Odd Bits From The World And A Roosevelts Horses Tale
A miscellany notes France using 66 000 tons of consumption and 104 000 tons of tax quarry. An ancient Russian grand duke was charged 20 francs for hothouse peaches in Paris and quips that grand dukes are. In Holy Land Jerusalem gains electric lights phones and phonographs with trolley plans to Bethany and Bethlehem. President Roosevelt buys three long tailed high stepping horses for his carriage. In Suco Maine Baptist church a constant unnamed noise is found to be bees and fifty pounds of honey hidden in a gable. A Norfolk note cites a cod lore from 1626 about midsummer captures and a wary line about literary diets of fish. A few yellow journals may have been eaten by mistake.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Baptist Church of
Suco
Sexton
Norfolk
England
Lynn Deeps
Cambridge
French Religious Law and Other Historic Notes
The law in France requires religious associations to submit to general law and bishop oversight, barring groups loyal to superiors abroad. The piece also notes a proposed abolition of Black Maria in Britain, the origin of the term, and discusses urban housing ideas for working people, Old River Lea ship discovery, and King Alfred era ties.
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France
Republic
Lord Rosebery's Astounding Proposal and Olympic Plans
Discussion on Brazil possibly yielding to U S coffee duties, Porto Rican protectionism, and liberal concessions to preserve trade. Lord Rosebery’s call for businessmen running government, his long public service, and his blunt speech style are noted. The piece then shifts to 1904 Olympic plans, predicting broad athletic events beyond ancient stadion feats, including city and police contests, sailing, swimming, water polo, and other modern spectacles, signaling progress in athletic prowess.
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United States
Brazil
Akill
Olympia
Greece
Brazil Increases Flour Duty Favors American Imports
The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies voted to raise the tariff on flour imported in bags while leaving barrel shipments unchanged. Argentine flour shipments to Brazil have declined, benefiting American flour producers at Argentine millers' expense. About two and a quarter million dollars of flour moved from the country to Brazil in the past year, with larger volumes previously under a reciprocity treaty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazil
Chamber of Deputies
Brasil
Brazilian Chamber of Deputies
Rhodes and Gordon Friendship in Basutoland
General Gordon met Cecil Rhodes in Basutoland and asked him to be private secretary. Rhodes declined after much hesitation, though Gordon valued him as an intimate and trusted friend.
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Cecil Rhodes
General Gordon
Chinese Gordon
Mr. Rhodes
Basutoland
From Farmer's Bay to Governor's Chair
A. J. Montague is Virginia's new governor elect, aged under forty, moving from attorney general to the executive mansion. He hails from a political family, studied at William and Mary and the University of Virginia, and has three children with his wife Mrs. Montague known for charm.
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A. J. Montague
Virginia
Middlesex
Young Montague
William and Mary College
Williamabore
University of Virginia
Danville
Commonwealth
Cleveland
Fils
Virginiia
A. Swanson
Montague
Swanson
Horticultural Notes on Orchard Spacing and Soil Fit
In Orchard culture the best spacing remains unsettled and varies with soil richness. Plant trees with care to avoid rapid, unhealthy growth on rich ground. consider nursery soil when buying stock and avoid cross-region soil-mismatch that stunts trees.
Winter strawberry beds cover with straw guidance
L. H. Callaway from Morgan County outlines winter covering methods for strawberries. He advises wheat straw 4 to 6 inches between rows and 1 inch over rows to allow spring growth, warns against chest or wheat grains in straw from modern threshing, suggests using old blackened straw, cautions against oat straw and alternative crops like cow peas or oats between rows, and mentions experimenting with a new material. A Kansas Experiment Station note reports hog gains: kafir corn meal with alfalfa bay averaging 90.9 pounds in nine weeks, versus 62.4 pounds with kafir corn meal alone.
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L. H. Callaway
Morgan County
Minos
Kansas Experiment Station
Debunking Wheat Production Cost Figures from Agriculture Year Book
A Pennsylvania reader contends that the Year Book of the Department of Agriculture misstates the cost of producing wheat. The Farmers' Review agrees the cited figures are absurd and notes labor accounts for roughly half the per acre cost, with wide data variation across states.
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Department of Agriculture
Thomas Penrose
Pennsylvania
Farmers’ Review
Penrose
Avery
World Wheat Crop Estimates For 1901 Read Worldwide
Foreign estimates place the global wheat crop at about 2 700 000 000 bushels. Hungary's agriculture department lists major figures by region including the United States 662 000 000 and Russia 417 000 000 bushels. He who has but one coat cannot lend.
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Department of Agriculture
United States
Canada
South America
Great Britain and Ireland
France
Spain
Italy
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Roumania
Turkey
Russia
India
Africa
Australasia
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Silver Messenger
M. M. Sweet
Challis
Idaho
Paris
Holy Land
Jerusalem
Bethany
Bethlehem
Lake of Galilee
New England
Maria Teo
Boston
Maria
Sto
Black Maria
Mills
New York City
Xounda
Beenes
Lea
Alfred the Great
Lord Rosebery
Lord Roseberry
Andrew Carnegie
Thomas Lipton
Earl
Mr. Gladstone
Lord RO
Farmer's Bay
Heepee
Oklahoma
Chicago Inter- Ocean
James J. Hill
Congress
Tadian Territories
Oklahoma Territory
Indian Territory
St. Paul
Eugene Dupuy
Detroit
American Pharmaceutical Association
Elech Montague
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