The Apricot Harvest Across Borderland Farms
A vivid portrait of apricot picking in New England, Arizona and beyond. Families harvest as birds watch and windfalls are sorted in brush sheds, with Pima and Maricopa Indians bartering wheat for fruit. Women carry loads on their heads as children ride and the harvest becomes a community event.
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Mohawk
Jersey
Capé ‘Cod
New England
Salt River Valley
Arizona
California
Wau
N. Y. Tribune
Uses of the Lemon in Home Health Remedies
A New York Herald piece lists lemon based cures and home remedies. Headache relief from lemon juice with coffee or hot water, cough remedies with lemon and sugar, baked lemon syrup for colds, and hot lemonade with glycerin. Also notes rheumatism relief, corn treatment with lemon, foot care, chilblains, hand care, rust and stain removal.
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N. Y. Herald
Home Picture Framing Passe Partout Craft Tips
A New York Tribune sourced guide explains home framing using passe partout. It outlines materials, mounting steps, mat and binding assembly, and cautions on mat colors and finish for attractive, durable results. It notes optional use of cardboard and proper drying pressure.
The Cheerful Home Duty and Harmony in Family Life
A N Y s Weekly column urges men to share in home duties and women to maintain patience and warm hospitality. It argues a peaceful, well ordered house with cheerful demeanor depends on mutual effort and restraint and highlights the cost of domestic harmony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Ys
How to Keep Lemons
How to preserve lemons by soaking them in water until covered and changing the water every day or two to improve flavor and freshness.
Grafting Methods For Apple Trees In Nurseries
A study on grafting describes two main methods to form apple trees: binding or grafting, with an illustration of a two year old grafted tree. Shoots from one season will grow into the head, and pruning controls height. Two years are usually needed to shape trees four to five feet tall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orange Judd
U. S
W. L. Donngles
Morbon
Douglas
Desler
W. EE. Douglas Shoe Co
Brockton, Alass
A Healthful Fruit Grapes Endorse Health Benefits and Care
The National Stockman praises grapes as highly healthful when eaten with meals in moderate amounts. It notes quicker digestion of grape sugar, laxative yet natural bowels action, and advises washing store-bought grapes. Borax preservation for months is described, with application to other berries and fruits.
Garden Succession for a Continuous Vegetable Supply
Vegetables like radish lettuce peas string beans beets cress and turnips should be sown for succession every ten days or two weeks. Yet many farmers neglect the garden after the first sowing, despite its important contribution to family living.
Where Sunflowers Pay in Russia A Profitable Harvest
The sunflower crop yields strong profits in Russia with field prices around 25 dollars per acre. Seeds sell to farmers for 1 to 1.50 dollars per pound, merchants salt and retail at 3 dollars per pound, and street vendors offer salted sunflower kernels to passersby in provincial cities. Dairy utensils should have few seams and be smoothly soldered.
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Russia
Thankful Cincinnati Woman Credits Lotion Cure
Mrs. Anna E. V. Bartley of 1823 Baymiller Street Cincinnati Ohio writes that chronic eye ulcers and pain plagued her since age eleven. She praises a Lotion and Lotion Soap from Solon Palmer New York for curing her over five years and urges others to obtain samples if their druggists do not stock it.
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Anna E. V. Bartley
Baymiller Street
Cincinnati
Ohio
Solon Palmer
Pearl Street
New York
Charlotte Jonnson
Monclova
Lydia E. Pinkham
Charlotte. Johnson
Beware of Mercury Containing Catarrh Remedies
Cautions against using mercury based remedies for catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. Claims no mercury and internal action with testimonials offered. Sold by druggists at 75 cents per bottle and praised by a Globe notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Best for the Bowels and Everyday Cures Warned
An assorted historical ad clutter with claims for Cascarets candy cathartic and Laxative Bromo Quinine. It mixes home health advice with product pitches for Cascarets and Piso’s Cure and ends with miscellaneous quips and a Putnam’s Dye ad.
The Markets Across Cities in October
Market notes from New York Cleveland Toledo East Liberty and East Buffalo report varied prices in flour wheat corn oats butter cheese eggs cattle hogs and sheep. Prices show weakness in flour and hogs with steady to mixed movements in grains and livestock across the listed locations.
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New York
Cleveland
York State
East Buffalo
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Fom Enea
Alps
Bristol
Vale of
Teters
Pueck
Atchison Globe
Lane
Stacker
Chicago Post
Chicago Dailyens
Endsley
Vanburen
Ind
Putnam’s Firnessures
East Liberty
Dougs Union
W. L. Douglas
Pastor Mo RE Ere
W. Douglas
Wil Ai
Charlotte Johnson
Lydia E. Rinkham
National City Bank of
Lynn
Lydia E. Pin
Waltham Watches
American Waltham Watch Company
Waltham
Waltham, Mass
Burnham
Oklahoma
H.H. Green
Box D
Atlanta
Midland Pub. CO
le Saile Street
Chicago. Ill
Fay Manilla
Carden, Nd
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