California Fig Syrup Ad Promises Easy Bowels for Children
An old advertisement urges mothers to give California Figure Syrup to babies and children, claiming it safely opens the bowels and helps prevent illness. It warns to buy the genuine product with directions printed on the bottle and to avoid imitation syrups.
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California
Night use of Roman Eye Balgam relieves eye strain
The advertisement notes that occasional night use of Roman Eye Balgam prevents tired eyes and eye strain and provides contact at 372 Pearl Bt, N. and Adv.
Wives Should Be Picked Dr Galloway Says
Dr Thomas Galloway a biologist argues social hygiene taught with kindness would help young men select mates rather than marry for infatuation. He says clear life understanding would reduce marriage failures and curbs divorces, while noting marriage remains a sound institution.
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Thomas Galloway
Capner's Weekly
Those Awful Punsters Editorial Conference Joke
In a light editorial aside the Boston Transcript quotes a quip about two writers meeting while the editor is ill. The exchange playfully frames a mock conference as they craft pun filled copy.
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Boston Transcript
New Parlor Suite Brings Joy and Jolt to Floss June
Mrs. June triumphs in buying a new parlor suite but its bright figures alarm Mrs. Crabbe and Emmy Travers offers a softer lamp aided view. Daylight hides the bold design until lights reveal the playful patterns, prompting Floss to seek gentler curtains and renewed hope.
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Mrs. Peck
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Emmy Travers
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Sarah Crabbe
Dinner party quips on biblical passages cited by bishop
A dinner party anecdote features a woman praising the line about God tempering the wind to the shorn lamb and a bishop claiming his favorite passage is Eliza crossing the ice. The you'll note the line is misattributed to Laurence Sterne, with a French precursor by Henri Estienne.
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Bruce Barton
Eliza
Laurence Sterna
Henri Estienne
Old Paris Bakery Embraces Modern Oven System
The historic Paris bakery in operation since 1670 becomes France’s finest as officials replace night work with automated equipment. An aluto matic oven conveyor and full electric travel system streamline bread from bin to truck, serving hospitals and the poor.
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Paris
France
America
Berliner Unveils Sound Sponge for Echo Free Rooms
Inventor Emile Berliner announces a paper disk device called sound sponge that silences echoes in rooms with poor acoustics. Disks stiffened by cross wires are placed along walls in various shapes to fit architectural contours and reduce sound reflections.
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Emile Berliner
Dyakan Fighting Race Dyaks of Borneo
A fragment describing the Dyakan Dyaks of Borneo as a savage yet ingenious people related to Malays. It notes they are taller, supposedly more honest, and that their condition has improved over the past twenty five years.
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Borneo
Culling Young Chickens for Efficient Flocks
The article advises buying extra baby chicks for summer growth and quick turnover. It recommends early weight targets, separating cockerels and pullets by two pounds, culling early crowers, and keeping the best hens for laying next winter while disposing of inferior birds to maximize profit.
Poor Economy to Cease Feeding Mash in Summer
Purdue professor cautions against stopping mash feeding in summer noting range feeding fails to meet egg production needs. He says high egg yield requires a protein rich ration with mash and included animal feeds to supply minerals and proteins.
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C. W. Carrick
Purdue
Determine Exactly How Many Eggs Each Hen Lays
A trap nest is the sole accurate method to determine a hen’s total annual egg production. Continuous trap-nesting during the first laying year and throughout the breeding season is required. Breeders seek pullets that lay in spring and winter, are early maturers, and persistently heavy layers.
Lice and Worms Dip for Poultry Care Instructions
Use one ounce of sodium fluoride per gallon of water to bathe fowls in a tub or barrel. Mix enough solution for about three hundred birds per pound. Hold hens by legs and wings, submerge fall end first to force water under feathers. Repeat three to four times and use fingers to work solution into heavy feather areas.
Ghost From Past Letter Reaches Winslow Family
A Baltimore mother reads a note from her daughter Mary written 80 years ago praising her vacation and good behavior. Mary now has two children, and the letter survived after the family malt box role caved in after forty years on the porch.
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Mary
Randolph Winslow
Baltimore
Fleerish Exchange Over Seating Sparks Alarm
A tense scene unfolds as a polite person warns a man in the wrong seat that he need not fear if he does not insist on taking it. The troughneck figure offers reassurance while urging restraint.
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Troughneck
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