The Busy Bee Explores the Modern Hive and Bee Life
Arthur Warren explains in Youth's Companion how modern beehives work from an empty frame to a thriving city of honeycomb. He describes queen, workers, and drones, egg laying, royal jelly, royal cells, and hive maintenance as bees gather honey and pollen, defend the hive, and navigate using landmarks, with beekeeping praised as a profitable, disciplined rural industry in the United States.
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United States
Arthur Warren
Ice Cream Poisons and Food Adulteration Claims
A Chicago Journal piece warns that modern food adulteration creates new poisons in ice cream, cheese, and canned meats. It argues pure natural ingredients would end these hazards. includes a short Wayne Nebraska death by a sportive bull charging a fire engine during testing.
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Chicago Journal
A Railroad Incident and The Lesson Of Self Help
A Detroit Free Press excerpt tells of Phoebe a young woman traveling alone with her family bidding her farewell. The scene follows her cautious behavior and the humorous misadventures aboard a train as she faces strangers, a kitten in peril, and curious passengers before reaching Newton Center where relatives greet her, underscoring the refrain father taught her to rely on herself. The piece ends with a separate note on architectural arches and mortar costs from Dr Selah Merrill.
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Pheeb
Phebe
Jim
Phoebe
Reuben
Phabe
Kitty
Miss Phasbe
Newton Center
Miss Phosbe
Chicago
Sachel
Detroit Free Press
Selah Merrill
U. S. Counsul
Modern Jerusalem’s Poverty and Housing Crisis
The article portrays Jerusalem as impoverished with wealthy families ruined and rents high. It describes crowded stone houses with multiple families per dwelling, large shared courtyards, and costly cisterns. Water scarcity and expensive construction drive hardship, forcing minimal water use and filthy living conditions.
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Jerusalem
GREAT YOUNG MEN Borne by Youth to Distinction
A wide roll call of historical figures shows youths achieving prominence early. Fox, Cromwell, Bright, Bacon, Peel, Palmerston, Clay, Washington, Napoleon, Luther, Webster, Seward, and many others attained leadership or fame by their twenties or thirties, illustrating a persistent pattern of rapid rise across eras and nations.
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Charles James Fox
Great Cromwell
University of Cambridge
John Bright
Glads
Treasury
Lord Bacon
Cambridge
Martin Luther
Conde
Turenne
Webster
Congress
William H. Seward
New York
Washington
Maurice of Saxony
Napoleon
Italy
Waterloo
Leo X
Pope
James Buchanan
William Pitt
Europe
Queen Elizabeth
Victor
England
Lord Beaconsfield
Hamilton
King’s College
General Gates
the Treasury
John Quainey Adams
Mr. Dana
Prussia
Russia
A Lof
Tragic Track Collision Near Concord & Portsmouth Rail Line
An unidentified elderly woman walking with a large mastiff was struck and killed by an approaching train on the Concord and Portsmouth railroad. The dog remained by the body and wailed after the impact, as the locomotive engineer warned of danger.
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Concord
Portsmouth
N. HL
Rairoad
Home and Farm Practical Tips and Recipes
A collection of domestic advice from various papers on soils needing lime and bone phosphate, dusting cloth care, mowing machine maintenance with kerosene, fruit and berry notes, gooseberry tart instructions, stain removal with soft soap and soda, pudding sauce recipe, rice snowballs dessert, green pea soup with lettuce, lime and coal as gas absorbers in cellars, and chimney construction guidance for safer draw and durability.
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Concord
Delaware
Maryland
Boston
Toledo Blade
Art in Housekeeping as a Practical Art
The essay argues housekeeping is an art requiring study, practice, and patience. It promotes pride in every task from bed making to cooking, urges exact rules and order, and lauds quiet, diligent work as the path to harmony at home. It cites Miss Indolence and L Hugeile Eldridge in Good Housekeeping as guiding voices.
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Miss Indolence
L. Hugeile Eldridge
Summer Fallowing and Soil Health Debate
Jno McElroy argues against routine summer fallowing favoring crop rotation, growing clover, and shading light soils. He warns that leaving land fallow dries and bakes soils, reducing organic matter, while occasional harrowing preserves a mellow seedbed. He shares a farmer’s cost perspective on renting and labor versus actual profit, stressing farm-wide value over phantom charges.
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Jno. McElroy
Ohio
Despicable Tordies and Un-American Americans
A Boston Budget editorial denounces Americans who idolize European aristocracy and ignore American merit. It lambasts un-American behavior, shallow pretensions, and praise for individual worth as the true standard, contrasting it with costly titles and abroad influence.
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Europe
Am Riscan
Boston
Homemade Screen Embroidery and Cooling Bath Advice
A Victorian-era tip covers crafting a three fold screen with a stitched embroidery scene using simple materials and patterns cut from papers. Also included is Wunderlich’s advice that in tropical climates a warm bath daily helps counteract heat.
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Wunderlich
Familiar tonics and cures fill the era's remedy notes
A collage of medical ads and quotes extols remedies for nervousness indigestion biliousness and coughs. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is praised for calming nervous symptoms and aiding digestion while Piso's Cure for Consumption promises restful sleep. Tonics claim to fend off rheumatism fever and renal complaints as well.
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Hostetter
Also Mentioned on This Page
Grace
Ier
Laura
Wayne, Neb
Modern Jerusalem
Peel
Palmerston
Admiralty
Henry Clay
John Hampton
Oxford
Inner Temple
Gustavus Adolphus
Judge Story
Harvard
Supreme Court of the
Jackson
Jonathan Edwards
America
Yale College
Grant
Motino del Rey
Scott
Chapultepec
Worth
Fort Donelson
Vicksburg
N. Fo Mae
Express
Buriette
Indianapolis Journal
Art
New Yorker
Minnesota
Dakota
St. Paul
H. C. Fencer
Clark Street
Goodill
Sun
Odd Fellows
Denver
Col
Rock Island
Colorado
Alk
E. A. Holleroux
Bell
Boal
Pierce
Burlington Free Fess
Haven
Artidote
Macon
Bourday House
Tansill
Puasa
Frazer
Swayne
Avermif Us
ONDON
Phile Inesinus
Cockle
Adreas Porter Leon Rooflag CO
Cincinnati
DR. Pierce
Druciieta
Chermical
Worbn
Saze
W. Haisner
Ithaca
Ebro
Dr. Sage
Thomas J. Busing
Pine Street
St. Laws
Dr. Save's
Runyan P.O
Iambia Cn
Eam
Addrecs Mizard Ost
Phicago
ANN
Avvdrays
Warey, M. Ds
Oss
Michigan
AKF Forest
Ameritas Ostia
Sittess
Celine
Rokmuts
Fuanpal
LIMAX
Frank Siddalls Soap
Philadelphia
Poresses
Teger
P. K. Dederick & CQ
Albany, Ne
A. W. Mogswick & Son Cheinnatl
Wastington
Stam Movntt
Wallack
W. Madison
Danis and Waves
Stweht & Co
of. Stephens
Lebanon
Brian Suen
Molly
Miche
Milo B
Cleveland
Detroit
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