Bicycle Notes In Brief
In one day two Chicago detectives recovered nineteen bicycles stolen recently. Blotting paper handles catch the eye of fashionable wheelmen. Italian amateurs race under assumed names. San Francisco bans riding with children under six. Australians have a purported cure for scorching. Judges fine each offender fifty dollars. a second dose is not accepted. Olive oil and vaseline soothe sunburns. baking soda washcloths eased smarting cheeks.
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Chicago
San Francisco
Excursion to Buffalo Promoted by National Education Group
The National Educational Association schedules a grand trip to Buffalo on July 5 and 6. Michigan Central offers a special one fare round trip plus $2 membership. Inquiries to City ticket office 119 Adams street. Also noting Mrs. Henry L. Foote, newly elected Gaylord Kansas police justice, defeated her husband.
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National Educational Association
Buffalo
Michigan Central
Niagara Falls
City
Adams Street
O. W. Ruggles
Henry L. Foote
Gaylord
Kansas
Que Fare for the Round Trip to Washington
Tickets on sale July 3 4 5 6 7 via Wabash lines. Apply at 220 Fourth Street Des Moines Iowa. Grace Seeley commercial agent. Baron Bockom aged 95, long time leader of the German Liberals, is the Reichstag’s oldest member. A straightforward open hearted man may be left to manage his own concerns.
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Ington
Fourth Street
Des Moines
Iowa
Grace Seeley
Baron Bockom
Reichstag
Buffalo
N. Y
National Educational Association
Wabash Lines
Horace Seeley
Health in Old Age A Remarkable 72 Year Old Narrates Cure
A Union reporter interviews Mrs. Jane Hotalen of Hainesville New Jersey aged seventy two who credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with curing rheumatic sciatica after a month of treatment. She began walking without a cane and reports no ill effects, despite advanced age and a family history of similar troubles. The article touts the pills as restoring blood and nerves and notes availability through Dr Williams Medical Co.
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Union
Port Jarvis
N. Y
Jane Hotalen
Hainesville
N.J
Sussex County
Roberts
B J. Kay
Household Hints From Advice Pages On Maintenance And Care
Practical tips cover stove polish with vinegar and sugar for lasting shine, turpentine and black lead for cleaning greasy stoves, cheese storage in cool dry places with mold removal and turning, shaping kids shoes, feeding meat to invalids, storing a brass bedstead with vaseline, turpentine on furniture, and detecting gas leaks by soap and water bubbles.
Three posters by Denslow Reed and Brown offered for one dollar
A brief note promotes three color posters by W. W. Denslow Reed and Ray Brown, priced at one dollar with postage free to any address. Limited quantities and high desirability are claimed, urging prompt orders to George H. Heafford, Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul Railway agent. A Dallas Oregon contest saw a winner eat twenty five raw eggs in under two minutes.
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W. W. Denslow
Gither Reed
Ray Brown
Ueo
H. Heafford
Chica- Milwaukee & St. Vaul Railway
Sia Colony Building
Chicago
Dallas
Oregon
Up-to-Date Hints on Cultivation of Asparagus Beds
Garden and Forest notes by T. D. Hatfield on asparagus bed setup in dry and heavy soils. Recommends deep trenching on ridges six feet wide for early yield, use of six inches of good manure, and annual top-dressings. Warns against forcing roots in greenhouses and notes long-term bed vigor exceeds younger plantings.
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T. D. Hatfield
Hatfield
Subdrains Improve Wet Country Road Drainage Techniques
Roy Stone Gén explains that surface drainage alone fails on clay soils and wet areas. Two longitudinal subdrains per road pass, cross drains every 36 to 100 feet, and 2.5 to 3 inch unglazed tiles with brick fragments and road metal ensure free discharge.
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Roy Stone
Chicago as a Wool Market Milestones and Distances
Chicago lies 1 000 miles from seaports and foreign wool freight costs are high. Without this, Western manufacturers would rely on foreign wools, shifting wool from central states and western territories away from Chicago to avoid competition with cheaper global wools arriving from the east.
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Chicago
Central States
Far East
Woman Wonders Husband Treasures Birthday More Than Age
The saying notes many women wish their husbands recall birthdays but ignore age. It frames a common social insight about affection and aging within marriage.
Biltmore Forest Sets Early Example of Management
The Biltmore Estate near Asheville North Carolina demonstrates early practical forest management. By excluding cattle and fire and using selective cutting, the forest improved 95 percent in young growth while costs rose only 2 to 3 percent. Net costs dropped from about four hundred dollars of ten thousand spent to a net profit over twelve hundred dollars in 1893 as the woods workforce gained skill.
