Powers of Banks Expanded by Supreme Court ruling
The Iowa Supreme Court overturned Judge Evans and held Corning Savings Bank liable for indorsing and guaranteeing commercial paper. The decision asserts savings banks may deal in commercial paper with attendant liability, rejecting narrow interpretations that restricted such authority. The ruling emphasizes banking functions include dealing in water, bills of exchange and credits and supports bond guarantees and indorsements.
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Wes
Maines
Supreme Court
Corning State Savings Bank
Savings Banks
Java
Adams County
CG. W. Johnston
Des Moines
Bruce Butler
Dudge H. K. Evans
Bank At
Corning
la Rue
Corning Sayings
BK. Butler Iowa National Bank
W. QO. Curtis
Corning Institution
Bank
Curtis
C. W. Johnston
Evans
Iowa
Make Quick Work of Transplanting by Its Use
A long piece instructs on using a transplanting peg to speed setting plants. It covers making holes with the peg, planting, and firming soil with wrist motions, noting different peg sizes for plant types and a four-step counting method to build speed.
Farm Notes on Livestock Comfort and Profit
Good farming rests on healthy stock and fertile land. A trained veterinarian should be used, and every laboring farmer should value small industries. Regular farm inventories reveal leaks, while rich soil and active earthworms improve soil quality and yield.
Plow Up Thin Meadows For Better Returns
When meadows thin it is better to plow them up and apply manure generously then replant to a crop needing cultivation. Thin meadows often waste effort on light hay that barely pays costs. a few years in a different crop can restore vigor and soil health.
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Jas
Bordeaux Mixture Recipe From Historic Text
Instructions describe making Bordeaux mixture using copper sulfate and lime with 60 gallons water. Two formulas are given, involving dissolving blue vitriol, slackening lime, and diluting to the total gallon count. The mixture should turn blue with litmus paper red, then add more lime.
Lime Sulphur Wash Recipe for Service Insects
Instructional recipe detailing a lime sulphur wash using twenty pounds lime, fifteen pounds flowers of sulphur, and sixty gallons water. Steps include slaking lime, making a paste, boiling with sulphur, and straining into a spraying tank. Advises using warm solution when possible and notes as the least known remedy for service insects.
Orchard mulch system seen as best in orchard management
An in depth discussion in Orange Judd Farmer argues the cultural mulch method best balances moisture humus and nutrients, detailing nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash needs, and comparing sod and cultural mulch systems as most orchardists favor the cultural mulch for economy and profitability.
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Grant Hitchings
A. N. Crown
Orange Judd Farmer
Hitchings
Thors
Easy Way to Pole Beans
A short farming tip advises setting posts at convenient distances and stretching a wire at the top. Ground conditions permit immediate setup to support pole bean growth.
Farm and Home notes on bean cultivation methods
The text explains planting and cultivating beans with one row on each side of a line, tying beans at wire crossings, and using a hoe for cultivation. It suggests Hills three feet apart in a row with one vine per hill improves growth over two vines.
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Tian
Phils
Wiite Us
Bche
Peruna praised for cold relief by Chicago official
M. J. Deutsch of the Building Material Trades Council reports Peruna eases catarrh and cold symptoms, noting long use and value. A Colorado mother, Mrs. C. E. Long, describes a three year old daughter with a four month cough seeking advice and relief.
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M. J. Deutsch
Building Material Trades Council
Washington St
Chicago
Peruna
Ennuire
C. KE. Long
Atwood, Colorado
Office Labor Tales Echo in Quiet Domestic Snag
In a fragmentary exchange, Mrs A-T laments offices as horrid while her husband roams between day work and an office search. Mrs Z notes her spouse stays late, detained at the office, reflecting common urban work life tensions.
Cure for severe eczema offers swift relief, reader claims
A reader from Brentwood, Diesex, England, recounts a daughter’s severe eczema and epilepsy like symptoms cured after using Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills. The testimonial notes dramatic improvement after three quarters of Ointment used. The piece is dated March 8, 1907.
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Mra. T
A Most Delicious Dessert in Coffee Jelly
Instructions promote Plymouth Rock Coffee Jelly Compound to make a coffee jelly dessert with boiling water sugar and cream. It offers to mail a box for 10 cents if grocers do not stock it and provides the Boston based company details.
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Lymouth Rock
Plymouth Rock Gelating Co
Boston
Mass
Those Peekaboos and Bhe Women’s Clothes Mystery
Fragmentary remarks show a conversation about Peekaboo garments and Bhe Women's clothing. Quoted speakers include a Cornall Widow speaking on visibility and understanding. The text lacks clear event context or attribution to a broader story.
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Cornall
Peruna touted as cure in family health letters
A Paterson New Jersey reader praises Peruna for curing a child's cough and croup after nearly a bottle, while another says two bottles cured colds and related illnesses in his family. The letters claim dramatic health improvements and strong endorsement of the medicine.
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James Morrigan
East 10Th
Paterson
N. J
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