Homemade windmills bloom across plains from Omaha to Denver
An article extols homemade windmills of various designs from jumbos to turbine types, noting their spread from South Dakota through Nebraska to Kansas and Oklahoma with Kansas at the center. It details uses for water pumping, irrigation, and stock watering, cites a six-fan jumbo on W. W. Goodrich’s Bethany Neb. farm, and notes simple construction materials and a Damascus steel axis, costing around eight dollars for a larger model with a gas pipe for three dollars.
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Omaha
Denver
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
W. W. Goodrich
Bethany
Neb
Progress in Kansas road movement and lawn seeding tips
Progress in Kansas outlines push for uniform road policies with state convention ideas and wheelmen co operatives to adopt improved roadbuilding methods. It emphasizes drainage and thorough work to aid farmers and suggests a state convention with machinery exhibitors. Also notes lawn seeding with Kentucky bluegrass and cautions about wild onions in pastures affecting milk quality.
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Kansas
Townships
League of American Wheelmen
Topeka
The Sunday School Lesson on Peter’s Confession and Discipleship
The lesson outlines Jesus asking who people say he is, Peter’s declaration that Jesus is the Christ, and Jesus announcing the church will be built on this rock. It emphasizes self denial and cross bearing as essential to true discipleship, with reflections on Peter’s rebuke and Jesus’ foretelling of death and resurrection.
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Peter
Jesus
Simon Peter
Christ
Himsel
The
Rock Foundation
Kingdom of God
Church of God
God
Hell
Gold Prospector Executed by Red Ants in Mayo Tale
A mining man from El Paso recounts the Mayo Indians punishing James Wilson, a renegade American prospector, by stripping him and binding him over an ant hill. Red ants gnawed his flesh for hours until he died, as Wilson supposedly fled from justice in Oklahoma.
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el Paso
Tex
Sinaloa
Mexico
James Wilson
Wilson
Oklahoma
Front Correspondents Testify to Poor Shooting at Cape Front
Principal reporters including Mr Burleigh and Mr Villiers along with Sir Howard Vincent testified to weak shooting. Villiers recounts being shot at at 190 yards while asleep in the veldt. Boer targets largely avoided by artillery while British rifle fire is described as nearly ineffective.
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Burleigh
Villiers
Daily News
The
Times Mafching
Howard Vincent
Cape
von Gernet
Can we oblige me with a light on the Great Northern
A Scotsman in a smoky railway carriage asks for a light as other travelers respond with apologies and refusals. He finally tears off a piece of his cigar and mutters weel weel, I’ll jist need ta take one o’ my ain. The London Chronicle reports the scene aboard the Great Northern line.
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Great Northern Railway
London Chronicle
Precocious Childhood of English Essayist John Nuskin
Detroit Free Press notes that John Nuskin, famed English critic on art, showed precocity in childhood. At seven he wrote rhymes and kept a diary recording cathedral trips with his father, shaping a lifelong taste for architecture and scenery.
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John Nuskin
Pneland
Tlis
Detroit Free Press
These July Days. Corn, we know. s good fer man
The Indianapolis Journal notes July weather’s impact on corn and people, joking that heat and humidity affect both crop yields and human temperament, with a humorous regional tone about farming life.
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Indianapolis Journal
Quotes on reform from an amateur philosopher
A Philadelphia North American quote notes a man’s change in outlook with age, stating at 25 a man seeks to reform the world while at 50 he nears reforming himself. The wry remark frames reform as self or world oriented with aging.
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Philadelphia
Market summary from New York and regional spots
The markets report brisk activity across commodities and livestock. Wheat prices hover near steady, corn and oats show mixed quotes, while cattle hogs and sheep move with regional variation from New York to Cincinnati and East regions.
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New York
Neals
York State
East Liberty
Cincinnati
Hetty Green Taxes The Richest Woman's Local Home Tax Record
Hetty H R Green long recognized as America’s wealthiest woman is listed as a Bellows Falls resident. Records show her 1889 to 1899 tax history including real and personal property and trust taxes. Her 1899 move to change residence to another state was linked to ongoing litigation. Her taxes this year amount to about one thirtieth of Bellows Falls total.
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Hetty H.R. Green
America
Bellows Falls
Wes Sdys
New ‘York
Adarge
Irs
Green
Sylvia
Mr. Green
Hoboken
N.J
Man Rides Bike With Dog Harness in Comical Accident
A Detroit brief tells of a man who strapped his wife's clothesline to his St. Bernard and bike, rode into the road, and was thrown when the dog lunged toward a companion. He promised his wife not to repeat the stunt after a wild ride that ended with the rider hitting the curb.
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St. Bernard
Cloudland
Detroit Bree Regs
A Heavy Case and Circumstances Alter Cases
A fragment from Chicago Evening News notes a change in Brighter from champagne to a case of beer, with a quip about circumstance altering cases. Other items reference cheap remedies and practical jokes, while the Atchison Globe advertises Beemer's Pepsin Gum and prison faneness dyes. A boy in the family is handy for leftovers.
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Luke Warmie
Chicago Evening News
Mack O'Rell
Atchison Globe
Heirs’ Fractions Puzzle Ends With Lawyer's Help
A dying man assigns shares to four sons: John one third Alex one fifth James one half and Thomas one fourth. The sons scramble to divide the estate, while Alex walks away to find a lawyer to resolve the puzzle. The Baltimore American notes the moral that lawyers often believe in the heirs’ figures.
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John
Alex
James
Thomas
Baltimore American
Cascarets Candy Cathartic Ad Claims Quick Health Restore
No matter what ails you, headache to cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are outright. Cascarets help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents, to start getting your health back. Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the genuine put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C G C stamped on it. Beware of imitations. A Desperate Man Merchant. Do you speak German? Needy Applicant I never have, but gracious, it tackle at if you give me a job. Indianapolis Journal.
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Indianapolis Journal
Allen’s Foot-Ease advertised powder for new shoes
An old advertisement touts Allen’s Foot-Ease as a powder to ease tight shoes and sore feet. It claims relief for corns itching and swelling and mentions availability at druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents. The notice includes a misleading line about free samples and provides a mailing address in Ogden, Le Ray, New York.
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Allen
Olmsted
le Ray
N.Y
Laxative ads and quips from old newspapers
A collage of vintage notices includes Lane's Family Medicine claims to regulate bowels and liver health, a 25c remedy to cure a cold in one day, and witty exchanges about Paris and obstacles. The Syracuse Herald and Chicago Daily News taglines appear, with ad style lines urging quick cures and a druggists guarantee.
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Lane
Hell's Catarrh Cure Is éoken Internally
An ad style mockery compiles lines about cures and cures prices with quips from various readers and a Chicago Daily News reference. The content parodies medical claims and social satire in a vintage newspaper snippet.
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Hell
Éoken
Painful Periods Overcome by Lydia E Pinkham Product
Fifty thousand women testify in grateful letters to Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, claiming relief from painful periods. For advice on excessive or irregular cycles, write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn Mass.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
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