Seth Green Emerges as Pioneering Fish Culture Advocate
Rochester figure Seth Green, famed for pioneering fish culture in America, recounts his transition from Lake Ontario fishing to creating brook trout and salmon culture. He details his early experiments, batching boxes, and a career that yielded $11,000 from a single brook sale, shaping a nationwide effort to stock streams.
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Rochester
Seth Cireen
America
Mr. Green
Mel
Becun
England
Chezna
Thia Ashbuaness
Cincinnati Enquirer
The Profits of Farming in Indiana
The Indiana wheat crop is projected at 40 to 50 million bushels this year, adding 35 to 40 million dollars to wealth with minimal risk. Wheat often yields value near half the soil’s worth, and corn profit rivals wheat. Past three years favored farmers. indebtedness noted as often due to causes beyond farming. If Western farming matches English and New England perfection through diligent effort, profits could rise further.
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Indiana
England
New England
Ndianapolia Journal
Woods 13 Full of Em This Old Joke Tale
A comic tale recounts Bul Dean a sly practical joker in Wayne County who taunts a deaf old man Cheezum up a tree in a Richmond bound trip The old man replies two of them up there then jokes that the woods are full of them The piece also notes Dr Bull's Baby Syrup as a recommended remedy and a Dublin custom where pawn rakers seize washerwomen s pride clothes then return them Saturday
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Wayne County
Bul Dean
Richand
Cheezum
Dean
Richmond
Cheatum
Indianapolis
Newa
Dublin
Stranded Nose Trick Draws Attention at Saloon
A stranger’s nose and an artificial fly trick amuse a saloon crowd on Michigan avenue when a young man fans the illusion behind a sleeping patron. The unsuspecting sleeper endures a sequence of touches before waking and delivering sharp words, ending the prank. The scene showcases a local incident intertwined with a coroner’s 1879 annual report aboard.
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Michigan Avenue
Gantlamon
J Crrod Preas
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Dental
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Bryant & Stratton Business College
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