On the Trail of the American Missionary
Shanghai report notes China’s shift to western education amid the abolition of the Confucian exam system. It highlights missions and American colleges shaping New China, with St John’s Shanghai Boone and Soochow University as exemplars, and Yale Princeton Penn leads in future East Asia education initiatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
China
Japan
America
New
New China
National Board of Education
Young Men's Christian Association
Tien-Tsin
Navy
Tokio
Rve
Hid
Angh
Peking
St. John’s College
F. L. H. Pott
John’s College
Boone College
Boone Medical School
Wuchang
Protestant Episcopal Mission
Soochow University
Southern Methodist Church
D. L. Anderson
North Ching
W. A. P. Martin
Nanking
Methodist Episcopal Church
North
Disciples of Christ, Friends and
Presbyterians
International Institute
Gilbert Reid
United States
Harvard University
Harvard Mission
Harvard
HE. E. Carter
International Young Men's Christian Association
India
Yale
Far East
Hunan
Changsha
John Laurence Thurston
Colege
Brownell Gage
Edward Hicks Hume
Warren B. Seabury
Orville H. Schell
Canton Christian College
Canton
New York
Josephb. Bowles
Changes that Strike One
A Southerner visiting New York notes that personal encounters reveal New York's immensity. He explains that hotel staff and local business faces change constantly, with familiar workers missing and new faces replacing them. This pattern shows the forces driving vast urban growth.
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New York
Extracting unfinished bee sections with a home built shelf
G C Greiner describes a DIY extractor shelf to pull honey from unfinished sections without breaking combs. He notes two section types and explains adapting the basket by reversing it to prevent damage during extraction.
Beginnings of Poultry Houses Show Value in Frugal Style
The Northwestern Agriculturist notes many successful poultry plants started with humble, makeshift houses built from scrap lumber and tar paper. Over time owners improved facilities, but some older, inexpensive structures persist as proof that initial quality is not essential to success.
GREAT MARBLE CAVE Aims to be world’s largest in Siskiyou region
A Portland bound expedition reports a vast marble cave near Kerby Oregon in the Siskiyou Reservation. The marble halls stretch to about twenty miles of chambers across four levels with walls of pure white marble and long stalactites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siskiyou Reservation
Portland
Oregon
California
Kerby
Crater Lake
Briggs’ Mines
Sucker Creek
Joaquin Miller
C. B. Watson
Jefferson Myers
Myers
Kerbyville
John Kincaid
Williams, Ore
Frank M. Nickerson
Cave Creek
Elijah Davidson
Davidson
Nickerson
John M. Chapman
Homer
Ernest Harkness
Pay. F. M. Nickerson
A. J. Henderson
A.B. Smith
M. J. Anderson
Southern
Cost of Panama Canal tops million-dollar mark
Up to July 1 this year the Panama canal cost the United States 98,285,110 dollars. Of this, 40,000,000 was paid to the French Canal company and 10,000,000 to Panama for the right of way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Panama Canal
United States
Isthmian Canal Commission
French Canal Company
Panama
Gatun
S. E. Blackburn
Kentucky
Canal
Commission
Swiss Woman as Jailer in Aigle Prison
Geneva reports Mme Jenny Porchet a 53 year old widow appointed governor and chief warder of Aigle prison in Rhone valley. She runs the facility alone overseeing daily cell opening tasks meals and discipline transforming it into a model prison. She has nine children and guides inmates with strict yet kind authority.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Mme
Jenny Porchet
Aigle
Rhone Valley
Mme. Porchet
Mme. Porcher
Aigie
Beard Growing Inward Confounds Wichita Grocer
Wichita grocer John B. Roberts shows a beard growing inward from his left jaw since June. Surgeons call the case one of the strangest they have seen and an operation at a local hospital failed to stop the inward beard growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Kan
John B. Roberts
Mr. Roberts
Up My Heart Keeps The Road Beyond Youth
A lyrical excerpt from Edith M. Thomas urging the heart to press onward beyond youth and lost loves. The speaker exhorts perseverance as life stretches toward a distant radiant call. Poem reflects resilience and forward motion in the face of aging.
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Edith M. Thomas
New York Sun
Armada Anchor Recovered Off Rye Harbor To Be Displayed
A Spanish Armada anchor, believed to be from a warship, was found in Rye harbor by a local trawler. R. P. Burra, a Rye resident, bought the artifact and donated it to the town for display in the Old Battery gardens.
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London
Rye Harbor
R. P. Burra
Battery Gardens
The Poultry Yard Advice for Fall Flock Care
The article advises improving brood quality through proper breeding, using cooler weather to feed corn to young stock, and completing moult care so eggs can be produced in fall and winter. It recommends weekly melted lard and sulphur for scaly legs, repairing houses in warm months, and sealing crevices to prevent sickness and loss of stock in winter.
Micro‑organisms in Soil Decomposition and Plant Nutrition
Dr. R. H. Hilton explains soil micro‑organisms drive humus breakdown producing ammonia carbonic acid and water. Nitrogen acids form from ammonia while carbonic acid dissolves minerals making them available to plants. Germ counts reach 500 000 to 900 000 per gram and activity depends on moisture temperature and oxygen access.
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R. H. Hilton
Egg Carrying Box for Trap Nest Poultry Pens
Cornell University agricultural experiment station bulletin describes a box to carry eggs with wells in the bottom to hold eggs upright on the small end. The device aids large numbers of pens by gathering eggs, moving them to the egg room at night, and recording numbers.
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Agricultural Experiment Station
Cornell University
One Breed Preference for Stable Poultry Lines
The excerpt argues to stick to one breed per flock or keep breeds separate. It warns that crossing breeds leads to regret among purebreds, noting initial curiosity about mixed birds but eventual desire for uniform birds with consistent markings and color as they mature.
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William T. Ellis
Michigan Statesman
Senator Alger
Detroit
National Capital
G. C. Greiner
Marvel
Husky Wigen
Husband
Prison
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