The Chauffeur and the Jewels Progress of a Pino Alibi
In a Washington club scene a Russian diplomat pursues the elusive Prince del Pino as a chauffeur provides a critical lead. Gussie Waring hosts a mixing of guests while Souravieff and Ludovic Sarto uncover a possible alibi confusion amid a high society ruse and a safety of secrets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ludovic Sarto
Washington
Union Club
Prince del Pino
del Pino
Souravieff
M. le Comte
Gussie
Newport
Count Souravieff
Mrs. Waring
Guasie
Club Union
Louravier
Tyrol
Ladovie Sarto
Budding Fruit Trees Technique For Late Season Grafting
A practical guide describes late season budding for apples plums and rose bushes. It covers selecting smooth healthy branches the bud insertion method and securing with yarn plus tips on monitoring growth and successful outcomes. It also notes the Bud serves the same purpose as the graft and promotes the desired fruit.
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W. H. Underwood
Night in Washington and New York Opens with Tropical Breath
A brisk Saturday in New York and a warm Sunday in Washington unfold amid tropical air. Metropolitan Club fans whirl as loungers watch stormy skies and a chance of thunder. An observer notes a foreign visitor on Connecticut Avenue and the ornate houses framed by green tree-lined vistas.
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Massachusetts Avenue
Portiere
Gussie Waring
Prince del Pino
America
Far West
New York
Washington
Gussie
Morning Post
Liverpool Daily Transcript
Queen's Hospital
Roderigo del Pino
Alceste
Flere
Sle
Connecticut Avenue
Too Steady Farm Hands Stall at Diner Horn
An irate farmer rebukes an employment office for sending slow farm workers. The clerk says they are regular engines, implying steady work. The farmer notes they stay on the barn fence until the dinner horn sounds, illustrating their inertia in a humorous exchange.
Elastic currency and sheet rubber banknotes debate
Greening cites the money question and calls for an elastic currency. His wife quips about the government printing banknotes on sheet rubber, highlighting a humorous exchange on monetary ideas.
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Greening
Time to Dack starts to proposal backed out tale
The exchange recalls an heiress accusing a suitor of proposing then withdrawing. The man admits backing out when he recalls earning only nine dollars a week and hears the heiress’s father approaching with a shotgun.
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Harold
Screeny Lively Enough Loves Company Dialogue
A fragmentary exchange shows two speakers, a moralizer and the other agreeing reluctantly. The dialogue hints at social propriety and shared amusement but remains incomplete.
Quail and Domestic Fowls Roosting and Taxation Reflections
A farmer argues quail behavior mirrors domestic fowl that drift to neighbors but return to their birth farm at roost time. He recounts tax coops, hunter pressure, and loss from chasing birds, urging better protection for valuable quail as shared in Indiana Farmer.
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Indiana Farmer
Start Small with Sheep in Hog and Cattle Country
Wallace's Farmer urges farmers in corn and grass states to begin sheep farming slowly once fields are hog tight. Start with as few as twenty five ewes and a buck, keeping flocks small to limit losses and learn careful husbandry before expanding.
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Wallace
Testing the Health of an Animal Pulse Rates
The article explains normal pulse rates for horses cows sheep and pigs at rest and shows where to feel the pulse. It notes that deviations signal disease such as high fever inflammation low fever blood loss weakness brain disease or heart trouble.
Sow Fall Wheat Early for Better Next Year
In the Middle West farmers fear fall top growth and Hessian fly but sowing early is advised to reach eight to ten inches, harrow seed beds to form a dust mulch, conserve moisture, and promote regular germination. Early spring growth strengthens yield and may mature a week earlier. If both crops survive winter, early sowing yields more. watch the crop next spring and plan fall sowing to improve the following year.
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Corn Belt
Middle West
Curtain Front Poultry House and Intensive Farm Yields
The article describes a curtain front poultry house with an 8 ft 6 in front height and 4 ft 6 in rear height. It shows a hinged curtain front for sunlight and notes removable interior fixtures for cleaning. It also lists eleven acres near Reading Pa with diverse produce totaling hundreds of bushels, boxes, and heads across radishes onions strawberries beets tomatoes lettuce cabbage corn eggplant pickles and more.
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Reading
Do Not Rob Yourself: Selling Grain Spreads Fertility
The piece argues farmers who sell corn clover hay or oil cake deprive their farms of fertility. It notes selling grain crops reduces soil richness and is a bad practice. The warning targets those who grow crops primarily to trade rather than feed their own stock.
Chronicle of Wars and Events from Otterbourne to The Hague
A compiled list of historical notes from 1388 to 1909 detailing battles, political changes, disasters, treaties, births and deaths. Entries include the death of the Earl of Douglas at Otterbourne, Edward IV’s victory at Banbury, coronations, explorations, territorial changes, and notable figures such as Alexander Hamilton and Karl Otto von Bismarck. The list also notes disasters, legislative acts, and landmark monuments.
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Earl of Douglas
Otterbourne
Northumberland
Edward IV
Banbury
Mary of England
Philip of Spain
James I
England
Champlain
Essex County
New York
Canada
Schenectady
William III
James II
Killecrankie
Oswego
Pontiac
Boston
New England
Indiana
Amherst
Wolfe
Louisburg
Crown Point
Ticonderoga
Moro Fort
Havana Harbor
English Under Admiral Pococke
Guatemala
Rocky Mount
Catawba
Gen. Sumter
Department
Secretary of “Foreign Affairs
Congress
Tripoli
New York State Society of the Cincinnati
Alexander Hamilton
Buenos Ayres
Duuke
Richmond
San Martin
Peru
Gilbert Stuart
Narragansett
R. I
Charles X
France
Lisbon
Dom Pedro
Lima
Henry Clay
Youkas
Los
Ponce
Porto Rico
Yuaco
Prince Karl Otto von Bismarck
Pugwash
Nova Scotia
Heureaux
Hayti
Ramon Caceres
the Hague
United States
Newchwang
Government chemist deems benzoic acid unsafe in foods
Dr. Wiley reports poleon squad tests show benzoic acid and benzoate of soda should be excluded from foods as injurious to digestion and general health.
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Wiley
Poleon
Miners Uphold Union Ideals at Denver Convention
The Western Federation of Miners meeting in Denver reaffirms its commitment to Industrial unionism and aiding the solidarity of the working class.
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Western Federation of Miners
Denver
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J. B. Lark
Edith Morgan Willett
Hein
Son Altesse
Madame Waring
Sarto
M. Lecomte
Souravier
Dack
the Weekly
Massachusetts
Charlestown
Robert Alexander Schumann
Alaska
Arkansas
North Carolina
South Carolina
Alabama
Louisiana
Georgia
Florida
Benjamin Nathan
Richard Cobden
Bradford
Matthew Webb
Imperial Federation of
Great Britain
London
Honolulu
United States Congress
Carnegie Palace of Peace
The
Hague
Edmund W. Pettus
Japp
Korea
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