Modern Inventions at a French Estate Impressively Run
A French estate divided into four departments shows advanced farming. Beets, hops, and dairy thrive while telegraph and proposed telephones connect managers to field workers. The beet distillery, quarry, and forges support a model, highly mechanized operation with continuous crops, careful soil care, and rapid harvests. Mme Decanville runs the household and gardens, earning poultry profits as pin money, while a model village for 50-plus workers backs the enterprise.
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Mme Decanville
Deeanville
Remembering William Niblo the NY theater pioneer
A long obituary recalls William Niblo a New York theatrical manager who rose from a Pine Street hop house to creating Niblo's Garden, bringing concerts and pantomime to fame before fire destroyed the venue. He died after a long career and years of quiet life near Madison Square.
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William Niblo
Montague
Niblo
New York
Waterloo
Jackson
New Orleans
Noblo
Manhattan
Pine Street
Metropolitan Hotel
City Hall
Prince Street
Jim Fisk
Broadway
Twenty-third Street
Grand Opera House
Gilmore's
Tmne
Burton
Jefferson
John Brougham
Charles Kean
Charlotte Cushman
Ravel
Madison Square
Olso
Ireland
Nutritional and structural facts about eggs
Cassell's Domestic Dictionary explains eggs as highly valued food for humans their simple form and versatility. It details weight and composition white yolk shell proportions and water content noting white is mostly albumen yolk contains fat and nitrogenous material. Raw and lightly cooked eggs are easier to digest while hard boiling can hinder digestion and promote constipation.
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Cassell
Pranksters Replace Photo With Mourning Card In City Gallery
In Bridgeport Connecticut pranksters hung a large portrait with crepe and a card reading We mourn our loss. Passers-by wondered if the subject was dead. The original owner learned of the display hours later and the photo was reinstalled with a $150 reward note for the culprits.
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Fox
State Street
Cigma
Mae
Pla
Bridgeport
Conn
My Boy and the Value of Saving One
A reflective piece on Horace Mann and the belief that saving even one boy from ruin justifies great effort. It contrasts the ideal of saving “my boy” with the broader duty to aid all wandering youths and vulnerable women, urging lifelong sacrifice for reform.
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Horace Mann
Reformatory Institute For
Manno
Romsy
Crocodile Teals at Tallahassee Yard
The Tallahassee Floridian reports a family tale of a half grown alligator and an infant living together. The animal embraced the child after biting the arm, shed tears afterward, and the limb was severed. The creature now moves on three legs while the child heals.
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Mr. Philbrick
Tallahassee
Patent rights and Yankee invention drive American industry
The article extols the efficiency and low cost of U S patent protection, calling it the El Dorado for inventors. It argues that securing patents is affordable for most ventures and that the American system, though not perfect, far surpasses others, fostering labor saving machine gains and reducing royalty outlays in England.
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Bexerits
Patent Office
America
United States
England
Heroine Sacrifices Salary To Help Family In Washington
A Washington clerk discovered a male colleague’s $1,600 salary was to be cut. She volunteered to take the cut from her own $1,200 pay to support the man with a family. She asked that her father not be mentioned, but the detail leaked, prompting thanks from a grateful fellow clerk.
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Strance
Washington
Lamb Recognizes Mother’s Voice Amid Large Flock
A lionized observation notes that a lamb can distinguish its mother’s voice even when surrounded by many thousands of bleating sheep, highlighting the strong instinctive bond between mother and offspring in flock behavior.
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Boo
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Greeey Re
Fort Wayne
Pennsylvania
Baluane
Chicago
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Boston
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Pullman Palace
Westinghouse
Janney
Sexeress
Baianella
Atlantic Express
A. W
Philselphis
Pitts B
New Otk
Poista
Fort Wayke
Gen. Pass. & Coketers
Mason & Evans
Arrtaghs
Ros
East Fourth Street
Davenport
Bend
Iowa
Paris
M. Paul Decanville
France
AK Old Theatrical Manager
Wens
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