Grip's Ugly Sequel Reveals Blood Remedy Triumph
Mrs. Van Scoy describes severe grip aftermath including anemia and nerve pain then credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with rapid relief after one box and full recovery after four. The Danbury Connecticut resident endorses the pills as effective for grip related ailments.
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Old Times in Washington From The Outlook Recall
Edward Everett Hale recalls Washingtons growth from a muddy town to a 250000 population city. He describes a near Capitol area fence near the British embassy, a gymnasium bowling alley, Mrs. Madison visiting, Tyler playing with youths, and Southern Senators riding to the Capitol with horses hitched at posts near Washington statues.
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Madison
Capitol
Edward Everett Hale
Life Saving Cure Touted In Salisbury Kidney Plight
Mrs. G W Fooks of Salisbury Maryland wife of Sheriff G W Fooks credits Dean’s Kidney Pills with a rapid relief after eight years of kidney trouble including swelling fatigue and breath issues. The ad notes price and distributor Yester Mills Buffalo NY and claims full cure after three days treatment. A separate Harper’s Weekly item jokes about a Congressman's music bill for the Congressional Library.
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Salisbury
Wicomico County
Bright
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Yester-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Harper’s Weekly
Congressional
Funeral procession anecdote on the street
A man from the east asks what caused the death. An Arizona landlord quips that the dead died of shortness of the feet, saying they could not touch the ground, a punchline echoed by a native innkeeper as the procession passes.
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Making a Barb Wire Tensioner from Wood and Reel
The design uses a pair of 2x4 oak axles 30 inches long with 144 inch by 2 inch side pieces in hardwood. Up rights of 2x4 pine bolt to sides, crossbar ends rounded for handles, and a square 11 inch by 11 inch cross member for bracing. A windlass axle with a 20 inch long reel fits on one end, drilled to square axle, to wind barb wire.
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Blaielksmith
Subsoiling and deep soil prep for apple orchards
The article discusses using deep subsoil preparation to improve apple tree rooting in clay soils. It describes a special implement to subsoil without widening furrows, notes moisture depth requirements, and gives construction details for a weed uprooter and cultivator wheel. It also covers benefits of dipping lambs and compares corn fodder with hay for animal feed, emphasizing curing quality and feed preference.
Growth stage of sugar stalks affects harvest yields
The Farm Visitor notes that the sugar-rich stalks’ sweetness and final quantity hinge on the growth stage when harvested, implying timing is crucial for optimal harvest.
Breeding Polled Calves and Polled Durham Bulls
Breeder S Hines weighs odds in producing polled calves from horned cows. He notes Angus bulls may be surer dehorners due to long hornless lineages, but many Polled Durham bulls still yield high polled percentages. Best advice is to choose an aged Polled Durham bull with proven dehorning records rather than a young, untested sire.
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FL S. Hines
Eve's Pudding Recipe Steps and Baking Guide
A detailed pudding method uses apples sugar eggs butter and flour. Layer apples with sugar, cloves, and pastry mixture, then bake three quarters of an hour until the top browns. Mix butter and sugar until light, beat the egg well, combine with flour and milk, spread over apples, bake and serve hot or cold.
Water for Swine Tips on Hydration and Cleanliness
The article argues farmers should provide ample clean water to hogs, noting that while slop contains water, nutritious feed and corn increase water needs. Experienced breeders link proper watering to fewer diseases and cleaner animals, claiming half the hog’s nastiness stems from owner carelessness. Feeding time with cold water shows swine approval.
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Hey
Construction notes for a Stony Ground Harrow
Instructions describe making a harrow with six Blax2s pieces, planing them, sinking wing pieces into a center, and using Israeli bolts with heads. Dotted lines indicate bore holes and hinge placement for assembly.
Poultry Keeping Tips for Chicks and Turkeys in Free Range
Advice on making a row of teeth like a har row for a fence, feeding dry rations to chicks, and placing grain boxes in coops. Encourages free range feeding, small daily bone or beef scraps for hens, clean brooders, and monitoring red mites. Recommends incubator timing with turkey hens and sunflowers for shade and seed for hens, with cautions about overfeeding and lice.
Garden Hints for Home Plots and Early Crops
The piece advises pulling suckers from gooseberries currants and red raspberries and highlights growing garlic chives shallots and herbs for flavoring. It suggests interplanting early dwarf peas between tomatoes and sowing sweet corn and wrinkled peas in May with cucumbers melons squashes pumpkins and gourds following later. A fork of well rotted manure in the hill provides the proper food.
Simmer Soup From Verdant Kitchen Scants
A compact recipe fragment outlines simmering a soup from chopped carrots turnips celery parsnip onion and lettuce hearts with butter sugar and salt. It adds brown stock and ham fat peas and cauliflower, then boils gently about twenty minutes and serves.
