Wild North Woods Seed Talk From Mead Towns and Meadows
In the northern woods Mr. Limey aids reforestation by liberating carloads of buffalo to shelter and forage. Rarities Cane forage promises to restore damaged natural riches with quick sprouting grasses like Balxer's Mixture. The John A Sulzer Seed Co advertises Catalogs offering oats, potatoes, and farm samples for fall sale to neighbors.
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Galeer
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John A. Sulzer
Evolution of writing implements through the ages
A brief overview notes that the quill or feather pen was introduced in the fourth century. It recalls the Bret steel pen appearing in the latter eighteenth century and the fret gold pen emerging in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Reward and oddities of a troubled era in one page
This excerpt blends a sensational patent medicine claim for Hall's Catarrh Cure with odd social commentary and a France bicycle registry law. It mentions a reward for information, dubious medical assertions, and a British style piece on Japanese women, plus a note on French bicycle plate taxation and ownership changes.
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Sernally
Proprieuers
France
Blcyeles Tt
Severn
Pass Lifetime in Penance Girls Shut Themselves Up
Miss Susan Deering died at Buchanan Michigan aged 76 after a long seclusion with her sister Kate. Once in New York they defied parents who forbade dancing, then returned home to a cottage where shutters stayed shut for twenty six years. Neighbors scarcely knew them. The two never met town residents, living in austere isolation.
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Susan Deering
Buchanan
Mich
Business Porson
Kate Deering
Misses Deering
New York City
Deering
New York Journal
A Gallboat on Rails In Buenos Ayres Inspector’s boat on wheels
John Tod, supervising engineer, converts a handcar into a sailing boat for official inspections in Buenos Ayres. The improvised vessel, rigged with a mainsail and jib, spans a broad yacht like seat and achieves speeds near forty miles per hour. Tod can propel it by hand when needed.
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New York Times
A Beautiful Old Agate and a Russian Lake Mystery
A beautiful agate owned by the wife of Berlin director Wortmannn is noted for markings resembling a woman's head with secessionist styling. A Russian commune reports unexplained earth sounds, rising water, and a new lake as geologists study the landscape. Western cattle show clever herd defense, forming inward-facing circles to shield calves from wolves.
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Wortmannn
Berlin
New Lake
Schava
Kzareff Koksaka
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