Columba Town Crier's Remarkable Voice Draws Commendation
In Charleston at the Laclede Colonel Marshall praises Columbia's town crier as perhaps the largest voice in the United States. The crying tower carries hours and alerts, and his quick notices of fires or disturbances mobilize the town, as a child lost at midnight led to a citywide search and safe recovery.
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Marshall
Charleston
Laclede
Columbia
3. C
United States
Allis Well
Allis
Tvo
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Virtues and Folly of Jay Gould Mentioned in Snatches
A compilation of brief, era style notes cites Jay Gould’s kindness to a sick New Jersey woman and a Maryland Confederate item, alongside short notices about thieves, a camp chair donation, syrup cures, Russian empire grain, hoarseness remedies, and Connecticut trout stocking plans.
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General Tee
Virginia
Joshua Thomas
Baltimore
Maryland
Pikesville
Farm and Households Practical Farming Notes
A blend of rural advice covers milking ewes sparse in milk versus European practice, lamb feeding methods, cistern cleaning and water purification, silo construction, crop planning, and domestic tips. Includes farm garden planning, animal feed notes, and household hints about cleaning, fabrics, cosmetics, and kitchen routines.
Scientific spray results from Cornell professor report
Assistant Professor Lodeman of Cornell Ithaca presents a forty page report on orchard spraying. Large pumps save labor. Four gallons spray per full grown apple tree. Bordeaux mixture most effective fungicide followed by ammoniated copper carbonate Paris green and festite. Two arsenite sprays control codling moth larvae. Paris green or London purple require lime neutralizer and dilution. Fall Pippin size doubled with scab protection. Bordeaux enhances keeping quality. Market value ups 21 per barrel. Copper ammoniacal carbonate harmful to foliage. lime reduces causticity. Paris green safe with lime. peach trees need dilution. Nitrate of soda is caustic to foliage and not useful fungicide. Automatic agitators unsatisfactory.
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Lodeman
Cornell Station
Ithaca
N. Y
Bordeaux
Paris
Perich
Farm and Garden Notes on Currants Gooseberries and Water
A Rural World writer notes the key to good crops with currants and gooseberries is thorough trimming and thinning. It emphasizes ample pure water from ice in winter and mentions swine drinking water. The fragment references the belief about pumpkins without completing the thought.
Opium Smoking in New York Dens Understated Realities
A New York view on opium dens debunks myths of Oriental splendor describing humble flats in Mott Street where smokers gather weekly for inexpensive drug use. Police face difficulty defining what constitutes an opium joint and raids rarely uncover more than a couple of smokers, reflecting a benign, noncommercial scene rather than lavish vice.
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New York
Mott Street
Japan Makes Modern Weapons for Western Allies
It is reported that six guns manufactured at Osaka arsenals have been shipped to the Portuguese Government, indicating Japan's role in supplying modern war materiel to western nations.
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Japan
Osaka
Royal Baking Powder Endorsed as Superior Pure Leavener
The note warns against all baking powders except Royal due to inconsistent strength and poor results from substitutes. It claims Royal maintains full leavening power from can to can, producing lighter, healthier, more economical baked goods.
Oyster causes death of a fisherman duck near Claiborne
Captain Edward A Caulk of the steamer Tangir reported a dead fisherman duck found near Claiborne Maryland The duck fed on fish and oysters Its long bill wedged in an oyster shell as the oyster closed The weight pulled the duck under water drowning the fowl The oyster was not heavy enough to sink the body intentionally.
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Edward A. Caulk
Tangir
Claiborne
Baltimore Sun
A Real Lake of Fire in Hawaii's Volcano
The Saint Louis Republic describes Lake Dana as a vast molten lava lake ten miles across in Hawaii. It portrays the surface as a sea of red hot water splashing within a 100 foot high rim. Honolulu resident J. J. Walliams is cited as an expert noting the lake is never still or calm.
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Hawaii
Lake
Dana
Dana Lake
J. J. Walliams
Honolulu
5St. Louis Republic
Babies' Weight At Birth At New York Woman's Hospital
The New York Woman's Hospital reports baby boys weigh eight to twenty ounces more than girls at birth. The average boy weighs seven pounds while the average girl is six and a quarter pounds. Boys are described as more delicate harder to raise and cranky compared with girls who demand regular meals and prompt attention to grow strong and happy.
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New York Woman's Hospital
St. Louis
Snails Show Remarkable Tenacity Of Life On Cedros Island
A United States National Museum note by Mr. Stearns describes land snails collected on Cerros Cedros Island off Lower California. Six years later one snail woke after moist earth, and another shell from Lower California revived from a two years, two months, and sixteen days slumber.
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Mr. Stearns
United States National Museum
Cerros
Cedros Island
Lower California
Lower
California
Reverend Charles Pr a portrait teased by a disease tale
A frayed portrait of Rev Charles Praa recalls his long struggle with a Senate disease and the healing claims around Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pills. Advertisements tout tonic benefits, nerve strengthening, blood enrichment, and digestive relief with endorsements from doctors and lawyers.
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Charles Pr
Eye of Carmel
Northumberland Co
Seecneees
Pierce
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