Succeeds in Canada Lew Palmer Builds a Farm Empire
An American farmer Lew Palmer of Staveley Alberta visits the city after ten years in Canada. He began with four cows and three horses from Duluth Minnesota and now owns 480 acres with 3000 in implements. He raised 7000 bushels wheat 6000 oats 12 acres potatoes and 18 tons onions plus 34 Percheron horses and 1000 from hogs last year. His farm and stock are valued at 30000 earned in ten years.
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Lew Palmer
Staveley
Alta
Palmer
Duluth
Minn
Canada
Soma
J. Keys
Denmark
Manitoba
Katchewan
Alberta
Ottawa
For Real Speeding
Inquisitive Ignatz asks how fast a horse can run and is told a mile in two minutes four seconds is good speed. He then muses that Paul Revere Tan O Shanter and John Gilpin would have laughed at motorcycles.
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Ignatz
Father
Paul Revere
Tan O'Shanter
John Gilpin
A Big Man at Odds With Smoke and Eggs
A humorous exchange portrays a man who feels important, and jokes that tobacco stocks would drop if he quits smoking. The dialogue notes eggs are expensive and cites how that high price reduces his stage fright.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Testimonial
Terre Hill Pennsylvania resident Mrs Avucustus Lyon shares a testimonial praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relieving female troubles back aches sleep loss and poor appetite. The ad extols the remedy as nature produced by herbs from the Pinkham Laboratory in Lynn Massachusetts as a nationwide standard for women's ills with numerous letters claiming health restoration and avoidance of surgery.
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Terre Hill, Pa
Lydia E. Pinkham
Avucustus Lyon
Terre Hill
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Not a Home Without Warm Light In A House
A quotation on the need for welcoming warmth in a home. It contrasts guests and books with the comfort of kind eyes and gentle tones. The author likens inner kindness to morning sunlight on quiet fields, underscoring forethoughtful habits and spontaneous affection.
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William Channing Gannet
Practical Household Tips And Quotable Lines From Lowell
The passage offers thrift advice on travel aprons hairpin storage and gingham washing with tips against hot water strong soap rubbing and starch and suggests a buttered cayenne cracker for insomnia and a method to turn and lift a mattress. It ends with a Lowell quote about slaves who fear to speak for the fallen and the weak and those who dare not be in the right.
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Lowell
Asparagus Dishes and Kingdom Talk from June Lesson
Practical notes on cooking asparagus including white sauce crusted toast and asparagus soup. Also a June 7 lesson discussing Luke 17 20 27 on the kingdom of God its present and future appearances and the coming of the Son of Man with emphasis on spiritual reign rather than earthly signs.
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God
Christ
Jesus
Two Children Paint Cow Blue in School Book Sketch
Two youngsters draw in school books. One colors a cow blue then recalls never seeing a blue sow. The other suggests, in a light moment, that they will say the cow is cold.
Height of Meannessa Jinkk-Hea Stakes Big Wager
The New York Globe notes a fevered stake clash as Jinkk-Hea puts up $1,000,000 on a count while the other party refuses a poker game, seeking a quick return to avoid the wager.
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New York Globe
Seeing Is Believing Miss Brown and Sally Collins
A fragment quotes Miss Brown asking if Sally Collins believes in an uplift movement. Miss Jones counters by noting how Sally mounts a streetcar, implying commitment through action.
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Miss Brown
Sally Collins
Miss Jones
Cure for Scalp Disease Promoted by Cuticura
An 1912 advertisement recounts a Circleville Ohio girl with severe scalp sores and body irritations. After months of failed remedies, Cuticura Soap and Ointment provided relief and eventual cure, per Mrs Alice Kirlin. The ad promotes Cuticura nationwide and includes product details and a Boston mailing address.
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South
Scioto St
Circleville
Ohio
Mra
Alice Kirlin
Cuticura
Dept. L. Boston
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Dayton
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Indiana
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Lemcke Building
Indianapolis
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N.Y
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Calif
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Buffalo
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Adams
Ind
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Berne
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Wis
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Montgomery CO
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