Flax Cleaning Machine Seen as a New American Resource
A description from the Journal de Lille details a flax scotching device that combines retting hackling and fiber separation in one continuous process. The machine promises higher yields, 40 percent lower hackled flax costs, and could shift flax cultivation toward France and domestic mills, boosting American farmers and European suppliers alike.
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Journal de Lille
Lille
France
Russia
Care of Horses: Watering, Feeding, and Health
Guidance on horse care emphasizes watering twice daily and before feeding to prevent digestion issues. It warns against rushing horses into heavy work after meals and notes teeth, grain grinding, and chopped hay for greedy or fast eaters. Ground food aids fast work days. avoid excessive exercise after meals.
Regrafting and small farm improvements boost productivity
The article urges farmers to overcome inertia by grafting unproductive trees to better varieties, noting grafting costs and potential daily earnings. It also recommends a small farm shop for tool maintenance, building projects, and making crates, which can engage workers and reduce costs.
Illinois farmer dies from blood poisoning linked to glanders
An Illinois farmer who tended horses killed by glanders died days ago from blood poisoning. The article warns glanders is highly dangerous, capable of passing to humans, and urges immediate euthanizing of affected animals to stamp out the disease.
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Illinois
Captive in Chihuahua by a 19th Century Colonel
Col. Shelley known as Mexican Joe recalls a brutal kidnapping in the Sierra Madre. He describes being bound forced to watch arrows fly, later escaping with the aid of a loyal squaw and fleeing 225 miles to Garcia aboard a line of ponies.
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Col. Shelley
Joe
Chihuahua
Lanos Valley
St. Paul Globe
Sierra Madre Mountains
Col. Shelly
Eyrie
Mescal
Sierra Madres
Garcia
American tycoon loses wallet in England amuses London
London gossip recounts an American of great wealth who misplaced a wallet holding £500 in Bank of England notes. The finder returned the wallet and, in gratitude, the man of means awarded sixpence to the honest bearer, highlighting his extravagance.
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London
Bank of England
Fashionable Hands Gloving Saga From London Queen
A London Queen column notes hands are returning to fashion with elaborate routines. Ladies soak hands in hot water bowls, apply vaseline, wear oversized leather gloves with cold cream, and employ perfumed, medicated gloves amid society’s refined trends.
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Daughters of Fashion
Swift
Tripsey
Warren
Spence
Park
Oxford
Pegasus
Broad St. Giles
Portland Square
Dr. Johnson
A Strange Adventure in Sacher Masoch's Memoir
Paris cor. Philadelphia Times recounts Sacher Mor Masoch describing an anonymous letter offering friendship with a male confidant. The narrator blindfolds for a year of secret meetings, then meets a handsome youth named Anatole who urges escape to power. A shop window photo reveals Anatole as Ludwig II of Bavaria.
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Sacher-Masoch
Bohemia
Vienna
Paris
London
Anatole
S. M. Ludwig IL
Roi de Baviere
Sacher
Baltimore man's antique matchlock gun and sword from revolutionary era
C H Cockey of Baltimore owns a five foot long matchlock gun used before flint locks. The weapon features a narrow butt, a long barrel, and a fuse mechanism timed for an hour. He also possesses a sword once carried by an ancestor who fought with Washington at Brad dock's defeat near Fort Duquesne, about twenty years before the Revolution.
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C. H. Cockey
Baltimore
Cockey
Washington
Braddock
Fort Duquesne
Moonshine Stills Said Deep in Athens Georgia Area
A report notes a large number of moonshine stills around Athens Georgia while a station on the Wilkesbarre and Western railroad in Pennsylvania is identified as named Let 'er Go. The item combines travel and illicit liquor themes with a regional curiosity.
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Wilkesbarre & Western Railroad
Pennsylvania
Athens
Transportation timetable fragments across Franklin and Ashtabula regions
Fragmentary OCR shows multiple train times and stations including Franklin, Stoneboro, Jamestown, Ashtabula, Dunkirk, Cleveland, Chicago, Buffalo, and Gro. McIntire as superintendent. Entries include AM PM designations, arrival and departure slots, and scattered city pairs.
