Selections From Fruit Tree Agent Advise Spring Delivery
Advice on selecting fruit trees warns against high priced varieties and urges sticking to reliable good varieties. Recommends standard spacing, interplanting peaches or pears, dormant spraying with lime sulfur and salt to prevent San Jose scale and improve tree health. Encourages fall planting for most fruits, spring for peaches, and stresses soil preparation, pruning, cultivating, and fertilizing for successful fruit growing.
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San Jose
Preparing an outside ground plot for garden expansion
The editor urges husbands to plow half to one acre near the home and plant potatoes, corn, or other crops this season to create a ready outside plot. This extra ground, easier to manage than the kitchen garden, should be prepared for wife suggested fruits and vegetables like strawberries raspberries and grapes.
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Green
Insect-Killing Spray Mixture Instructions
A spray for nests and roosting places to kill insects uses three parts kerosene to one part crude carbolic acid 95 percent strength. Stir before use. The mixture can also be applied as a paint.
Clover Pasture Boosts Pig Gains over Grain Feed
Farmers note clover is much cheaper for hogs than grain and pigs will eat it readily. Feeding hogs with clover pasture can increase gains with 25 percent less grain required.
Well Arranged Gardens Have Hot Beds
A gardening tip piece explains locating hot beds to catch morning sun, protected from north and west winds by windbreaks. Describes a three-bed setup used on a quarter acre garden with early tomatoes cabbage peppers and other vegetables. Beds use sash coverings, canvas, and staggered planting to extend the growing season and yield dollars.
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J. W. Griffin
Tales TOLD of Ulstermen Buff Worthy of Any From Cork
Witty anecdotes about Ulster and Ulstermen feature marriage fees and comical quips. The piece imitates British Weekly tone with musings on marriage costs and rural manners. A few lines recall feudal leeway and joking on dowries and wedding rituals.
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Buff
Cork
Ganny
Skin ailment cured by Cuticura remedies in infant case
Mrs A K Wooden of Smithville Indiana reports a six month struggle with a one year old daughter's facial dermatitis featuring watery blisters and crusting. After using warm water with Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment applied thrice daily, itching and burning subsided and two weeks later the face appeared well with no recurrence in eight months. Cuticura marketed globally with free samples and a Skin Book offer.
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Smithville
Ind
A. K. Wooden
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Boston
High Hate in 1914 Linery Remarks by Jane Cowl
Fragmented OCR text recalls Jane Cowl venting about a 1914 millinery weight and a man whose wife jokes about Christmas decor. The piece muddles, includes quoted lines and garbled phrases, making a single tidy news item difficult to pin down.
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Jane Cowl
Origins of the American People excerpt summary
From Edward A. Ross in Century, the essay argues frontier pioneers vied in energy and venturesomeness, left larger families due to abundant land and open opportunity, married early, and built agrarian western life with few urban amenities or social hierarchies, fostering high fecundity.
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Jove
Edward A. Ross
Shaky Jest at Chicago Club Ends in Cold Silence
A bizarre prank leaves a man waiting in a snowy park for a note that mocks him as a woman hater. At the Chicago Athletic Club the bachelor arrives. friends jeer, he remains sullen. George Ade mocks Shaw, calling Bernard Shaw worn out and detached as Sydney Grundy attacks Shaw with a biting pamphlet.
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George Ade
Grundy
Shaw
Sydney Grundy
Mr. Bernard Shaw
Mr. Shaw
Record fragment hints at Baltimore and American themes
Fragmentary OCR mentions Baltimore and American topics with unclear context. No clear event, dates, or named subjects readable for a full card summary.
Apparatus In Demand At A Hooded Athletic Club Visit
A visitor tours a lid lifting athletic club showing a lively liquid gymnastic department while a cheaply equipped gym shows dust and cobwebs. The guide quips that members use the old gear only when a fight breaks out amid talk of Europe and a cheap $4 guide book.
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