Kansas Progress Praised By Rockhampton Paper
The Morning Bulletin of Rockhampton Queensland cites the 14th biennial Kansas State Board of Agriculture report as proof that Kansas advanced more in the last quarter of the 19th century than any other civilized region. It notes floods, wheat yields, fruit trees, and agriculture growth plus praise for Secretary Coburn and a Queensland editor's letter.
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Rockhampton
Cobuin
Agricultural Department
Kansas
Australia
Topeka
Kansas City Times
Morning Bulletin
Queensland
Coburn
Department of Agriculture
United States of America
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
William Meriwraith
Kaneas
Tie
The Trapper's Bad Bargain from Little Folks
Bears travel to trade with trappers and demand high value gifts for furs. The trader offers low items but the bears refuse, then threaten violence. After a hasty council they decide to eat him and seize the goods, sharing the loot as Christmas gifts for their families. Moral warns against inflated bargaining tactics.
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Chicago Tribune
Coyotes scalp bounty fuels odd Kansas countertrend
Sedgwick county Kansas pays one dollar per coyote scalp brought to the county clerk. Receipts rise as young animals taken in spring plowing season appear in stacks. Coyotes allegedly defend their existence and outpace efforts to reduce their numbers.
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Sedgwick County
Kansas
Court House
Wichita
Den of Railroad Magnate's Daughter Builds Bespoke Estate
Middle town dispatch reports Cornelia Harriman daughter of B H Harriman of Union Pacific is mirroring her father by funding a $500000 mansion on Forest Lake shore atop a mountainside near Arden Orange County New York. She also plans a beauxhouse and studio on Beho Lake nearby to serve as her summer den on the Harriman estate.
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Cornelia Harriman
B. H B. Harriman
Union Pacific Railroad
Middletown
N. Y
New York Times
Harriman
Forest Lake
Arden
Orange County
Beho Lake
Rev Thorne Heads to Tiffin for Sunday Services
Reverend Thorne and his wife departed this morning for Tiffin where he will conduct services tomorrow.
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Rev. Thorne
Tiffin
Whooping cough remedy praised in Jamaica report
J R Bennett chemist Brown's Town Jamaica West Indies reports Chamberlains Cough Remedy as the best for whooping cough. He says it has never failed and grateful mothers thank him. The remedy is for sale by Stewart's Pramacy Cook & Sherman.
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J. Riley Bennett
Brown's Town
Jamaica
West India Islands
Chamberlain
Stewart
Cook & Sherman
Iowa Central Ry. schedules summer round trip fares to northern points
The Iowa Central Railway announces daily summer round trip tickets at 152 to select northern Minnesota and Dakota points with return by October 31. Lower round trip fares to St Paul and Minneapolis start after June 1. For details contact local agents or A B Cutts G P T A Minneapolis Minn. 83 July
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Iowa Central Ry
Dakota
St. Paul
Minneapolis
A. B. Cutts
G. P
T. A
Minneapois
Minn
Nickel Plate announces low round trip fares to Buffalo and eastern points
Nickel Plate Road offers a 12.25 dollar round trip from Chicago to Buffalo with return by August 4. Stopovers allowed at Chautauqua Lake, plus reduced rates to Fort Wayne Cleveland Erie and other eastern points. Three daily trains with first class equipment and dining cars. Meals 35 cents to 1.00 and a la carte service. No excess fare. Write John Y. Calahan, General Agent, 113 Adams St Chicago.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Nickel Plate Road
Chicago
Chautauqua Lake
Fort Wayne
Cleveland
Erie
John Y. Calahan
Adams St
Chicao
Ill
van Buren
LaSalle St
Fourth of July Round Trip Fare on Nickel Plate Road
Tickets sold at one fare for round trip plus twenty five cents from Chicago on July 1 2 3 4 to any Nickel Plate Road point. Return limit July 5. Chicago Depot LaSalle and Van Buren Streets City Ticket Offices 111 Adams Street and Auditor ium Annex. ltw July 3.
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Chicago
Nickel Plate Road
Chicago Depot
LaSalle and
van Buren Sts
Adams St
Auditorium Annex
Forest Cooling Effect Through Tree Heat Exchange
Gifford Pinchot explains that trees store carbon, cool surrounding air, and create local breezes. Leaves remove carbonic acid gas, forming new compounds that require heat to form, so burning wood returns that heat. Forests thus cool daytime air and shift currents, drawing cooler air into and out of woods.
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Gifford Pinehot
Italian Garden Clip Arts Elevate Villa Hedges
Professor Waugh in Landscape Gardening notes that clipped shrubs and trees in a consistently developed Italian garden can be beautiful and dignified when placed among harmonious surroundings. He highlights the delightful role of sculptured columns set at regular intervals.
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Professor Waugh
Artful Gardens and Sculptural Features Elevate Domestic Spaces
The text argues that integrating hedges with stairs balustrades urns fountains and statues elevates garden architecture. It claims well designed artificial elements please people more than rustic illusion and that intentional use of architectural sculpture enhances visual harmony and satisfaction.
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Ting
Rose care versus drying off tea roses in midsummer
A garden writer argues against drying tea roses. He favors letting blooms mature naturally to keep plants vigorous in midsummer. Traditional drying delays recovery for months, delaying healthy growth into winter.
Cutting and grafting tips for early orchard care
The piece notes early tent caterpillar activity in orchards and urges timely pruning. Horticulturists warn Bordeaux mixture can injure foliage in wet weather. It mentions the Barringer apple from the Hudson valley and describes a Florida frost proof orange shed with heated canvas. Hog and sheep use suggested for windfall apples. Pinch off suckers on trees.
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Ohio Experiment Station
Hudson River Valley
Florida
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Rose Owens
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Washington, D. C
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Selden
PEN Mfg. CO
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