Willow River mining town outlines coast to coast
In Willow River British Columbia a distant mining area is described with speculation on routes to Oregon and Washington. The passage mentions land access across Bear River and railroads, hinting at potential boom prospects and regional transport links.
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Illinois Conference Proposes Prison Labor for Road Work
Illinois bankers farmers and professionals met in Peoria to back a 55 million plan over twenty years to fix roads. They urged a small state highway commission, state aid for trunk lines, county collaboration, and use of state prisoners under honor system for construction with guards.
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Uank Sterage
Illinois Highway Improvement Commission
Mlinois
Colorado
Wente
State Highway Commission
Jease Taylor
Jamoutown
Belgium
America
Egg Material and Laying Mash Formula for Hens
A traditional feeding formula outlines a 650 pound batch for 100 hens, combining coarse bran middlings ground corn oats alfalfa meal meat scraps linseed meal and fine table ballast. The feed costs about 10 and should last a month yielding 60 to 100 dollars worth of eggs in December and January prices.
Plant Food Balance For Nitrogen and Potash Shortage
The text explains that vines and tops indicate soil rich in nitrogen and deficient in potash and phosphoric acid. It notes this often results from excessive stable manure use. A fertilizer rich in nitrogen and high in potash and phosphoric acid can balance the plant food ratio.
Difficulty With Guineas In Early Rearing
A note on guineas showing one challenge in rearing them with young birds prone to death from mites and lice. The text highlights a common problem faced by breeders and keepers during early life stages.
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Lee
Grit and Shells Improve Poultry Diets
A column notes grit and shells are cheap and effective for hens. Sand and gravel with broken shells aid digestion, and flocks rapidly consume grit. The author urges culling poor layers to let good hens thrive.
Trick on women in Madras ends with copper coins
The piece notes an elaborate deceit where women in Maniktanj, Madras, were given money by a woman claiming to double contents. Seven days later their silver coins were found altered to copper. The report includes varied anecdotes and humorous observations from the era.
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Maniktanj
Madras
India
No Use for Goye Any More Invented Device Shocks Town
A fragment describes an electric device that spills kindling wood and a plan to gut a boy named Goye, suggesting the world will have no use for small boys. The text is incomplete and garbled but conveys a sensational claim about a dangerous invention and a child.
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Goye
Itoo
Wasting of road material in corn belt roads
An Iowa Homestead critique notes widespread waste in gravel road projects across corn belt states. It cites ungraded surface preparation, unpacted gravel, and center dumping that creates ruts and bogs, urging trained supervision and scientific road making to stop squander.
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Iowa Homestead
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Better Roads Are Coming From Illinois Good Roads Movement
Prairie Farmer notes Peoria after a recent convention boosting Illinois good roads. Legislation may pass in winter with debates over state versus local funding. Northern counties resist cross-state spending while proponents urge equitable distribution and concrete paving on busy routes. Readers asked to respond for space.
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Illinois
Prospecta
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Kicking Habit of Mule Reported in Training Essay
A described belief asserts that training a mule for a mile will prevent kicking, claiming mules avoid the habit once properly broken, similar to horses. The writer argues mules have a bad reputation for kicks due to being treated like horses rather than their own temperament.
Biaposition of Cripples and Ethical Callousness
Fragmented text condemns crippled chickens, urging immediate death after hatching as the only solution. It claims such birds cause disappointment and illness to farmers, suggesting cruelty as a solution and asserting the ideal of destroying weak chicks for profit.
Grapes for Winter Use From a Home Cellar
A Green's Fruit Grower writer advises storing grapes in a cool house cellar without heat. Varieties differ in keeping. Mills and Gaertner stay solid by Thanksgiving, while Worden, Concord, Delaware, and Niagara spoil quickly. Best practice is single-layer storage. some use water in stems, though costly. Catawba reputed as best hardy northern grape, kept in cold storage yet holiday quality remains challenging.
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Worden
Concord
Delaware
Niagara
Brighton
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Gaert Jner
Mills
New York
Morae tree insulator for wires keeps lines clear
The Morae tree insulator is a simple waterproofed wooden block placed on a wire by two crosswise grooves and a face groove. The wire lies in the grooves and bears against the limb, holding the insulator without nails or fasteners.
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Ineman
Watering and orchard care for apple trees guidance
The guide notes water needs vary by plant type with softer leaved species taking more water than hard wooded kinds. It warns against evening watering due to fungal disease and stresses monitoring growth, plus annual costs for land, pruning, spraying, cultivating, picking, packing, barrels, and transport. It suggests spraying apple orchards three times yearly and that managing 1000 trees is a small undertaking.
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Dirk
Hindu Charm Power Promise Guidance
A brief quote proclaims the God given power within to bring health prosperity and happiness. It frames a path toward guidance and benevolent outcomes through prayer and inner faith.
Air Flight for Consumption and High Altitude Breathing Claim
A London report notes Doctor Flemming praising high altitude and sun exposure during airship flight as fatal to tuberculosis bacilli. Also mentions Greek fire, frogs as food in Minnesota demand, and a Colorado orchardist patent for a sap vibration motor to resist frost.
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Berlin Aeronautical Association
Colorado Orchartist
Emphatic Duke of Wellington and the Waterloo Letters
A contemporary recalls the duke saying the true Waterloo story was never written. He sat reading a ponderous book in a carriage while tracing letters L and D L with a blunt pencil. When asked, he explained Lis and Damned lie, to be sure.
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Duke of Wellington
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Willing to Please and Deadly Weapons in History
E K O writes to the Cleveland Plain Dealer about an antifly campaign in which a teacher offered ten cents per pint of flies. A student asks if bedbugs count, while the piece notes that many crimes predate firearms and lists common deadly weapons such as knives, ice picks, axes, razors, and bats.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mies
Pettit's Eve STIS frees Desire for Long Life
Faint Finding cites a reflection by La Roche Foucauld on human desires for longevity versus virtue. The passage notes that longing to live long may outstrip living well and warns that even record of faults among others yields pleasure only when faults exist.
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la Roche Foucauld
Ayer’s Hair Vigor Promises Dandruff Destruction
Promotes hair growth and scalp cleanliness with a claim of stopping hair loss. The product keeps hair soft and smooth, does not color hair, and cannot injure it. Uses amines to aid conditioning and vitality.
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