Come and See Sign at Lydia E. Pinkham Plant
The front building sign at Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts invites public inspection of its laboratory and business practices. It asks if the vegetable compound is free of drugs and questions the existence of Mrs Pinkham and the confidentiality of customer letters while asserting its claimed cures and the experiences of one million plus women.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
America
Mrs. Pinkham
Budding Fruit Trees In Late Summer To Autumn
The article outlines budding as an alternative to grafiting for fruit trees. Budding works best on branches 3 to 4 inches in diameter with smooth bark, using a sharp knife and yarn. It notes timing in late August to October and applies to apples plums and roses.
Bud grafting and porch curtain front house details
Practical instructions describe bud grafting on fruit trees with a step by step knife technique and wrapping methods. The text also details a curtain front poultry house of shanty type, 8 feet 6 inches high, 4 feet 8 inches wide, with a hinged curtain front frame for sunlight and optional lumber construction inside.
Sheep First Steps for Mixed Farms and Stock Notes
The article discusses portable interior fixtures for easy cleaning, advises starting small with a flock of twenty five ewes and a buck, and warns sheep do poorly with hogs and cattle. It explains pulse rates for horses cattle sheep and pigs, and details raspberry propagation by tips for new soil. It also lists impressive eleven acre yields including radishes onions strawberries cabbage and more, and ends with wheat sowing guidance and a note on divining rod advertising versus science.
Quail Rights and Farmer Duty in Indiana
A writer from the Indiana Farmer argues farmers should protect quail as loyal roosting birds. He notes how easy it is to miscount birds during taxation and urges humane treatment, warning that hunting pressure drives quail away yet they return to their home roost if unmolested. He compares care of quail to domestic fowls and calls for better protection by farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace
Ohne
Corn Belt
Middle West
Careys
Indiana Farmer
Largest Duck Farm in Australia Showcases Global Incubator
The article describes Australia hosting the world’s largest duck farm and incubator. It notes the incubator’s capacity to hatch thousands of duck eggs, with a large open-ground structure built from pine boards and corrugated iron. The facility features multiple trays and tiers to maximize production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Iim
Tartar Lady Uses Oniorx Slice In Puzzling Self-Ruse
A terse note reports a Tartar lady employing a slice of oniorx to presume herself, a curious example of self-assertion through a symbolic act.
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Oniorx
Rhubarb Marmalade Recipe From an Old Table
A historic home canning note describes making rhubarb marmalade with four pounds rhubarb four oranges and four pounds sugar plus lemon juice raisins and orange peel. The method includes peeling trimming simmering rhubarb fifteen minutes then adding citrus and raisins and cooking until thick for fresh use or sealing for storage.
Traditional Apple Butter Roll and Cream Spinach Soup
A vintage home recipe outlines making a apple roll with flour sugar apples and butter baked for 90 minutes, then chicken fried in a buttered pan with parsley gravy. It also details Cream and Spinach Soup with spinach milk flour butter and whipped cream, plus a baked dessert with cinnamon sugar and melted butter.
Cider Cup Recipe with Cucumber and Mint
A summer beverage combines one quart cider two bottles soda water one bottle lemonade one heaping tablespoonful sugar a mint sprig and two inches cucumber. Slice cucumber leave peel on place in a pitcher with sugar cider and mint. Stand two hours then add lemonade and soda water with ice and remove mint.
Cherry sauce recipe for roast duck or game
Recipe notes a cherry sauce made by stone and stew cherries to a pulp then adding sugar vinegar ground cinnamon cloves allspice lemon juice and cooking until thick. When cold the sauce is jarred and sealed with waxed paper.
Practical Household Tips From A Prior Era
A collection of old fashioned advice on kitchen tasks and cleaning. Tips cover fruit handling, polishing glass, canning canning precautions, removing skins from salted meats, preventing cabbage boil over, flavoring ham and cabbage, cooling meat, nickel plating cleaning, removing ink stains, and stain removal methods using chloride of lime ammonia and hyposulphate of soda.
Money and the Maid Marries in Harlem Court
Giuseppe Arigidua and Marija Schreiter, both of 444 East 15th Street, resolved a quarrel over missing money by marrying that day after a Harlem Police Court intercession. Magistrate Hogan directed two officers to take them to Mount Carmel Church to wed immediately, with both tearfully agreeing to begin their life together.
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Giueppe
Logan
Harlem
Giuseppe Arigidua
Marija Schreiter
East 15Uth Street
Giusime
Maria
Giuseppe
Hogan
Chinese Son Outsmarts Test Pressure and Becomes Boss
A wealthy Chinese father funds repeated exam tutoring for his son who repeatedly fails the classical tests. After the final threat of arranging his funeral, the son recounts how crowded ponds prevented suicide and quotes Confucius to refuse obedience. The father then laughs and makes him president of an insurance company.
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Freddy
New York Sun
China
Confucius
Pekin
One Man Blames Mother-in-law in Domestic Dispute
In a court scene a man accused of beating his wife shirks responsibility by blaming his mother-in-law. The magistrate mocks the vanity behind such blame, recalling a moral exemplar who never misblamed his mother-in-law. The man defers, recalling a familiar stereotype and the old joke about Adam.
