The Caroline Islands and Their People
A special correspondence describes the Caroline Islands as largely coral reefs with little vegetation, noting that natives are industrious and peaceable and could become American subjects. It details Yap as a potential coaling station, island geography, climate, culture, housing, tools, and trade, with historical notes on discovery and rule.
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McKinley
Caroline Islands
Spain
United States
Yap
State Department
Ytomil Harbor
New Philippines
Carolines
Charles II
Uluan
Box Irrigation Could Save Fruit Crops in Arid Regions
Joel Shomaker explains a cheap box irrigation method used in the western arid regions. Water is stored in wooden boxes or containers and gradually delivered to tree and vine roots, reducing drought stress, decreasing pests, and improving yields. The system allows irrigation from wells ponds creeks or springs and can be moved by hand or on a small cart to minimize waste.
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Arid
West
Eastern
Middle States
Texas
Arizona
Joel Shomaker
The Old Way of Statute Labor and Its Money System
The article argues that statute labor in New Brunswick counties operates with low effort and little accountability. It cites a Richibucto Review account describing workers aiming to spend time rather than produce quality road work. It questions whether patriotic zeal has improved practices and stresses the need for adopting a money system.
Memorial to Lieut Jenkins at Annapolis Naval Academy
A bronze mural tablet memorializing Lieut William Jenkins of the Maine disaster was placed in the Annapolis Naval Academy chapel. Subscribed by his classmates, the high relief tablet features a faithful model of the battleship and bears an inscription detailing the officer’s fate.
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Naval Academy At
Annaapolis
Ita
Naval Academy
Annapolis
William Jenkins
Maine
Charles Rollinson Lamb
Why Celery Is Blenched and Grown for Flavor
The article explains blanching celery to improve flavor and tenderness. It warns against piling earth between stalks and shows how to earth up by holding stems and pressing soil along the plant while leaving a few leaves at the ends. Repeated earthing as tops grow helps blanching and reduces blight.
The Late Fall Piga and Winter Pig Growth
The article notes that pigs born six to seven months before cold weather reach safe winter size. It cites experiences with fall pig-raising in basement barns where winter growth is unsatisfactory due to limited sunlight and ventilation. It warns warm quarters without sun harms digestion and health.
Variety of Food for Pigs for Best Health and Growth
The Dakota Field and Farm notes that no single feed provides all nutritive elements. A varied diet is needed to tempt appetite and keep pigs healthy, especially fattening animals and those growing bone and muscle. Farmers should understand this and provide diversity.
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Dakota Field
Massachusetts Prison Labor Law on Land Reclamation
A new Massachusetts law requires the superintendent of prisons to erect inexpensive iron buildings for about 100.7 inmates on designated lands. Prisoners would reclaim and improve the waste lands and prepare by hand labor materials for road building.
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Massachusetts
Inspection pushes dairy quality up in town
The rigid inspection of Tilk brought into the city by the state inspector compelled milkmen to test their cows and improve care. It led them to study and consider the question of better stables utensils and practices.
Useful Carrier for Dressed Poultry and Butter Transport
A New carrier design features a slatted center drawer with end ice spaces to keep dressed poultry in prime condition during transit. The same box can be used effectively for butter requireing ice to stay presentable in hot weather. Milk handling advice warns against mixing warm morning milk with cold night milk, which accelerates bacterial growth and spoils the mix.
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N. Y. Tribune
Salt for Pasture Cows Boosts Milk and Cream Quality
As cows are turned out to pasture, provide regular rock salt in a sheltered lick. Milk analysis shows salt in milk. calves on mainly milk show little salt craving until they eat grass and vegetables. Regular salting increases milk yield and makes churnable cream.
Lime for Milk Preserving
Chicago papers complain against farmers adding lime to milk cans to keep milk from souring. Salt is used similarly. Both are alkaline and can prevent acidity, but in the needed proportion they render the milk indigestion. Milk becomes acidic in the stomach, the first step in digestion. All alkaline substances injure food when consumed.
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Chicago
English mile length and distance usage note
A fragment discussing the English mile defined as 1760 yards and noting its usage differences across contexts. The text references varying country measures and phrasing about distance.
Get There as Tactics Confusion Baffles Foreign Attache
A Boston Transcript passage recounts a foreign military attache’s struggle to translate American military slang. He notes the phrase get there proves hard to render, as officers and soldiers insist the infantry will reach the objective despite artillery and ration doubts. The tale contrasts intent with action through repeated use of the line we got there.
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Boston Transcript
Woman's Heroism and Pink Pills Help Byron Woman
The report recalls Civil War era heroism of women and highlights Mrs James Houseweart of Byron Illinois who recovered from a serious illness using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. She credits eight boxes for her cure and praises the remedy over prior physicians. Pills cost 50 cents per box or six for $2.50, available at druggists or by mail from the Williams Medicine Co. Schenectady NY.
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Register-Gazette
Rockford
Woman’s Relief Wps
Byron
Inl
James Houseweart
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Schenectady
N.Y
Mrs Pinkham's Advice Helps Woman Recover
A reader reports long illness with womb issues, piles, irregular menstruation, and leucorrhea. After five bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she improved greatly and could work again, crediting the medicine and advice.
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Mrs. Proxnam
Lydia E. Pinkham
Tailor in Chicago Dies After Needle Swallowing
A Chicago tailor swallowed a needle and died from inflammation caused by the foreign object. The notice promotes Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, claiming it strengthens nervous and weak individuals, aids dyspepsia and constipation, and contrasts its effects with the fatal needle incident.
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Chicago
Sleepy Talk Causes Unfit Husbands In Comic Exchange
A humorous exchange notes the best reason a man who talks in his sleep should not marry. Clarence asks for reasons and Mr Callipers quips that the main problem is the talking while asleep.
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Clarence
Calico Supply and Moral Debate Highlight Oswego Item
An Oswego Daily Palladium snippet notes vast United States calico year production enough for a sash around the earth with miles to spare. It lauds Simpson's Prints for quality and fast colors. A brief dialogue between Mamma and Eva touches on honesty and Heaven with a George Washington reference.
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United States
Eva
Mamma
George Washington
Oswego Daily Palladium
Quack Remedies and Pithy Quotes From early 1900s
A collage of patent medicine claims and humorous quotes from 1901 era papers. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets promise cure in one day with money back, while Hall's Catarrh Cure is sold for 75 cents. Other lines joke about punctuation memory and florists for actors.
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