Land Prosperity From Western Canadian Farms
A lengthy recounting of Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta land yields and value gains cites James Bailey near Regina. Buying 640 acres at 18 dollars an acre, he cropped 600 acres wheat and 4 oats, yielding 19 875 and 4 750 bushels respectively, making 17 550 in crop earnings plus a 10 880 land increase, total 28 540, with wheat at 84 cents and oats at 28 cents per bushel.
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Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Canada
Grand Trunk Pacific
Canadian West
James Bailey
Regina
Bailey
Grand Coulee
Awards on fruit at Iowa horticultural show and officer election
Des Moines reports the Iowa Horticultural Society three day show at the state house awarded prizes for Northern Central and Southern districts with dozens of plates and varieties, bonus sweepstakes, and seedlings while re electing most officers, including President William Langham.
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Des Moines
State House
L. A. Deach
C. H. True
L. A. Clemons
H. L. Felter
C. HK. True
C. W. L. Schmidt
Central District
BE. B. Little
J. J. Proudfoot
BH. O. Worth
B. Stuart
F. C. Harvington
Charles O. Garrett
E. Howell
William Bombergerm
William Langham
Garrett
F. Q. Harrington
Southern District
G. R. Bliss
J. W. Murphy
J. E
Oid
Iowa Horticultural Society
Cedar Rapids
M. J. Graham
Adel
Wesley Greene
Elmer M. Reeves
Waverly
John Forster
Albia
A. B. Dennis
C. G. Garrett
Adelphi
Edgewood
L. Clemens
Storm Lake
Eugene Secor
Forest City
W. C. Haviland
Fort Dodge
G. A. Ivins
Iowa
Method In Their Madness Letters to Men Raise Questions
A column questions why clever women write silly letters to men and suggests they are collecting the responses. The quip implies curiosity about romantic correspondence and social norms of courtship.
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Miss. Giddigosh
Williamses
Woods Hutchinson
New York City
United States
van Duyn
Iowa
W. L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
W.L. Doug
W. L. Douging
Mathie
Off Duty and The Exception in a Lively Home
A humor piece depicts a tense home scene where a mother jokes about wearing shoes for four months, and a child quips that she is easy on everything except the father. The dialogue highlights the contrast between a self assured mother and a peace loving father in a sometimes strained domestic setting. The scene closes with a wry note on family dynamics.
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John
Notable 19th Century Patent Remedies Flap Amid Mock Ads
A collage of patent medicine claims and cheeky quips common in old newspapers includes testimonials for Catarrh Cure, Hall's Catarrh Cure promising a $100 reward for cures, Gertrude style quips about health aids, and familiar lines about Castoria, Rheumatism cures, and Allen's Lung Balsam. The page also parodies Proverbs and quotes, plus ads for Russell Blue detergent, Hamlin's Wizard Oil, and fur trading lines, reflecting era advertising and public notices.
Not Up to Modern Standards
A reflection on compliments to wives, a man who calls a wife a queen. Mr TDuggins counters with a snappy rebuttal about historical images of queens and millinery. The piece muses that married women die of broken hearts while old bachelors mourn past loves.
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Mr. Tduggins
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Central
True
Entwistle
Fiva,heira
Edward Entwistle
James EB. O'Brien
State Board of Control
Oak Bluffs
N. B. Mitchell
Marshalltown
Mutual Company
R. A. Walker
Nineteenth Street Hill
Patrick
Hugh T. Patrick
Sorthwestern University Medical School
Polk County Medical Association
Ward
Hill
Grand Army of the Republic
Women's’ Relief Corps
Mila Ward
Kinsman
Coring Ware
Para
Leith
Ihe
W. W. Wise
Board of Public Works
Shrine Temple
Frances Katherine Bargies
Walker Street
Kenneth Freburg
Easton
Boulevard
Richard Lyon
C. J
Alma Curtz
William Reeves
West Fourth Street
P. C. Over
Galloway
Laura McConkey
J. W. Bain
Kansas
Lawrence DeGraff
John McD
Horn
B. F. Carroll
Iowa Implement Dealers’ Association
Maggie B. Dow
Hugh M. Schuler
Postoffice
Niel Pierce
Colorado Springs
Ana Barton
Edwin Nye
Chas. Weltz
California
Fic Syrup Co
Miss Smiff
Ecionce
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Foledo
Detchon
Gonad Grocers
Wizard Oi
Cas
Emerson
N. W. Hide
Minneapolis
W. J. Bryan
Allen
de Ployee
Fetter
G “Gunes
Carter
I Dougla
Putnam
W. N. Uy
Opine Jona
Joy
Hughes
DeWitt Taimupe
Brownedi
Federal Street
Boston
Masa
Swift's Premium
America
Rome
Sweet Home
Swift
Switt
Pride
Swift & Company
Packers Avenue
Ghigago, Ill
Wulfsohn
Urs
ONC
3Anss Fur CO
Nicollet
Minn Jana
New York
Lelp
Aris
Napella
Minn
Aig
London
Perfection
Japan
Standard Oil Company
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