Will and Wealth Separate a Daughter and Father
Abel Mitchell, a rich merchant, confronts his son Jim over a planned marriage to Emma Morris. Alice Mitchell, Jim’s wife, defends him, reveals Jim’s sacrifice and their quiet wedding, and urges reconciliation. Abel contemplates keeping peace by changing his will, but ultimately yields to family ties and plans to travel.
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Abel Mitchell
Jim
Emma Morris
Harrie
Sia
Min
Leried
Janey
Morris
AL Tier Jtoamson
Duthe
Tam Gui
James Mitchell
Tam Alice Mitchell
Mitchell
Abel
Abe
Alice
Farm Topics and Dairy Green Feed Advice
Clearing fence corners to let mower and reaper reach, and using weels and weeds to feed soil fertility. Green feed for dairy cows advised during dry weather with corn stalks and bran to sustain milk, plus water. Easy manure mauling noted as essential with a low-wheeled platform shown in a sketch.
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Providence
Farm Tools And Colt Breaking Notes From The Era
An 19th century passage outlines sturdy platformed rakes for farm work and practical horse training. It stresses bolted frames, safe hitching posts, and colt halter methods to ease early breaking. It warns that loose nuts ruin machinery and stresses regular checks for reliable performance.
Pear Meringue and Chocolate Gingerbread Recipe Tips
Household hints describe Pear Meringue with steamed pears and preserved ginger topped with a lemony meringue. Chocolate Gingerbread uses molasses ginger and chocolate, baked in three tins, plus a note on boiling starch for laundry use and ironing.
Nut and Apple Salads Featured In Seasonal Menu
A salad suite for the season blends nuts apples and celery. Slice apples and chestnuts boil until soft then mix with celery and dressing. The warm mustard paprika based dressing uses butter eggs vinegar and hot water. whipped cream folded in after cooling. A chicken and walnut salad adds parboiled walnuts and chicken liquor for richer flavor.
Household Uinta Tips For Home Makers From An Old Column
Practical household hints cover sewing, cleaning, and pantry care. Advice includes sending strips to weavers for portieres, making mayonnaise by chilling oil, moth prevention with red pepper and camphor, using charcoal to absorb odors, cotton as stain remover, and quick whipped cream method using a cold glass jar.
School savings banks and their spread in the United States
The Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania pioneered school savings banks. The system, spreading via Pennsylvania New York and New Jersey, uses teacher led weekly deposits into student accounts with transfers to mutual or postal banks. Captain Pratt reported growing deposits from 1870 to 1958, highlighting savings as civic training and urging postal savings Bank legislation to aid wage earners widows and children.
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Carlisle
Postal
J. H. Thiry
Long Island City
N. Y
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Munual Savings Ford
United States
Phicy
Ars
Posteriies
Mutual Or
Postal Savings Bank
Captain Pratt
Government Indian Industrial School
Penn
School Savings Bank
Carlisle Savings Bank
Pratt
Vicinit
Wisconsin
Congress
Passare
House Committee
Serena Taylor Aferrill
Chicago
The Mortgage as a Cruel Harrow on the Farmer
A Norton’s Monthly essay argues the mortgage is a self supporting yet crushing burden on farmers It endures droughts floods and bad springs but drains crops cattle and family It stalks the dairy steals bread and sickens minds and ages families toward the poorhouse.
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Board of Trade
Yiliow
Ebony located and varieties described with usage notes
The piece explains ebony’s geographic sources Gaboon coast Madagascar and Marcassar and notes density color and weight differences plus ease of staining and distinct markings for fakes. It mentions ebony logs sent to London for global manufacturing and highlights a Port Elizabeth boat race between British Navy crews and Malays with a British win by a length.
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Gaboon
Africa
Madagascar
London
Port Elizabeth
Cape Colony
Doris
Robert H. Harris
gZoint
Post Office Stamp Machine Proposed to Replace Hand Stamps
A speculative idea suggests a penny-operated stamp machine will automatically stamp letters. Philatelists may react with skepticism to the invention as a potential reform of postage.
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Jon
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Mitcuey
Lurope
Manu
Feria
Éadd
Stry
Kierer
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