Farmer's Wife Too Ill to Work Kasota Testimonial
Kasota Minnesota Mrs Clara Franks reports Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound improved her year long right side pains and weakness enabling her to return to work. She endorses the remedy and urges other women to try it. The ad invites letters to Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co for confidential help read by a woman.
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Kasota
Minn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Clara Franks
Maplecrest Farm
Kasota, Minn
Lydia E.pinkham
Gulls Battle Over Big Fish Ends in Loss at Lake
A northern lake story shows gulls fighting over a heavy fish for nearly an hour, each lifting it only to drop it. The clash ends with all gulls fatigued and the prize lost, sacrificed to greed. the tale hints humans could do better with cooperation.
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Cleveland Press
Statesman Speech Critique and Comic Jewelers Exchange
A Chicago Herald item quotes a congressman deriding excessive talking for publicity while recounting a deputation visiting a jeweler to buy a solid silver coffee pot. The jeweler notes the purchase is for a senator and remarks about a long spout, illustrating witty political satire.
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Chicago Herald
Riming Speller Notes Vowel Precedence Rhyme
A New York Sun correspondent describes spelling challenges for diphthongs ei and fe and recalls an ancient rime to mark vowel order eye before te except after e or when sounded like a in neighbor and neigh.
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New York Sun
A Horse Laugh. Motorist and Farmer Hay Dispute
A Springfield Republican cartoon caption shows a motorist blocked by a hay load arguing with a farmer. The motorist accuses the farmer of delaying to let another carriage pass, while the farmer jokes that the other horse was eating his hay and there is no danger of the motorist eating it.
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Springfield Republican
Tenacher-Earl dialogue on speech timing
A corrected classroom exchange shows the teacher correcting Earl as to the correct pronunciation timing. Clarence confirms Earl should have said “twicet” instead of “wunst” in the moment.
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Tenacher
Earl
Clarence
Dance Talk Between Mrs Crabshaw and Her Daughter
A playful exchange from Puck features Mrs Crabshaw urging her daughter Marjorie to rest after last night’s dancing. Marjorie replies she is resting for tonight’s performance and continues a light humorous back and forth.
Poultry Diet Innovations Improve Turkey Rearing
A New York poultryman describes seven years of White Holland turkey raising with low mortality using a self-made feed. He reports past failures with bread and milk and black pepper, then success with wheat bran and sour milk plus raw eggs.
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New York
National Stockman
Turkey feed hopper keeps turkeys fed and chickens away
A simple trough on legs serves as a turkey feed hopper. Two boards form a comb over it to shelter feed from rain and prevent chickens from accessing the feed while turkeys eat.
Feeding Young Turkeys For Proper Growth And Health
The guide recommends sour milk with lactic acid as medicinal, egg for digestion, and minimal pepper use. It instructs a dry bran and egg mash, no extra feed for two weeks, then a daily chick feed plus bran. It advises gradual diet changes, access to water grit shells, and exercise. It notes overfeeding harms liver and suggests grass and dandelions for older birds.
Selecting Breeding Hens for Breeders and Laying Flocks
The Kansas Farmer advises careful observation of yearling hens during molt for breeding or laying, selecting those that molt quickly without constitutional drawbacks. Avoid hens whose combs turn nearly white and that mope or lose appetite during molt.
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Kansas
Rough Gast Bungalow Design 799 by Glenn L Saxton
The design 799 shows a bungalow with auto lighting on closet doors and built in storage for apparel. The 26 by 28 foot main area includes a full basement finish in red gum Washington fir or red oak with pine second story ready to paint. Build cost excludes heating and plumbing at 3200 dollars and Sax ton offers his 1914 book of plans for one dollar.
Selecting Hens for Breeding From Early Molters
The text advises avoiding weak hens in the breeding pen as molting reduces performance. Choose birds that shed their feathers early and recover quickly, since a weak hen will not meet the desired breeding work.
Fattening Fowls for Broilers and Roasters
Young growing fowls fare best on free range when bred for stock but for roaster use exercise should be limited. Tenderness requires avoiding toughening of muscles. Cage roasters for about two weeks with a carbon rich ration and balanced nitrogenous ingredients to yield sweet, tender meat.
Eight hour law would cripple industry and cost jobs in state
The text argues that an eight hour law limiting work to eight hours daily and forty eight per week would raise production costs across all industries within the state and make local products uncompetitive with out-of-state goods, leading to plant closures and massive unemployment. It urges voting against initiative measure No. 13.
Record of high child enrollment in South Philadelphia block
Bureau of compulsory education reports 1000 children ages six to sixteen in a Third district block, a remarkable enrollment. The nearby block shows eighteen languages spoken among the school children.
