Co operative selling urged to curb high living costs
A Des Moines price-reduction effort highlights cooperative trade between farmers and consumers. The article cites New York grange stores and a United States association plan to cut intermediaries. It compares Britain’s cooperative model with American reforms as a path to lower prices and direct farm to consumer sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States Association
Roland Onnfroy
United Stotes Association
United States
Great Britain
Co-Operative Society
Robert Owen
British Isles
Des Moines
Chicago
Dubuque
Commission
Tn Produce
America
National Conservation Congress
Kansas City
W.oal Peard
Roosevelt
Puntry Life Commission
Cherries Perrett
Farmers’ Educational Era Co-opeive Whion
Arerica
Talking Canaries Reported In 19th Century Europe
The article notes authenticated talking canaries in England and Germany during the 1850s and 1860s. In Norwood 1858 a canary repeated a mistress phrase Kissie kissie and later formed a small vocabulary. A Bath exhibit in 1863 showcased a canary with a parrot-like vocabulary, while another talking canary in the Tyrol region is mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norwood
England
Bath
Germany
Tyrol
Gold Beaters Skin and Early Techniques for Gold Leaf
The article discusses methods for preparing gold leaf including the use of goldbeaters skin from ox intestines and the shift from paper to parchment. It notes thinner leaves require protection, the use of mulberry fiber paper in China and Japan, and the role of isinglass coated German paper in early stages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Japan
New York Tribune
Peruna credited with curing lung catarrh claims
Miss Ninette Porter of Braintree Vermont writes that doctors failed to help with lung catarrh and hemorrhages but Peruna cured her. She describes slow initial improvement, then lifting of stringy matter from the lungs and gaining flesh, now calling herself well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ninette Porter
Braintree
Vermont
Attractive one floor bungalow design offered in paper
A single story bungalow with nine foot rooms and a small cellar under the kitchen. Full basement optional. Washington fir finish and piazza floors. Exterior can be sided or shingled. Size twenty six by thirty six feet. Construction cost 1600 dollars not including heating or plumbing. Publisher offers SaxTON book of plans for one dollar, with 240 designs ranging from 1000 to 5000 dollars.
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Wilson
James A. Edgerton
Moses Coit Tyler
Washington
Grant
Potomac
Willamette University
Glee Club
Grand Theatre
Dean Mendenhall
Myrtle L. Mendenhall
India
Peruna
Saxton
Glenn L. Saxton
Minneapolis, Minn
Kitchen
Portland
Tacoma
Seattle
Northern Pacific Railway
THE
Pioneer Line
Grays Harbor Limited
Grays Harbor
St. Paul
Minneapolis
St. Louis
California
North Coast
Mississippi Valley
Kansas City St. Louis
Pacific Coast
K. A. McKenna
East Heron ST
Aberdeen
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