A Night Venture Through a Locked Hall
I stealthily escape the nurse’s room, descend to a hall and ascend a long corridor to Clara’s door. I find her in my arms, lock the door from within, and confess a dangerous longing while avoiding exposure to Judith and Rodwell. Clara recounts the kidnapping and a cab ride led by a mysterious man, later identified as Montgomery.
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John Rodwell
Mr. Garston
Judith
Montgomery
John Redwell
Mr. Rodwell
Clara
Heir to Wealth Faces Dark Forced Life Plot
A young heiress recounts a nightmare escape from a mansion after years of confinement. She reveals a family web centered on Cousin John, who seeks control of the grandfather's fortune, the motive behind the eerie guardianship, and a chilling past upbringing. The tale promises more revelations.
Cow Kept From Milk by Smoke Funny Farm Prank
Alfred James of the University of Virginia visited a friend in Baltimore County. A farmer tried milking a brindle cow as smoke from James's pipe drifted in. The cow refused to give milk, James laughed, but the farmer grew angry and finished milking. The next morning coffee lacked cream.
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Alfred James
University of Virginia
Baltimore Sun
Reisterstown
Baltimore County
Dugust
Gil
Mr. James
Chicken House Plan For Texas Farm and Ranch Readers
A Texas woman describes a chicken house design in Farm and Ranch for a clean convenient shelter. Constructed from 1x12 boards with lattice front, slatted sides, swinging roost poles, and ample ventilation.
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Texas
Farm and Ranch
Convenient Chicken House With Exterior Nesting and Vermin Control
A chicken house design uses heavy wire and low walls so nests are outside and raised by a hinged slanting cover. The system lets egg collection without entering the henhouse and shows tin cans on the roost and walls containing machine balls to deter vermin.
Marketing the Eggs From the Hen House to Market
The guide advises daily egg collection in summer and more often in winter if the coop is warm enough to prevent freezing. Pack eggs small end down in a cool room, then in boxed partitions to keep yolks from settling or contact with shells. When prices rise, selling eggs beats raising chickens for profit. raise chickens when prices fall. Prolific layers include Black Spanish Black Leghorns White and Brown Leghorns Poland Hamburg Creve Coeur La Fleche.
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Leghorns
Poland
Hamburg
Creve Coeur
la Fleche
Cleft Grafting in Orchard Tree Top Grafting
Cleft grafting is a common method for grafting orchard trees when the old top will be removed over several years and a new top grown in its place. The ideal time is when the leaves are just pushing out, indicating active growth to unite the graft.
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Bury
Edmund
Spalding
Rodwell
Clara
Cleft Graft Techniques and Timing Discussed
The article explains scion cleft grafting and waxed bud grafting, noting wounds heal quickly. It suggests starting grafting one to two months earlier than the ideal time for large workloads and references an illustration showing the grafting process.
Hogs In Orchard Warn About Space And Food
I J Blackwell cautions that hogs or flocks of sheep can skin orchard trees if kept too densely. To prevent damage, provide ample space, a sufficient pen, and light lime to deter destruction. Giving hogs room and proper feed keeps them from harming the trees.
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I. J. Blackwell
Teaching a Horse to Stand in Early Training
A how to guide advises on breaking a colt by letting it calm after a few rides, then loosening the reins and using a long rope to gently bobble the front legs to build steadiness and obedience.
Training a Break Horse with Reins and Snaffle Methods
The article describes progressive training for a fractious horse using restraints. It explains tying a front leg to a post, then securing both reins to the saddle horn, and gradually increasing control until the horse responds to dropping the reins. It notes that misbehavior prompts applying the reins through the pas and over the horn to steer the head.
Closet First Aid for Barn Animals Cited in Indianapolis News
The piece describes a rustic closet in a barn holding witch hazel vaseline and muslin as quick remedies. A horse’s eye bruise improved after witch hazel applications and a calf’s eczema healed using flour of sulphur with carbolated vaseline.
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Indianapolis News
The Bow and Knot: A Sailor's Practical Tie
The article explains the bow and knot, a versatile sailor’s knot. It describes laying the parts together, crossing b over a, and bringing the end up to form the knot, with an illustration showing each step.
Knot for safety aid shines in emergencies and farming
The description explains a secure loop knot that cannot slip when tied correctly. It shows how to carry b around and through a loop for hoisting and leading animals safely, even if they plunge or pull. The knot is praised as useful in emergencies and particularly for farmers.
