Fattening Hogs in Nebraska Experiment Station Findings
Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin No. 123 reports years of trials on hog fattening using corn and alfalfa hay and variations with alfalfa-meal and chopped alfalfa. Results show profit differences, with the best ration corn plus alfalfa in a rack, and note on prices, pasture gains, and costs of feed.
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E. A. Burnett
Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station
Nebraska Experiment Station
Nebraska
Milo
North Platte
Lincoln
Vintage Patent Medicine Ad Peddles Remedies and Teas
A fragmented advertisement page touts Garfield Tea for constipation and general humors, Marine Eye Remedy for eye relief, Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething, and a bromide laxative as well as Cold in One Day claim. It cites Epictetus and features prices like 35 cents for syrup and 25 cents for a tea remedy.
Gallant Blind Man Humors a Jovial Stranger
A brief humorous exchange is cited from Journal Amusant in which a blind man interacts with a boastful woman, remarking that he cannot see ugly women and delivering a witty dig in a social vignette.
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Journal Amusant
Telegram Delays Frustrate Husband in Harpers Weekly
A pale man asks the telegraph operator to send a telegram to his wife, offering payment tomorrow. The operator replies they are terribly rushed with every clock in the office working overtime.
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Harper’s Weekly
Bank Suspended as Eastman Yields to Financial Strain
In a tense exchange, Eastman laments poverty while discussing bank suspension. A cunning plan is floated to suspend the banker as a remedy, reflecting streetwise humor about finances and authority.
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Eastman
yYes
Woman quits coffee finds Postum improves health
An Apple Creek woman describes four years of heart trouble and nervous prostration halted by quitting coffee and switching to Postum. She reports energy, weight gain for a sister-in-law, and overall return to health noting nerves steadier and no further medicine.
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Apple Creek
Ted Belt
Partly Solved Dairy Problem and Cow Variability
The article discusses the unsolved relation between fat content and milk yield in dairying. It notes that stress or rough handling can reduce milk output and fat, with individual cows showing varying sensitivity. The tester’s accuracy is trusted, while cow variation drives most differences.
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van Norman
Fresh Water Needed for Little Chicks
Keep plenty of fresh water available where the young chicks can drink freely. Ensure constant access to clean water to support growth and health.
Spoonleigh’s paradoxical happiness connoisseur remark
A witty exchange defines a connoisseur of happiness as someone who knows how to be happy yet cannot. The remark prompts the question how happiness can be mastered by someone who cannot attain it.
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Spoonleigh
Castoria Vigilance Ad Warns Mothers on Safe Remedy
An old advertising warning urges mothers to carefully inspect CASTORIA bottles to ensure the signature of Vyesey SLM, promoting a remedy claimed to be trusted for over 300 years for infants and children.
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Fletcher
Composer and clever friends spark a quip about music
The text humorously notes a friend accusing a composer of marking all pieces for him and the composer retorting they would not suit flat-dwellers if played softly. An advertisement for Cole's Carbolisalve claims rapid relief for skin diseases burns and itchy skin with samples offered from J W Cole Co Black River Falls Wis.
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Cole
J. W. Cole & Co
Black River Falls
Wis
Piles Cured in Six to Fourteen Days Claim
An advertisement states PAZO OINTMENT cures itchy bleeding or protruding piles in six to fourteen days. If it fails, your druggist will refund the money. The copy references holidays and a tolerance period with a bold claim of effectiveness.
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Bdc
Garfield Tea Promises Gentle Laxative Aid for Digestive Ailments
An advertisement urges using Garfield Tea as a mild herbal laxative to restore normal action to liver kidneys stomach and bowels. It claims self possession for brides and notes the remedy is available at all druggists, while mentioning troubles magnified at short range.
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Sue Accold
Epictetus
E. W. Gro
Ynch Law
AIIM
Mrs. Sigourney
Dr. Pierce
Golden Medical
W. L. Douglas
W.L. Douglas
W. Luglas
Pikeco
W-L.douglas Oes
W.rockton
Mass
Ford Manufacturing CO
St. Paul
Omaha
Chicago
Kansas City
G&t. Louis
Vene
Durham
Bull Durham
Virginia
North Carolina
Bull” Durham
U.S
Putnam
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