Thompson
Coleman Sellers
America
Niagara
Earnest Saulter
Geneva
Switzerland
Western Packing Interests and Market Notes
Crncrnwatt Sept 18 Today's Price Current reports hog marketing steady with moderate reductions and strong year over year gains. Western packing week total 200000, up from 135000 a year ago, with March 1 to date 7575000 vs 5565000. Also notes reduced undesirable stock in some markets. London Times Sept 18 questions German slave proclamation denial. Emin Pasha raised German Rag at Tabora and seized guns ivory and other cargo before moving to Mankins.
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the Times
Emin Pasha
Tabora
Sultan Sike
Heroe
Mankins
Read ing wreck kills many on the reading line
A Reading Pa railroad disaster wreck on the Reading railroad seventeen miles above Reading kills an estimated thirty five and injures many. The collision between a coal train and the Pottsville express sent cars down a 20 foot embankment into the river. Dozens are listed as dead or injured with names of passengers and crew. Rescue work continues as doctors and 300 workmen aid the clearing effort.
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Shoemakersville
Schuylkill
Pottsville
O’dovn A. Im
Miners’ Hospital
Ashland
William D. Shome
Joman Whith
James Temphin
Harry Logan
Pottsvile
David Augustadt
Mahony City
Logan
Shenandoah
Greenawaldsbery
John L. Miller
Tharnison Amand
Philadelphia
Joseph Southwoon
Centralia
James I. Menken
Bethlehem
Jonn Thornton
Leesport
Robert CoLuLiNa
Pottstown
Samuel Shollenberger
Hamburg
B.W. Crrmer
Girardville
Joan Curzel
Mount Carroll
W. W. Johnston
Grorar Saunverrs
Benjamin Franklyn
James Bernhart
Joan Hess
Mahoney City
Davin G. Mng
Mahoney Ocity
Lyman Dick
Dr. B
Sacape
New Ringgold
Jacoz Ulmer
Samuel Coomb
William Smovers
Greenawaldsburg
Mahonoy City
Prof
Mitchell
Lehigh, University, Bethlehem
Reading Hospital
Lawrence Barnes
John L. Millen
Cressonia
George B. Kaercher
William D. Shone
Berkes County
Bevan Langdon Case Reveals Deception and Murder Plot
Chicago reports detail Maister Bellon of Bullem & Co recounting John Bevan's motive to kill W. M. Langdon and Mrs Langdon after being promised hush money. Bevan, fired for unreliability, allegedly planned to murder Langdon and the wife, with threats escalating as negotiations failed.
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Bevan
Madison
Miss Smith
W. M. Langdon
Langdon
Chicago
Mrs. Langdon
Mr. Bullen
Iowa
Funeral Services for Mrs Langdon in Madison
Funeral rites for Mrs W M Langdon were held at her parents home in Madison after she was fatally shot in Grand Mound Iowa. Rev M Miner led scripture readings as mourners filled the house and a large floral display surrounded the casket. The pallbearers were local Madison men. a procession carried the body to Forest Home cemetery. her husband fainted at the service. The tragedy follows a prior attempted shooting by a man who restrained another from firing.
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Buvan
M. Miner
Congregational Church
Moses Klaaiber
BE. J. Hart
John,g. Howell
William H. Wilt
Robert Stighram
Frank ©. Ramscheld
Madison
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