Indiana Law Aims Fruit Tree Fraud Penalties
An Indiana farmer swindled by a fruit tree agent welcomes a General Assembly bill that imposes a 50 to 500 dollar fine for fruit tree fraud. The measure, backed by Representative Shively of South Bend, traces to Notre Dame University’s tree purchase and originally carried a year of imprisonment, later removed.
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Indiana
General Assembly
Shively
South Bend
Notre Dame University
Sheep Shearings and Profit Tips for Flocks
Sheep are economical meat producers. to secure best returns keep flocks even, breed ewes at two years old, and maximize numbers to lower cost per animal. Use caustic foot rot medicine, kill vermin before fattening, and ensure wool, mutton, and lamb each contribute. For public sales, have someone grade sheep to even out the lot.
Garden Advice From The Garden Journal
Gathered in the Garden offers practical notes on pruning plum and cherry trees and when to trim grapes. It notes six weeks for radishes to be ready after sowing and the benefits of bone meal and wood ashes for sweet peas.
Sweden declines subsidy amid prussia remonstrance
One hundred years ago Sweden yielded to Prussia to refuse England’s subsidy. Lübeck faces siege by French troops to stop English goods. Eighteen American weasels noted at Amsterdam port. France grants pensions to Santo Domingo emigrants. Three thousand French troops move to The Hague to quell anticipated uprising. French reinforcements at Santo Domingo repulse Emperor Descalines. Portugal, with England’s aid, accepts French neutrality in the war.
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Sweden
Prussia
England
Lubeck
Germany
Amsterdam
Santo Domingo
Hague
Emperor Descalines
Portugal
France
Seventy Five Years Ago Yucatan Declares Independence
Seventy five years ago Yucatan proclaimed independence amid regional shifts. The Beestein common outlawed cow pasturing under law. Near Dubuque Iowa Sioux and allied tribes faced annihilation of Sne and Fox communities. First light seen at Blackrock Nights house in Liverpool. Congress outlined a boundary between Louisiana and Arkansas territories. Kentucky discoveries of petroleum led to bottled medicine sales in the US and Europe. Georgia mint received its first gold from local mines.
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Yucatan
Dubuque
Iowa
Liverpool
Congress
Louisiana
Arkansas
Kentucky
United States
Europe
Georgia
Death of Don Carlos at Triest and Other 19th Century Events
The news item notes the death of Don Carlos the Spanish pretender in Triest. It reports the Niagara suspension bridge completion and the establishment of a free public school system in Illinois. It mentions the Atlantic and St Lawrence railroad leased to Grand Trunk for 900 years, Nassau Hall at Princeton built in 1756 destroyed by fire. It records casualties from Meredith New Hampshire town hall floor collapse. Vienna plenipotentiaries exchange powers and begin Russo Turkish peace talks.
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Don Carlos
Triest
Niagara
Ilinois
Atlantic and St. Lawrence
Grand Trask Railroad
Nassau Hall
Princeton University
Meredith
N. H
Vienna
Conflicting War Reports Shake Markets and Politics
Panic in gold drove quotations to 17544 amid a 144 point drop in three days. The Parliament at Quebec backed confederation by a large vote. Reports of Sheridan and Sherman boosted gold to 189144. A Confederate bill to arm slaves was reported as passed. Richmond papers exposed a conspiracy to oust Davis and Stephens and install Hunter. Lincoln issued a proclamation arresting domestic traders with Confederates.
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Quebec
Sheridan
Sherman
North
Confederate Congress
Richmond
Davis
Stephens
Hunter
Lincoln
Sugar interests clash in Senate over Hawaiian treaty
Senate debate centers on the Hawaiian treaty with sugar interests opposing ratification. In other notes, Archbishop McCloskey of New York was named cardinal, France approves a military reorganization bill, Rienzo Mississippi hit by a tornado, Northwest river bottoms flood, and the Mordaunt divorce case shocks England with a guilty verdict.
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Senate
Vatican
McCloskey
New York
Rienzo
Miss
England
Mordaunt
Missouri militia mobilized over railroad strike
The militia was mobilized at Sedalia and other points in Missouri to suppress a incident to the railroad strike on the Gould system. London papers admitted strained relations between England and Russia over Afghan frontier aggression. Cleveland issued a proclamation barring the boomers from Oklahoma. Ten thousand of 12,000 coal miners in the Pittsburg district struck for higher wages. Powers agreed to a conference in Paris to determine Suez canal status.
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Sedalia
Missouri
London
England
Russia
Cleveland
Oklahoma
Pittsburg
Paria
Suez Canal
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