Farm and Fireside notices and recipe snippets
A mix of agricultural tips from Farm and Fireside and Prairie Farmer on sailing advantages, peach leather making for pies, horse digestion guidance, butter color causes, a collard cake recipe, corn on clover sod with potatoes, and Chicago Druggist cures for severe scalds and burns with soap dressings and oil applications. Includes notes on fodder changes and drought risks.
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Chicago Journal
Exchange
Chicago
Chicary Draggist
The Curious Chemistry of Apple Cider and Vinegar
An article explains how malic and acetic acids form from fruit sugars and starches, noting the chemical changes in fruit and digestion. It details how water shifts starch to cane sugar and sugar to glucose, alcohol, and vinegar, then discusses oxygen exposure during fruit processing and cautions about antifeedant use and stomach gas.
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Tomes
Odd Bits From A Continent Of Fragments
Miscellaneous items describe a banned Catholic officeholding law in New Hampshire, a 2000 candle power lighthouse light near Rio de Janeiro, views on oxygen above the earth, a Japanese volcanic tree, and various European notes. Also included are tales of cigarmakers in New York, hydrophobia in farm animals, a Swedish breakfast scene with sparrows, shipping losses, and a dramatic hanging anecdote from Detroit.
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New Hampshire
Chicago News
Rio de Janeiro
Ono
Colorado
Mitchell County
Texas
Carlyle
Bin
Sweden
Norway
Mr. Chamberlain
N. Y. Star
W.d. Andres
Sumter
S.C
Bishopville
Strous Fost
San Francisco Argonad
Washm
Washington Star
Frank Chanfrau
California
Yonkers
Avi
Peck Slip
Derman
Chanfrau
Tribune
They Leave No Sting A Baby’s Kisses Remembered
A Baptist Weekly reflection on a baby’s death and a family’s tenderness. The mother explains a ritual of three kisses and one to grow on, as relatives vow to bless the child. The old man and others share grief, while kisses become comforting, guiding the departed toward paradise.
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Ben
Paradise
Baptist Weekly
Fattening Geese by French Methods in November
A historical note on fattening geese outlines that geese fatten best when killed for market during cold weather. It describes belly plucking, abundant feeding, and close confinement, with the French approach emphasizing cleanliness, quiet, and prompt processing. A cask feeding setup and buckwheat, barley, or Indian corn mash with milk and potatoes aids rapid fattening in three to four weeks.
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Parry
Seine Sde Seo Oo
Seaweed Uses Across Climates and Cultures
In tropical regions air bladders support vast seaweed strands hosting crabs, worms, corals, and eggs. In Scotland seaweed parts called tangles feed cattle and yield knife handles from hard stems. Rose tangles charms include dulse for food and as tobacco substitute. Chinese use a rose-tangle variety in glossia.
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Scotland
A Study in Human Nature in a Street Fight Scene
A vivid street altercation follows a ragamuffin and a dandy as they clash with punches and scratches while bystanders react. Police pursuit breaks off but later resumes, and the pair part briefly before reappearing together amid wary crowd commentary. The clipping notes many sunstroke cases in New York, mainly linked to drinking.
Indians at Union Depot give peacelike tour to crowd
Dozens of genuine and tame Indians paused at the emigrants waiting room in the Depot en route to the Indian Territory. Circling in a pipe of peace they smoked together and then primped before a watching crowd with mirrors and hair styles like society ladies. The mixed group, some employed by a traveling show, spoke different tongues while two women lacked looking glasses and wore no paint.
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Sree
Et Isc
Pringles Stee
Towa
Indian Territory
Union Depot
U States
Changes in the Drug Trade and Growing Drugstore Range
The article discusses shifts in the drug business over recent years. Drugstores now carry cigars, tobacco, tea, coffee, confectionery, and other items beyond medicines due to rent pressures and competition. It notes profits have declined from about fifty percent to around twenty five to thirty percent as sales volumes rose. It cites patent medicines sold below regular prices by some drugsellers and by dry goods or book stores. Additional snippets highlight various patent remedies and advertisements from era sources.
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Harlem Bridge
Regier
Crowley
Proprieto
Mr. Crowley
Oth ‘Thermidor
Tribune
Brutus
Socrates
Sratus
Hig Darer
Hierician
Robespierre
George J. Alansen
St. Nicholas
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Kansas City
Hamsky
Missouri
Baltamare
L. C. Emerson
Robie
Iit Aes
Towner
Pis Cosia
Pictures
Eligabeth A. Emerson
Gertrude Swayne
L. O. Emerson
Lyon & Healy
Oliver Ditson & CO
Catarrh Ely
Hay Eane
Owego
Promis
Esse
McCormick
Mack
Hop Bitters
RE. Prizrarucs
Dublin
Maldon
Beneft
E. D. Slack
Kansas City, Mo
CBA
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Ingish Boyer
Prem
United States
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Webbers
Randolph Street
Parsons
Leavenworth, Kansas
Mason & Hamlin
Oes
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