Wheat supply and Canadian fields lure US farmers
The article highlights US wheat production at 650 million bushels and rising consumption, urging imports from Canada. It cites Canadian yields, land costs, and a Minnesota native's testimony on 30 bushels per acre, noting a broader shift toward westward farming and opportunities to double output in a few years. It also carries humorous quips about Shakespeare and letters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Germany
Canada
John Munter
Eyebrow
Saskatchewan
Minnesota
Cai ‘West
Quotable ad copy for a remedy product in Chicago
The item presents a playful ad style from a Chicago company urging readers to buy a small 5 cent remedy package. It features Beecher quotes about faults and moral equivalence, encouraging each man to keep a remedy at home and to ask grocers for the product.
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Beecher
Sur Grocer
Sea Queen Adventure Ends In Double Deceit
John Stephens an adventurer from Massachusetts becomes captain of a mutinous voyage aboard the Sea Queen. After seizing a vessel believed to be the Esmeralda a fatal conflict reveals the target is Lord Darlington’s private yacht. Tuttle dies and Stephens assumes command guiding a perilous pursuit toward the Antarctic circle amid tension with De Nova Cade and the crew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Stephens
Valpargiso
Chile
Bolivia
Fie
Stephens
Peru
Bem Gyllean
Marine
Wessel
Lord Darlington
Tuttle
Antar Ye Circle
Lad Darlington
Cade
de Nova
Dade
Zare
Monsieu
Anderson
Mr. Stephens
Mr. de Nova
Celeste
Monsieur
Dead Mates Shipboard Dilemmas and Threatened Voyage
The captain announces Mr. Tuttle is dead and seeks crew input on continuing a perilous southward voyage amid ice. Sailors debate risk versus treasure while the crew shows wary, divided resolve as Lady Darlington and Celeste observe from the deck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Nova
Big Bill Anderson
Lady Darlington
Celeste
Monsieur
Mapes
Cooper’s New Discovery claims cure for stomach troubles
A promotional feature touts Cooper’s New Discovery as curing chronic stomach and digestive ills in six weeks. It cites Dr Cooper’s theory that 90 percent of all ill health stems from the stomach and includes a testimonial from Mrs. M. E. Delano of Brookline, Massachusetts, praising rapid relief and urging readers to obtain the medicine through druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cooper
M. E. Delano
Brookline
Boston
Mass
Cooper Medicine Co
Dayton
Ohio
A Youth Rebels Over Coal Dust on Towel Incident
A house scene involves a white youth reacting to coal dust impressions on a towel as a Black porter shovels coal. The boy shouts that the porter’s color is coming off, observed by a judge’s account.
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B. Sam
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Claims Cure and Reward
An old advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional treatment that acts upon the blood and mucous surfaces to cure catarrh. It offers a $100 reward if it fails to cure and urges readers to send testimonials to Fr. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio and to buy from local druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Cheney & CO
Toledo
Those Tears and a Wedding Proposal
In this wry exchange two women recall an engagement with Mr. Grimson. One says she broke it and he cried, the other counters that he cried with joy. A quiet, prudent friendship is valued over zealous affection.
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Addison
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Hamlet
Springfield Republican
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Nob
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South
Sewanee Tiger
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