Hints on Cider Making for Farmers and Small Producers
Practical guidance for cider making detailing apple selection and preparation, grinding methods, pomace management, and storage. It covers drying apples, using traditional cider mills, fermentations, avoiding dilution, and best crab varieties like Hewes and Harrison. Also includes advice on cleaning, straining, and preserving crab cider and general notes on sowing wheat with drilling and fertilizer use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Froux
Commercial Fertilizers Practice and Cost Comparison
The article notes farmers sometimes mix their own chemicals, requiring skill to achieve proper concentrated blends. It observes many manufacturers provide ready prepared materials and equipment, making commercial products often more economical. It acknowledges cases where homemade mixtures can compete on cost with factory products.
Brown Brothers Offer Prize For Preventing Inhalation Hazards
De Brown Brothers of Neunkirchen Germany offer a prize of 82,500 for preventing inhalation injuries among workers grinding ores. The note states that Eerosere is responsible for nine tenths of fires in China and mentions no Brown antidote for chlorate of potash poisoning.
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de Browm Brothers
Neunkirches
Germnans
China
The London Bus and Its Unique Fares
A Home Journal corresp describes London omnibus service detailing space allowances of sixteen inches per passenger, vehicle capacities of forty-two, and fares from one to two cents per mile. Drivers earn about 1050 weekly, few riders board en route, and top deck travel offers outdoor views of the city.
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London
London General Omnibus Company
Albert Memorial
Hyde Park
Regent Circus
Charing Cross
Westminster Bridge
Politelgre
Cor. Home Journal
Dignified Humility of Warren and Winthrop in Boston
Harper's Bazar recalls a story from a talk with veteran actor William Warren of Boston who refused a pallbearer role beside historic figure Robert C. Winthrop. Warren argued the public would see a strolling actor out of place beside Winthrop, a gesture of self restraint. The anecdote prompts reflection on humility among actors and whether such self effacement mirrors a broader political detachment in their generation.
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Warren
William Warren
Boston
Robert C. Winthrop
Winthrop
Mr. Winthrop
Yam
Harper's Bazar
Hymn Book Courtship in Divorce Suit Draws Attention
In a New York Sun report, a husband used a hymn book to woo the wife in a divorce suit. He underlined lines during sermons and added interlineations to convey sentiment, while the woman dated each amendment, claiming the modified hymns reflect the affair and seeking a $10,000 claim.
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Neyghbor
Sime
Sue
New York Sun
Traveling in Gypsy Fashion on a Continental Wagon
A young English couple travels across the continent in a built up wagon resembling a land yacht. The single room serves as dining room, drawing room, bedroom, and kitchen with madame's sketches, monsieur's photographic gear, and wall mounted cooking utensils. A petroleum stove heats meals as two Breton horses pull the caravan daily.
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Madame
Monsieur
San Francisco Chronicle
Fixing His Watch Exposé of Boston Watch Trade Tricks
A Boston Globe account by Gil Ford details test runs on local watchmakers. A blue eyed seller of papers and trinkets manipulates customers with inflated cleaning and repairs. The piece exposes overpricing, shoddy parts, and deceptive practices, urging caution.
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Boston
Washington Street
Sheol
Tremont Street
Park Square
Har Navyenue
Funey
West End
O. K
Gil Ford
Boston Globe
Inventions of Voices and Apple Divinations Across Europe
A disjointed excerpt describes Professor Paxsall's phonograph experiments producing human voice cylinders and notes on miniature music writing, then shifts to folklore about apples in love divination in Scotland and England. It cites Milton, Hawthorne, and Chambers's Journal while detailing apple pips, fire tests, and mirrors as prophecies of love.
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Profesor Paxsall
Boysl Sovciety
Julian Hawthorne
Scotland
England
Gay
Ines
Chambers
Apni: Journal
The Egg in Paris San Francisco Chronicle commentary
Albert Suthfe writes about Parisian eggs noting sacred value to dealers, freshness perception differs from American views, and French eggs fetch three or four sous for boiling with various quality grades and prices not fixed. The piece surveys the science and economics of egg quality in Paris.
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Paris
Tos Parisere i
Albert Suth
San Francisco
Ivory Soap Ad Turns Song Into Sloganeering Jingle
A vintage verse turned advertisement preaches the superiority of Ivory Soap over rival brands. The couplet extols whiteness achieved by Ivory while warning against counterfeits. The piece credits Convrisht 1886 by Procter & Gaurable.
Esoteric Triad of the Red Water Brotherhood Emerges
A Cor Homo Journal report notes England's surge of mystic orders claiming occult study. The newest group, the Esoteric Triad of the Red Water Brotherhood, asserts Egyptian origins and a founding in the reign of Thermes II, aiming to investigate occult mysteries and promote universal fraternity.
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England
Ecountry
Red Water Brotherhood
Thermes II
Homo Journal
Good Family Management in Every Home
A fragment reflecting on marriage and domestic virtue. It praises steady financial prudence and harmony in family life, claiming seven years of union prove better management yields lasting youth and beauty in the home, seen in frugal steadiness and the husband’s purse.
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London Bus
John Anderson
Jo John
John
People’s Co-operative Store, Limited
Johnson & Siegfried
Johnson’s Exchange
Warren, Pa
Nelson Greenlund
Newjelegant
Warren Pa
Nelson Greenland
Chas. &. Offerle & Co
Liberty
Library
Liberty Street
Library Hall
Olm
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