Trapping the Terrapin at Roanoke Turtle Farm Innovations
A Roanoke Virginia turtle farm reveals terrapin catching methods from dredges with iron jaws to shallow-water traps and dog assisted hunts. It details winter digging, bucking, and slow growth to market, with signs of a structured three grade size system and a year by year rearing cycle.
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William Midgett
Roanoke
Chesapeake Bay
Maryland
Virginia
Atlantic
Cape Fear
Wise Words Hard Learnings From Everyday Trials
A Ram's Horn column offers pithy maxims on trust, happiness, generosity, laziness, and money. It notes how worry, blame, and fault finding corrode character, while belief and helping others shape conduct. The piece surveys social foibles and moral cautions from various perspectives.
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Indianapolis
Nervy hotel thieves reign at Chicago resorts
The Chicago hotel thief, dubbed a man of nerve, stole a fifty dollar ulster from an Illinois politician at the Grand Pacific after claiming he sat on the overcoat. At Palmer House he swiped an eight dollar silk hat and left a worn derby, even paying a messenger to ask where the hat came from. A Tremont House napper lost his hat, swapped for an old slouch, while a Times-Democrat item notes the cantaloupe’s American origin and Rome link.
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Chicago
Illinois
Sam Parker
Nerve
Palmer House
Tremont House
New Orleans
Z’imes-Democrat
Deepest Coal Mine Said Near Tourney Belgium
A historical note claims the world’s deepest coal mine lies near Tourney in Belgium at about 3542 feet, highlighting extreme mining depths of the era.
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Tourney
Belgium
Early Chickens Advice From a Practical Woman Poultry-keeper
A New Jersey Farmers Institute note emphasizes the value of a good male bird over a female, with January and February identified as prime months for hatching early chicks. The speaker warns against overly wet feed, notes poor results with incubators, and reports success using brooders for rearing chicks.
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New Jersey
New York World
Feed For Fattening Hogs and Sheep Markets
A 19th century guide discusses fattening hogs with Indian meal buckwheat bran and skimmed milk or hot water mixtures to improve digestibility. It notes cooling before feeding, profitability versus cattle, and that fat animals show better digestion. It then shifts to sheep, lamb fattening, and market practices where buyers select the best, while culls fetch pelts or manure.
Seven Years with Silos at Michigan Station Suggests Design
A Michigan Agricultural Station report concludes lumber silos near feeding areas are best. A silo 22 feet deep, 10 feet wide, 14 feet long suffices for six months for ten cows. Feed should be well matured corn, not too green, and silage mixed with clover hay, bran, shorts, and corn meal yields economical rations for milk and beef.
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Michigan Agricultural Station
Chicago Times
Save the Poultry Feathers Tips From Vermont Woman
A Vermont woman describes saving feathers from ducks geese chickens and turkeys to fill a pillow or cushion. She soaks boils cleans dries and airs the feathers to remove odor, yielding light fluffy feather filling after a few days. A Breeder and Sportsman note teaches leading a colt using a halter jockey stick and gentle horse in a step by step method.
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Vermont
Field and Stockman
Points in sheep buying
Farmers show increased demand for sheep and higher prices than two or three years ago. Buyers should favor young, strong sheep kept on hay and straw, plan to pasture in spring, and avoid thin sheep for winter fattening. Only well conditioned sheep can bear grain feeding, and even then lightly.
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Roanoke
New York Herald
Calves in Winter Care Tips From American Agriculturist
The article outlines essential winter care for calves including warmth, housing, regular watering, and a stable environment. It warns against crowding young stock with adults, suggests appetizing feed, and notes preventive measures for diseases like anthrax and lice, stressing isolation of sick animals.
Farm and Garden Notes on Poultry Care
Advice on bird care includes tarred paper to deter lice and lime as cheap pest control. Details cover nesting material, scratching, feeding limits, milk as water for six weeks, dust baths, storage of grain, goose vs turkey costs, hatching timing, initial chick feeding, and the importance of sunlight and good nutrition for strong growth.
News and Notes for Women in Fashion Era Trends
A survey of women’s fashions and social norms features moonstones and gauntlet gloves, ostrich feathers, Sevres and Dresden porcelains, and gowns with silver embroidery. It notes notable figures, diplomas for women in medicine, and the rise of young bridesmaids, with hints on makeup application and the evolving role of women in society.
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Dresden
South America
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America
Rome
Miss O'Duffy
New York
Russia
Louis Quatorze
Paris
Mary Elkinton
Philadelphia
Stanley
Purdy
Texas
Miss Horwitz
Baltimore
United States
Belle Wooster Higgins
Sullivan
Constantinople
Germany
Mrs. Miles
Sherman
Cameron
Mme. de Stacl
Elizabeth Blackwell
Penn
Thomas A. Scott
Joseph Harrison
Baldwin
H. E. Houghton
Spokane Falls
Washington
Jess
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