Womanly virtue in Home Life and Bold Fashion Notes
A miscellany mixes about a mother’s patient life guiding children and a practical sermon on smiling temper and gentleness shaping character. It also covers domestic harmony, marriage dynamics, and Parisian fashion notes with model garments and fabric details.
Breathing Exercises for Health and Rapid Walking
The article explains proper breathing, emphasizes combining rapid walking with breathing exercises, and gives a morning and night routine. It describes standing, raising arms, inhaling deeply, holding briefly, and lowering with full exhalation to raise vital capacity.
El E A Good Extension Ladder Design Description
A historical note describes a jointed extension ladder with three or four parts. It details dimensions for each section, including widths and lengths, rounded ends, slotted joints, shoulder projections, and bolt fittings to prevent splitting. The text explains how the top section slips over the bottom part and how the crotch area accommodates the coupling.
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St. Louis Republic
A Margin of Dairy Profit and Sheep Statistics
The article canvasses forty eight creamery patrons in Fond du Lac County Wisconsin showing 687 cows with average feed cost 29.88 dollars per cow and butter returns 35.82 dollars per cow. skim milk profit adds 8.20 dollars, total profit per cow 14.34 dollars, noting labor not counted and manure calves not valued. It covers world sheep counts by region and wool production, then offers incubator rules and a bulletin box idea.
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Fond du Lac County
Wis
Wardrobe Details and Women’s Rights Commentary
A description of a beige flannel shirtwaist with intricate tucks and lace along with a fancy braid and Venice lace stock. A strong jab at suppressing women’s chatter as a loss of a civic right. Reports A W Hammer of New Castle Indiana securing a patent for an automatic rural telephone switch that disconnects other subscribers during a call.
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Venice
A. W. Hammer
Newcastle
Ind
Patent Office
Spring Fashion Trends And The Idea Of A Dominant Wife
The article describes spring fabrics hand embroidered with roses and lace trimming, velvet bands on skirts, pineapple gauze, and beaded dress velvets. Straw hats and linen blouses appear, with lace and soutache braiding on outfits, plus parosels and fashionable shirtwaists. It also includes a column titled Wife May Rule Husband, arguing a domineering wife wrecks marriages in most cases and condemning the idea.
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Java
Putting Children to Bed Early
The author urges parents to discipline bedtime, avoid late nights with children, and secure personal rest time. Without breaks the mind narrows to house duties, hindering conversation and thoughts beyond childcare.
Statue of Peter the Great in Senate Square St Petersburg
The article describes a celebrated equestrian statue of Peter the Great in Senate Square, St Petersburg, erected by Empress Catherine I. It praises the sculpture as a noble example of sculpture and notes Catherine’s admiration for Peter and her completion of his projects and city improvements.
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Peter the Great
ST. Petersburg
Catherine SI
Senate Square
Catherine
Manufacturer’s self jests spark town tale from the telegraph
A Philadelphia Telegraph note recounts a harsh employer and a newcomer seeking work. The man lacks a formal recommendation but claims friends in the village will vouch for him. He returns after a half hour and exits, saying he did not obtain a character but he got thine.
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Philadelphia Telegraph
Volume of Butter Industry at National Buttermakers Meet
M. M. Wentworth of State Center Iowa stated at the St. Louis Fair that U S butter production last year would reach about 1 5 billion pounds The daily value of output excluding Sundays and holidays was about 16 000 000 He noted moving the year s butter output would require 43 750 cars each with 20 000 pounds and a chain of cars extending 330 miles if lined end to end
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National Buttermakers’ Association
St. Louis Fair
M. M. Wentworth
State Center
Iowa
United States
Agricultural Atoms Report Highlights Farming Prosperity
The item notes 30,000,000 grape vines on 60,000 acres in New York with December prices up to 60 cents a dozen. An English journal praises Secretary Wilson's yearly report as praising farmers' prosperity. It also mentions a Kansas farmer pursuing scientific farming and a Texas Texas A&M hog standard of 160 pounds at six months.
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Agricultural Atoms
New York
Eges
Agricultural Journal
Wilson
Kansas
State Agricultural College
John A. Craig
Texas Experiment Station
Keeping Birds From Cherries In A Maryland Orchard
A Maryland orchardist uses planted mulberry trees to lure birds away from ripening cherries. When the mulberries ripen alongside the cherries the birds prefer the mulberries and avoid the fruit, protecting the crop for a profitable market. Also noted is an enormous 100 foot cherry tree near Newcastle California that yielded 8 100 pounds of cherries earning 500 dollars with ladders built in the tree for harvest.
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Maryland
Newcastle
Cal
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