An Honest View of the Western Reservation Travel
The author describes a crossing of the reservation from Pierre to Grindstone Buttes, noting terrain, soil, and alkali grass, with water as the main limiting factor. He interviews stockmen, assesses grazing value, and concludes the land is highly nutritious for cattle but unsuitable for year round farming without reliable water and irrigation.
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Pierre
Grindstone Buttes
Grindstone Creek
Shansel
Bad River
Ned
Peno Hills
Cheyenne
Rapid City
Old Purchase
Smithville
Selah
Missouri
Old Mexican Mines Yield Rich Spanish Era Ore
The York City report tells of an old Spanish mine in Mexico once blocked by a tri of force. Miller and three carpenters mined for two years, extracting about 30000 dollars in silver before deaths and a drowning cut the effort. They later formed the Yaqui Mining and Land Co, shipping ore to Colorado smelters and eyeing Diaz era colonization.
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Span H
Miller
George Washington
Mexican Central Railroad
Boston
Colorado
Yaqui Mining and Land Company
Diaz
San Antonio
Tex
Col
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Electricity Boosts Crop Growth in Russian Trials
Eugene Field reports experiments by N Specnev in Russia showing seeds exposed to electricity grow faster and larger. Haricot beans sunflowers rye and potatoes benefited with quicker ripening fewer diseases and potential immunity to phylloxera. Static electricity also produced rapid gains and low costs.
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Russia
N. Specnev
Agricul Re
Kiel
Eugene Field
Chicago News
How Screws Were Made Through the Ages
The article traces screw manufacture from 1569 with a French innovator Benson who filed threads after forging bolts, through Hindley’s 1741 screw cutting by screw plate, Wyatt patents in 1760, and subsequent patents to 1840 including Miles Verry’s 1837 three-machine system. It adds woodworking glue guidance advising proper clamping and avoiding hot glue on hot wood.
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Benson
Hindley
York
England
Job
William Wyatt
Miles Verry
Auction clang and stellar discovery intertwined in odd prose
The text blends a florid auction chant with a science note on Mizar and Alcor. It mentions a Harvard discovery about Mizar as a double star, with Alcor nearby and the brighter star pair described as brilliant white and pale emerald. The passage ends with an unclear line about Youthences.
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Harvard University
Alcor
Mizar
Gentleman Farmer Defined in Colonial Slavery Tale
A Maryland colonel, a large slave owner, asks a small boy who he belongs to. The boy says Col Nadier is a gentleman farmer who does not raise tobacco and must buy his corn. The colonel laughs at the joke and repeats it later in amusement.
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Ony
Anne Arundel County
Col. Maynadier
Baltimore Herald
Bacteria Found in Ice and Snow Hail Samples
Dr Fontin, a Russian observer, reports hailstone meltwater contains nine bacteria types including B mycoliquefaciens lu teus sarcina lutea and aurantiaca. Yeast and mold were absent. This suggests microbes of soil origin can be carried into the air and rain snow and hail may spread infection.
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Fontin
Chicago Herald
Tragic Fishing Accident On Hannibal Bridge
In Hannibal Missouri a colored man named Wilson fell from a bridge while fishing and drowned. His line held a twenty five pound hook on the end, recovered with his pole, as onlookers ponder the risk of luck.
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Hannibal
Wilson
Detroit Free Press
How to Obta Information
There is a person living at an address who wants to learn about someone else. The suggested plan is to visit in person to make inquiries, but this is described as potentially indelicate, raising concerns about propriety.
An Impossible Animal Says Bagsby Lies
A New York Ledger excerpt notes a boastful Bagsby claiming a trick dog will perform when guests arrive, while the speaker suspects Bagsby is deceptive about the animal and its skills. The dialogue highlights skepticism toward Bagsby’s claim of canine tricks.
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Bagsby
New York Ledger
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