Floods reshape labor as Indiana farmers plow and harvest
Southern Indiana farmers plow daytime and plant corn while wheat harvests follow May floods. A string of tragedies and incidents follows from Brazil to Columbus, including a boy’s severe hand injury in a bakery, a fatal scalding accident in a Hartford City tub, a kitchen stove explosion in Anderson, a child’s death after a fall into boiling water, and a chain of injuries, fires, and legal actions across counties.
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Indiana
Robert Boskill
Robert Neat
Brazil
George Lowe
Fred Lowe
Hartford City
Story of an Amateur Poultryman
A young suburban clerk starts a poultry venture after a mild hen fever. He keeps his job, buys hens and a rooster for a dollar each, raises chicks, and hatches about a hundred. He ends with 25 breeder pullets, expands his house and then a small farm, becoming a full fledged poultry farmer with rising profits over three years.
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Lim
Luis
Fenecee for Hog Yard Shows
The article notes tight fences for a hog yard using either boards or wire. Cedar posts are placed less than eight feet apart with one by six plates at top and foot and seven huberal wires running between posts.
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Hess
Denatured Alcohol School to Open in Washington
A denatured alcohol school will soon be established in the secretary of agriculture's Washington department. The facility will showcase a complete distilling setup and demonstration of practical denatured alcohol production for visitors and specialists.
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James Wilson
Department of Aerteniture
Washington
Washtoneton
Droi. W. Wiles
Squash Bug Management Notes and Poultry Sanitation
The text describes squash pests such as borers and whiteflies, recommending remedies including a summer water solution to spray on plants and ground applications with turpentine. It also notes a shift toward sanitary measures in dairy and poultry areas, detailing a wire nest for hens and a method for cleaning and disposing of waste and parasites.
Colorisca Rail Line Promotes Rural Agricultural Tips
A Colorisca railroad runs potato specials to aid farmers in improving crop potsches. Advice covers washing millsets and utensils, drying techniques to reduce bacterial contamination, and a note on a draft horse of 1.566 pounds at age three as a reliable, profitable prospect. Also mentions mixed sulphur flour in seed corn to deter cutworms as an easy, inexpensive precaution.
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Colorisca
Doughnut Frying Instructions From a Historic Recip
Comforts describe mixing sugar eggs salt milk and flour with baking powder to form a batter. Heat Lot lard in a deep pan and drop batter by tablespoonfuls, fried until brown on both sides and drained on paper. Do not crowd the pan.
Homemade Facial Cleanser From Almonds and Oatmeal
A historical beat notes a home mixture using oatmeal to soften water and almond meal as a soap substitute. It lists caustic soap powder, almond oil, and bitter almond drops, with instructions to mix, steep, and store tightly. The recipe suggests applying a small amount to the face for cleansing.
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Teres
Weil
Davies
Sean
Soaked Twooenps and Aromatic Seeds in Overnight Stew
The recipe describes soaking two onions in warm water overnight then removing seeds from peppers. It calls for pruning nearly dry prune flesh, covering with a biscuit crust, and baking evenly. Serve warm with credin.
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Wellew Asiasd
Recipe for Freezer Juice and Grated Rinds Mix
The text outlines a recipe using six ten ay s and grated rind from three dawns, claiming it steep s for an Tree. It instructs seven base ingredients, two cups erantate and one pint water, then to freeze and turn out after an hour before serving.
Pie Juices Control With Muslin Cloth Technique
A method for trapping juices in baking pies uses a strip of muslin cloth wrapped around the pie and tin to prevent juice from leaking into the oven. After baking, lift the cloth away to remove the collected juice.
Apple Sauce Cake Loaf From Simple Kitchen Guide
Stir into one cupful sweetened apple sauce one teaspoonful soda. Cream two sticks butter with one cup sugar and last teaspoonful salt meet this well tit the apple sauce, adding one cup raisins or currants, or both, mixed, and spices to taste. Last of all stir in one pint flour, take to a loaf in slow oven.
Apple Crumble Layered Pudding Dish
A simple bake describes slicing apples and layering them with crumbs and a pudding base. Sprinkle cinnamon and currants, dot with butter, add water, and cook slowly until browned.
Fragmentary notes on shellfish and freshness terms
The text reads like fragmented guidance about shellfish freshness with terms such as shell, fresh ere, Hine-like surface, and sauce. It appears to be a garbled, OCR damaged excerpt lacking clear event or subject details.
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Lees
Household cleaning tips from a historical pamphlet
A garbled page offers remedies and methods: stain removal with bread and kerosene, spreading leftover potatoes on a dish, packing salads in pepper pods or tomatoes, brightening colors with a dilute ammoniate solution, burning odor reduction with salt, broom splinters for cake testing, stain removal with alcalel, nail strings removed with oxalic acid solution, wood preservation with alum or salt, baking powder composition, paraffin receptacle setup, and a toy tea kettle used similarly.
Digestive causes of thinness and Peruna remedy in early health column
The article explains how catarrh and hyperacidity in the stomach lead to fat malabsorption and emaciation, noting fat digestion relies on pancreatic juice. It adds a Peruna dose with meals to speed digestion and prevent fermentation, then shifts to a brief, unrelated note about Tanama officials and Roosevelt.
Practical Man Supports Wife With Poetry
A brief exchange notes a young man who writes poetry for his daughter and explains he must copy poems to fill letters due to being busy at the office. The comment, It takes a practical man to support a wife, frames the humor. The explanation was satisfactory.
Do Your Clothes Look Yellow A Red Cross Ball Blue Ad
A fragment from a Chicago Tribune item mentions a laundry ad about Red Cross Ball Blue for whitening clothes and a 5 cent price for a large 2607 package. The text also includes a short dramatic exchange between Clara and a young man in a separate quote.
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Walter Pixtey
Janes Trendioy
Corydon
Louisville
Perry Shaffer
Corsdon
Old Indiara
Thomas Dodee
New Anbony
el Pas
Wis
Gaul
Twelfth Avenue
Kivansville
J. Roed- Wards
John Grintnes
Qaklaund City
Tee Two Sloe
Silda
Union Grain and Coal Companys
Anderson
Dala
Johar Ring
Madison
Tine
George Tarwood
Kreil-French Piano Company
Newcastle
Harwood
Princeton
Stella Ballard
IfiWham
Dubois County
William R. Fuller
Claude H. Barnhill
Evansville
Luther Brunton
Morocco
Abraham Israel
Coarnedia Meier
C. WV
Degarme
Thomas Thompson
Montana
William Thompson
New Albany
William
Craft
Mvaussille
Boonville
Phe Ie
Aso Yie
Kosciusko County
Allen Moore
Gightuime Cid
Tevegrodd Dqiushter
John Brown
Fairview
Othe Vard
Charles Stewart
Newport
Indianapolis
Eek
Flatrock
St. Paul
Greensburg
Frank Gruel
Hobart
N. P. Isaacson
Isaacson
Gruel
R. S. Jackson
Lawrencehbure
Isaac Liddle
Roy Bevis
Frankfort
Elma
Lewis Blankenship
Fenecee
Hog Yard
Denatured Alcohol School
Nebraska
Department of Agriculture
Beer Trust
Nedehterhead
Limisely
Pho
Sunbucy Poultry Nest
Comforts
Brown Betty
Tanama
George Cepitals
Cammion
Isthmian Canal Commission
Roosevelt
American
Atlantic
Pacific
Roy Crandall
The
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Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
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Practical
Clara
George
Chicago Tribune
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Knox
John W. Morris
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