Outdoor cellar boosts potato storage in frost
An Ohio farmer describes building an indoor grade outdoor cellar to protect potatoes and vegetables from frost. He details excavation, stone walls, an arch, and a wooden skeleton, with costs around 28.75 dollars plus labor. The method tolerates extreme cold and preserves crops through winter.
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Hove
Ecente Per Howe
Ainge
Mme
Wisani
Hiner
India
Petersine
Ohio
The San Jose Scale Remedy Discussion
The article discusses using dime sulfur salt wash as a lead remedy for an ore scale. It mentions Unslaked lime and ground sulfur with water, preferred by steam, and notes that the wash can cause sores and messiness, suggesting avoidance of repeated, disagreeable work.
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Ohio
Late keeping apples and future export prospects
The Midland Farmer reports that Canadian apple growers seek late-keeping varieties to boost winter export. Efforts involve crossing Russian types with native stock to gain hardness, keeping quality, and flavor. Despite size or taste drawbacks, patience and grafting may yield durable, late-winter apples meeting rising demand.
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Canada
Handy spraying rig on wheels for narrow rows
A compact wheeled platform pump setup designed for easy spraying in tight potato rows. The axle length adapts to row spacing, allowing horse passage between rows while wheels straddle them. The barrel and pump mount via iron hooks and rods, keeping the rig light, strong, and more maneuverable than carts or wagons. Written by Prof. Maynard and cited from Farm and Home.
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Maynard
Fruited Flowers and Governor Roosevelt Carna tions
In early summer, a blooming cosmos appears while peonies need ample water during May and June. The Montana State Horticultural society sets a standard apple package 19 by 19 by 22 percent, praising hardy perennials and noting shifts in garden fashion. Governor Roosevelt is hailed as one of the finest crimson carna tions on the market, with reports emphasizing quality and desirability.
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Roosevelt
Montana State Horticultural Society
Bem Davis
The First Post Office in the World and Its Formed Notes
A 1688 account details M. de Velayer creating street penny post boxes in Paris. Offices opened citywide, daily collections followed by one-delivery. Printed billets spurred postal expansion as forms replaced by blanks to fill. Also notes giant African umbrellas and a butcher's hat joke from NY Times.
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M. de
France
Washington Star
Moslem Table Etiquette and Salt Vinegar Beliefs
A clipped note cites the New York Sun claiming Muslims must begin meals with salt and end with vinegar to avoid disease and ensure prosperity. It adds the host starts the meal and leaves last, while priests recite Koran passages around meals and water drinking. A separate Pleenally Rebuke notes a London Express anecdote about a pickpocket washed hands before attempting a theft.
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N. Y. Sun
Talktypy: New printings system uses typewriter to cast
Printing and Typewriting describes a system called talktypy that enables a standard typewriter to produce the matrix for casting printing types. It claims to overcome line end vertical alignment and correction difficulties with special devices, according to the Industrial Journal.
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Industrial Journal
Impromptu Speech Denied by Great Man
The chair explains the committee seeks an impromptu speech for tonight. The great man declines, saying he can deliver an address but needs two weeks notice for an impromptu talk. A Judge cites time constraints as the obstacle.
Noted English circus man George Sanger grows rich
The Chicago Daily News recalls George Sanger who began as a showman with a trick pony for forty dollars. Now 75i years old, he owns a cost circus and menagerie valued over two million dollars and is very wealthy.
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George Sanger
Brief exchange sparks puzzled banter in odd stylus
A quirky dialogue between unnamed speakers features playful misprints and garbled phrases. The exchange hints at humor and wordplay, with snippets like brevity and wit contrasted against a surreal aside. The text reads as a fragment from a playful or experimental piece.
Highland 1.AD Full Blood Shire Stallion Service Policy
Full Blood Shire Stallion Highland 1.AD available for service with insured breeding to two or more mares. Pricing includes 316 season 15 dollars and single service 86s. Weekly schedule lists J Lyon, Max Steard, Louis Vanier, Jno A Cameron, Geo White, FF Crandall, Ang Shenk, S Westacott, Bottineau, Sam Lounsbrough’s. NEAU Shire Horse Company offers details.
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J. Lyon
Ice and the slippery path on ice and the Biddenden Maids
A Cambridge Philosophical Society note explains ice slipperiness via a lubricating liquid layer beneath pressure lowering the freezing point. Joly and Reynolds are cited on skating and cavitation aiding slip. The Loudon Chronicle recalls the Biddenden Maids, born joined at hips in 1100, who died together after 34 years and left land for annual bread and cheese for the poor and visitors.
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Philosophical Society
Cambridge
England
S. Sinner
Joly
Reynolds
Loudon Chronicle
Rivalry in Prayer
A small boy pleads to end the snow but it continues. His mother offers a practical explanation about different prayers and beings, reflecting on faith and intelligence in a gentle family moment sourced to the N. S. Tribune.
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N. S. Tribune
Arbors Attract Guests At Summer Hotel
A summer hotel proprietor cites decorative arbors and cozy nooks as a prudent investment to draw visitors to Tanppote. A curious passerby notes the appeal of such enhancements for romance and patronage, while an ad copy touts Cole's Gough Cure as a trusted remedy for mothers and children.
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Tanppote
Orden
Chinato Post
Cole
Gough
Do You Enjoy What You Hat Cause Dyspepsia Cure Ad
An old advertisement fragment discusses Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as a stomach remedy with claims of restoring nourishment and health. It mentions sale by Brothen and a brief humorous quote mix from various newspaper snips about humor and practical marriage.
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Brothen
Chicago Daily News
Fragmented News Snippets From The Era
A jumble of quotes and clippings notes optimism jokes about wealth and love, a map of the Mississippi’s reach with U S state details, a brief obituary of a Czech monk, and scattered references to embezzlement totals from 1908 across the United States and Canada.
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