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Biltmore Forest
United States
Biltmore Estate
Asheville
North Carolina
Vanderbilt
Biltmore
Elswhere
Strawberry pests and prevention from Ten Eyck notes
The article lists threats to strawberries including mildew rust in warm wet weather and mainly May beetles and their white grubs damaging roots. It advises thorough preplant cultivation to reduce grubs, night flight trapping, and using birds or fowl to control insects. It also describes the leaf roller, its two broods, and recommends burning vines after harvest and crop rotation to curb problems.
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A. M. Ten Eyck
Livestock Feeding and Lime Trials Highlight Agricultural Notes
The article discusses calves fed in troughs and weaning practices, noting adults’ milk dependence and early milestones. It cites Maryland station lime trials showing corn and wheat gains from 20 bushels of lime, and a commentary on shifts toward beef and mutton breeds offset by middle-ground farming.
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Maryland
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Advised for Young Women
A period advertisement urges mothers to give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to daughters experiencing back and limb pains eyesight dimness desire for solitude and social withdrawal. It promises to prepare the system for coming changes and offers assistance from Mrs. Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts through letters. Thousands of women credit the remedy for their health and mothers seek advice for their daughters.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Par ticular Wire Screens Prompt Fly Rampage
A humorous exchange views a domestic quarrel over wire screens over doors and windows to keep flies inside. The dialogue satirizes meticulous home safety and social boundaries, highlighting a playful domestic misunderstanding with a light tone and local flavor.
What became of the Jones boys in town tale
A returned native asks about the Jones brothers. Bill remains on the farm while Ed moves to Sioux Falls and opens a law office. The remark notes one mows hay and the other makes grass widows, hinting at contrasting paths.
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Jones
Bill
Sioux Falls
Visitor Finds Pompeii Largely Disappointing
He asks about the trip to Pompeii and she confirms the visit. She notes the location is splendid but laments how badly it has fallen into disrepair, calling it dreadfully out of repair.
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Pompeii
Widow in Half Mourning Learns of Chicago Husband
A widow enters half mourning after her husband’s death last week, but reports emerge that he had another wife in Chicago, revealing a second marital tie.
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Chicago
Various Advertisements and Notices From Historical Trade Post
A collage of 19th century notices and ads including Dr Kay’s Renovat or claims health cures for kidney and liver trouble and malaria, bread consumption notes and rail fare to Buffalo, church property value estimates, Piso’s Cure for consumption testimonial, Kline’s nerve renovator promotion, a photograph note on light and silver halide, California wire wholesaler shipping details, and a remark on English fashion for lady cyclists.
Halls Catarrh Cure and Other Oddities in Ad Snippets
The fragment references Halls Catarrh Cure teas and remedies with prices, a note on sunflower seeds used for rodent bait, various remedies for teething and skin issues, and a remark about tobacco factory workers and piano tone. It also mentions England's dairy production payments and a sod house in Smith County Kansas.
Curls Shared with Regimental Departure
Maids recount trimming and sharing hair with several acquaintances as the regiment departs the town. The scene depicts social customs of farewell behavior and affection among townsfolk.
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Anna
No clear events as a tale of hats and horses
A terse dialogue fragment centers on a man who tests various hats and jokes about speed and training. He asks if a horse is fast, answers with I can make him fast, and asserts he can tie a horse, hinting at improvisational problem solving in a small town setting.
Sinking Fund Of Vital Energy Promised By Bitters
A Detroit era advertisement extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as an invigorant to replenish enfeebled bodies and speed stamina. It claims malaria, bilious, kidney, dyspeptic and rheumatic ailments are averted or relieved and that the nervous derive benefit. A Michigan pastor provides notebooks for church youth to record sermon thoughts.
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Michigan
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Yonkers Statesman
Woonsocket
Philadelphia Press
Indianapolis Journal
California
Wig Oyrep Co
Gov
McKinley
Ohio
Generala
Niagara Falls Souvenir CO
N.Y
Eis Ny
The
Strawberry
Pacific Rural Press
F. E. Cosgrove
Buda
John A. Miller
Au Sable, Michigan
New York City
Dr. Kline
Erve Keatorer
Arch St
Mila
Pie
Pure
Aliforeia
Apfel
Los Angeles
Cal
England
Price
C. C. G. Clark Co
Haven, O
Smith County
Ayer
Yellowstone Park
J. Francis
Omaha
Gga
W'N.u. D.M
Anu
Wil
Columbia
Columbias
Hartford Bicycles
Pope Mfg. CO
Hartford
Conn
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