Woman in China: Dowager Empress Rules as Mother
Chester Holcombe outlines three life stages of Chinese women and explains how the dowager empress wields autocratic power as mother to the emperor. He details child betrothal, forced marriage, and severe social constraints that crush female agency, including the perilous wedding ceremony. The piece contrasts brutal traditions with a vivid portrait of dominance and risk in historic Chinese society.
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China
Chester Holcombe
Hsien Feng
Country Visitor Watches Dacle Reuben Turn On Cow Faucets
A visiting boy exclaims in delight as Dacle Reuben demonstrates the cow faucets on the farm. The scene captures rural novelty and childlike wonder during a first countryside visit.
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Willie
Reuben
Cunning Chinese Baby Boy Beloved by Happy Chinese Mother
A Detroit Free Press piece in Santa Barbara portrays a cheerful American born Chinese baby boy and his mother. It notes the charm of babies, contrasts boy and girl foot binding, and hopes the child grows up with better opportunities in the United States.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
San Francisco
Chinatown
America
Detroit Free Press
Red and green dominate fashion shades this season
Notes describe red gowns in country and mountain wear pairing with green landscapes, including red voile frocks with layered bodices and black lace hats. French tea gowns in silk batistes and organdie feature new autumn patterns from Lyons and Paris, with Marie Antoinette silks and brocade patterns in silver, mauve, and sea green. Ornamental flowers like hawthorn, orchids, and jasmine are reproduced in fine hand painting.
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Eton
Lyons
Paris
Farmer’s trolley road aims to haul produce to town
The article describes a new horseless vehicle concept, the farmer’s trolley road, designed to allow farmers to bring produce to town, sell it, and return home without using horses as electric current powers the system. It highlights the shift toward labor-saving electric transport for farming communities.
Electric wagon powers farm produce by trolley lines
Daniel S. Bergin of Chicago proposes a Country Road Trolley system using a wagon equipped with a powered electric motor drawing current from an overhead wire. A return conductor reduces shock risk to the driver, enabling heavy loads with low current cost and no on-board storage batteries.
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Daniel S. Bergin
Chicago
Louisville Courier-Journal
Nervous strain linked to women leading strenuous lives
A physician notes women in business roles show higher nerves due to overwork and poor self care. He describes midday treats and coffee habits as draining vitality, contrasts with men, and laments lack of calm placidity seen in grandmothers.
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Aoman
St. Louis Republic
Domestic tips and kitchen hacks from the Brooklyn Eagle
The Brooklyn Eagle offers practical guidance for food handling and home care. It covers dipping fruits in beaten egg and sugar for preservation, arranging apple wedges for salads with candied cherries, gas range toaster designs, pewter cleaning with soda and oil of tartar, mildew removal with lemon salts, soda in dishwater for greasy china, and a pumpernickel cream cheese tea sandwich assembly.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Trees Have Long Lives In German Forest Study
The German forestry commission assigns maximum ages for tree species including 500 to 700 years for pine 425 for silver fir 275 for larch 245 for red beach 210 for aspen 200 for birch 170 for ash 145 for elder and 130 for elm The oak’s heart rots around 300 and the holly oak is said to escape this limit with a 410 year specimen near Aschaffenburg Germany.
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Red Beach
Aschaffenburg
Germany
Persian Rice Recipe Described by Persian Expatriate
A Persian resident recounts the traditional method for puffing rice. Rinse the grains, boil hard in cold water until swollen, drain, rinse again, then steam with butter until heated through. In Persia the cooking water is kept for tomato sauce and fruit stews, not discarded.
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Persia
New York Tribune
The Way It's Done Tit Bits Quote
A Tit Bits humorous quote imagines a wife turning a home into a summer resort by installing hard beds and cutting the table to half rations as part of domestic wit.
Hair Growth Claim Cited by Patient and Drugstore
A Philadelphia North American excerpt records a druggist praising a medicine that allegedly makes hair grow on bald heads. The article notes one client has used the product for 25 years and remains loyal to it.
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Philadelphia
Special crops for poultry boost farm profits
Rural World notes that growing crops like sunflower millet rape kale Kaffir corn popcorn and sorghum on poultry farms creates home demand and raises egg production. Cow peas and crimson clover provide green foods. cooked peas fed to hens boost winter egg yields while vines enrich the soil.
The Hens Require Shade and Ventilation Advice
The Inland Poultry Journal urges poultry keepers to provide shade for hens, noting shade is essential to welfare. It recommends artificial shade via small shed roofs in runs and suggests removing windows to install wire netting for cooling and ventilation.
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Inland Poultry Journal
Farm Cleanup Day Keeps Farmstead Neat and Productive
A farmer describes periodic cleanup days where rubbish is burned and ashes fertilize the strawberry patch. Old machinery is sold for scrap, bolts saved for small contrivances, and the yard becomes tidier, reducing a ragged appearance that deters visitors.
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Farm Journal
Weeds in Pastures and Grazing Management
The author explains how natural conditions govern prairie weeds and wild grasses while human activity shifts the balance. Overgrazing promotes weed invasion, whereas reducing head per acre restores pasture health, with regionally varying safe stocking rates. The piece cites N. F. Roberts from the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
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Kansas
N. IF. Roberts
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Poultry Lot Fence For Flighty Fowls
A seven foot high fence is advised for flighty poultry. Use laths fastened to stout galvanized wires with staples to create a tight durable fence. Space wires about three feet apart and stretch tight. Use galvanized staples supplied with poultry netting.
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D. Keefe
Disease prevention in hog farming and related notes
An article emphasizes cleanliness to prevent hog diseases like hog cholera, noting streams spread illness between farms and deep wells reduce risk. It advises cautious introduction to rape pasture with hay or straw, warns of bloat, and cites Prof. E A Burnett on charcoal for poultry health and growth.
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E. A. Burnett
Farmers’ Review
Grass fiber shirt waist boxes and Buffalo’s early industry
The notice notes grass fiber boxes for shirts and St Louis leading in cutting. wood for planes must be kept for ten years to stay sound. It mentions a new trunk strap with a lever to secure it and tablets marking Bayaloo’s first schoolhouse and courthouse. The schoolhouse dated 1807 was destroyed in 1813 when the British burned the city.
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St. Louis
Union
BaYalo
Faithful Friend Credits Remedy For Relief
Lenox Missouri resident W I Brown credits a friend's advice with relief from a year long backache after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. He reports pain removal after two boxes and gratitude toward his friend who recommended the remedy.
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Lenox
W. IP Brown
Dodd
Chad
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