Ex Governor Black Supports Forest Counsel Idea in Albany
Ex Governor Frank S. Black advocates for state forest protection and recalls his push for a forest commission counsel in Albany. He cites the need amid park legislation efforts. The piece also notes Europe’s longest rail run Paris to Constantinople at 1,921 miles in about sixty four hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank S. Black
New York
Albany
Forest Commission
Europe
Paris
Constantinople
Barrymore and Thomas Trade Stage Zingers in Wit Duel
Maurice Barrymore faced a sharp dig from Augustus Thomas who critiqued a Barrymore play. The actor retorted with a playful jab about the Alabama and the pace of writing, saying the work was done in a week. Thomas volleyed back that fast writing implied loafing.
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Maurice Barrymore
Augustus Thomas
Barrymore
Barry
Etty
Alabama
Thomas
Immense New Jersey Dairy Keeps 1000 Cows Clean and Fed
Hoard's Dairyman profiles Francis Francisco's Newark operation with 1000 to 1200 cows. New milch cows arrive weekly from Iowa. cows are tested and culled if not meeting butter fat standards. Milking is automated, milk stored in ice surrounded vats, and delivered to New York in refrigerator cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Francisco
Newark
New Jersey
Francisco
Iowa
New York City
Guidance on raising ducks for market from Farmers' Review
The article advises breeders to use old stock for ducks, cull drakes, and import unrelated drakes. It recommends a warm dry house, bulky feed, reduced corn, warm breakfast during laying, milk in mash, weekly charcoal, and rich protein like bean meat. A pond aids exercise. aim for one drake per five ducks and adjust herd size to market plans.
Duck Rearing Parallel: Rankin’s Early 1500 Ducks Story
Mr Rankin, a novice duck farmer, hatched 1500 marketable ducks from 30 laying stock. He leveraged standard farmer advantages to sustain production. Emma Clearwaters notes the contrast with ordinary farmers who produced 160 ducks from eggs in four weeks using no special aids.
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Rankin
Emma Clearwaters
Four-Horned Sheep Curiosity Seen in Pennsylvania
A Northwest Pennsylvania observer reports a four horned sheep breed from a ram left by a traveling company. The horns total thirteen feet in one ram, with two main horns and two branching ones. The flock, resulting from crossing Highland Blackface ewes with the ram, numbers twenty five to thirty and appears unique worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Butter Making and Market News From Maine to Canada
The piece discusses butter washing and working methods, noting Danes rarely wash butter yet obtain high English prices. It contrasts salt timing, room temperature, and two workings. It cites Kennebec Journal on Maine cream prices, Maine factory profitability, and cooperative vs direct selling. It covers sow breeding and Canadian dairy exports strategies and import needs.
Prince of Wales Visits Hindoo School in Madras
During a visit to a Hindoo school in Madras the Prince of Wales was greeted by students trained to say Your royal highness. When he pointed to a compass and asked its name a boy blurted Its a royal compass your prismatic highness, causing amusement.
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Prince of Wales
Madras
Railways expand Egypt and the Soudan to 2014 miles
The article notes 2014 miles of railway from Beeber to Kassala with Suakim under construction. It also mentions telegraph expansions by the B and O Railroad, new lines between Baltimore Pittsburgh Newark Chicago and Philadelphia Cumberland, and duplexing and quadruplexing interstate wires in winter. It includes a Swift anecdote about an American lady at a Highlands kirk and a minister's sermon, and adds health ads for Hall's Catarrh Cure and Magnetic Starch. It ends with Connecticut crime statistics improving from 2.48 to 2.33 per thousand.
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Egypt
The
Soudan
Beeber
Kassala
Suakim
Highlands
Pleus
Mark
Gabriel
Baltimore
Pittsburg
Parkersburg
Newark
Chicago
Philadelphia
Cumberland
Grafton
Grain-O Beat Coffee, Safer For All At Low Cost
Opium eating ravages workers in the fen district of Hants and Cambridgeshire England while Grain-O promotes itself as a harmless coffee substitute made from pure grains. It claims the rich mocha like color, gentle on stomachs, and one fourth the price of coffee at 15s and 25c per package.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fen
Hantz
Cambridgeshire
England
Cascarets Claim Phenomenal Candy Cathartic Victory
National ads trumpet Cascarets as a cure for constipation with five million boxes sold last year. Readers share testimonials from Chicago to Manitoba praising relief, while the ad cautions buyers to look for the CCC mark and avoid imitations.
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Cascarets
America
Larrabee St
Chicago
Albert J. Burt
Main St
Andover
Mass
Cay’ Durrant
Emerson St
Buffalo
Grass Hopper Jokes About Love and Marriages
Robert Hillard presents a young Englishwoman to see El Capitan. She is impressed by De Wolf Hopper and asks if he is married. He replies that Hopper has been married three times, and all three wives are dead. She responds with a pun about Hopper being a Grass Hopper.
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Robert Hillard
Vse
el Capitan
de Wolf Hopper
Mr. Hopper
Magnetic Starch Promises Longevity for Fine Linen
An advertisement extols Magnetic Starch for stiffening linen and lasting longer than competitors. It cautions against fortune hunting and notes courtship joys as ideal. A brief line mentions the German government planning a railroad project in Eastern Africa linked to the Capota-Cairo line.
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Africa
Capota
Cairo
Our Interests in China A Question of the Hour
The Hon. John Barrett writes with clearness in the Review of Reviews January issue on United States duties and chances as a Pacific power, outlining responsibilities and opportunities in China.
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John Barrett
China
United States
Pacific
Lord Watson Interruptions and Moral Maxims Cited
A private rebuke over interrupting counsel reveals Lord Watson’s wit. The entry notes hospitality as a Christian duty and cites De Piso’s Cure for Consumption praised by D. C. Albright. Also remarks that offences are pardoned with love and that mortifications often hurt more than calamities.
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Lord Watson
None but the guilty can be long and complacently miserable
A terse reflective line argues that only those who have sinned bear lasting, smug misery, implying moral judgment and self-awareness in guilt.
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Lowell
Agriculture Wilson
Chauncey M. Depew
Russell Sage
Thomas Edison
Madison Peters
General Merritt
Admiral Hichborn
al” Smith
J.C. Avzx Co
Lowell, Mass
Fay
Isantaclara Manufacturing CO
Qmaha
NEB
Swine Vaccine CO
Wymore
Seth Ak
Nold’s
Oreana Suns
Atlanta
Aes
Ec Raiois
Dairy and Poultry
Kennebec
Maine
Canada
Montreal
United Kingdom
Agricultural Department
Hall
FP. Cheney & Co
Loledo
Ohio
Rudyard Kipling
Dr. Mitchell
Quack
Dr. North
Connecticut
G. J. Gradwell
Mary Cummings
Maud
Oklahoma
EB. L. Irvin
Cor
Mead and Railroad
Meadville
Eunice J. Smith
Rich Valley
Cincinnati
Manitoba
John Wiegmink
Allegan
Mich.ie
Sterling Remedy Company
Ccc
Ake
de Piso
D. C. Albright
MiMinburz
Bears
Castoria
the Centaur Company
Ayaeee
Mateh Dow
Enfe
Kuife
Keen Kutter
Association
Nfekal
Ceeesseees Teeaee
Washburn
Jn- van Wise
Remington
Regina Music Sox
Confenental Tobacco CO
St. Louis
la Porta
Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi River
la Porte
American Land Company
Madison St
Yarter
Thompson
WN. U
Omaha
Cimaoda
Ottawa
W. W. Rennets
Life Building
O’pfarrell
New York Avenue
Washington, D. G
nSsid
W. Morris
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