Excessive Coffee Use and the Moorish Physician Case
An extract recounts Mohammed Ben Zaed’s grave coffee overuse leading to failing eyesight and conjunctivitis. European doctors including Don Manuel de Escobedo could not offer relief after visits to Fez and Madrid. The narrative notes coffee's stimulating and tonic effects, with excessive consumption impacting the nervous system.
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WPA
Bowen
Walt Yeu
Deez
Toduin
Fez
Madrid
Venietilt
Don Manuel de Escobedo
Mohammed Ben Zaed
The Pageantry of Autumn Leaves and Mortality
Dr. Tahuuge uses autumnal forests as a sermon on God’s glory and human mortality. He likens leaves fading to life’s passage, death to a doorway to resurrection, and foresees a rising with the trumpet of resurrection.
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Occtober
Tahuuge
Champeltion
Egypt
Rhatie
Naples
Sapsee
Iested
Hethcer
Nesta
Ife
Fall Plowing Debate Highlights Soil and Cost Factors
The article weighs fall plowing advantages and risks arguing some soils benefit from frost effects while others risk nutrient loss. It notes practical choices like plowing one field in fall and another in spring, furrow management, and the role of lime and drainage for fertility and labor savings.
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Crus
Grain Market News Shows Upward Wheat Trend
The grain market records a welcome upward tendency in wheat with strong export movement, despite disappointing threshings. Corn remains very low and 1896 yields look well short of last year. Money restrictions hinder speculators. a market rise seems likely once financing eases after political tensions ease.
Hairball Study by Botanist Prompts Horse Death Insight
Prof. T. V. Coville of the Department of Agriculture in Washington reports practical botany findings from hairballs in the intestines of dead horses. The work investigates deaths believed caused by feed.
All Around the Farm Practical Advice and a Curious Hog
Farmers learn to store corn fodder in sheds and bundle it for ease of handling. Weeds should be plowed under when green. Dry cows need less food and clover hay plus ensilage is preferred. Seed corn should come from nearby varieties. A Macon hog on Cox Street has two heads two mouths three eyes and two voices.
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Coville
Georgia
Macon
W. F. Reid
Cox Street
Reid
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