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Adam
Qlondon Globe
Turning a Tight Screw
A tip explains how to loosen a very tight screw using a screwdriver and pliers. By gripping the blade with pliers just above the head, press firmly and twist to break the bite and release the screw. This method minimizes damage and yields the stubborn fastener quickly.
Five Months in Hospital Reversed by Kidney Pills
Levi P Brockway of Anoka Minnesota says after five months in a hospital he was discharged incurable and given six months to live. He suffered heart trouble smothering spells fainting and worn out condition until using Deans Kidney Pills which addressed the cause and restored his health. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Levi P. Brockway
S. Second Ave
Anoka
Minn
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Tobogganing at St Moritz Crest a Grand National
The Cresta toboggan run at St Moritz, about three quarters of a mile long with 600 feet of elevation, hosts the Gr and National race at the end of February or start of March. The course features high banks and steep sections including the church leap, with speed reaching sixty miles per hour. Competitors arrive from Davos and other towns to compete on the skele ton toboggans steered by foot spikes.
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St. Moritz
Engadine
Cresta
Church Leap
Davos
Grocer Wagon Note Quoted in Family Dialect Joke
A judge recounts a humorous exchange in which a child asks if the speaker found her baby sister at the grocery. The imagined clue comes from a grocer’s wagon reading Fam Uies supplied, prompting a playful misunderstanding. The line sketches a domestic moment with a comic misreading.
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Fam Uies
Woman recovers health and gains weight after Grape-Nuts use
A York state woman credits ten years of stomach and liver trouble to poor digestion. She stopped coffee, started Grape-Nuts with Postum, and gained twenty pounds. She now eats freely, works from morning to noon, and feels revived. The letter, signed by Postum Co, Battle Creek, Mich, ends with a prompt to read The Road to Wellville.
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York State
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Majority and Plurality Defined in Electoral Terms
A plain explanation of majority and plurality in elections. It describes how a candidate can win by plurality without a majority, gives examples with vote counts, and defines how to calculate both terms. It notes that a candidate can have a plurality yet lack a majority unless tied.
The Artistic Temperament in a Philadelphia Press Exchange
A passerby dialogue reveals Mrs Nuritch claiming her son’s wish to be an artist while Mrs Ascum notes his fondness for flowing black ties, reflecting fashionable pretensions in a social column tone.
Omelet suggestion at lunch counter turns witty exchange
Customer asks if eggs are fresh at a lunch counter. The waiter replies yes and pivots to suggesting the eggs be enjoyed as an omelet.
Eczema Healed By Cuticura After Years Of Sufferings
Mrs David Brown of Locke Arkansas reports relief after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills for two years of persistent eczema on her ankles. She slept better, walked again, and notes no recurrence a year after treatment.
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David Brown
Locke, Ark
Looks Like Rain Hints at Change in Boston Home
The milkman comments on approaching weather while delivering a morning pint. The housekeeper, quick-witted, answers with a wary gaze fixed on the bottle, signaling mood or plans amid a quiet domestic scene in the Boston Transcript.
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Boston Transcript
Cock Inspires Crew At Marlborough Battle
A lone rooster from the Marlborough’s coop springs cheering courage amid heavy fire. The fowl’s defiant crow follows a mortal demasting, reviving crew morale and helping save the British man of war as officers lie wounded. The scene ends with renewed vigor and a turn in the battle.
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St. Vincent
London Chronicle
Photographer Suggests Smile Makeover Nearby
A photographer compliments a sitter on looking pleasant and recommends a facial specialist two doors down the corridor to the right to brighten the smile with a quick whitening. The exchange shows light humor as the photographer offers practical beauty advice.
One wheel item puzzles and vintage patent medicine
A humorous quiz asks what a one wheel vehicle would be called, answer a wheelbarrow. The line gives a Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup teething claim with gum soothing and wind colic relief, priced at 26 cents per bottle.
Candle at Both Ends Lampoons Midnight Oil Inquiry
A humorous exchange frames a doctor diagnosing overwork as burning a candle at both ends. The patient complains of nightly toil while the physician reframes the image as excessive candle use, implying burnout.
Tourist Fakir burns alpenstock names and varnishes hotel labels
A workman burns the names Jungfrau Materborn Fissteraarborn and Eiger on an alpenstock then varnishes a suitcase covered with red and yellow hotel labels. He taunts travelers who fake ascents and says summers will see him burn more peaks and cover suitcases with costly hotel labels as evidence.
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Alpenstock
Jungfrau
Europe
Claridge’s
London
Ritz
Paris
Yellow Clothes Stay White with Red Cross Ball Blue
Ad copy notes that yellow fabrics look bad and promotes Red Cross Ball Blue to keep whites bright. It claims large 2 oz packages are sold by grocers for 5 cents and urges purchase.
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Red Cross
Side Lights on Poesy and the Lake Poem
A Chicago Tribune remark on Scott’s Lady of the Lake notes the poet sinks the Real in the Ideal. It quotes Scott claiming the heroine is seasick yet hopes to improve as the boat reaches St Jon.
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Scott
Cape Colony Finances Hit by Diamond Market Slump
Cape Colony finances feel the strain as diamond market weakness drags down revenue and investors grow wary. Officials warn of tighter budgets and potential service cuts amid falling prices and reduced demand.
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Cape Colony
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