Escalloped Onions from a Traditional Recipe
Pare six onions and slice thin. Layer onions in a small dish with crackers and salt pepper. Repeat until all onions used, finishing with onions on top. Beat an egg and pour over. Add milk to cover. Bake two hours in a moderate oven.
Rhubarb Shortcake Dough Method and Layered Bake
Make a dough like dumplings. Roll out, divide into two, spread one with butter, place in a greased pan, cover with the other piece, bake quickly, then pull layers apart. Layer with stewed rhubarb, serve withCustard sauce or sweetened cream.
Saffron Buns From a Bread Sponge Method
A simple saffron buns recipe describes creaming butter with sugar, adding currants and water, infusing saffron in boiling water, straining, and mixing into a bread sponge before proceeding as for ordinary bread.
Fragmentary Recipe Text
The passage describes preparing a ham by roiling it in liquor and cooling, then skin removal and drying. It instructs rubbing with the white of an egg and dusting with cracker crumbs, adding pepper and baking until browned, then chilling and serving.
Afternoon Cinc Cake Instructions
A historical cake recipe describes mixing one and one half cups sugar sifted with one cup flour. Beat nine egg whites to stiff froth then fold in half teaspoon cream of tartar and salt. Beat vigorously about 100 strokes and flavor with vanilla. Bake in small tins or one loaf tin.
Popcorn Balls
Make an old fashioned molasses candy by cooking molasses and syrup and stir in popped corn to thicken. Take from heat and shape into balls, then roll in more poppy corn to coat each ball.
Peach Pudding Dessert Method
A vintage kitchen note describes line a deep dish with soaked sponge cake, fill with fresh peaches and sugar, top with meringue, bake until browned, then chill and serve with sweet or whipped cream.
Scrambled Eggs Sandwich Tip from Morning Breakfast
A recipe note mentions using leftover scrambled eggs between buttered bread slices or cold boiled eggs sliced crosswise with salt pepper and dill pickle, placed between brown bread slices for a simple sandwich.
Not an Ornament, Tie Inheritance Sparks Match Seekers
In a playful exchange Miss Olden confirms a rumored inheritance of a half million dollars. The dialogue hints she will invest the fortune in finding a suitable husband, sparking curiosity about her romantic plans and social circles.
Market Wisdom Quip Sparks Conversation
In the Market a witty exchange from the Illinois State Journal notes a speaker claiming an honest man is hard to find, while a counter remark suggests increasing the price would attract one. The brief quip reflects editorial humor on honesty and value.
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Ilinoia State Journal
Land of Black Diamonds Found in Brazilian River Bed
In Brazil, particularly Bahia and along the Sao Jose river, vast veins of black diamonds form rich beds. The stones, opaque and unglamorous, have become essential for industrial drilling, cutting, and mining tools, with discovery tracing to natives the Gurimperos and later scientific exploration.
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Bahia
Sao Jose
Laboratory of Arts and Trades
San Jose
Garimperos
Accidental Heroism on the Frontier
A visitor and bystanders debate fate and courage in a frontier tale. A regimented youth named Fred earns glory for facing an attacking party of Indians after his mule refuses to move, proving luck and wit can turn fortune in danger.
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Fanning a Medal and a Judge’s Wry Saying
A Washington Star quip notes a son who has not won college medals yet may earn a hero medal by umpiring college baseball. The editorial line follows with a maxim about those who doubt self improvement and a pun about who pays the freight in legal cases.
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Washington Star
Peruna Aids Washington Woman In Health Recovery
Miss Mildred Keller of 718th Street Northwest Washington recalls severe catarrh lasting years. After impaired appetite and weak health she used Peruna and felt relief from the first dose, with multiple bottles restoring strength and vigor. The notice notes many testimonials supporting Dr Hartman’s Peruna endorsements.
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718Th Street
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Washington, D. C
Mildred Keller
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Salon idea urged by New York club women discussants
At Delmonico's Eclectic Club meeting Mrs Richard Stearns urged New York club women to establish a salon in the city to restore the art of conversation. She warned against the epidemic of card playing and stressed mental refreshment through travel talks books and human drama.
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New York Club
New York Tribune
Richard Stearns
Eclectic Club
Delmonico’s
Webster
Angel
Cuticura Set Promises Complete Skin Cure All Ages
SUTICURA THE SET $1.00 Complete treatment for pimples to scrofula from infancy to age. Cuticura Soap to cleanse and soften skin, Ointment to soothe itching and inflammation, Resolvent Pills to purify blood. Daily cures claimed for simple and hereditary humors.
A Born Diplomat
A dialogue scene features Charlie Short revealing his motives for courting Mrs Gotrox’s daughter. He candidly admits loving the daughter not for her but to gain a mother-in-law. Mrs Gotrox pushes for honesty and questions his true feelings.
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Mrs. Gotrox
Charlie Short
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