TIDES THAT RAGE Amid Global Giant Tides At Severn And Other Coasts
A historical overview of extreme tides worldwide, detailing the Severn’s colossal rise due to dual tides, Mount St. Michael and Mounts Bay phenomena, and the Amazon estuary surge. It notes tides at Panama, Mount St. Michael, and the dramatic impact on ships, with examples from the Bay of Fundy, the Severn, and the Amazon.
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Bay of Fundy
Severn
Chepstow
Bristol Channel
Irish Channel
Ireland
Bay
Mount St. Michael
French
la Vendee
Isle of
Noirmoutien
Bay of
St. Michael's Mount
Desehrte Gulf
Englsh
England
Povle
Isle of Wight
Enormaites
Amazon
Goles
Jura
Senrhit
Seatlaml
Wambury
Philadelphia Inquirer
Cinnamon Bark From Ceylon Quills And Harvest Cycles
Describes tree size leaf shape and tasting notes and explains cinnamon harvest in Ceylon. Branches three to five years old are cut, bark scraped and dried into curled quills. Quills sorted by quality then bundled, oil produced by soaking bark powder and distilling seawater.
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Ceylon
A Lesson for His Wife from a Frontier Smuggle Gag
A Paris writer in Belgium honeymooned with his wife who coveted lace. He tricked a customs officer to search her, revealing she carried $200 worth of lace hidden around her waist. The officer thanked him as the husband smiled at his wife’s costly lesson.
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Paris
Ife
Belgium
France
Felgnies
Custom House
Liam
Wiebla Hagle
The Ballot In Switzerland Votes Saturday And Sunday
Swiss voters go to the polls on Sunday with some districts voting Saturday evening. In a few cantons voting is obligatory and turnout reaches 70 to 80 percent. Fines are imposed for absence unless a valid excuse is provided, including illness, mourning, travel, birth, or attendance at a christening in St. Gallen. Official business is often accepted as an excuse.
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Switzerland
Familly
St. Gallen
Mixed Motives in a Stormy Beach Dream
A lecturer cites impure motives as a global trouble. A clerk on a stormy beach weeps as he watches a small boat, with his employer aboard, survive wrecks and near loss, crying that losing the boat would cost his job. The tale blends doubt, fear, and fate on the waves.
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Hettle
Tibetan festival shows demonolatry in Mbetan rites
The Mbetans’ religion is saturated with demonolatry. Festivals feature ceremonies to propitiate evil spirits and demons. Performances depict malignant spirits through devil dances, each dancer representing a specific demon as described in a wide world magazine style.
Neighbors Note Boy Bobbie With Tin Can String
A Browning's Magazine exchange notes a neighbor mentioning a new dog and observes Bobbie walking home with an old tin can tied to a string. The quip highlights small town curiosities and playful banter between residents.
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Grimes
Bobbie
Browning's Magazine
On Other Nights Mr Goodbhing dialogue
A comic exchange about an engagement ring finds the sister unable to wear it due to its small size. The Young Brother remarks she struggles to remove it when other men call, highlighting playful family banter over a betrothal gift.
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Mr. Goodbhing
Bobby
Happiness and Misery As Extreme Bounds
A brief reflection on two extremes of human experience, happiness and misery, noting we cannot fully know their limits or travels in life.
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Tarke
Iowa Farm Stock Foods Prove Costly and Ineffective
Iowa Experiment Station reviews stock foods showing higher costs and little proven benefit. In trials with cattle and other livestock, stock foods raised production costs, reduced corn value, and failed to accelerate market readiness. Analyses reveal common ingredients with no medicinal effects, leaving stock foods largely unproven as cures or boosts.
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Iowa Experiment Station
Iowa
Lacto Lacto: New Health Promoting Frozen Dairy Product
Iowa State Experiment Station dairy turns out lacto a frozen dairy treat said to combine ice cream flavor with health value. Made from milk eggs sugar lemon and flavoring, tested by 179 tasters with strong approval vs vanilla and sherbet. Described as easy to make at home using fresh milk starter culture and cherry variation.
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The
State Experiment Station
Iowa Experiment Station
Metchnikoff
Farm Advice and Economic Notes From an Early 20th Century Column
A mix of agricultural hints on dairy herd management and livestock breeding, cottonseed byproducts, and broader thrift. It discusses careful handling of engines and equipment, legal contracts, and the economics of fisheries, cottonseed meal, and fruit scale on trees. It notes 1910 federal fish commission fish and eggs distribution and the value of commercial fisheries.
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Federal Fish Commission
France
Japan
Argentina
Getting Ahead Through Small Daily Savings
The text argues that financial independence comes from disciplined saving and prudent spending. Saving 40 cents a day could grow to 1,625 dollars in ten years at 6 percent, while 25 cents daily yields about 1,012 dollars. It urges readers to start with small, consistent deposits and invest wisely to build wealth.
Certified Milk Standards and a Duluth Dairy
A detailed look at certified milk defining 8 percent butter fat and under 10 000 bacteria per cubic centimeter. It describes strict cleanliness, health checks by a veterinarian, lighted clean barns, udder care, clean milking, and handling from milking to bottling. The Duluth area dairy sells at 14 cents a quart and struggles to meet demand.
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Duluth
Minn
Dairy Department
University of Minnesota
Northwestern fruit growers to unite for cooperative marketing
Northwestern fruit growers have grown weary of low prices and the exploitation by jobbers. They plan a cooperative marketing effort to cut out robbers who gouge producers and consumers. The movement follows farmers realizing poor returns on best fruit as trashy product is shipped long distances and sold cheaply.
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Northwestern
Coffee imports mainly from Americas. East Indies tiny share
Commerce and labor data show 97.2 percent of U S coffee imports in the year ended July 1910 from South and Central America and Mexico. Small remnant from Aden and East Indies. Consumer prices higher than import costs. Also notes horse farming profitability and returns.
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Department of Commerce and Labor
United States
America
Mexico
Aden
East Indies
Wood times and plenty boost countrys wealth in 1910 crop
A 1910 crop outlook links bountiful production with prosperity. The first round figure valued at about 1.5 billion dollars suggests debt coverage and major mineral reserves would be eclipsed by the year's output. Cotton alone at roughly 900 million underscores potential to wipe national debt as crops reach new peaks.
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United States
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