Western Canada’s grain boom draws American settlers
Readers hear from grain regions in Canada where wheat yields reach high levels and profits per acre. The note cites 50 to 60 bushels per acre for wheat and oats, with strong barley, and reports a farmer earning 19.55 dollars per acre. It highlights 160 acre homesteads sold cheaply and railway rates, plus a Canadian government aid push. It also notes American migration to Western Canada and praise from observers.
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St.iculars
Leslie M. Shaw
New York
United Sates Treasury
McKinley
Roosevel
United States
Ourailway
Monticello
Iowa
Frpress
Western Canada
Ontario
Moose Jaw
Regina
Colombia's One Iron Foundry in Bogota
The only iron foundry in Colombia is at Bogota, named La Paradera, operating on a small scale with native ores melted and remelted for casting. Interior deposits exist and an offshore body near the Caribbean coast is being drilled by American engineers.
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Colombia
South America
Bogota
la Paradera
Caribbean Sea
Great Man Honored Noah Webster Remembered Across Connecticut
The 150th anniversary of Noah Webster’s birth was observed in Connecticut with Yale University and Hartford schools hosting ceremonies. Webster’s dictionary grammar and spelling book cemented American language standardization, unifying pronunciation and spelling across the nation. Born in 1758 in Hartford, he was sent at 14 to prepare for Yale.
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New Haven
Conn
Noah Webster
Yale University
Hartford
Webster
America
Johnson
Yale
William Webster and His Dictionary Legacy
The narrative traces William Webster's youth during the American Revolution, his push into law and journalism, and his lifelong project the English dictionary. It notes his spelling grammar and reading books, his 1828 dictionary first edition, the 1841 revised edition, and his death in 1843.
Kidney Trouble Cured By Dean's Pills
Nat Anerson of Greenwood South Carolina endured five years of dull back pain and severe kidney trouble with disordered secretions and minimal urine flow. After repeated examinations and treatments failed, he used Dean's Kidney Pills and reports renewed strength and complete relief from kidney symptoms. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York.
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Nat Anerson
Greenwood
S. C
Bays
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Lament For Changed Times In A Rural Puck Verse
A rural lament recalls bygone courtship as Adoniram Corntop mourns changing times Andy Clover visits. He contrasts past thrift with current lavish youth spending on peppermint candy ice cream soda and clothing costs cited for a band concert and a single day’s expenses.
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Bill
Adoniram Corntop
Andy Clover
Andy
Puck
Coffee at Bottom of Trouble Solved by Postum
An ill stock man recounts years of coffee harm including nervous spells and indigestion. After switching to Postum, he slept better and gained weight, claiming he is healthier now and credits Postum with saving his life. The ad promises authenticity and invites readers to see "There’s a Reason."
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Munich Jugend
Stockman
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Uplifting Farmers Prompted by Unclear Proposals
A fragment shows a farmer comment about uplift rhetoric and a humorous exchange questioning whether balloons or dynamite were being proposed to aid farmers. The text hints at skepticism toward grand schemes.
Old Irish laborer in New York studio offers meal for a dollar
An aging Irish laborer wanders into a lavish New York artist's studio asking for money for food. The artist, amused, offers a dollar to paint him. The man agrees and worries about how the painting would be kept clean.
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New York
Catarrh Cure Ad and Miscellaneous Notices
An old newspaper fragment promotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward offer for cures and mentions other ad content. Includes references to Red Cross Ball Blue laundry product and Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething, plus miscellaneous ad lines and aphorisms.
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Mia. Winslow
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