Fragmented musings and humorous vignettes drift through a late 19th century column
A readout of scattered quips and anecdotes touches on topics from crime to culture. It includes remarks on economy per capita, moving pictures, a lottery marriage scheme, a divorce judgment, jokes about laundered banknotes, fashion, gas lanes, and a cyclist who circled the world. The tone is satirical and miscellany driven, reflecting a newspaper filler style.
Hog Breeding Principles Emphasize Male Selection and Lineage
The text argues hogs are profitably managed like crops with attentive care. It stresses choosing a superior boar to shape offspring, match females, and avoid weak litters, noting lineage, prolific strains, and cross breeding as key factors for a productive herd.
Timely notes on caponizing and poultry yard care
Practical guidance by 0.8 Miller on caponizing timing, detecting nonproductive birds, and improving yard conditions. Emphasizes sun exposure, movable yards, grass and greens, water quality, and rotating poultry plots to sustain health and growth.
Strawberry beds and berry bushes supplement orchard yields
A strawberry bed, several berry bushes, and nearby plum and apple trees keep the table stocked with a variety of desserts. The arrangement allows quick, continual preparation of ready treats from homegrown fruit.
Sterilized Soil for the Flowers
Florists use sterilized soil in window boxes to prevent weeds and worm damage. A sterilizing bin with steam pipes vents through holes, steaming sod soil for about thirty minutes. Excessive heat destroys essential elements, a greenhouse man notes.
Easy Method for Killing Gophers
A writer describes using parsnip bait laced with strychnine to trap and kill gophers. He digs out fresh dirt to expose holes, inserts a baited plug about a foot deep, and leaves the hole open to lure and poison the animal. The method reportedly kills the gopher and may deter others from the same run.
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Wy Jackson Taylor
Gopher
Steamer Experience Party Inspires Summer Travel Echoes
Entertainmnegs A Steamer Experience Party gathers eight friends to swap travel tales from steamer trips and inland voyages. Guests share fifteen minute descriptions while others needlework, with a ship’s steward youngster serving, bells marking time, and a porch setting filled with travel books and souvenirs. Plans for next year’s event emerge as a yearly tradition. A sample menu features stuffed olive and egg sandwich and various cold sandwiches with pi mento cheese and sardine options.
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Buffalo
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Moonlit corn roasts and bonnet party nostalgia
The piece celebrates seasonally popular entertainments like corn roasts with bonfires and dances after meals. It highlights a bonnet party for twenty children where girls craft hats from tissue paper and napkins, judged for prizes, with dolls and decorative straw hats as rewards.
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Dolly
A Peach Luncheon Menu and Decor Plans
A peach luncheon will be held outdoors if weather permits. The hostess plans a lawn setting with a white table under a canopy, Chinese lanterns, and a pink enameled peach centerpiece. Menu features tomato and caviar canapes, jellied veal, olives, shrimp in aspic, peach desserts, and peach brandy.
Smart Blouses Highlight Satin and Lace Details
The satin blouse remains stylish in white with front buttons and large bell sleeves. Embroidered pockets and a colored silk handkerchief add charm. Valen ciennes lace and Irish lace create filmy effects, with a narrow satin collar finishing the look.
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India Lawn
Quote Exchange Reflects On Longevity Of Thin People
A doctor notes thin men may live longer while a woman’s longevity is questioned in a sharp dialogue about health and appearances. The exchange hints at attitudes toward body image and aging in a light conversational tone.
Tyree's Antiseptic Powder Advertised for Skin Relief
Sunburn insect bites ivy poison or any skin inflammation find quick relief with Tyree's Antiseptic Powder. Available 25c at druggists. Free sample offered by J. S. Tyree Washington DC Adv.
Father and lover trade barbs over timber riches
In New York Post style dialogue, a father questions lineage while the lover boasts 10,000 acres of pine timber. The father approvingly offers a drink, a cigar, and the girl as a prize in a witty exchange.
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New York Post
Family Name Change Sparks Letter Conflict
A Boston Transcript excerpt shows Mrs Exe opposing her daughter Jessie’s name change to Jessica while Mrs Wye details the daughter Bessie adopting the name Jessica. The dialogue reveals family tension over evolving identities and naming.
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Jessie
Jessica
Wye
Bessie
Bessica
Boston Transcript
Luks Towns Critic Tale Echoes Uffizi Laundry Parable
In a New York studio George B. Luks tells a critic a parable about a colored laundress at the Uffizi Gallery. The mistress guides the woman to Correggio’s work and the laundress remarks the saints are the last to endure bad laundry.
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George B. Luks
New York
Uffizi
Correggio
Hannah
Will You Marry Me A Feminist Reply
A man asks for marriage but faces a sharp rebuke from a woman who declares she is a true feminist seeking self expression and radical new world ideas. She dismisses conventional notions and confirms she will marry him only if he fits her vision. The exchange frames 1920s feminist debate on independence and partnership.
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