Ocean Waves in Stormy Atlantic Liner Passage
A Harper's Bazar writer describes heavy seas battering an Atlantic liner with passengers sheltering on the promenade deck while waves up to 60 to 108 feet are cited. Historical observations note wave heights, frequencies, and millstone impacts from Bishop's Rock to Wick Harbor, including a marine dynamometer reading of 6,083 pounds per square foot at Skerryvore Lighthouse.
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Harper's Bazar
Scoresby
Ale
Cialdi
Atlantic
Cape Horn
Thomas Stevenson
Douglass
Bishop’s Rock
Unst
Shetland Islands
Wick Harbor
Scotland
England
Skerryvore
Fortunes from discarded refuse spark new industries
A Chicago Record excerpt notes fortunes rise as discarded logwood roots yield dye and shale from coal mine waste becomes brick material. It highlights innovation turning waste into profitable industries, with Edison’s pre separator promising wealth from pit-refuse and shale bricks expanding in South Staffordshire, England.
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West Indies
Edison
South
Staffordshire
England
Chicago
Dunbar Records Three and a Half Ton per Square Foot Force
A Dunbar facility was recently registered with a force specification of three and a half tons per square foot, indicating the pressure rating of the structure or material in question.
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Dunbar
Six Pastors in 137 Years at Ninety-fifth Street Church
The Presbyterian congregation founded in 1756 in New York has had six ministers, with Rev. Dr. Wylie now leading. The first six pastors preached the gospel from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, as the church moved from Cedar to Crosby to Fourteenth, now at Ninety-fifth Street, a structure hoped to endure for centuries.
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Ninety-fifth Street
New York
Wylie
John Mason
Cedar Street
Crosby
New York Sun
Lone Call at Gate Sparks Family Tension
A terse exchange unfolds as a man asks if a father is trying to enter the gate. The woman confirms, revealing the father was supposedly out of town for the night, a yesterday statement that now contradicts the present scene.
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Vogue
The Sport Left Out in a Fisherman’s Trial
A humorous exchange shows a fisherman lamenting a day without a bite as mosquitoes torment him and the sun scalds his neck. The bystander calls fishing a cruel sport, prompting a wry reply from the angler about his long, fruitless watch.
Keeping soil fertility with minimal expense
The guide notes that farm fertility is best maintained with barnyard manure, aided by commercial fertilizers and green manuring. The main challenge is securing enough manure, which stock abundance helps solve.
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New York World
Sorting Potatoes for Market Reduces Losses
The American Farmer stresses strict sorting before sale for vegetables, noting mixed small potatoes can hurt prices and grades. Unsorted potatoes unsellable at times, but surplus stock can be fed to cattle with bran during winter.
Food and Drink for Crops in Drought Times
Fertilizers have value as plant food and moisture gatherers in drought. Deliquescent nitrates and salts of potash absorb water from the air, aiding crops when applied in dry periods. Gypsum, plaster, and artificial fertilizers also deliquesce, enabling moisture dissolution and soil diffusion to show effects within hours after light top dressing.
Wintering Horses Strategies for Efficient Farm Management
Farmers should winter idle horses economically without harming condition. Select one team for winter chores and feed accordingly while other horses graze in pastures. Provide shelter to reduce feeding costs and adjust rations as pasture quality declines. Approved rations include unthreshed feed with bran or cut hay mixed with bran and oilmeal for bone and muscle development.
Farm and Garden Notes on Poultry and Horses
Practical tips on culling for winter, feeding, water, and housing for poultry. Emphasizes breeding size and market readiness for horses, care to prevent feather pulling, and methods to fatten fowls. Includes an anecdote about guiding blind oxen with a pilot and the role of horses in European breeding.
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Barclay Ballard
Keo Ind
Mom
Mas River
Loveland
New York New
Winter horse feeding tips from the St. Louis Republic
The article advises feeding roughage and cornmeal as needed, noting it is best to provide roughness in ample but not excessive amounts. It emphasizes feeding regularity, water, and comfort to winter horses at low cost, keeping them ready for service when needed.
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St. Louis
St. Louis Republic
Sailor Tale Ends In Calmed Seas And Iron Kettle
A fragmented verse describes a sailor in danger then a wife who uses a brass kettle to swing him to safety. The storm recedes as calm returns and a fear of peril fades with the kettle’s odd rescue.
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