Suburban Victory Garden Plans For a Twenty Five Foot Lot
A guide explains how to transform a small back yard into a productive garden with two long beds and five smaller beds. It covers trenching, manuring, lime addition, path layout, crop rotation, and specific varieties for peas beans lettuce onions radishes beets and chard. It emphasizes hand work over machinery and cautions against overwatering and wet soil.
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Wardwell
Valentines
Percy Taylor
Nine Million Plows at Work and Plowing Time
A historical column notes large scale plowing across the United States with nine million plows and two hundred million acres to be tilled. It highlights regional methods from Mo people in the southwest to oxen in New England and traction engines in other regions, detailing labor and investment in farming equipment.
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United States
Great Southwest
Mohave
Canada
New England
Middle West
Electric Wheel CO
Quincy
Garden bed layout for a small plot with Japanese cucumbers
The plan outlines shallow foot wide trenches to form a weeding path and drainage, with rounded beds filled from the gaps and left to dry before sowing. It favors Japanese climbing cucumbers on undersoil free seed beds and centers bed space for fresh harvest vegetables like peas.
Millionaire Waldorf Manager Quits After Twenty-Five Years
Thomas H. Hillard, now forty six, built his wealth in hotel management since arriving from Ireland. He says he has worked enough and should stop, noting his investments and the modern conveniences he helped introduce to improve hotel life. He warns against the money making frenzy that can turn captains of industry into plutocrats.
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Waldorf-Astoria
New York
Thomas H. Hillard
Ireland
Misconceptions About Nicotine and Tobacco Tar
A historical note explains that the dark residue in pipes is tobacco tar, not nicotine. It asserts nicotine is scarce in nature, largely destroyed by burning, and that smoking delivers little or no nicotine, with nicotine poisoning unlikely.
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Havana
Visit Sparks Warm Words Between Pvt Mrs Slowe and Mr Greene
Pvt Mrs Slowe expresses happiness that Mr Greene's brother enjoyed his stay with them. Mr Greene praises the visitor as a youngster who can find pleasure anywhere.
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Mrs. Slowe
Mr. Greene
By Fian the Comedian Verses on Grate and House
A poetical quatrain by Fian the Comedian compares a grate to coals and a full house to a scene of laughter. The light verse satirizes gratitude and foolishness with playful imagery.
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Fian
Prera
Deaths in India Last Year From Serpents Tigers and Wolves
A Simla issued report cites 2 157 deaths in the previous year caused by serpents tigers and wolves across India. The figures underline dangers from wildlife in rural and forested regions.
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Simla
India
Elephants Slaughtered yearly for World Ivory Supply
The article notes that about sixty thousand elephants are killed each year to furnish the global ivory trade. It discusses the scale of poaching and its impact on elephant populations and markets.
No Flight or Fancy Hat Riff in Mil Liner Bill
A quirky item notes a bird in the hand proverb and jokes about a mil liner bill bearing a hat motif. The piece threads humor through familiar sayings, hinting at value and prudence in quirky phrasing.
Paint Without Oil Free Trial Offer Appeals to All
A. L. Rice of Adams New York claims a new oil free paint that comes as powder needing only cold water. The paint reportedly resists weather and fire, adheres to wood stone or brick, and costs about a quarter as much as oil paint. Rice offers a free trial package color card and a painting book by mail to anyone writing for it.
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A. L. Rice
Adams, N. Y
Manus
North St
Adams
N. Y
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Long Island Railroad Company
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Mailner Kren
Bohemia
Cehernense
Arm Utilating Co
Tacoma
Oineage
St. John’s
Bonanza
N. Corneau & CO
River Street
Chicago
Jos. I
Po Pring
Butle 'Ss
Ciovec Sanaenger
U Ss
Bat'ery
A. F
N. P
National Photographic Chemical Company
11Th Street
Pa. Ave
N. W
Washington, D. C
Monessen
Pennsylvania
Page Woven Wire Fence Co
Adrian, Mich
Nicholas Longworth
Alice Roosevelt
White House
Rooseverla
New York City
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