Mosul Sketches and Jonah Tomb Legend Amid Middle East Life
Frederick Sisupich describes Mosul life along the Tigris, its caravanserais, washerwomen, and Kurdish river workers. He visits Jonah’s tomb on a sunset walk, notes Nineveh ruins, and observes Arabs and Kurds bright with trade and revelry in a bustling city.
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Jonah
Frederick Sisupich
Los Angeles Times
Mosul
Mesopotamia
Tigris
Old
Nineveh
Jonah Reats
Naomi
Bagdad
Walla
Marco Polo
Hia
Telkafi
Belladonna
Betta
Layard
Ninevah
Yunus
Doctor Cook
Telephones in Chile Run 8000 Miles Under English Company
Chile operates about 8000 miles of telephone lines managed by an English company. The network extends across major cities and rural areas, linking houses businesses and institutions with a centralized operator.
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Chile
Maine bulletin shows value in poultry manure for profit
A Maine Agricultural Experiment Station bulletin explains that properly collected and mixed poultry litter from 1,000 fowls can yield substantial profits. By combining 30 pounds of manure with 10 pounds of absorbent, 16 pounds of acid phosphate, and 8 pounds kainit, the blend provides a balanced fertilizer usable with a spreader, worth about $10 per ton, and requires shelter until plowing.
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Maine ‘Agricultural Experiment Station
Maine
Horse Is a Poor Reasoner
The piece claims horses are mentally weak compared with other domestic animals and cannot unlearn undesired tricks. It cites examples of horses kicking their owners when upside down, breaking legs by kicking buggy shafts, and running away due to lacking understanding of harmless objects or own actions.
Winter Garden in Cellar
The piece explains how to grow garden vegetables in a warm cellar during winter. Rhubarb and asparagus roots can be forced after a freeze, then stored in earth to yield blanched stalks. Lettuce, parsley, chives, spearmint, and peppers or eggplants can continue producing in cool or warm cellar conditions with proper light and temperature.
Ideal Farmer Philosophy Highlights Contentment and Purpose
A concise reflection extols the ideal farmer as firstly happy to be a farmer and then fulfilled because the role enables full potential. It emphasizes contentment, purpose, and the ability to act fully within the farming vocation.
Milk Producing Machine: Cow as Mechanical Producer
A historical note describes the cow as a machine for milk production, outlining that efficiency depends on proper conditions and care. It emphasizes mechanical aspects of dairy farming and the parallels to engineered systems.
Succulence in Dairy Cow Feed and Winter Silage Use
Practical advice on boosting milk yield through palatable, succulent rations. Grow or choose feeds for palatability, use ensilage or roots to maintain succulence in winter, and mix poor ensilage with hay or straw for better consumption. Molasses adds nutritive value, though it is less effective than silage.
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W. W. Carruthers
Poor Hay Quality Reduces Feeding Value and Dairy Flavor
Poor hay, damaged by overripe weathering sun rain or mowing errors, loses feeding value up to half. Low grade hay causes poor growth and a dull coat, especially harming dairy cows by reducing milk flow and flavor. In severe cases it leads to heaves in horses and retained afterbirth in cows.
Scarborough and Hartlepool Aerial View of Historic Ports
The piece surveys Scarborough and Hartlepool as historic watering places in Yorkshire and Durham. It notes Scarborough’s medieval castle ruins, the peninsular geography, and the 1620 discovery of mineral springs that popularized the town. It contrasts East and West Hartlepool with their churches, halls, docks, and modern amenities, and recalls naval events and distant ties to the Baltic trade.
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Scarborough
Hartlepool
England
Great Peninsula
Scaur
North Sea
Flamborough Head
John Paul Jones
Jones
Kenry I
Episcopal City of
York
London
North Eastern Railway
Yorkshire
North Riding
Henry II
West Hartlepool
Hamburg
Bremen
Rotterdam
Dames
Ecgred
Lindisfarne
Edison’s telescribe records telephone talks for perfect recall
A new device the telescribe inserts a telephone receiver into a socket and uses a small ear receiver and two buttons to start and stop. It records every spoken word on a wax memory for instant reference and confirmation of conversations.
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Thomas A. Edison
Monster Attacks Ship Nine Days On Ocean
The report recounts a Dutch bark the Hendrik Ido Ambacht being pursued and attacked for nine days by a sea monster said to be ninety feet long and twenty five to thirty feet wide. The beast battered the vessel until muskets and harpoons wounded it, after which it fled leaving the sea spattered with blood.
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Hendrik Ido Ambacht
Ater
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Mosus
Corres Houss
South Harbor
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