Irrigation the Cure and the Rise of Garden City
A California man near Garden City Kansas proved irrigation could revive a ruined wheat crop and spark a regional irrigation movement. The Arkansas River mill race failure gave way to vast crop surges and a push to expand irrigation across the semi arid West, reshaping industry, law, and society in Kansas and beyond.
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Finney County
Kansas
Arkansas River
Garden City
Great Plains
Hundredth Meridian
Creedy
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Garden
America
Dakotas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Texas
Congress
William 4
Smyth
Wires Over Hoosac Tunnel Debunked and Diamond Talk
A jeweler dismisses rumors about telegraph failures in the Hoosac tunnel on the Fitchburg line and explains wires run over the mountains due to damp tunnel insulation. He notes myths about red diamonds, explaining color does not define gem type and mentions Baldwin's collection of red pink and green stones and a white ruby.
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Hoosac
Fitchburg
America
India
Baldwin
Mahatma
Buffalo Times
Visitors Seek Game Law Facts From Gov McConnell
Captain Jim Camas Jim and two Snake River Indians met Governor McConnell seeking information on game laws and a meal. The governor issued a document stating the law applies equally to whites and Indians. The small remnant tribe, once numerous along the Snake River, now dwindles to around twenty members after a long history of killings and disease.
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Jim
Bannock
Camas Jim
Snake River
Sormal
Salmon Falls Ferry
Beach
Sense of Color in Animals
The article argues that dogs and larger quadrupeds show little color perception or preference. It notes cattle react to white and dark contrasts, a setter ignores a black rabbit, dogs ignore red versus blue rugs, and cats show no color bias. It concludes color as a lure has been notably absent across species.
Way Worth Imitating by Dayton Manufacturer
Charles H. Patterson of Dayton Ohio told in New York how kindness to workers paid he built a school to teach smarter work and time saving calisthenics and coffee and soup served free he opened a laundry to save home washing bought 1000 aprons and set up a rest room with cot and medical chest the result was willing strong labor and good payback
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Charles H. Patterson
Dayton, C
New York
The Superfluous Words and Carleton’s Law in Advertising
The Philadelphia Record cites Charles Carleton Coffin who urged writing naturally as if speaking and then trimming every word unnecessary to sense. His principle, to be sincere and concise, became a model advertisers use to achieve vigor and economy in publicity.
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Charles Carleton Coffin
Philadelphia Record
Turn Out the Gas A Curious Buffalo Hotel Incident
An old man at a Buffalo hotel reg...goes through a night in his room while seeking gas after a neighbor warns him. He laments not finding gas and contemplates leaving, fearing a note to his cousin and a possible rebuke from Sile Soule. He weeps as the scene closes.
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War
Kat Ms
Buffalo
Jim
Opals and Remedies in a Miscellany of 1890s Notes
A collage of observations on opals, cures, and social notes. It notes Hungary as a major opal source with Mexico yielding vivid stones and warns of wear and dulling from handling. It mentions Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, Piso’s Cure, and Edison’s horseless carriage prophecy, plus social and labor mentions.
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Angel
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Ohio
Mars
Goe
California Fig Syrup Company
Watts
Potts
Chas
U.S. A
Geo. W. Peck
Wisconsin
Geo. H. Heafford
Old Colony Building
Chicago
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Webster
Hungary
Mexico
Beltz
Sth Ave
Denver
Col
Cee
Edison
Parker
Hindercorns
Alda
Australia
Ayer
Dr. Brew
Dee A
Tandard
Usseme Court
Behoos
Chicago Times-Herald
C. Merriam Co., Publishers
Springfield, Mass
U.S.A
Walter Baker & Co
Walter Baker & Co., Ltd
Dorchester, Mass
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