Progressive farming ideals and practical guidance clash
The piece from American Cultivator argues against rapid growth and high status farming. It urges beginners to start small, learn by doing, and develop skills before expanding, contrasting with extravagant plans of the young progressive farmer and stressing steady, self made progress over haste. It also offers diverse agricultural tips on crops, livestock, manure, fencing, and orchard care.
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Boston
Ben
Perley Poore
Tle
Ife
Ste
Kevin
Ant
Recipes and fashion notes from a 19th century magazine
A miscellany of household instructions and etiquette reporting on food prep like slicing and frying hominy and parched rice, beets peeling, and beets boiling. It includes a foxed column on bromine as a disinfectant and home carpet weaving methods, plus extensive women’s fashion trends from cream colors to lace, veils, beading, hats, gloves, and jewelry.
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Magazine of Pharnacy
Messina
A Central American Hotel and a Remarkable Coffee Moment
The article describes a Guatemala dining room in dire disorder with pests and matted condition yet notes an exceptional Central American coffee. The narrator praises the coffee’s intense berry flavor, prepared with hot water from a rustic jug, calling it worthy of the gods and superior to Parisian blends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guatemala
Paris
Harpi's Magazine
Races and Climate Shape Ancient Peoples Across Lands
Quain's Dictionary argues that European Aryans and Indian subcontinent inhabitants share common origins but climate over millennia transformed them. Historical records show European peoples failed to sustain life in Nile valley and Algeria against hot climates, while native peoples endured.
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Europe
Indian
India
Palestine
Egypt
Nineveh
Babylon
Valley of the
Nile
The
African
Algeria
Quain
Judge Draws Ring to Decide Mother's Claim
In China a judge settled a custody dispute between two women claiming an infant. He drew a chalk ring on the ground with the baby at center and told the claimants to pull the child. One woman refused to pull, and was awarded custody of the infant.
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Paris
Palmer-Nevada
Hilda
Nassau
A. T. Stewart
Fifth Avenue
Baldwin
Philadelphia
Fleware
Robert Garretto
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Brewer
New York
Hayti
Salomon
China
Echoes from Vessels in Fog Aid Collision Warnings
Experiments show echoes can be produced from sailing ships and steamboats at distance. A musket with a speaking trumpet aimed at passing vessels fires tank cartridges to trigger echoes, potentially detecting even small objects like icebergs in fog to prevent collisions.
South Australia markets and trade trends across wool meat and fishing
The piece outlines South Australia के major industries wool wheat and gold with wool export values around 90 to 100 million dollars and sheep counts between 50 and 90 million. It notes rapid growth in frozen mutton exports to Britain, meat preservation by condensed air, and global fish production nearing 1.5 million tons with vast sheep comparisons. Also mentions Dutch Mormonism activity in Zwolle with large meetings and converts.
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South Australia
Great Britain
New Zealand
America
Digestive Aids and Remedies Advertised in Old Section
A scattered OCR passage touts Hostetler's Stomach Bitters for dyspepsia and digestive woes, Ely's Dream Balm for catarrh, hearing, and nasal issues, Kerr Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya as a tonic, Beesons Aromatic Soap, Hop Plaster for aches, Dr Tiane Thompsons Eye Water, Lyon's Heel Stiffeners, and Piso's Cure for Bronchitis. It lists ships and officers as curiosities and various stores and manufacturers with promotional tone.
Prominent 1880s medical and product notices from Buffalo and beyond
The piece cites Professor Bartholow on chlorine and morphine for cholera and highlights the Invalides Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo with an eighteen physician staff and broad cures for nasal throat lung and other diseases. It promotes the World’s Dispensary Medical Association and their 165 page guide, plus Dr Sage’s Catarrh remedy and notes foreigners own about 25 million acres in the U S.
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World's Dispensaryedical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
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Altai Range
Caucassus
Solomon
United States
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Amsterdam
Ironingue
Leeuwarden
Devente
Ist
Golden Medical Discovery
Krewer & Co
New England
Washington St
Ely
Mility Kros
Owego
N. Y
Catarril and
Yates
Upper Istey Broome Co
Calixaya
Caswell, Hazard & Co
Wim
Dreydoppel
Tiane
Hankin Co
P.O
N.Y. City
Lyon
Bartholow
Hawk
Dr. Sage
Wa Vaiss Pnt Vt
Rep
PROMI
Uber Es
Emet
GT Jacobs
Charles A. Vogeler
Ted
Wornite
Standard Silverware Co
Mass
Pei
Wilson
Buston
Pax
J. C. Hoffman
Jefferson
Wisconsin
Thurston
Ysr
N.Y
Wan
Bey Atbys
Soros Veng
Sherine
Howe
Tele Irapay Samiane Fariaiet
Valentine Icesdanesville
Was
Soldiers & Heirs
Staray Pensions Iis
Blair
Pi I
Reel Kidder
Dinos
Express
Marsh
Quincy, Mich
Woodbury Company
Dude L Bixe Bam
Washington, D. C
da. J. StraNns
Lebanon
Obi
Swift
Joreik A
Uliem
Bette
Adda
Dr. Tart Bros
Hochester
the Youths Companion
Companion
France
Germany
Adventures
Arctic
Madagascar
Morro Castle
Montana
Lieut. Greely
Lieut. Shufeldt
C.F. Gordon Cumming
E. W. Thomson
WM. H. Rideing
Patriot
Juan Romero
James W. Towle
Frank W. Calkins
T. C. Hoyt
J. T. Trowbridge
Geo
Manville Fenn
M. R. Housekeeper
C. A. Stephens
Charles Egbert Craddock
Natural History
J. G. Wood
Spencer F. Baird
James Green Wood
F. W. Calkins
ZOO
Zoological Gardens
London
A. F. Myers
Col
T. W. Knox
W. T. Hornaday
Arthur Rigby
Roumania
the Marquis
Lorne
James Anthony Froude
She Queen
Hristine Nilsson
Canon Farrar
Wilkie Collins
Richard A. Proctor
Francis A. Walker
Clara Louise
Kellogg
C W. Eliot
Harvard University
Noah Porter
Yale College
F. A. P. Barnard
Columbia Collega
Moses Coit Tyler
Gornell College
H. Butterworth, Rob T. D. Brain
Rerbert W. Gleason
Shakespeare Club
W.j.rolfe
W. Smalley
Ths
H. E. Willis
Lemuel Paxton
John Marshall
J. Esten Cooke
Oscar Knox
Benj. F. Spencer
A. D. Childs
T. W. Stark
W. A. Hammond
Battle of
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Thos. 8. Hopkins
Amos Murray
House OF Commons
Princess Bismarck
Lord Tennyson
Wild West
Turkey
U. S
California
Santa F E
H. W. Lucy
Seph Hatton
E. M. Ames
Bram Stoker
Lieut
Schwater
J. L. Harbour
Cox
Prof
Hoffman
Helen Hunt Jackson
Perry
Mason & CO
Temple Place
Trowbridge
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