Beautifying the Farm Home and its Surroundings
A rural bulletin from the United States Department of Agriculture No 85 urges farmers to invest time in beautifying home grounds. It promotes lawn care, planting trees shrubs and flowers and offers practical layout plans for the yard. Emphasizing that attractive surroundings uplift home life, the piece notes many farmers overlook this task though wives often take keen interest in flowers.
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United States Department of Portculture
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Planting Corn Wide Apart and Farm Advice
A writer in the County Gentleman argues for wide row planting to allow thorough cultivation and looser soil, suggesting seven foot drills yield more per acre. Recommendations include one to two tons of well-mixed stable manure per acre, use of lime as fertilizer only as an adjunct, and caution against lime as a substitute. Also covers chicken roosting, destroying cotton weevil, a horse evener, and general farm chat on prudent farming practices.
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Ohio
Ohio Experiment Station
Portia
Lady Forbes
Sone Department of Athletics
Grandmamma
Vernastona
Ivas
Jess
Grandmnamina
Endurinee
Grandmama
van Tad Gilleed
Grandanmanan
Our Despised Grandmothers Splendid Physique
Lady Forbes compares modern women with grandmothers, praising athletic feats and endurance while noting behavioral changes across eras. The piece surveys gender roles, influence in marriage, and the temptations of reform versus habit, ending on marital expectations and self-improvement.
Marrying a Man to Reform Him
A historical column discusses the idea that love as a disease is treated, citing Shakespeare and older writers. It argues women often marry men with flaws hoping love will change them, noting the flawed premise and the difficulty of reform.
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Rascal
Japan
China
Philippine Islands
Nature’s Habit Forms the Rifle Fish’s Skill
Naturalists note how habit shapes animal life, using the rifle fish as example. The fish ejects water from its mouth to strike insects near the surface, dragging prey into the water. This behavior shows how modification of structure follows altered life habits, possibly starting from simple aimless water ejection and evolving with practice.
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Andrew Wilson
Ife
Floating Mines Threaten Neutral Vessels Across Oceans
A wide warning about Russian floating mines at Port Arthur endangering not only warships but merchant ships globally. The piece details how drifting debris and explosives could ride currents like the Kuroshio toward the Pacific routes, risking the East Indies and North American coasts, with experts noting currents that could carry mines into major shipping lanes. The article also mentions the Hatsuhine incident and the potential spread of danger via the California and Kuroshio currents.
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Russia
Ituesia
Mosqa
Borneo
Port Arthur
East Indies
Philippine Islands
North Pacific
American Pacific
Japan
Kure
Anomalous Trades Stand Out In New York Windows
The Harlem style column highlights unusual urban livelihoods shown by shop signs across Manhattan. Signs promise bird boarding, dog grooming, cat education, matchmaker lessons for young women, straightening the round-shouldered, fashion makeovers, wardrobe dredging on instalments, poodle cures, baby exchanges for beggars, false noses, and a cheeky undertaker pitch. The piece notes the bold, sometimes dubious claims and a mix of humor and commentary on city life.
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New York
Mall
Express
East 34Th Street
4Th Avenue
Bowery
Houston Street
East Broadway
Catherine Street
Trester Street
Chatham Square
Chatham Street
Mulerry Street
Bible writer in Seventy-Five Significance in Panin Theory
The article discusses Ivan Panin a Russian Bible student in Grafton Mass who asserts numerical design in the New Testament. He highlights seven seven seven patterns in Matthew verses one to eleven and claims the distribution of vowel and consonant words, and the high count of nouns and proper nouns, supports intentional scriptural design not chance.
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Ivan Punin
Grafton
Mass
Panin
Jesus
Rent Radium by the Hour Strange medical rental scheme
A London report notes limited radium supply and a physician renting a five milligram tube of radium bromide for $2.50 an hour, calling it the era of modern flimsy thaumaturgy. The column also shares a joke about a German speaking stablehand puzzling over horse speech.
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London
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Maine
Olio
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Abby
Aden Oldfield
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Cyrug D. Adare
Mark Long Pumpkin
Wososo
Dak
Johnny
Boston Transcript
Minh Field
Schpeiks
Ignoranod
Mikilett
Eniish
Edbion
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