Remarkable girl trains horned cattle on Plainfield farm
Windha von Ohl, raised in New Mexico, lives near Plainfield and has tamed tough animals for amusement. She teaches a vicious two to three year old bull to perform clever tricks, including waltzing and rolling the trainer, and even gets a horse to hold a whip and crack it. Her calf and bull become stars as visitors flock from towns to view the feats.
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Kidney Pills Offer Relief From Long Term Aches
A patient recounts years of backache. urinary issues and dizziness resolved by Dean's Kidney Pills. The ad claims relief from pain and lameness, reporting 16 kidney secretions improved. Sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY at 50 cents a box.
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Dean
Foster-Milburn ,Co
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N.Y
Consumptives Need Not Leave Home Says Health Crusade
The piece notes that consumption cures are possible across the United States and argues against sending patients west or south for care. It urges physicians to fund local hospitals and to stop denying care to indigent consumptives, highlighting Southern California and Texas as places where such exclusion is attempted.
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Texas
Chickens a Nuisance in 19th Century Press Debate
A garbled clipping contrasts the Charleston News and Courter and Baltimore Sun takes on chickens as nuisances versus their culinary value. The fragment hints at breeders disturbed by chicken noises and morning roosters, then asserts fried chickens remain desirable despite nuisance claims.
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Charleston News and Courter
Baltimore Sun
Lfe
Brooklyn Flag Factory in Navy Yard Employs Many Women
One of the world’s largest official flag factories sits in the Brooklyn navy yard where 80 to 100 women work year round making flags for Uncle Sam’s ships. The plant uses about 120,600 yards of hunting per year and produces 418 distinct official flag types at a cost of 90,000 dollars annually.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Grape-Nuts Claims For Digestive Health
A Terre Haute woman reports four years of indigestion after typhoid fever improved after using Grape-Nuts. Her husband, previously weak, regained health quickly after switching to the cereal. The family notes the product aids appetite and energy, with the child aiming to eat meals with Grape-Nuts.
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Terre Haute
Fear and hope in suffrage talk contrasts a traveler’s bold defense
A group debates woman suffrage and its dangers while a seasoned commercial traveler counters, noting women's travel habits and a lingering instinct to look for male company in sleeping cars. He argues institutions remain safe for years as two-thirds of women travelers still check berths.
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Fair Land
Baby scar healed by ointment after grease burn incident
Mrs Hare of Henry Street South Shields recounts a grave grease burn to her baby that peeled skin from one side of the face and head. After a doctor treated it for a week, she used three boxes of Cuthura Ointment and within five weeks the skin healed with no marks, the baby’s skin returning to velvet.
Quaker Oats Marketed as Pure Food Standard
An excerpt extols Quaker Oats as a model of purity under stringent food laws. It notes removal of husks and specks, advises choosing regular, large family, or hermetically sealed tins, and includes a scene with a mother directing children to play as guests observe the table.
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Quaker Oats
Quaker Oats Company
Language of Ed and fashion plates in catalog notes
A dialogue about fashion plate language and catalogue style from a historical snippet. The exchange references Ed, his wife, and figure labels like Fig.1.1 and Fig. 2 llugone, suggesting a commentary on early fashion illustration and terminology.
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Llugone
Reminiscent Skinnings by a Talkative Wife
A fragmented reminiscence recalls an old schoolmaster known for harsh discipline. The speaker, a wife, recalls the principal occupation as tanning hide, noting the tough and talkative nature of past educational life. No clear dates or locations are given.
White Steam Cars Prove Kerosene Runs 1909 Tour
The White Steam Car firm tested kerosene as fuel on the 2650 mile Glidden Tour from Detroit to Denver to Kansas City. Observers noted the car's performance, cost savings, lack of smoke, easy fuel access, and near perfect operation with only minor repairs. The test showed kerosene offers about 15 percent more efficiency per gallon than gasoline.
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White Cartie White Company
Cleveland
Ohio
Detroit
Denver
Kansas City
Pinkerton
New York Sun
Convention Hall
Ten States
Middle West
White Company
Sutome
Biles
Within West Rutland’s Vast Marble Quarry
A massive quarry near West Rutland Vermont holds 12 000 finished marble pieces at its mouth. The hillside shows a great bare marble exposure with no soil or vegetation. After two generations of blasting no one knows how deep the deposit runs, suggesting an eternity of marble.
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West Rutland
It Was His Way and Radio Eavesdropping Anecdote
A Kansas farmer recalls listening devices on the farmers telephone line hearing the click of receivers. He claims he avoids detection by letting the line click softly. The item cites a Kansas City Journal quote and blends other tips and odd snippets from period ads and jokes including Rough on pests products and quips about husbands and letters.
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Kansas City Journal
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