Easy Going Convicts and Oddities from the South Seas
In Tai o hae the calaboose runs on feast day rules with prisoners allowed goat hunting and ladies visits while paid laborers, under M Delarnelle, draw ten sous daily. A fragment on cod liver oil jokes, butter as better nourishment, and quotes from Paris Illustration on vaccines and European savagery.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
South Sea Islands
Marquesas Group
Mr. Stevenson
South Seas
Calaboose
Tai-o-hae
M. Delarnelle
Green Court
Raiatea
Monsieur
The
Republic
Absent Minded Women Parade Reserve Societal Gaffes
A Chicago Tribune tale recounts several humorous episodes of absent minded dress missteps. A West Side couple recall the wife parading with her husband’s socks, a South Side wife wearing a veil with no bonnet, and a fashionably dressed woman chasing a feather duster thinking it was a parasol.
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Field's
Chicago Tribune
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Teething Remedy Ad
Timeless patent medicine claim touts Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a teething cure for infants. Claims soothe gums ease pain cure wind colic and diarrhoea with a 25 cent bottle sold by world druggists. A humorous ad line pairs a pretty wife and practical husband about a dream hat bill.
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Lippman
Atlantic
Pacific
WiNsLow
Corn responds to liberal fertilization with higher yields
Corn is a vigorous feeder and responds well to liberal fertilization. On corn lands yields increase and soil improves if properly treated with fertilizers containing not under 7 percent actual fertilizer content.
Raise cheap meat with Poland China pigs
H G Webb of LaFayette Alabama urges farmers to buy four thoroughbred Poland China hogs to produce 300 to 500 pound carcasses in twelve months. He claims the breed is superior for this climate and guarantees satisfaction with stock offered.
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Poland
H. G. Webb
LaFayette
Ala
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