How to Make an Eight-Frame Beekeeping Hive
Instructions from a New Jersey beekeeper outline building eight frame dovetail hives from dry pine boards. Details cover board widths 9.5 inches, side lengths 20 inches, frame length 12? inches, rabbeted joints, cleats, and lifting handles, plus cover, bottom boards, and the need for precise inside length. Also notes on hive protection, open joints, lath spacing, and variations for supers. A short aside addresses roup prevention in poultry.
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New Jersey
Farm Journal
Ape
Poultry House Ventilation Cloth Windows Versus Glass
Miller Purvis reports from the Breeders' Gazette on cloth window ventilation in poultry houses. A cloth front allows airflow, prevents dampness and odors, and yielded healthier fowls than a glass window design in a controlled comparison.
Doan's Kidney Pills Cure Chronic Kidney Pain
A Colorado Springs resident recounts twelve to fifteen years of back and kidney pain. After taking Doan's Kidney Pills, he recovered and remained symptom free, praising the product as a permanent cure. Sold by dealers for 50 cents per box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
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Thomas N. McCullough
Weber St
Colorado Springs
Colo
Doan
Lowe
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
PETS FOR LITTLE PARISIANS
The piece notes a New Year custom in Paris where children ask for live pets instead of toys. It describes a thriving trade in diverse animals including puppies kittens monkeys lambs and even tigers and leopards. Young felines are harmless until they bite or claws appear and are then sent to the citys two grand zoos.
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Gyp
Sisters Heal From Eczema With Cuticura Remedies
Miss Edith Hammer of Morrison Illinois recounts healing eczema on the head after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. She notes all three sisters benefited and one sister found Cuticura Resolvent and Pills a splendid tonic. The disease lasted about six months before cure.
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Edith Hammer
Morrison
Iil
Constant water supply plan for livestock
A simple siphon based system from the Iowa Homestead uses a watertight barrel and a box to provide steady water for hogs, sheep, or poultry. Fill the barrel, plug the vent, and water flows until the barrel drains, then refill and replug to maintain a level.
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Iowa
Apple growing across regions and seed catalog offer
The article outlines global apple cultivation from Scandinavia to North Carolina and Tasmania, noting North America as a leading producer with New York and several states thriving. It mentions world output around 100 million barrels and how excess fruit becomes cider, vinegar, or brandy, and promotes Clover & Grass Seeds from John A. Salzer Seed Co with a large 8 page catalog and seed samples.
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Scandinavia
North Carolina
Tennessee
New Zealand
Tasmania
Australia
Africa
South America
North America
New York
Missouri
Oregon
Washington
Glover
John A. Salzer
Tips and Starch and Deafness Claims Parade in OCR Fragment
A garbled OCR fragment mixes social snipes about tipping in a St Louis setting with ad blurbs for Defiance Starch and a dubious deafness cure by CARNEY & CO. It threads quotations on marriage threats and a chaotically pasted catalog of products and remedies, ending with a claimed money pledge for catarrh cure.
Expert Ocean Mail Sorters and Free Land Prospects
An article highlights expert mail sorters on ocean steamships handling up to 250000 letters and 10000 registered packets on western trips. It also advertises cheap irrigated pea land in Colorado’s San Luis Valley offered to farmers, claiming high hog yields and a potential million hogs annually if one fifth of the valley is used. For details contact I K Hooper at Denver Rio Grande.
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General Post Office
San Luis Valley
Colorado
H. M. Cottrell
Iowa
Reuters
I, K. Hooper
G. P
T. A
Denver & Rio Grande R. TR
Denver, Colo
Poultry Notes From The Farm Journal and Farmers' Review
The notes stress that only hens should be kept for eggs as roosters are unnecessary for most households. They warn against loss of confidence in eye quality in chicks and note leg weakness affects cockerels more than pullets. Cold storms demand good shelter and quality food care. Dust baths keep lice away. roosting in exposed places lowers winter egg output. a noisy coop signals egg production thriving. Cackling and crowing indicate healthy, happy birds.
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Farm Journal
Karm
Sweep's Curious Find at High Seckington
Joshua Folland, an Atherington sweep, while clearing a long unoccupied house at High Seckington, swept down seven full grown wild rabbits which he bagged.
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Sweep
Atherington
Joshua Folland
High Seckington
Revolt Against Trading Stamps Campaign Sparks Anger
A campaign campaigner from Last London rails against trading stamps with the slogan No more trading stamps. He notes England's small grocers earn about 6 percent after stamp costs while 10 percent is average. The text also mentions Defiance Starch and various ad-like lines, including moral quips and product pitches, reflecting a cluttered era of advertising.
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London
England
Light goods and wallets in many small packages adrift
An assorted vintage ad fragment lists medicines for teething and cold cures, fur and hide price circulars from Minneapolis firms, and a note on building loans with commissions. It also includes quips about happiness, umbrella theft, and a yarn about predators, all in ad style.
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New York City
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Wide & Fur Go
Minneapolis, Minn
Ezumine
Ray
Edward Everett Hale
White House
Putnam
Mia
Winslow
Ryrip
Curca Wind Colt
Iso Otto
N. W. Hide & Fur Co
Minneapolis
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Kyulov
Ship Furs Pelts
McMillan Fur & Wool Co
Philip
Islands
Lydia Ty, Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia I
Pinkham
Lydia DE. Pinkham
United States
Lydia BE. Pinkham
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Carters
Northweatand
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Pickbiet- Hammon IF Lan CO
Grand Gentral Station
Houston
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Chicago
Ill
Thornton & Minor
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Oak St. Kansas City
Canada
Wester Canada
Ottawa
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Jackson Street
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Navy Recruiting Station
Des Moines
First Street
Coder Rapids
Davenport
Virginia Farms and Homes
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