Weyler listed as butcher in famine siege Cuba letter
A Havana telegram to the Chicago Tribune recounts Weyler's concentration policy in Santa Clara Las Villas province. It describes civilians starving in fortified towns, cattle killed, mills blocked, and doctors unavailable while insurgents and authorities battle amid widespread suffering.
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Havana
Chicago Tritone
Interior
Meninza
Pinar del Rio
Ableton
Santa Clara
Rathel Rolfe
Spain
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Las Villas
Provina
Santa Clara Fe
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Sancti Spleline
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Bagna Ih Grande
Avosistricta
Wutelde
Conventrados
Weyler
Sittacito
Centrals
Wkll
Woyler
Gluten Feed and Its Value in Livestock Rations
A fragment discusses gluten feed as a protein rich supplement costing about $11 per ton. It notes its low starch, high protein content around 19 percent, and potential use with hay and corn fodder. The text mentions uncertainties in calculations and potential effects on milk, cattle, and poultry feeding.
Lime and Its Vital Role in Soil Health
Lime serves multiple soil benefits beyond plant nutrition. It fills sandy pore spaces, improves moisture retention and heat storage, and enhances porosity in clay soils aiding water and air movement. It sweetens sour soils, aids decay of organic matter to free nitrogen, and supports clover by activating other plant nutrients like potash though overuse can exhaust soil of potash and phosphoric acid, risking clover sickness.
Sugar Beet Seed Grant For Farmers Advised
The Agriculture Experiment Station will supply free high grade sugar beet seed to the first fifty farmers who request it. Recipients must be genuinely interested in the crop, follow cultivation directions, and report on growth and yield with samples sent for analysis at the station's expense. Address Davenport, Director, Urbana.
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Agriculture Experiment Station
Davenport
Urbana
Cost of production on the farm and hidden prices
The author argues that costs of producing wheat, corn, oats, hay and farm products are discussed in farm papers and on street corners while wholesale costs in coal, calico and coal oil remain secret. Producers influence costs by planning and work, and farmers should know costs but need not disclose them to everyone.
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Ahern
Retired Prince Bismarck Promotes Forest Plantings in Germany
In retirement Prince Bismarck follows accidniture and oversees the spread of hig forsst Lande with oak plantings across Germany. He informs admirers of unit investments, noting substantial sums like 4 to 10 thousand dollars for furnishing deposits and related cabinets, reflecting ongoing patronage and stock items.
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Prince Bismarck
Germany
Bismarck
Pawen
American Farming in Germany and New Markets
Long report on United States farmers aiming to improve quality and efficiency for German imports. Emphasizes scientific methods, waste elimination, and healthful standards to gain access to European markets. Describes German farming discipline, road improves, and the need for better marketing processes, plus a wood frame screen craft vignette appended.
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Germany
United States
Europe
Making Old Furniture Look New Across Handy Home Hints
A Victorian era tip guide explains women can renovate shabby furniture using a hammer and scissors. It covers sourcing tapestry cloth and gimp, removing coverings, cleaning wood, reupholstering with tacks, and applying oil to finish. It warns against removing the old cover too early and describes a historic chair transformation and repurposing of an opindlelegmed cube of furniture through years of movement and use.
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Childrin
Fertility Loss From Crops Shown By Egg Study
The Southern Plaster reports an analysis comparing fertility removed from soil by crops and poultry output. It notes 9 000 eggs worth 160 dollars use about 3.56 dollars worth of fertility, while crops like cheese, cattle, and hay take higher fertility. It argues that feeding hens with nitrogen-rich, balanced rations yields more efficient supply, contrasting cow milk with egg production and stressing the need for meat and bone in winter.
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Timothy Hay
First German Ladies Club Opens in Berlin
The first German ladies club started in Berlin at the year's start with Frau Minna Kauer as president. It aims to unite women in literary, artistic, scientific, and social work across ranks and parties, modeling after American clubs to combine the modern German women’s movement groups under one banner.
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Germany
Berlin
Frau Minna Kauer
Fashion note on hats and hose from a French influence
The piece describes hats trimmed high on one side and abundant flowers presented as weedy accents. It notes a French woman embracing extreme fashion with hose extending near the brim of her bonnet, signaling daring style in the era.
Planting of trike trout at Point au Sable atratie
A garbled note describes a planting of trout in the atratie of Point au Sable, with unclear references to Howard and a U.S. commission. The text mentions daily water purity goals and aims to aid beetth and Teeh water quality, though details are obscured.
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Point Au Sable
United States
Wisconsin Dairymen Discuss Milk Quality and Farm Hygiene
At the Wisconsin Dairymen's Convention Professor Farrington urged patrons to improve milk quality by farm education and clean practices. He outlined four patron classes and called for printed rules, stable cleanliness, proper milking, prompt cooling, and immediate transport to the creamer y. The discussion included pasteurization attitudes, separation timing, and a New Jersey dairy example stressing spotless milking environments and staff hygiene.
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Farrington
Bath
Denmarl
Professor Farrington
Mr. Hill
Henry
New Jersey
Francisco
England
New York
Tilly
Madison
Dairy In
Dipping Wheat and Grain Treatment Methods in Historic Guide
A detailed bulletin describes chemical treatments for wheat oats and barley including formalin copper sulphate and potassium sulphate. It covers mixing rates quantities and equipment such as dipping tanks hot water steps and temperatures for thorough grain disinfection and drying procedures.
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Pam
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Ghiten
Wwe
Wisconsin Dairymen's Convention
Partners
Harlow
Aderhald
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Udelan
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