Book farming boosts crop yields with modern methods
John R. Spears explains how by book farming soil can yield more. He cites 1901 potato yields of 150 bushels per acre, but notes growers reach 290 and even 400 bushels. Canadian farms near Ottawa reported 772 bushels per acre on small plots. Turnips yield 400 bushels then, today 600 to 800. mangles exceed fifty tons. String beans pay well, with pods selling for five cents a quart, potentially $1,000 an acre.
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John R. Spears
Ottawa
Tennessee Legislator’s Ad journment Remark Echoed in Tennessee Echo
A South Carolina representative recounts a Tennessee tale from the Fort Donelson era. With Nashville besieged, Governor packing as word of the fort’s fall arrives, Speaker Welch claims Heaven if adjourned. A East Tennessee member quips that adjournment to heaven would deprive them of a quorum.
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Tennessee
South Carolina
Fort Donnelson
Nashoville
Falling Asleep in Sections
A New York college lecturer explains that sleep occurs in stages with senses succumbing in order: sight taste smell hearing then touch last. He notes the mind may be active or deranged while senses fade, and jokes about police on the west side remaining alert as long as some senses stay awake.
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New York City
West Side
New York Herald
Judge Bishop and Gen Butler in East Cambridge Court
In a Massachusetts superior court session Judge Robert R. Bishop presided as a back-country farmer testified about dates. He claimed 1882, explaining the year by noting Ben Butler defeated Bishop for governor. The piece also cites Congressman Scott on electoral college certification and notification gaps.
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Bishop
Gen. Butler
Superior Court
East Cambridge
Mass
Robert R. Bishop
Ben Butler
Rob
Open Street Test Of Vienna Stage Celebrities
A Vienna street experiment by Gerda Walde Louis Treumann Edward Eysler and Alfred Dentsch German tested public taste without theater trappings. Disguised as ordinary passersby they performed songs like Go Open Your Window Kissing Is No Sin and Now They Play and Dance for Us. Takings totaled 68 kreuzer, split among the quartet, proving the public’s judgment may differ from theatrical presentation.
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Vienna
New Orleans Times Democrat
Gerda Walde
Louis Treumann
Carl Theater
Edward Eysler
Alfred Dentsch
Tiut
Neither Fish nor Bird Doctor Emerges in Yankee Tale
In a Harper's Weekly tale from York Murder Me a fisherman Jed Brooks recalls a humorous misunderstanding about an osteopath at the harbor. A visitor asks if there is an osteopath, but the old man discovers the term refers to a bird, not a fish, leading to the punchline about a new-fangled kind of doctor.
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Jed Brecks
York
the Hill
Mark Twain
Brooks
Jed Brooks
Steve
Harvard College
Harper's Weekly
Town in decline argues against growth and trains in a frontier debate
In a Springfield Republican piece, Hiram Hicks and Rastus Green dispute the town’s fate. They lament decades of stagnation, arguing no hotels or depots will redeem the place. The grocer EMI Jones and other locals voice a somber, determined view that the town is "going down."
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Hiram Hicks
Bill Jones
Pose for the Artist Portrait Joke In Congress
Representative McNary of Massachusetts jokes about Irish bulls and a sitter wanting to be painted standing behind a tree. The anecdote likens a contractor’s wealth to a portrait commission and ends with the artist asking for the sitter’s pose.
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McNary
Massachusetts
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Harness & Saddlery
Bowbells, N. D
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Rembember
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Tate & Hurly
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John Shippam & Son
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City Dray
N. Dak
Electoral College
Charles F. Scott
Kansas
Washington
Rastus Green
Hiram Sicks
Ant
Emi Jones
Ailus
Springfield
Republica
Roswell, & Miller Hats
R. B. Cox
Fancy & Staple Groceries
R. B.cox
Jens Peterson
H.dyckman
Thro, Albrecily
Acwider
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Womlwend, Jr
Asst
First National Bank Capital
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Axel Gillstrom
Langworthy Lumber Company
Langworthy Lumber Co
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Peter Dahlquist
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