Patrols Move Toward Dorchester Heights With Guns and Logs
The narrative follows oxen and men hauling hay cornmeal and food to support a moving fortification. A shelter is built, fires lit, and a long trek over snow ends with a winter march toward Dorchester heights as the gun crews advance. Pat in Boston begins a perilous conspiracy with Revere aiding American cause through Mrs Shipman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colin
Ticonderoga
Dorchester Heights
Cabot
Boston
Pat
Revere
Shipman
Virginia
Washington
Braddock
Alexandria
Roxbury Neck
Corwin
Mother Enslow the Apple Woman Aids Boston Patriots
The story details Mother Enslow a harmless old widow living in an abandoned mill near Roxbury who aids patriots by passing as the apple woman and supplying prayers and gifts to soldiers. Pat Fayerweather and Mrs Shipman exploit the disguise to cross lines, while authorities grow wary of the enigmatic aid worker.
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Stonybrook
Roxbury Neck
Enslow
Boston
Mother Enslow
Mrs. Shipman
Pat
Mr. Sneach
Richard
Regiment of Grenadiers
Shipman House
Fayerweather
Dorchester Heights
Howe
Gage
Boston to Dorchester Mission Brings War Hero Colin Forward
In July 1775 Colin Cabot sails from Cambridge to join the Revolutionary cause. He earns Washington’s favor as an informal secretary and captain, duels rival Harry Gage, is disciplined, and later leads a recruiting trek west. He meets Mrs Bowlby and helps carry Ticonderoga guns toward Dorchester to bombard Boston.
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Boston
Colin Cabot
Patience
Pat” Fayerweather
Cambridge
Amos Farnsworth
Colin
Washington
Pat
Farnsworth
Harry Gage
Gage
Col
Sim” Botts
West
Ticonderoga
Dorchester
Apple Woman Plan Sparks Boston Patriot Espionage
In wartime Boston Revere and Mrs Shipman plot to smuggle letters and pass beyond lines. Pat Fayerweather schemes to slip through disguised as an apple seller to reach a contact in Roxbury, while the secret circle weighs risk and reward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sneach
Revere
Cambridge
Winnisimet
Pat Fayerweather
Roxbury
Grand Young Lady Heads for Neck Line in Fish Wagon
A fragment describes a plan to rest during a journey as a young lady is told to wait while the speaker heads with a load of fish to the Neck. She sits in a fish wagon beside Ebenezer Snoach as dusk approaches.
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Ebenezer Snoach
Desperate Escape of Pat in Boston Evacuation Tale
In a Boston raid era scene Pat dons disguise as Mother Enslow to move through enemy lines. She avoids detection while seeking aid from Mrs Shipman and retreats to a secret chamber to recount a perilous night and her failed mission amid camps and bonfires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat
Mother Enslow
Shipman House
New Wool Test Guides Sheep Breeders Density Of Fleece
Dr. John I. Hardy of the USDA fiber technology bureau describes a simple method to estimate clean wool yield and fleece density. A 1 by 4 inch wool swath is clipped weighed, dry cleaned, and weighed again to compute yield per sample and per square inch of skin.
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John I. Hardy
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Animal Industry
When to Fertilize Grapes
A 10 year test by Prof F E Gladwin at Fredonia New York state station compared complete fertilizers with nitrogen potassium and phosphorus mixes. Fertilizers increased yield wood growth and fruit quality with nitrogen showing the strongest gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. E. Gladwin
Fredonia
N. Y
State Experiment Station
Farm population growth projected by USDA figures
The United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimates farm population will reach 82 million by year end. Net gains in 1980 and 1931 plus probable gains last year offset a decline of about 1.5 million from 1920 to 1980. Peak farm population occurred in 1910 at 32,077,000.
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Bureau of Entomology
United States Department of Agriculture
North Dakota
Colorado
Idaho
Minnesota
Montana
Nebraska
South Dakota
Wyoming
United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Census Bureau
Insect Spread Control through Farm Operation Changes
U S entomologists say simple routine adjustments cut insect spread by depriving pests of food or shelter at key life stages. Timely forecasts from entomological studies allow farmers to outmaneuver pests by adjusting seeding or harrowing timing, cleaning threatened areas, or changing crop rotations.
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United States
Birds Courtship Songs Highlight Male Singers Dominance
The article notes that song is the most visible feature of bird courtship with males doing most singing to attract females. It says males typically cease after securing mates, while some species like song sparrows and red-eyed vireos sing into moulting season. Female singing exists in a few species but is quieter. certain females duet with males during courting.
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Missouri
Training Baby Bowels With Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin
A old family doctor prescribes daily half a teaspoon for constipated babies to promote regularity and reduce fretfulness. Dr Caldwell, renowned for treating women and children, cites forty seven years of practice and over 3500 births without loss.
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Caldwell
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Brooklyn
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