Simple Home Cistern Filters For Purifying Water
Farm and Garden outlines easy water filtration methods for cistern supply. It describes brick wall partitions and charcoal sand gravel filters, notes maintenance needs, and stresses locating wells away from cess pools to prevent typhoid and other waterborne diseases. It warns that rainfall and seasonal changes affect bacterial content and recommends chemical and bacteriological testing for safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esther
Cesspool
Appeal to Women and Home Trading Duty
A writer urges women to support local merchants and trade at home rather than mail order. He questions premium clubs and catalog shopping that drain lifeblood from the community, warns against seeking freebies, and stresses civic duty to build churches hospitals streets and local welfare.
Work for Women and Town Improvement
A May Delineator article urges women to lead town improvements by reducing noise creating traveling libraries protecting forests cleaning yards and streets ensuring public health with nurses lighting streets preventing crimes paving sidewalks eradicating tramp labor immoral theaters and unsafe utilities while beautifying streets with window boxes and guarding trees and underground wires to make towns wholesome places to live.
Courthouse as Centerpiece of Civic Pride and Beauty
The May Delineator urges counties to invest in dignified courthouses as symbols of authority justice and good governance. It advocates placing the building in a central square with trees flower beds benches fountains and thoughtful edge features to foster public interest and community pride.
Chicago plans improvements for a triangular park at Archer and Twentieth
The special parks commission will transform the bleak triangular plot at Twentieth Street and Archer into a bright Little Park. It will be cleaned, leveled, sodded, and fenced with brick posts and decorative flowerpots. A drinking fountain for men and horses will stand on one side and a central spray fountain will be installed.
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Chicago
Twentieth Street
Archer Avenue
Red Light District
Special Parks Commission
John Algots
Strength of Rings and Their Breaking Point Limits
English experiments show ductile rings resist tension similarly to bars, with ring strength nearly twice that of a straight rod of the same cross section. Ring diameter only slightly affects strength. 3 in ring breaks near 19.14 tons, 4 in about 19.9 tons, 6 in around 20 tons, versus a 10 to 14 ton bar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Showers of Fish Lead to Boiled Mackerel Tale
A nature fakir recalls a bizarre Pacific island spell where a two hour shower of fresh mackerel soaked into a salt lake and later a cyclone dropped them into a hot spring, boiling them into the finest mackerel, before rough men tackle the fakir outside the venue. Another aside captures a jokey romance as a man proposes to the girl in reference to a different ear.
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Pacific
Chicago News
Cure for sore nipples with Chamberlain's Salve
The article notes that Chamberlain's Salve can heal sore nipples after nursing. Apply after nursing and wipe away before the next feeding. Many trained nurses report best results. Evans Drug Co sells the salve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Evans Drug Co
City Fire Alarm Boxes Listed With Locations
A catalog of fire alarm box sites in Aberdeen lists boxes 4 5 7 8 9 and 12 15 17 21 238 25 27 31 32 35 37 88 42 45 and 47 with crossings of streets or landmarks such as Young and Thomas North Aberdeen Highland Home High School Burrows Dock Hume K streets Northern Pacific Depot Boone King Market F streets Wilson Bros Mill and various mills and companies. Imaginary boxes are marked with an asterisk.
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Young and Thomas
North Aberdeen
Cleveland Streets
Highland Home
Terrace Avenue
D Street
High School
Wilson Bros’ Mill
S. E. Slade Mill
Market
F Streets
American Mill
Heron
Fourth
Franklin School
Jefferson
M Streets
Hume
Anderson & Middleton Mill
Broadway
Third
Hart Wood Lumber Co
S Mill
Stomach and Liver Tablets Offer Remarkable Cures
Stomach troubles improved by Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. One man spent over two thousand dollars on other treatments before being cured by a few boxes. Price 25 cents. Samples free at Evans Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Evans Drug Co
Woman credits Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for recovery
Maude E. Forgie of Leesburg Virginia states that after months of feminine ills she found strength and wellness following Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and the prescribed treatment. The notice promotes Pinkham's remedies for female ailments including displacements inflammation and related symptoms and invites letters for advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
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Maude E. Forgie
Leesburg, Va
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Man Kills Adversary With Rock In Oregon Fight
In The Dalles Oregon on Friday night Alex Dalrymple struck Lee Putman after a dispute over change at a shooting gallery. A rock thrown from about ten feet killed Putman instantly. Dalrymple is jailed pending investigation and has athletic relatives including wrestler William Dalrymple. Putman, about 28, lived with his father in Ellensburg Washington.
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Dalles
Alex Dalrymple
Lee Putman
Dalrymple
Putman
M. M. Splawn
E. C. Sargent
Splawn
William Dalrymple
Ellensburg
Wash
Boy Takes Up Long Walk Again to Portland
Walter Cosgriff, 17, after a 100 mile trek from Chehalis Washington, arrived in Portland dusty hungry and penniless seeking his aunt Mrs White a stenographer. She directed him to the Y M C A for a bath and clothing. A misdirected start led him to resume his weary journey.
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Portland
Chehalis
Wash
Walter Cosgriff
Pistol Shot For Mashers In Moscow Idaho June 14
A 16 year old girl, daughter of W L Baker owner of a moving picture show, drew a bulldog revolver from her shirtwaist and fired twice at two young men William Martinson and Ira Morgeridge who had accosted her and her sister. Baker pursued and beat Martinson severely.
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Moscow
Idaho
W. L. Baker
William Martinson
Ira Morgeridge
Mr. Baker
Martinson
Patient and Dentist Exchange About Pain and Money
Dialogue shows a patient fearing dental work asks about pain and being unaware of procedures while the dentist reassures and mentions money. The exchange hints at anticipation and trust in the clinical setting.
How to Make Your Fern Grow
Instructions advise placing the fern pot in hot water not boiling but very hot to speed growth. The guidance targets a fern resembling hillside wild ferns and aims to boost growth for slow growing houseplants.
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Schilling
S. W. Johnston Transfer Co
New Castle
Franklin South Prairie
Humboldt
Fred Hewets
South F Street
Aberdeen, Wash
Aberdeen
Ermania
Piooker
John Kahle
Heron St
Herald Printery
Centlemen Socialiston
The
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Lee Williams
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OME Printers
the Herald Printery
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the Colonial Hotel
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