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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1898
Page
4
Wartime zeal shapes New York society with military dress trends and flag themed accessories. From sailor shirt waists and flag ruffles to navy buttons and cap bands, fashionable women display ardent patriotism in clothing, home decor, and social choices as war looms nearby.
An account covers the tune Yankee Doodle, its 18th century origins, and varied attributions, noting Abercrombie’s 1758 Ticonderoga expedition dates, Shamburg's claimed role, and verses from different versions. It also recounts the Civil War flag saga of the Eighty-fifth regiment, and a tangential East Asian inspired betrothal bangle fad.
A Virginia woman who owns little land began sheep farming with $25. She bought 3 head per dollar and turned the flock to pasture, working about one hour daily and paying a boy 50 cents weekly. After five years she had a flock of sixty, with wool and mutton yielding a clear yearly income of $450.
The Countess of Aberdeen favors the typewriter for notes and letters. She uses fine Irish linen paper with blue I. A. initials and crown in the corner. Government House Ottawa is stamped in blue on the upper right. Ishbel Aberdeen signs in blue, with a possible postscript. Aberdeen is printed on the envelope’s lower left.
Experts see little profit in sowing oats alone for green feed. Peas enrich soil via legume roots. combining oats and peas yields balanced growth, with some pea pods edible for stock. Gypsum or land plaster helps peas and keeps soil moist for oats.
The passage explains corn and wheat lack sufficient lime for eggshell formation and notes lime is less available in shells and mortar than in food. It suggests adding mineral matter by varied feeds such as bran, oats, wheat, and buckwheat to grain diets to improve nutrition.
The article explains two methods to obtain watermelons early in Central and Northern New England. Start seeds on four inch square sods turned upside down under glass, watered well, then transplant when warm enough. An alternative uses a hollowed turnip to decay and allow the melon to take root in soil.
Experts advise cutting grafts weeks before use to retain sap, keeping them in barely moist sand so the cut surfaces stay hydrated. Sap exuded aids union with the stock. If cut early, defer grafting until the buds on the cut limbs are ready to burst into leaf.
English households embrace a new fad perfumed butter made from extra fine quality. The butter is wrapped in muslin and laid on a bed of rose leaves, then refrigerated for ten to twelve hours to acquire its scent.
The item lists trotters and pacers with times and lineage. It notes Straight Line has run 2 15 14 at Selma, Loupe at 2 09 34 pacing, Oscar Ames trains Royal Reno by Roy Wilkes with 2 06 14, dam King Rene. It mentions Our Boy misidentified, Glendale foaling a bay colt by Guy Wilkes, Lady Bush promising in New England, Crucible fast in Connecticut with 80 second quarters, Ferida sold to Europe and captured by a Spanish war vessel, Mascot pacing 2 04 denied season end, and trainer Frank Sargeant citing George A 212 could do 28 second quarters and mile in 2 07.
A doctor asserts that chil dren grow exclusively while asleep. Public interest items note over ten million American flags sold since the Maine explosion. Nassau County formed from Queens, totaling 61 counties and covering 862 square miles. A Kant portrait, unknown until now, was found in a secondhand shop and bought by Konigsberg's mayor, the philosopher's longtime city.
Olga Nethersole in an English railway accident is noted. The Great Diamond Robbery debuts in London at the Pavilion. Cissie Loftus gains nightly acclaim at the Alhambra. Sir Henry Irving may skip Australia for financial reasons. Kyrle Bellew elected to royal societies. Lillian Russell to perform in St Petersburg and Moscow after Berlin. Reginald de Koven and Harry B Smith plan a London opera. Emma Calve to sing Sappho at Covent Garden following Paris success. Lysiane withdrawn. Lemaître writing La Princess de Cleves for next season. Sydney Rosenfeld buys new plays in London and on the continent. Fulda’s Robinson Crusoe’s Island noted.
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