Fermented Cottonseed Meal for Hogs and Strawberries
Southern Farm Notes outlines experiments at Texas College Station on feeding fermented cottonseed meal to hogs, showing potential for larger, longer use in slop and reduced fat in carcasses, with caution toward hot-season feeding. It also reports strawberry fertilizer trials yielding no clear gains, suggests renovating soils with strawberries, and includes home curing meat guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Station
College Station
Ira
Knoxville
Charles A. Keffer
How to Kill the Borers and Other Tree Grubs
A Practical Fruit Grower contributor shares a wash for peach trees to kill borers and woolly aphis. Mix eight gallons water with as much soda as dissolves, one gallon soft soap, and a half gallon tobacco juice, plus slack lime. Apply from roots to limbs until about a sixth of an inch thick. Salt helps it stay longer on older trees. Best timing is June when moths lay eggs. The same wash suits apple trees but is too strong for cherries.
The Care of Fowls for Winter Laying
From Home and Farm, the article notes hens lay best when conditions mimic spring. Keep hens warm in winter, provide a bright clean scratching shed, and a varied wholesome diet with grains kept available from daylight to dark. Busy hens lay more eggs.
Learn to Know Your Laying Hens for Profit
Advice on culling nonlaying hens to improve poultry operations. Details indicator traits like eyes, comb, movement, and vitality to identify good layers. Also notes asparagus yield gains from salt application and a humor short about a Doniphan County farmer and an Irishman named Pat.
Swelled Head Buried in Town Plot Prank
A New England tale recounted by former State Senator John Ford tells of a man with a swelled head who sought burial in the town plot. After three failed petitions, the fourth year yielded a joke motion to grant the request only if buried next week, and the petition was never offered again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New
New York Press
Russia’s New Finance Chief Biriloff Brings Unconventional Demeanor
Adml Biriloff, newly named finance minister, is described as roguish and robustly outspoken, likened to Lord Beresford. A comic anecdote recalls an imperial bouquet incident during Adml Shostakoff’s era when the empress claimed a large bouquet, forcing Biriloff to stammer a denial.
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Russia
Biriloff
Charles Beresford
Shostakoff
Shestakoff
Birt‘leff
Harper’s Weekly
The Fall of Galahad and a Wife’s Skeptic Tale
A poem fragment describes a woman whose hair shines like sunlit dust and eyes that haunt a man’s thoughts. He abandons prayer for her, then pursues a hidden path, ending forever altered by her presence. The piece contrasts mythic imagery with a modern humor vignette about belief in newspaper tales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galahad
Our Lady
Sentry Foils Officer Smoke with Quick Wit
An Irish soldier on sentry duty refused a smoking officer access. The officer discarded his cigarette in disgust, but the sentry retrieved it and returned to his post. The officer found smoke rising from the box and challenged the sentry, who quipped that he was keeping it to show as evidence against him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat
Harper
A . Weekly
Poetry In the Black Hills Stage Banter
A humorous exchange aboard a weekly stage unfolds about a book on writing poetry. The driver asks if it helps, the Black Hills bard questions usefulness, and a line about perseverance leads to a joke about plugging away at poetry or the editor.
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Black Hills
Wall
Weekly Stage
Ene
Eta
Permanent Cure Claims For Fits And Nervousness
An advertisement touts FITS permanent cure with Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer priced at 3 dollars. It also promotes a patent cure for piles, a claim about Monaco as the smallest European army, and various medical remedies and financial opinions from The Chicago Record-Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kline
B.H. Kline, Ltd
Pula
Cured Psoriasis by Cuticora Soap and Ointment
A 35 year battle with psoriasis ends after using Cuticora soap ointment and Resolvent. The patient describes circular red spots, dry scales, bleeding cracks, and intense itch, noting improvement within thirty days and lasting five years. The account cites W M Chichester of Hutchinson Kansas in April 1905.
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W. M. Chichester
Hutchinson
Kan
Omnivorous Reader mocks fiction cues and colorful descriptions
In Harper's Weekly Dave Hennen Morris criticizes literary depictions of people and proposes new auto tax ideas. He suggests a vehicle specific levy to fund road upkeep, replacing current personal taxes, and varying rates by weight or horsepower.
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Dave Hennenorris
Harper's Weekly
Editor Credits Grape-Nuts Diet For Health Revival
A New Jersey editor recounts a years long struggle with nervous dyspepsia caused by improper food. He credits Grape-Nuts with restoring digestion and strength, allowing him to resume editing and outside writing, and claims he can walk several miles daily without fatigue. The note cites Postum and mentions Battle Creek, Michigan.
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New Jersey
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Meridian Cyclone Warns of Insurance Need
The notice warns that Meridian may face cyclones and urges obtaining insurance from a reliable company. A cautionary tale cites unprotected losses, fire anger, and advises asking the local agent of the Mississippi Home Insurance Company. Also notes England’s first electric spinning wheel started at Pendlebury.
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Meridian
Careta Rane
Baer
Mississippi Home Insurance Company
England
Pendlebury
Patent medicine and cure claims from old newspaper text
A garbled advertisement fragment offers coupons and certificates for Belch Wafers and Blood Balm with dubious medical claims. It mentions MULL's GRAPE Sonic Co Rock Island and Botanic Blood Balm B B B, promising free samples and mail orders, plus a note about Russia’s history and a line about J. Miller as a National Government clerk.
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Mull’s Grape Sonic Co
3D Ave
Rock Island
Heritage of Civil War Kidney Trouble Remedy Claim
Civil War veteran Capt John L Ely of Co E 17th Ohio living in Newton Kansas recalls contracting kidney trouble during service which developed into a chronic condition. He credits Dean's Kidney Pills begun in 1901 with his recovery and ongoing good health. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
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John L. Ely
Co. E
17Th Ohio
East Second Street
Newton
Kansas
Ely
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
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Birds’ Academy
Bow
London
Academy of Music For
Queen Alexandra
Loni m Hospital
Arkansas Experiment Station
Doniphan
Saya
Katy Journal
Thes Dal Haoe
London Zoo
Grael
A. H
the Spectator
Europe
Principality of Monaco
H.H. Garen
Doxs
Atlanta
Taylor
The
Chicago Record-Herald
Ponson de Terrail
Iscard
Mall
Mai Ipoo
Cleveland
Woolford
Detchon
Crawfordsville
China
J. J. Miller
Haseen
Lydia E. Pinkham
Educa Hon
Uinuraner
Business College
Wit
Eben
Newark
Mozley
J. Robinson
Brad
Andresa, Cerman Kali
Dew Youk
Nassau Street
Birvad Street
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