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Philadelphia
South
Bureau of Compulsory Education
Practical Health Hint Sprains
Sprains are often very painful and can keep a person sidelined. Remove shoe and stocking, apply a wet bandage of epsom salt solution, use clean muslin or gauze, dissolve a pound of epsom in water, wrap the sprain, and keep it wet for twenty four hours.
Gowns Cost More Than His Earned Wages
A Club Fellow anecdote recalls a suitor who cannot match a lady’s costly gowns and ends with a bashful claim that he could learn to dress her properly. The exchange highlights humor over social climbing.
Judge Cites Strawberries In Witty Exchange
A playful exchange shows a judge stating \"Strawberries evidently\" to explain the saying \"the higher the fewer\" observed by a sharp boarder. The landlady asks for meaning, and the judge’s remark frames the humor in the scene.
Maiden Speech Noted by Oscar De Leech in Suffrage Era
Oscar James De Leech recalls addressing suffragettes in a maiden speech noted by the Philadelphia Ledger. He reflects on feeling girlish and the reaction of the crowd to his first public address.
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Oscar James de Leech
Philadelphia Ledger
Promised Double Dime for Porch Fit
A humorous Cleveland Plain Dealer quip notes a man threatening a fit on the front porch unless paid. The respondent offers two dimes if the man behaves on Mrs. Browns porch.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ups and Downs
A Times-Picayune quote contrasts ascent and descent. It notes aviators and climbers feel exhilaration as they rise while divers and miners feel sadness as they go deeper, illustrating the phrase ups and downs with vivid imagery.
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New Orleans Times-Picayune
Types of market hogs for breeding and feeding
Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture the guide explains fat or lard type hogs dominate market use in the United States. It notes compact bodies short legs quiet disposition and high yield cuts as desirable traits for butchers and breeders emphasizing constitution fecundity early maturity fine hair and smooth skin as indicators of good quality.
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United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Ohio
Swine Conformation Standards for Market and Bacon Types
The guide details desirable hog features for fat lard and bacon pigs, stressing smooth fat cover, broad backs, deep bodies, and straight ribs. It notes 200 to 300 pounds for fat hog market readiness and 175 to 200 pounds for bacon hogs, with emphasis on breed type and high quality bone, hair, and flesh.
Raising Hogs Profitably and Glacial Wonders
The piece argues beginners should start hogs with good breeders and notes pure bred animals offer value for pork growth. It then surveys Greenland glaciers, detailing Disco Bay’s glacier thickness about 920 feet and movement near forty seven feet per day, with Greenland’s west coast hosting vast ice berg resources.
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Disco Bay
Greenland
Helland
Rink
Sundew plants hunt insects and may sense nearby prey
A plant that traps insects, the sundew, closes on flies and may sense proximity before contact. Dodder vines also seek hosts, bending toward stakes and fastening. Vegetation sends roots and tendrils across distances and raises questions about plant sense or instinct. Exchange.
Wallace confronts pirated Ben Hur edition in London
Lew Wallace found a pirated Ben Hur at a railway newsstand missing the subtitle and with a rewritten chapter and interpolated preface. He confronted the publisher who admitted the crime and claimed the changes suited British taste, an audacious move Wallace found infuriating.
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Lew Wallace
London
Wallace
How He Did It Fence Polisher Joke
A Washington Star quip has a woman in a sunbonnet answering a joke about a husband’s vocation. When asked how he polishes fences she replies by saying he polishes fences by sitting on them.
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Washington Star
Real Grief and Paris Plans Highlight Hidden Strain
A Baltimore American blurb notes a widow grieving deeply after her husband’s death. It mentions he planned to take her to Paris next spring, hinting at future dreams now altered by tragedy.
Train schedules for Aberdeen Tacoma and Seattle routes
Eastbound and westbound passenger trains and gasoline motor car services list departure and arrival times among Aberdeen Tacoma Seattle Portland. Services include trains 466 424 422 421 428 and motor cars 648 644 640 with times for departures from Seattle Aberdeen Tacoma Elma McCleary and Portland plus arrival times at each stop.
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Aberdeen
Arrivs
Tacoma
Seattle
Portland
Moelips
M. Tacombr
McCleary
Elma
Elma 2
D. Bk
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Roome
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Call 266
A. Star Transfer Co
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City Messenger Co Phone 72
J. T. Ennis
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King
Mehr d Etovitt’ Company
Washington
Son Ewe Merce
Jane
Excelsior Rug Factory
J. W. Groves
Comeau Furniture Co
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South G St
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Chicago, Milwaukee Paul Railway
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