Deep Sea Divers Face Peril and Skill Across Wrecks
The article explores diving dangers beyond treasure hunts, detailing risks from underwater pressures and equipment failures. It recalls remarkable feats by Hooper, Brostarbe, and Lambert, notes Donovan’s close call, and explains how pneumatic tools and navy training enhance underwater work.
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Cape Colony
Hooper
Cape Horn
South America
A. Brostarbe
Cape Finisterre
Alexander Lambert
Donovan
Baltimore Harbor
Halifax
United States Navy
Satisfactory Pasture for Preparing Hogs for Market
An article advocates rape as the best hog pasture to fatten hogs on a summer ration of corn. It recommends sowing rape, cowpeas, and pumpkins for late and fall grazing, noting pumpkins store well and aid hog growth. It stresses keeping hogs off new rape until it reaches knee to foot height and using pumpkins from shade and field edges to supplement feed.
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Farm Progress
Gold Fish Story Tangles May News in Washington Lore
May fish stories spread as Congressman Plumley of Vermont claims a gold fish found his lost watch a $20 gold piece and 30 cents interest from a pool. Fish Commissioner Bowers jokes the tale promotes thrift and warns of future effects on spawn and national money lore.
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Congressman Plumley
Vermont
Bowers
Washington
Plumley
Joe Mitchell Chapple
Joe Chapple
News
Here Is an Effective Minor Chord Not in This Military Music
A note contrasts minor harmony with military music preferring major chords. The snippet emphasizes that effective minor chords exist even as military pieces favor brightness and major tonalities.
Robin Builds Nest in Drawing Room Cabinet
In Bo'ness England Rev. T. Ratcliffe Barnett reports a robin entering a drawing room during cleaning. The bird cleared leaves to build a nest behind a flower jar and ornament, sits patiently, and hatches a usual clutch while visitors stay undisturbed.
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Robin’s Nest
T. Ratcliffe Barnett
Bo'ness
England
Sorrow and Happiness Through Suffering
A quotation reflecting that character is forged through usefulness and independence, and true happiness can arise amid sorrow rather than in its absence. It posits sorrow does not equate to unhappiness when one remains purposeful.
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Hiss Wheeler Wilcox
Fly Repeller for Cows from Kansas Experiment Station
The Kansas Experiment Station prescribes a resin based cow fly repellent. Dissolve two barnloads of common laundry soap in warm water, add 144 pounds of crushed resin and a splash of fish oil, fill to eight gallons, then mix in 44 pints of kerosene. Apply with brush or spray three times weekly until hair coats form, then fewer applications suffice.
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Kansas Experiment Station
Feeding scraps boosts hen egg production in cold weather
Small potatoes and other vegetables not fit for human food can be fed to hens for higher egg output. Boil scraps and mix with bran or shorts to form a dry mash for an especially appetizing ration.
Hens Can Lay During Molting Phase Yet Must Rest Growth
The article notes hens cannot lay and molt simultaneously. It explains that laying can occur during shedding, but once feather regrowth intensifies, the bird uses all resources for that function, reducing egg production.
Modern windmill water system for dairy farm cooling and drinking
The article describes a convenient windmill powered water supply for a dairy farm. Water is pumped into a galvanized tank with overflow to a second tank and then to a large distant watering tank. The illustrated system is presented as modern.
Getting Fowls Ready for Fall
Advice on raising pullets separate from cockerels to speed growth and prepare for fall laying. Emphasizes early conditioning, clean housing, lice control, and feeding bran beef scrap and oyster shells for strong mature birds and higher egg prices in autumn.
Quaker’s pasture remark sparks milk promise dispute
An old Quaker sold a cow and later the buyer claimed the animal did not produce the promised milk. The Quaker quips that they should have bought the pasture as well, highlighting a humorous fault in the sale.
Keep the Young Stock
Farmers argue for keeping promising young stock as valuable assets while some sell them off. The piece notes the tension between preserving future herd value and immediate cash needs.
Titus Oates Conspiracy Inventor and Lifelong Liar
The life of Titus Oates, born to a Minglish weaver, follows a rise from Baptist clergyman to Navy chaplain, expulsion for perjury, and a declared Jesuit plot hoax that sparked a nationwide panic. He was jailed for perjury after numerous false accusations, endured the pillory and lashes, and finally received a royal pension before dying in 1706 at eighty-six.
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Titus Oates
Oates
Charles V
England
Charles
Godfrey
Charles II
James II
Ife
James Iiv
William of
Ornango
William
Blackbeard the Pirate and His Final Duel in Virginia
A Virginia family preserves gruesome Blackbeard relics while recounting his life. Edward Teach turned privateering to piracy, allied briefly with Governor Eden, and faced Lieutenant Maynard in a deckside duel near Pamlico Bay on November 18, 1718, ending with Blackbeard slain and his crew pardoned or punished.
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Virginia
Blackbeard
Blackbonard
Edward Teach
Thatch
England
West Indies
Carolina
North Carolina
Charles Eden
Hon
Eden
Edward Mosley
Biden
Mosley
Spotswood
Robert Maynard
Maynard
oMcer
America
Final Arrest Alleged of Samaritans Joe Huright
Police on the force testify to a claimed arrest of a figure dubbed Samaritans Joe at Union station. A Kansas City Journal recollection recalls Joe’s skeptical shift to peat No. 1 on the levee and a mock report detailing a mosquito and a leaping attempt to arrest a supposed culprit.
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Joe
Flags at Half Mast Raise Dead Sea Respect
In the Far East the ship Fair Voyager sails with flags at half mast. Captain explains the salute is out of respect for the Dead Sea. A judge confirms the etiquette and the solemn display aboard.
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Dead Sea
Catnip Tea Sparks Curious Conversation Between Pets
In a playful exchange, a cat asks about tea made from catnip while another quips about a claw bake dinner, showcasing whimsical animal humor.
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Florida
Mr. Hel
Granery
Robin
the Press Publishing Co
the New York World
Kansas City
Far East
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