Good Roads Start at Home for Modern Progress
The piece argues that America must improve local roads to complement its vast rail network. It praises western paving, critiques granite blocks as harsh and outdated, and urges states to test and adopt the best pavement locally. It envisions a future with better travel, tourism, and national pride anchored in sound infrastructure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
America
Maraching
Vitien
Yeason
Marion Manville Pope
Lippincott’s
How to Raise Peach and Plum Trees from Pits
A reader asks how to grow plum and peach trees from pits and transplant them. Advice covers picking, soaking, fall planting, protection from frost, sowing thick rows four feet apart, and early spring care to grow seedlings for bud stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Keller
Crawford County
National Stockmann
Winter melons grown at Cornell station experiment
The Cornell University Experiment Station bulletin discusses growing winter melons for profit in frame houses for cucumbers or tomatoes. Prof Bailey notes low yields of two or three melons per plant require high prices and ample sun. He shows a method using boards hung on cross wires to support vines, improving fruiting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornell Periment Station
Cornell University Experiment Station
Gailey
Bailey
Geneva
Orchard and Garden Advice from the Farmer's Voice
The article offers practical farming tips on pest control with white hellebore for grape worms, allowing asparagus tax shoots to grow before cutting, seed handling for grapes, weed prevention by stopping seed spread, tomato planting success from open ground, fertilization for plum trees, cross fertilization of plums, irrigation via windmill and hose, and the potential profitability of irrigating soil for market gardens.
HOME HINTS AND HELPS FROM OLD COOKING NOTES
A digest of kitchen tips and recipes from Leed's Mercury and Western Rural. Velvet care warns against scorching when steaming with a damp cloth. Recipes include Coffee Cream Cake filling, Peach Tart with pasted decorations, Baked Chicken in Rice using salt pork and veal gravy, and Tongue with seasoned cracker crumbs baked under bacon and served cold from a mold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercury
Mia
John Jay
Between the Lines by Madeline Bridges Judea
A poet notes a withheld message in a lover’s letter. The speaker finds meaning in what is not said rather than the explicit words. The unnamed narrator reads with restraint, seeking signal in absence, and imagines tenderness beyond the silence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madeline
Bridges
Judea
A Satisfied Man or Proposes to Build a Ball
Henry W. Oliver of Pittsburgh denies backing a rival railroad and states his interests with Duluth Mesaba & Northern are not aligned. He explains fair freight rates to support existing lines and mentions Rockefeller policy as fair. The piece contrasts Holmesian deduction with a bricklayer’s honesty. Also notes $18,000 for Mrs Ward novel rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry W. Oliver
Pittsburg
Mesaba
Minnesota
Oliver
Rockefeller
Schoolgirl fashions for fall frocks and aprons
Features ready made school gowns for four to eight dollars with materials like poplin and tartans, bold plaids, and chameleon silk. Describes wide skirts, puffed sleeves, empire styles, and practical aprons in gingham, with trims of gimp and soutache. Names fabrics, colors, and price ranges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Empire
Louie Eepy
Enigmatical Bill of Fare for Dining Cars
A curious railroading notice announces a dinner menu offered on the Dining Cars of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. The item will be sent to any address upon receiving a two cent postage stamp addressed to Geo H Heafford General Passenger Agent Old Colony Building Chicago Ill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Geo. H. Heafford
Old Colony Building
Chicago
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M. H. Whitney
Melon
Freud
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock
the Century Magazine
Humphry Ward
Leavening Powe
Royal Absoluti
Yonkers Stuleaman
Atlanta
Cincinncinnati
Kentucky
Blue Grass Region
Chattanooga
Big Four
Queen & Crescent
Southern Railway
J.C. Tucker
G.N. A
Claris Street
Faram
Tommy
Tomm
U.S. Gov't Report
LY Pure
Para
Express
Mamma
Harper's Bazar
Hupss
Dubbs
Tubbs
Louisville Courier-Journal
Pbraeuns Pris
Wang
Danny
Indianapolis Journal
Jensis Pisckann
Springfield
Ills
Hall
Wren
Outon
Jacobs Oi
Walter Baker & Co
Walter Baker & Co., Limited
Dorchester
Mass
The
Great Britain and
Companion
Washington's
Princess Louise
Marquis of
Lorne
England
Benj. Ward Richardson
U. S. Navy
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of Agriculture
Oliver W. Holmes
William H. Russell
Frank R. Stockton
W. Clark Russell
Nelson A. Miles
Thomas B. Reed
Salisbury
Edwin Arnold
Justin McCarthy
Camille
Columbus Ave
Boston
Scott
Ahi Scott & Bowne
New York
Tanwatien
Paape
Tennessee
CSA
Wah
Mee
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