Practical farm ethics and orchard care notes
The article opines that a careless hired man is costly, weeds ruin soil, and proper fertilization should match harvest needs. It warns against dishonest traders, praises highway straw use, and suggests yard management to prevent mud. It cites rat control, butter water content, and prudent poultry and dairy practices. It endorses hardier apple varieties and farm religious integrity. A western town uses fines and patrols to deter tramps, then discusses Arbor Day and forest preservation.
Neighborhood arbitration and farm costs spark debate
The article argues arbitration is cheaper than law for neighbor disputes and highlights effects on farmers, saloon business, and local shops. It estimates corn yield value differences, urges women to gain practical home skills, warns on tuberculosis milk risks, praises wood block paving, warns against foreign bill-of-goods, and gives seed potato scab treatment using formalin solution for scab free crops.
Suggestions for Dairy Herd Sanitation from U S Department of Agriculture
A Washington pamphlet titled Twenty Dairy Suggestions with Special Reference to Sanitation lays out precise herd care. It urges biannual veterinary checks, careful herd addition, calm cows, daily body cleaning, udder clipping, diet given gradually, and ample fresh water. Milking routines stress clean hands, udder wiping, quiet handling, fixed times, orderly milking, rapid milk transfer, and immediate cooling to 50 degrees.
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Dairy Division
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Owning a Home Versus Renting for Young Housekeepers
The article argues young people face a choice between renting and owning. It notes buying a home is usually financially smarter over time, especially over twelve years, when rent costs exceed the perpetual payment to own. Ownership also encourages thrift through debt and budgeting as with life insurance or investments.
Night Riders Attack Kentucky Tobacco Growers
The article describes two legged masked attackers in Kentucky tobacco districts who set stores afire and threaten growers. The violence targets independent farmers resisting the Tobacco Growers' association price controls causing many to abandon plantations and relocate.
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Kentucky
Independents
Tobacco Growers’ Association
A Poor Swap On Rural Boy Leaving Country Life
The piece argues against a country lad taking a city job for a superior opening. It warns that independence and healthful toil of rural life are traded for sunless days of urban labor, noisy streetcars, and a treadmill existence with temptations and pitfalls.
Making Good and Dr. Pierce’s Popular Medicines
An aged promotional piece lauds Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a proven square-deal remedy for weak stomach liver and blood disorders. It contrasts with rival tonics, notes the absence of alcohol in the elixir and asserts lasting trust built over two decades. It also touts Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for women and Pleasant Pellets as enduring, easy to take liver pills.
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Doctor Pierce
Dr. Pierce
John H. Sanderson Convicted in Capitol Fraud Case
John H. Sanderson, a contractor, was convicted of complicity in a $9,000,000 fraud involving the Pennsylvania capitol project. Trial records show he participated with other parties in the scheme and faces sentencing.
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John H. Sanderson
Pennsylvania
Sun and shadow in balloon ascent described by IT H Clayton
The narrator from Atlantic details solar intensity at various altitudes during a balloon ascent. At two miles the sun’s diffused light illuminates interiors. above five miles the sun appears as a sharp glowing ball against near black sky. In thin air at a mile and a half heat and sand management are required as the balloon sinks after sunset.
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H. Clayton
Atlantic
Get Out If You Can Jail Names Santa Barbara Tale
A San Francisco Chronicle note cites a hotel guest recounting Spanish place names in California. Indio Muerto means dead Indian, and Salsipuedes, a street near Santa Barbara’s hospital, originally wandered through ravines and translates to Get out if you can, a name deemed ill suited for a hospital.
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California
Santa Barbara
Indio Muerto
Salsipuedes
San Francisco Chronicle
How to Clean Tan Leather and Suede
Tan leather can be cleaned using ether. Tan suede cleaning involves stale breadcrumbs rubbed on the surface. The advice suggests a one to two day old render or crust to rub the suede, though details are unclear and not a standard method.
Dr King’s New Life Pills Sold With Gold Promise
Cedar View merchant B G Stewart assures customers they receive worth in gold weight for a box of Dr King’s New Life Pills. He says the pills help constipation malaria or biliousness. Sold under guarantee at Evans Drug Co and Postoffice Pharmacy.
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B. G. Stewart
Cedar View
Miss
Dr. King
Evans Drug Co
Postoffice Pharmacy
Cooking by Gas How to Avoid Odors and Light the Range
Practical guide explaining how to reduce cooking odors, fix gas smell from tubing, and properly light a gas range. Advises cleaning burners from boil overs, using a swall pipe to vent odors, placing water near the stove, and ensuring adequate supply pipe size and oven space for efficient, economical cooking.
Record Breaker in Mud Spotted at Sea
A witty Pick Me Up quip notes a battleship stuck fast in mud could become a record breaker once freed on open seas. The line plays on speed versus steadiness and the irony of morass turning into achievement.
Money Makes Egotists Cardinal Newman Quote
A quotation by Cardinal Newman on money as a creator that inflates ego and fosters self-idolatry, suggesting wealth grants the holder power and a grander self-perception.
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Cardinal Newman
Conquering Temptation in My Journal
A reflective note from My Journal urges that temptation is overcome by solitary effort and personal will rather than external aid. It emphasizes facing the struggle alone as one would face death, underscoring individual responsibility.
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Rockford, IA
State
Good Lord
Bettter
London
the Herald Printery
Herald
Herald Printery
Wishkah
Aberdeen
Centlemen
Ralston
South F St
Lee Williams
Prop
Humboldt
Fred Hewett
South F Street
Aberdeen, Wash
Ermania
Piooker
John Kahle
Goodelean
Heron St
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