Primitive village and ruins near Santa Fe described
A detailed travelogue recounts an excursion to New Mexico near Santa Fe, detailing the town’s layout, architecture, and ancient ruins. It portrays resident life, markets, and crafts, noting encounters with locals, a bronzed guide, and the grandeur of the surrounding landscape. It also trims impressions of the region’s weather, altitude, and cultural notes about churches, colleges, and planned institutions.
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Waly Foxe
Ingomar
Milas
Mabel
New Messes
Sante Fe
Rocky Mountains
Vustiuary
Wilmer
Ube
Ened
Pakerw
Neriae Weary
Notes for the Housekeeper on Clean Premises and Garden Hints
The warm weather calls for cleansing premises to curb sickness from neglected yards and cellars. Remedies include chloride of zinc solution, sulphate of iron, and lime, though thorough cleaning and regular whitewashing of cellars and yards are best. Advice covers pest control, waste disposal, and careful gardening practices for pumpkins among corn including planting, spacing, and saving seeds for future feeds.
Farm and Garden Notes on Sugar, Crops and Mixing
Reprint discusses sugar yields from cane and beet, costs of cape, and farm mixing practices. Noting Hubbard squash returns, the piece cites an Orange County NY Farmer’s report and questions on potash mixing and feed efficiency for cattle. Includes speculation on agricultural methods and potential misprints in the original text.
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Wees
Orange County
N. Y
Ake
New York
Frying Fish Delicacy Debated by a Lady Editor
A Lady Editor argues that frying fish should be practical not pretentious. She compares methods using Hickory or anthracite coals and plank cooking, praising broiling for moist fish like shad and whites. The piece emphasizes cooking fish only when ready to eat and the loss of flavor if kept warm too long.
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Fife Mine
Mysterious Kitchen Notes and a Louisville Gambler Portrait
Fragmentary kitchen instructions mix with a dramatic Louisville obituary of George Herman a famed gambler. The text blends recipe hints with a vivid reminiscence, recalling Herman as a generous but reckless figure and detailing anecdotes of bets and street life.
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Tian
Jorge Herman
Hit
George
Ida
Funeli
Hernan
Tanya
Sant
Bin
Fourth
Gree
Hind
Fifth Street
Pocketbook recoveries amid Grand Rapids fire aftermath
Fragmented report details recovery of a pocketbook with bank certificates and jewelry from a burned Eagle Hotel site. Items belonged to Tran Hawley and Mix Johns, saved from debris by residents during efforts after a large blaze and prior searches, with other anecdotes about local possessions and a bank item from Owensboro.
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Grand Rapids
Eagle
Mix
Johns
Mes Johanen
Strange Tales of Marriage and Misfortune on Odd Notes
A mishmash of sensational vignettes recounts weddings gone awry, accidental deaths, animal feats, and curious crimes. Notable items include a late church bell ringer dying while tolling, a panther stealing a steer, a moonshine arrest thwarted by a drifting officer, and a widow’s poetic misfortune after a spider bite.
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Bkanen
Moe Pig
Lynn
Mass
Ces Nxoutle
Asheville
C. Frank
St. Louis
America
Ehh Tookees
Lydia J. Romick
Charles Pim
Damascus
Emma Hrynut
John Tyler
Sexton
Fayetteville
N. C
Edwin Bowie Twinkle
Woodstock
Iva Phillips
Pittaboro
N.C
Memphis
New Orleans
Eternil
Georgia
Ashe
Martha Vodvo
Highhaul Mill
N.V
Pedro
Petro
Abel
Tin Lewis
Willian Norris
Balmore
Tragedies Cloud a Findlay Birthday Party and Nearby Accidents
The report recalls several mishaps including John T. Coleman of Scott TL killed when caught between felled tree trunks, a chair mishap at a Findlay party leaving a man dead after a failed seating attempt, and Hannah Tyee of New i Canna suffering a feverish voice with dangerous gravity. A lamp fire causes oil to burst, burning Kirby’s shoes before he wakes.
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Ech
Jhite
Hannah Tyee
John T. Coleman
Scott, TL
Joe Taylor
Findlay
Obie
Jesse
John Kirby
Williamstown
S.J
Kirby
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Pereuat
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Rawi
Oruier
Patek
Seaman
Howe
Fey
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Eile Lowe
Uluru
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Teak
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Socente
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Americas
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Bishop's Palace
Jewish College
Our Lady of Light
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Dochem
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Wight
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Amphiax Amoms
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Steve Hoda
Cory
Nuither
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Cape
A Lady
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Owensboro
Jo Thomas
First National Bank
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Cameday & Ranney
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Luke
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J. Matutiton
Kheule
Heil & Gem
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N. J
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Conn
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New Haven
Maine
Lyman
Kennebums Gazette
Charlie Ross
Belstal
Vermont
Samuel Avion
Tria
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Allen
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Rowan Hover
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Frack Artookle
Louisvilly Ky
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Twelfth Street
Washington Hall
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Excelsior Machine Works
Redman &Co
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Graws Pharmacy
Alt Hora
Bhatt
GIN Island Pharmacy
We, Burt & CO
Virgil Bite
Islatad
Medicine Chemicala
Vaney and
Tollet Articina
Apandes
Re & Young
Pharmacists
Wheelinc
Ventiots
Drs. Surgison & Son
Market St
Wheeling W.va
DR. Gho. Cadple
Auton Hunt 7
Market Street
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Petit Wistoet
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Man Street
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Wars
Winehart
China
Vaseu Plegpe
Uni
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Bk Henrietta
English
Geo. R. Taylor
Sin Umbrellas
Stifel & Co
Geo.e.stifel& CO
Main St
Taylor
San Umbrellas
Brues
Main Street
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