Sorghum Diffusion Sugar Process Shown Worthwhile
Washington reports prospectors and Colman from the Wash Post say diffusion or saturation sugar extraction from sorghum, using twelve cells and hot water, yields nearly all saccharine matter. Fort Scott Kan plant produces 150 tons cane per twenty hours, 18,000 pounds sugar, with seed, molasses, and feed value, potentially boosting domestic sugar production.
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Colman
Washa
Fort Scott
Law
Deate of Agriculture
Suis
Parkinson Sugar
Kan
Parkinson
Betan Pines
Somnambulist Mother Visits Graceland Grave in Dream
In Chicago a somnambulist mother, grieving for her buried boy in Graceland cemetery, was seen at night gliding toward the grave with clothes and flowers. A policeman awakened her. she recounted dreaming the boy returned and led her to the grave, then resumed sleepwalking toward her child's final resting place.
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Chicago
Graceland Cemetery
Teach the Girls to be Useful and Independent
The article urges mothers to educate girls thoroughly in domestic skills and self reliance. It argues that practical abilities like sewing, bread making, budgeting, and honesty build character, while frills or wealth do not guarantee happiness or esteem.
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New York Tribune
National Republican Committee
Washington
New York
Miscellaneous Ventures in Wit and Worldly Wise Lines
A collage of quips and anecdotes on work, speech, ethics, and daily life. Notes on Edison, conscience, flirtation, and humor mingle with social headlines on taxes, newspapers, and political debates. Scattered items reference New York, Virginia, and Georgia topics plus light satire.
Womanly virtues celebrated in verse and daily toil
A reflective piece extols women's virtues through biblical and historical voices while contrasting grand rhetoric with practical daily tasks. It notes women's endurance from child bearing to shopping and her quiet strength in household labor, contrasting public acclaim with ordinary duties.
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Jephthan
Ruth
Esther
Elizabeth
Joeanna
Mary
Susanna
A Cure for Typhoid Fever and Odd Remedies
A Baltimore letter reprints a claim that mashed raw onions applied to feet cured typhoid fever in multiple patients. The note cites a colored boy at a reform school and General Horn ordering the treatment, then shifts to promoting Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup and a boastful salvation oil with patriotic flair. The piece ends noting price and national pride.
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John R. Cox
Baltimore
Baltimore American
House of Reformation
Gen. Horn
Choir Refused to Sing Prompted Hymn Change in Service
During morning worship a minister, noting discord among singers and rumors they would skip the next Sabbath, announced a Watt hymn and directed the choir to start at the second verse urging those who never knew God to refuse singing. They complied and sang that hymn.
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Watt
Margery Dictates Toy Pin Demand After Kitten Scratch
Little Margery, after a severe scratch from the family kitten, first trembles then adopts a stern pose reminiscent of her mother. She extends her hand and firmly says, Titty, dive me dat pin.
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Margery
Pretty Far Fetched Dialogue Riddle
Friggs and Frogs argue over a sheet of writing paper and a lazy dog analogy. The exchange features wordplay on ink lined plain inclined plane slope and a dull thud remark, concluding with a playful misdirection.
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Friggs
Jonas and the Whale painting feature
A young artist describes a picture titled Jonas and the Whale. A possible purchaser asks where Jonah is, and the artist notes the whale’s distended shape midway between tail and neck, identifying it as Jonah.
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Jonas
Jonah
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N. J
Edison
Brooklyn
Bishop
Lord Chatham
Henry George
Mr. Jones
South
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King of
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Boston Corbett
John Wilkes Booth
Lincoln
Kansas State
Japan
Philadelphia
Maria
Holyoke
Mass
New York State
Virginia
Mahone
United States
Senate
Richmond
Mr. Cleveland
W. J. Griffith
Liverpool
England
Second Baptist Church
Thos. Jackson
J. M. Jones
North Carolina
Confederacy
Gettysburg
Tennessee
Creation
Dr. Bull
Hitty
Jonas and
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