Pacific pirates still haunt the vast ocean frontier
A historical piece portrays modern buccaneers operating from Shanghai to Sydney and Hongkong to Nagasaki. It highlights how Chinese, Western, and native factions join raids, smuggling, and blackmail as “captains of industry.” Notorious figures like Red McLean, the Sea Wolf, are profiled amid seal rookeries raids and copious Pacific trade.
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Pacific
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic
South Sea
Great Sea
Buccaneer
China
Tta
San Francisco
Sydney
Hawaiian
Apia
Shanghai
Hongkong
Macao
Nagasaki
Singapore
United States Revenue
McCulloch
St. Paul Island
Red
Alexander
McLean
Bering Sea
United States
Salaam
Canton
Pirates Free the Salaam Officers Reported Wounded
A Canton steamer raid by pirates wounded Captain Joslin and aChinese guard, looting about 4000 and ammunition, while other pirates fled by junks. The ship reached Canton with authorities slow to respond. Separately, Pacific blackbirders such as Captain Habernick in Samoa trafficked islanders, paying workers meager wages while profiteers earned five dollars per head.
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Macdonald
Joslin
Wuchow
Canton
Kum Chuk
Kan Kong
Samphul
Sainam
Pacific
Polynesia
Micronesia
Anpodes
Captain Habernick
Samoa
Solomon Group
West Indies
Garden in Spring Advice for Efficient Planting and Weeding
The article urges thorough soil preparation with plowing harrowing and sound seed, using ample seed and well rotted manure. It stresses early weed control with wheel hoes, broadcasting fertilizer if used, and planting when apple trees bloom to avoid frost. It notes vegetables cost less per area than major grains.
Early Rye Use in Stock Feeding
Farmers note that while early green rye provides forage when grass is scarce, improper access can cause laxative effects and flesh loss in cattle. Proper use limits grazing time at first, then gradually increases exposure. Rye and crimson clover shorten winter feeding by providing early greens, but overconsumption risks bloat. if bowels are upset, offer corn meal mash with salt and hay.
Apple Orchard Centuries Old in Manzano New Mexico
The oldest apple orchard in America perhaps the world grows in Manzano New Mexico eighteen miles southwest of Estancia in Torrance County. Trees exceed six feet in circumference yet remain fruitful though neglected for generations. Local elders recall the orchard from childhood and stories of apples rotting two feet deep. Nearby lake and pine cedars offer a scenic camping site.
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Mansano
N. M
America
Manzano
Estarcia
Torrance County
Valley of the
Rio Grande
Estancia
Gran Quivira
Abo
Kansas City
Missouri Meerschaum Pipe Industry Origin Story
A historical note traces the Missouri Meerschaum cob pipe from a Smoky accident in which a Missouri man carved a cob and used reed as a stem. Washington Missouri became the world center, with corn as a double crop, pipes pressed daily, and 1876 as the founding year of the major factory.
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Meerschaum
Willamsport Grit
Missouri
Washington
Improving the Well and Spraying for San Jose Scale
A rural note discusses upgrading wells for cleaner drinking water by a ventilated platform with screens and straw winter covers. It also covers San Jose scale control using lime sulfur washes, recommending self boiled or steam boiled applications, and fall and spring sprays for badly infested orchards. Additional tips explain efficient plowing patterns to save labor on square acre fields.
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Iowa
Horhestead
San Jose
Profit in Squaba Breeder Discusses Annual Returns
A squab breeder claims the past year yielded about sixty cents per pair, with six pairs yearly giving roughly 33.00 in profit. Breeding costs can be under ninety cents per pair if bought wholesale, plus 50 cents for labor and supplies. The key to success is pure Homer stock and mated birds to avoid damage from unpaired ones.
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Homer
Mixed stock grazing effect on land quality and forage
A column discusses how grazing by cattle sheep and horses improves pasture. sheep avidly eat selective grasses while cattle thrive less with many sheep. It notes horses graze unevenly, benefits of mixed pastures, and how animals select foods. Also covers charred corn for fowls and horse ration rules.
Commerce of the Swiss Reaches Four Hundred Million a Year
Switzerland reports foreign trade surpassing 400 million dollars annually with 239,333,730 tied to imports and 170,055,504 to exports. Despite a population of 3.3 million and inland geography, its assets include mountains lakes and cities drawing tourists who reinvest millions in commerce. The U S trade with Switzerland shows strong surplus, with 1904 figures at 20,523,200 in exports and 10,?88,510 in imports, rising in the first five months of the current year.
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Little Republic
Globe
Switzerland
Republic
New York
Europe
United States
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South Seas
Wastington Herald
Missoudi Meerschaum
Balkans
J. F. Fraser
Alba
Tommy
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