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Franklin
Stoneboro
Jamestown
Youngston
Andover
Ashtabula
Dunkirk
Cleveland
Chicago
Buffalo
Ccviesee
Chicazo
Erreeeseeeee
Gro
H, McIntire
Old railroad timetable fragment lists routes and times
A historical timetable from the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railway outlines routes to Bradford Pittsboro Titusville and western connections. It shows hourly and half hour times with arrivals at Buffalo and Pittsburgh plus station stops like Cherry Creek Conewango and Sheffield and notes Philadelphia time reference and June 14 1886 as a time change.
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Sheffield
Kane
Oil
Erie
Sunbury
Harrisburg
Lancaster
Philadelphia
New York
Baltimore
Washington
Williamsport
San
Erie Mail
Warren
Oil Express
Hortest
Bradford
Pittsboro
Titusville
Buffalo
Csneseee Pine Valley
Seseeee
Cherry Creek
Conewanro
Ovine
V.&p Cross’g
Jamestown
Stevens Corry
Pittsburg
W.C. Rinkarson
Dist. Press Agt
N. Y
Dangers of Kissing Through Worldly Talk and Science
A Toronto Globe excerpt mocks kissing as a mere foil to the real article while a cynic, Apemantus, argues it spreads disease. The exchange frames kissing as socially pervasive yet scientifically risky, citing fever and diphtheria as dangers.
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Apemantus
Toronto Globe
Child Hides Under Barn After Profanity Incident
A six year old boy named Bobby, caught swearing, hides under a barn to evade punishment. His father later crawls to find him and asks if he swore too, as reported by the Boston Record.
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Bobby
Boston Record
Sudden Death Follows Loss in Lyon Morgue
A French widow Madame Dumas identified her husband’s body found in the Rhone at Lyons Morgue. The sight caused her to faint and die within minutes. The report speculates violent emotion as the likely death cause though an underlying visceral disease is uncertain.
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Madame Dumas
Rhone
Lyons
Invitation List Seeks Suitable Fifth Gentleman
In a Somerville Journal excerpt, Belle considers adding a young man to a theater party guest list. She mentions Harry Westerley as a potential sixth gentleman, recalled from a sleighing party last winter, noting he is agreeable for a squeeze.
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Belle
Harry Westerley
Somerville Journal
Patents rise while rail car coupling dangers grow
A reader letter notes over 4 000 coupler patents exist yet the road danger remains high. Casualties from car coupling likely exceed war losses in recent decades, with few aware of crippled or killed workers. A separate report mentions African bamboo oil as a potential lubricator and olive oil substitute, with French Congo industry prospects.
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Pystander
Philadelphia News
French Congo
Electric Bitters Proclaimed Cure by Doctors and Druggists
The verdict is unanimous that Electric Bitters cure liver kidney and blood diseases. W D Sult of Bippus Indiana testifies one patient was healed after six bottles for rheumatism. Abraham Hare of Bellville Ohio and thousands of others praise the remedy. Sold for fifty cents at A W Morck’s drug store.
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Manton, Inc
H. J. Fishell
Pfaelzer Bros. & CO
Market Street
Philadelphia
W. D. Sult
Bippus
Ind
Abraham Hare
Bellville
Ohio
A. W. Morcks Drug Store
Salve Sale Promises Cure or Money Refunded
The advertisement touts salve claimed to heal cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions and piles with a money back guarantee. Each box priced at 25 cents sold by A. W. Morok.
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Pierche
A. W. Morok
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Corry, Pa
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P. Greenland
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Steve Enss
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Dunham’s Mill
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Lippincott
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Julian Hawthorne
Lucy C Lillie
J. B. Lippincott Company
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Pruggists
Ee Rowland
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Water St
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Apelles
James Howell
Bucklen
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