Parade of settlers and family ties near San Francisco exposition
The Parsons family moves from the valley to San Francisco for the girls to attend an exposition and boarding school. Erastus stays behind to run the farm with his old dog Rose showing loyalty. The visit includes tours of fruit and vegetable displays, poultry, and mining machinery.
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Lucy Parsons
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Martha
Old Rose
Pacific Coast
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Department of Fruits and Vegetables
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Agricultural Department
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Marty
Mount Shasta
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Rhubarb Growing and Forcing for Market and Home
Prairie Farmer outlines rhubarb as a fruitlike esculent, grown in rich soil with deep manure, spacing, and beds lasting years. It details forcing methods in sheds or greenhouses, timing from February to July, and the Linnaens and Victoria varieties with seed-grown plants as alternatives.
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Butter Test Demonstrates Oleo Margarine Trickery
A butter seller at the Farmers' Market shows two firkins of butter and oleomargarine. He tests by melting pieces in cups over a furnace, noting the oleomargarine emits a rancid odor while real butter smells pleasant. He claims business doubled after exposing the difference.
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Connecticut
Ohio
Philadelphia Times
Golden Medical Discovery Restores Health for Consumption Case
A man with liver related consumption recovered fully through Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. The account notes a dreadful cough and blood and matter with severe weakness, and claims thousands of others testify similarly.
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Laughter as cure and patent remedies in a 19th century ad
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