Royal weddings and world events in a shifting tide
A kaleidoscope of early 20th century chatter covers royal weddings, global politics, exploration, and social norms. Notes on Comets Hallleys comet predictions Wu Ting Fang Panama Canal, milk distribution, and a deadly duel in Chicago reflect a world in flux. Mentions of European powers, Tetuan, Greenland coal, and American humor juxtapose with travel, shipping orders, and postal reforms.
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Morocco
Moore
Tetuan
Martha Washington
Greenland
Ellesmere Land
Farmers Ideals and Their Moral Proof as Citizens
The piece extols farmers as the nation’s best citizens, asserting their purity, industriousness, and charity. It quotes Roosevelt on the farmer's wife, notes the farmer’s honesty and burden of taxes, argues for fair compensation for farm products, and praises country charity and self-reliance while condemning urban comparisons.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Mount Vernon Sundays Closed Disappoint Visitors
Mount Vernon the Washington home and tomb remains closed to the public on Sundays. The rule frustrates travelers including visiting dignitaries such as Sir Edlinand Barton the Australian prime minister, who could not gain access on Sunday. Efforts to relax the rule failed, leaving the visitor to depart without seeing the historic site.
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Mount Vernon
Washington
America
Potomac
Edlinand Barton
Australia
Edward Barton
Disease As Business Occupation of a Man
A New York man faced a magistrate for speeding and claimed his job was rheumatism. The piece satirically argues a disease can become a man’s occupation, growing from minor symptoms to all hours of wakeful thought, immune to economic downturns.
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New York
High Class Melodrama’s Enduring Popularity
A discussion asserts that high class melodrama remains appealing to all people, entertaining both men and women and diverting them from troubles. It notes the genre rewards virtue, censure vice, and would persist for a millennium even if renamed.
Silo as a permanent factor in American husbandry
A historical instructional piece extols the silo and silage as a lasting, economical method for storing green feeds. It favors round stave silos, warns against large diameters, and explains construction details, feeding capacity, and the need to avoid milk taint from silage.
Soy Beans a Good Crop for Forage and Feed
Wisconsin experiment station began testing soy beans in 1899 to evaluate their forage value and adaptiveness to local soil and climate. Michigan green variety proves suited for silage with corn, tall vigorous growth, erect stems, and easy harvesting. Planting methods vary from drills 80 inches apart to grain or broadcast sowing, with seeding rates around one bushel per acre. Uses include hay, pasture, and hog feed, with potential to improve soil fertility and provide fall hog feed.
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Wisconsin Experiment Station
Michigan
Cleanliness in Dairy Practices Highlighted
The article argues for strict hygiene in dairy operations year round. It contends that even in summer, when cows are active in the yard, udder washing before every milking is essential to prevent contamination and ensure milk quality.
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Mtry
Pasturing Hogs on Alfalfa Practices
Pasturing hogs on alfalfa benefits from ample pasturage. After grazing, cut remaining forage for hay to give a fresh start. This regrowth yields more pasture than letting the batches mature, increasing future forage supply.
Time for Churning Amid Sour Cream Warning
A fragment notes churn timing linked to cream souring and acidity, suggesting timing matters as flavors ripen. The text hints that fore periods of churning align with acidity becoming evident, though details are unclear.
Perpetual motion device and early crossing feats described
An OCR fragment describes a Chicago exhibited perpetual motion device with a glass disk wheel and twelve niches, claiming delicate balance and a first government patent. It mentions Westlake attempting a Channel crossing in a makeshift craft and other early sea and land crossing attempts, along with notes on farming decline and vegetarian debates in Japan and Britain.
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Chicago
Chicigo
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Idaho
Gownipey
Europe
South Pole
Lake Michigan
Moe
Fialley
Wu Ting-Fang
Panama Canal
New Jersey
Maryland
Lord Beresford
Healeer
Italy
Portugal
Greece
St. Louis
Fim
New York Hudson-Fulton
United States
Boston
Liverpool
Stara and Stripes
Iettera
Farmers’ Ideals
Bostice
Prof
A. S. Glover
Awity, Ann
Ha, Moore
Engl
Westlake
Thomas
North
Rotterdam
Calais
Chaucois
Dover
Conoe
Tokyo
Yokohama
Osaki
Kigoya
George, Jr
Collier's
Jane
New York Press
Perpetual Motion
Mathinij
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