Kentucky Forestation Efforts Highlight Timber Conservation
Kentucky leads in forest preservation with a 1906 law creating a state forestry board and a cooperative study with the U.S. Forest Service. Reports cover eastern and coal regions, urging a state forester and stronger laws to balance lumber demand with conservation while noting rising prices and declining yellow poplar yields.
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Kentucky
State Board of Agriculture, Forestry and Immigration
United States Forest Service
State Board of Agriculture
Forest Service
National Service
United States
Trains Ducks to Eat Paste on Potato Patches
Joseph Janette, a farmer on the Alton bluff, earns 15 dollars daily from 16 ducks trained to clear potato patches of bugs. He fed them potato bugs exclusively, then kept them in a bug pen to preserve their diet. Farmers in the area pay 1.69 dollars per hour for the ducks' pest control service.
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Joseph Janette
Alton Bluffa
Janette
Farmera
Chicago Record-Herald
Woman in New York store nervously seeks relief
A visiting woman from out of town, staying in a department store’s alliance room, grows anxious in the quiet crowd and after a long wait laments to a subdued attendant about her nerves and fatigue, fearing she cannot find another job.
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Blience
Allence
New York
Dean's Kidney Pills Helped Iowa Woman Says Cure
A Villisca Iowa resident testifies that Dean's Kidney Pills cured years of kidney trouble including back pains swelling and smothering spells. The ad notes the product is sold by all dealers at 60 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Dean
EL Graves
Villiscu
Iowa
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Not the Butcher's Fault and Other Skits
A collage of humorous vignettes and adages from Lippincott's Magazine and Chicago Post. Scenes include a quarrel over a lamb delivery, a wry exchange about ex marriages, a neighbors intrusion on a domestic scene, and a philosophic exchange on life's vanity.
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Hattle
Tom
Lippincott's Magazine
Pure and Easy Test on Coffee with Postum
A reader endorses a ten day coffee abstention with Postum to prove coffee caused health woes. A woman describes chronic stomach trouble headaches and nervousness from coffee, improves on Postum, falters when resuming coffee, then recovers after returning to Postum.
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I &O
Postum
Precocious Russian Prince Early Education Trials
The future czar of all the Russias enjoys outdoor life and English based schooling. Anecdotes of Olga and Tatiana at the imperial nursery illustrate strict early training, while Alexander II era routines show a blend of discipline and reform, including a charitable “poor box” to reward diligence.
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St. Petersburg
M. Eager
Imperial Nursery
Olga
Tatiana
Monsieur
Alexander II
Brayley Hodgetta
Alexander
Early ripening coffee variety from Brazilian scientists
Brazilian researchers announce a new coffee variety that ripens unusually early. The development promises quicker harvests and potential shifts in cultivation timelines for growers. Further studies will assess flavor profiles and yield under different climates.
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Mear
Wind Cave
Stintwafte
Mr. Stintwafte
Jolmt
Grogan
Chicago Post
Pringe
Russia
Wielgorski
Patkul
Legiona
Moerder
Grand Duke
Alexis Nikolaievitch
Cincinnati
Minneapolis
Merchane
Coney
Western Electric
Bell
Western Electric Company
Eastern
Boston
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Atlanta
Central
St. Louis
Denver
Kansas City
Dal Guidas
Northern Electric and Manufacturing Co., Ltd
Montreal
Winnipeg
Sure Telesherte
Geostere
San Francisco
Seatt
Los Angeles
RD Oil
N. U
Bobby
Perry Davis
Wesley
Guart
Carters Iy
Sita
Bere
Actin Soares Tapas
Paxton
MASE
Aeller
Meretiea
Warren SL
York City
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