Ivan the Serf and the Dancer’s Fatal Promise
Ivan, the diminutive coach-boy and beloved entertainer on the Telequin estate, endures a forced transfer when a harsh master demands his return. After a dramatic feud and a vow to kill, Ivan ultimately murders Gen. Suchinski and is sentenced to the Knout and Siberian mines for life.
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Wisconsin
Margaret G. Polk
Ivan
Alexis Sergeiwitsch
Tyan
Suchinski
Alexis Sergeiwiksch
Peter Petrowitsch
Gen
Siberia
My Shadow And Bandits Dog In Early Seventeenth Century Tales
A collection of short items featuring My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson with playful verse about a boy and his shadow, a bandittish dog tale showing canine cunning, a patriotic note on the US flag history, Clever Crows from Miss Bird, and a worker's praise for a child’s hymn from The Quiver, all presented in a Victorian era magazine style.
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Ivan
Van
Alexis Sergeiwitsch
Robert Louis Stevenson
Angeerat
Japan
Miss Bird
Yarapugewa
Mori
Eat
Practical home canning and jelly recipes from Emily H. Leland
The article offers step by step methods for preserving strawberries gooseberries and other fruits. It covers strawberry cream jelly berry jams pickled cherries and raspberries with details on sugar ratios boiling times and jars. It emphasizes preserving shape flavor and aroma and references a chilling storage method.
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Emily
H. Leland
Wisconsin Farm Advice on Training Colts and Hog Care
A Wisconsin article offers practical guidance for horse training and swine feeding. It covers early colt handling, humane discipline, and gradual breaking, plus hog care from birth to fattening. It also discusses butter production genetics and the value of thoroughbred sires for dairy herds.
Curious and valuable find on farm in Clark County
A farmer’s son unearthed large human bones and a silver medal on Austin Buttery’s Levis town farm in Clark County. The coin-like medal shows John Quincy Adams on one side and a peace and war motif with a Native American chief on the other. Likely remains of a regional chief linked to Adams era.
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Neillsville Republian
Austin Buttery
Levis
Clark County
Alfred
John Quincy Adams
United States
Adams
Jersey Milk Breed Favored for Butter and Sires
Prof Arnold notes Jerseys remain best butter cows, with Holstein Guernsey and short-horn respected as alternatives for improving herds. He warns against missing chance to replace poor cows with good stock from any source. A separate eye preserving method claims eggs can be kept longer using a lampblack sulfur mix tested in 1883 by J Hodson, yielding fresh eggs after four weeks.
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Ivan
Tyan
St. Petersburg
Tvan
Subinski
Iva
Wisconsin
W. M. RopLee
Suroctos
Wis
Jersey
Atouch
Guernsey
L. B. Arnold
N. Y
J. Hodson
Prairie Farmer
Our Family asks editor Qs. ad notes and water safety
A column from Our Family asks readers to direct communications to the Editor in Milwaukee. It includes sample questions about laws on fighting inland waters, fishing spearing, nurses training, typewriters, and English law. A brief news item reports two young women drowned at Barnegat, Brooklyn.
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Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Ad Wawbhara
Cheae
State of
Michigan
G.W. B
Secretary of State
Lansing
PollcakeErs
N. Y
Brooklyn
Ie Kelly
Frederika Gilbert
Barnegat
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Congress
Edmund Alton
St. Nicholas
Fe Ova Farner
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Pacific Ocean
Pacific
van Horne
England
Peachblossom
Central College
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