Profitable pork from fall pigs on Iowa farm
A Ames agricultural article describes raising fall litter sows and eight Poland China sows to produce 46 shoats. They roamed a central two story hog house with sun exposure, fed rich slop with buttermilk and tankage, and used warm bedding. The June 17 sale yielded 1247.52 dollars profit after expenses about 667.50, with nine gilts kept for breeding.
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Hugh Webster
Ames
C. A Shamel
Orange Judd
Chicago
Poland
China
Pga
How to Score Bread by Neale S Knowles Iowa Extension
Instructions for judging bread quality cover flavor doughiness texture and grain lightness sweetness color crust and shape. It details pressing the loaf assessing dent spring back uniform holes even rise and appropriate pan size for a well baked loaf.
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Neale S. Knowles
The
Iowa Extension Department
Legend of the Ugly Elves in Catskills
Alice Phebe Eldridge recounts a Catskill legend of five ugly dwarf gnomes who forge metals and brew a wine that warps drinkers. Hendrick Hudson and his crew allegedly fell prey to their revels after landing near Grand Hotel station, with the tale claiming the gnomes appear every twenty years, last seen 1900 and expected in 1929 for curious visitors.
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Handrick Hudson
Catskill Mountains
Grand Hotel Station
Catskill
Hendrick Hudson
Hudson
Alice Phebe Eldridge
New York World
Most Sensitive Pain Areas and Nerve Agonies
Excerpt from Pearson's Weekly discusses irritation versus pain and ranks pain sensitivity. It notes fingertips and tongue tips as highly sensitive surfaces, compares burns on fingers, back, and tongue, and cites neuralgia of the fifth nerve as extremely painful. It mentions tooth-drawing nerve rupture causing brief extreme agony.
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Pearson's Weekly
The Joy of Pockets in a Pocketless Ball Dress
The London Chronicle notes a fancy dress ball where a guest found his costume pocketless. He improvised by stashing items in the cap lining, shoe heels, and coat cuff. He spent the night yearning to place his hands in pockets, realizing the simple pleasure of their existence.
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London Chronicle
The Canned Green Pea Bomb Explodes In History
A Chicago Tribune account describes the canned green pea bomb sent to a Paris hotel keeper. An expert chemist calls it the most hellish affair, noting a glass tube connects two vials with a cotton fuse substitute. The device belongs to a bomb type linked to a deadly incident at St. Petersburg central police station.
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Wade
St. Petersburg
Chicago Tribune
Coleridge on the power to perceive and unify impressions
The passage defines understanding as the faculty to deal with sense impressions, forming them into wholes under a unity law. It spans from perception to abstract apprehension, excluding sensibility and embracing even simple grasp of ideas in its broadest sense.
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Coleridge
Breach of promise suit ends with verdict
In Baltimore a breach of promise case ends with the jury ruling the plaintiff’s suitor of low character and awarding no damages, the court noting the man’s contemptible conduct and the plaintiff’s relief at losing him.
An Opportunity Lost in the Alley Craps Tale
A brief exchange recalls Billy and Reddy debating Wall Street and timing at craps, framing a humorous old town conversation about chasing luck and misreading opportunity in the alley.
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Jay
Reddy
Wall Street
Billy
Tim
Nim
Puck
A Rising Financier and the Boss’s Advice
A young man asks his father to back a $300 horse deal with a $150 offer and a chattel mortgage. The father hesitates, then realigns the plan, urging the son toward the town trust business as a wiser path. The moment captures a cautionary origin tale of enterprise and prudence.
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Pop
Town and Trust
W. J. Lampton
Gippincott’s
Taxes and Torture The Duke of Alva's Tenth Penny Riots
A historical note on the Duke of Alva's ten percent tax known as the tenth penny imposed in the Netherlands. It spurred revolts as towns resisted the impost, with rebels tortured to death in futile enforcement. Philip II later brokered a temporary compromise demanding 2 million dollars annually for two years, ending August 1571.
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Duke of
Alva
Spain
Netherlands
Philip I
Ice in Persia By Simple Methods A Surprising Fact
The Los Angeles Times notes Persian ingenuity in ice making despite scarce rivers and lakes. Ground porousness yields rapid water percolation, so cold weather rarely forms natural ice. Persians dig shallow pools, build sun shades, and layer ice by feeding water nightly to create sizable blocks.
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Persia
Los Angeles
Times
Garfish Skin Jewelry Shines in Uptown Shop
A shopper admires jewel cases with an ivory like finish, asking about material. A salesman reveals they are garfish skin leather, little known outside trade, polished to a high shine and incredibly hard. Tribes reportedly used it for armor, and the skin can be made knife sharp.
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New York Sun
He Liked the Lie
A playful anecdote about William, described as the ugliest yet most lovable man in Louisiana, returning to a plantation and being complimented by Mrs. Forrester in New Orleans. His brother relays the flattering claim highlighting his beauty and charm, prompting William to insist it is a wicked lie while asking for the tale again.
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William
Louisiana
Willie
New Orleans
Forrester
Edmund
Dutiful For Once
A short comic exchange portrays a boy anxious about a toothache and his mother’s instruction to seek a dentist. The doctor declares extraction necessary, while the boy objects, insisting his mother only wanted examination, not extraction.
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Mamma
Ladies Host Baby Show For Hospital Benefit
The pariah ladies organized a baby show to raise funds for the hospital. Mrs Chatterson noted it as a bowling success, capturing a lighthearted outcome and community spirit. The remark reflects Browning’s line on aspiration versus achievement.
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Hatterson
Lndies
The
Pariah
Making Good Bread from Ames Extension Recipe
Neale and Knowles of the Ames Extension teach a White Wheat Bread method with yeast, scalded milk, sugar, and butter. Steps cover mixing, kneading, rising, shaping into two loaves, baking fifty minutes, and cooling with optional milk brushed crust for shine.
Clear Lake Harvests Beets and Berries Gathered
Farmers in Clear Lake begin a fine harvest of beets and berries. After sixteen years in the tailoring trade R. H. Heller sold his Parkersburg business to Joseph Cerny.
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Clear Lake
R. H. Heller
Parkersburg
Joseph Cerny
Pigs Infected From Tuberculous Milk, Ames Study
During summer and fall 1906 at the Ames station a test fed four pig groups of ten for several months to assess skim milk from tuberculous cows. Groups receiving tuberculous milk all developed tuberculosis, while pasteurized milk largely prevented infection. Full report in Iowa Experiment Station Bulletins 92 and 107.
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Ames
Iowa Experiment Station
Frozen puddings and a local death and travels
A bulletin from the Iowa Experiment Station details frozen pudding formulas including Nesselrode Manhattan and Plum puddings with ingredients and batch sizes. Also noted are obituaries and travel notes: Christian Weitz of Clive, 88, dies after a fall. Okke Van Halen and his wife depart from Parkersburg for an indefinite visit to Germany.
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Mortensen
Iowa Experiment Station
Ames
Iowa
Christian Weitz
Clive
Polk County
Okke van Halen
Parkersburg
Germany
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Catskill Gnomes
Neale &. Knowles
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