His Horror of Dogs and Alphonse Daudet’s Fearful Memory
A Philadelphia Press excerpt recounts Alphonse Daudet’s vivid childhood terror of mad dogs in a Provençal village. He recalls a near encounter with a “chin fou” mad dog, the arid setting, his innkeeper foster father Garrimon, and villagers armed in fear. The fear extended to all animals, with his children inheriting it.
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Alphonse Daudet
Nurse
Fons
Garrimon
Philadelphia Press
Garden planning an icehouse for effective storage
A guide outlines essential icehouse conditions including a dry sealed foundation, an airtight nonconducting wall, a ventilated roof, and a solid packed ice block. It recommends a wooden double wall with dry porous filling like sawdust or tan bark, elevated windward location, a tight roof, a cement floor with drains, and specific block sizes to prevent air circulation. Underground storage is deemed to fail.
North Dakota Adopts Campbell Farm Method Across States
The Campbell system of farming, described in The Country Gentleman, is being tested in North Dakota and similar experiments operate in Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, and both Dakotas. Major railroads like Burlington, Rock Island, Chicago Milwaukee St Paul, Northern Pacific, and Great Northern back the program, aiming to raise crops with limited rainfall. The process uses deep plowing, soil pulverization, and a mulch from a dust blanket to improve moisture retention for wheat.
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Campbell
North Dakota
Milwaukee Sentinel
Kansas
Nebraska
North
South Dakota
Minnesota
Burlington
Rock Island
Chicago
Milwaukee
Powers Reveals Corn Field Method For State Fair Prize
John Powers of Prophetstown Illinois describes his one acre method that won first prize for largest corn yield at the Illinois state fair. He used sixteen loads of manure on the plot, deep fall plowing in 1896, spring harrowing and repeated cultivation, and thorough thinning of stalks and suckers.
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John Powers
Prophetstown
Ill
Sunshine drives sugar content in beets, expert says
An Orange Judd Farmer note explains that sun exposure, not heat, largely determines sugar percentage in beets. Arizona leads U S in sunshine, followed by New Mexico, with beets showing high saccharine content but sensitive to a few cloudy days before harvest.
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Orange Judd Farmer
Arizona
United States
New Mexico
Ohio farmers harvest homegrown coffee in Chillicothe
A Chillicothe experiment to grow coffee from seed has progressed beyond testing. Families including Emma Reis Gibery Reider Sr Anna Kontzen and Caroline Reider report satisfactory crops this season with 80 plants yielding a near year’s supply for Mrs Reider. The roasted ground result is praised as superior to market blends.
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Chillicothe
Emma Reis
Gibery Reider
Anna Kontzen
Caroline Reider
Pocket Piece Born of Maine Seaman Stirs Curiosity
H A Sylvester of Rockport Maine carried a single cent since boyhood. He kept the coin through candy temptations sea wrecks mining trips and long travels to California Idaho and Montana. He refused to exchange it for any sum and even asked rescuers not to lose it at a perilous moment. Independent reports note the strange lifelong keepsake. A separate item from Indianapolis Journal reports the death of a young man named Phillips employed by John H Edenfield near Stillman Indiana who shot himself after days of drink and requested three items for his coffin including a handful of sand for a final confrontation with the devil.
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H. A. Sylvester
Rockport
Maine
California
Idaho
Montana
Lewiston
Stillman
Ind
Phillips
John H. Edenfield
Here
Indianapolis Journal
Copyright race on phrase adds Just to quote
The Richmond Times notes two song lyricists rode a copyright chase over a line from a popular tune. One writer added Just to the sentence to claim the tag After the Ball. Both secured copyrights in the expression.
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McKinley
Richmond Times
Sarah Bernhardt Endures Daily Vitriol Threats
The French actress says her life is wearied by constant watchfulness after threats of vitriol. She has been escorted everywhere following a warning from Mile Klein’s mother, who months earlier threatened to throw vitriol and was confined in an asylum at Bernhardt's request.
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Sarah Bernhardt
Mile
Klein
Sarah
New York Tribune
Trial in Kansas City Court Sparks Laughing Moment
During a lawsuit in Judge Henry's court in Kansas City a burst of laughter arose when Liv Lownend claimed injuries from a misstep. George Jones for the city argued slipping was due to the step, and a moment later Jones himself stumbled over the same step, drawing more laughter.
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Henry
Kansas City
Liv Lownend
Tip.t
George Jones
Myr
Tin
Jones
Kansas City Journal
Heirs of George G. Seaton Face Cigarette and Alcohol Rule
The will of the late George G. Seaton of Rockford Ill set aside $100 to $200 to four nieces and six nephews with a rule that if any legatee uses cigarettes or alcohol to excess that portion shall go to a charitable institution chosen by the executors. The Philadelphia Press notes the unusual condition attached to the legacies.
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George G. Seaton
Rockford
Lr's
Philadelphia Press
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W. D. Howells
Paris
New
New York
Bazar
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London
Poultney
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W. J. Dyer & Bro., Music Dealers
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Liensis
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Siam
Bangkok
India
Europe
Germany
France
Canada
Mexico
Harper & Brothers, Publishers
New York City
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Henry James
Chichester
Soma
Chichester Chemical Co
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