Pills and tonics touted as cures for women
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for "weak nervous" and "debilitated" women, claiming it contains endorsed ingredients with no alcohol or habit forming drugs. It invites readers to request the ingredient booklet by mail and cites medical authorities' endorsements. The piece also mocks fashion obsessions and promotes another product, Oriental Dream, as a beauty aid, listing distributor details.
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Dr. Pierce
Pierce
Pirces
BR. VY. Pierce
Buffalo
Felis Gouraud
Frxp
T. Llor- Kins
Great Jones Street
New York
United States
Canadas
No. D
Weather eccentricities echoed in past frost records
The piece notes weather hysteria over unusual frosts and heat waves, citing a Baltimore Sun observation and a Cincinnati investigator who found frost events as far back as May 785 and June 6 near the Atlantic coast. It argues historic records show no new weather extremes and that memory of weather is unreliable.
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Kile
Cincinnati
Misippi
Postum Food Coffee Praised By Saltishbury Woman
A Salisbury Maryland woman says coffee harmed her health leading to weight loss and dyspepsia. She switched to Postum Food Coffee, improved quickly, regained twenty-five pounds, and continues using it. She recommends Postum as a satisfying nourishing substitute. Read The Road to Wallville in pkgs There’s a Reason.
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Salisbury
Repairing a damaged tree and farm notes from Orange Judd
Advice on saving a split limb with careful bracing and grafting wax. Instructions cover cutting decayed wood, filling cavities with portland cement, and protecting wounds to prolong tree life. The passage also includes anecdotes about a harness price and farm news on radishes celery and pests with windborne bugs.
Clover hay curing and strawberry varieties for market and home use
The article discusses clover hay curing in fields versus mow storage and warns about proper curing to avoid leaf loss. It notes timing, weather, and equipment steps for baling and hauling to barns. It also covers criteria for market strawberries including solidity, shipping quality, size, color, and flavor, with emphasis on firm texture for shipment.
Substitute for Paris Green and tomato yield notes
The Ohio experiment station proposes a cheaper spray for blight using two pounds white arsenic and four pounds washing soda carbonate dissolved in two tons of water. Use one and a half pints per barrel of Bordeaux mixture for spraying. Tomatoes fruit from bloom to frost with simultaneous green and ripe fruit, and require liberal broadcast fertilizer for profuse production.
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Ohio
Millet and Weeds Governing Garden Crop Care
Agricultural notes discuss millet as a hardy crop, the timing of cutting seed heads, and benefits of weeding. The piece warns against late harvests to protect horses, notes millet hay value for cows and horses, and cites seed saving and cross-pollination cautions. It also mentions harvest routines for Lucerne workers and cabbage cultivation practices.
Kitchen Utensils Combined for Saving Household Cost
A St. Louis man showcases a novel multi tool that fuses a fork, spoon, knife and can opener into one device. The integrated utensil aims to reduce overall silverware and washing, offering four articles for the price of one.
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St. Louis
Unclear OCR Recipe Puffs from a Miscooked Text
Fragmentary recipe text describes making puffs from a flour and water paste then beating eggs and baking on buttered pans. Instructions are garbled with several misspellings and missing steps, yielding an incoherent set of directions for eight puff portions.
Giblet Pie with Beefsteak and Pastry Decoration
Giblets are cleaned and boiled in water, then cut. Beefsteak is diced and mixed with seasoned flour. Stock is added to cover, the pie is topped with pastry leaves, and baked slowly for an hour.
Historic Cookie Recipe Fragment Neared Complete
A fragmentary recipe lists ingredients for a sweet dough: powdered sugar, butter, eggs separated, sifted flour, milk, and soda. Instructions describe mixing and rolling to a thin sheet, cutting small rounds, brushing tops with egg and milk, and topping with finely chopped almonds before baking.
Cornmeal Milk Pudding With Egg Yolk and White Meringue
A cooking note describes whisking three fourths cup corn meal with one pint milk then cooking until thick. Add butter and four well beaten yolks then fold in beaten whites. Bake in a dish for about twenty five minutes until set and serve hot.
Fragments of a Vintage Recipe on Nuts and Boiled Mixture
A damaged OCR passage describes a cooking method mixing one pound of white bits with one cup of cream and one cup of milk, heated to prevent scorching, until firm in cold water. It then instructs beating in many hickory nut kernels and turning out to shape the final mass.
Practical kitchen tips for cleaning and cooking
Boil green vegetables with a pinch of soda. Clean brushes in hot soda water. Wash linoleum with water then polish with milk. Keep a lemon at the sink to remove stains. Mutton shank bones enrich gravies when well soaked. Remove medicine stains with sulfuric acid and lemon juice for more juice. Boil potatoes in salted water ten minutes then finish in the oven.
Roosevelt Favors Federal Ownership and Tax Reform
President Roosevelt, in two James town Exposition speeches, urged federal ownership of coal oil and ranch lands, a heavy inheritance tax, child labor laws, and employer liability for accidents. He pressed rail and waterway development and warned against private control of natural resources, calling for stronger national measures and universal school efforts.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Astern
United States
West
Tie
Never Hungry Man Lived Seventy-Two Years Without Appetite
Archie McDowell known as Archie McGruder died at St Margaret's Hospital West Side from heart disease at age 72. He claimed never to crave food, living on coffee and small meals with no family nearby. A Civil War veteran who worked in farming dry goods and law, he had no recent employment and left a son unseen for years.
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Archie McDowell
St. Margaret's Hospital
West Side
Ife
Armourdale
The
Kansas City Star
McDowell
Hondry
Buell
Sherman
Grant
Cumberland Gap
Kidney disease relief claim by engineer from Chatsworth
Wim Fr Walter of Chatsworth Tl writes of years of kidney pain and rheumatism. He says Dean's Kidney Pills gave quick relief and cured him, though he lost 40 pounds. he now weighs 200 pounds. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Wim. Fr. Walter
Chatsworth
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Bultfalo, N. Y
After Dinner Speaker Dodges Wolf Story Tale
The after dinner speaker, praised as the hit of the evening, deflects a request to tell a familiar Pennsylvania farmer and wolf tale. The scene closes amid audience applause as he sits, avoiding the familiar story. An advertisement promotes Allen's Foot Ease for tired feet and shoe comfort.
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Pennsylvania
Told on Herself by a Curious Courtroom Moment
In a peculiar courtroom exchange Judge admonishes Matilda as a smooth faced man named Mr Tuffeigh is described, prompting a tense barnyard remark. The dialogue hints at identity and mischief rather than a clear legal outcome.
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