Ethel and George Build a Cargo Ship Playroom Adventure
Four year old Ethel and her brother George turn a wooden box into a traveling ship train stagecoach and island cargo carrier. Their voyages fill the playroom with raisins boxes watches jewelry fruit wine and oranges as they imagine geography lessons and rescue a shipwrecked lady before the space is tidied at last. A visiting minister remarks on Ethel’s curiosity and she proudly answers in a seaside accent that she has been to all these places.
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Ethel
Mamma
George
Rocking Horse
Karr
Ehe
Little One
Hints for Farmers Plasting Corn in Rows and Crops
A writer in the Iowa Homestead notes North Carolina corn planted in six by one feet yields 254 bushels per acre. The North Carolina College of Agriculture bred a dwarf corn planted 3 feet 8 inches apart with thick rows, producing 88 bushels per acre on poor land. Southern growers face a need to breed shorter, closely planted corn for bigger yields.
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Iowa Homestead
North Carolina
Iowa
South Carolina
South
North Carolina College of Agriculture
Cutting Corn The Best Way To Dry And Shock Corn
J D Clardy in American Agriculturist explains a corn fodder method using a binder. He advises cutting when tops are green but husks are dry, then letting shocks stand a day before setting up. Four mules and a skilled driver can harvest eight to ten acres daily.
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J. D. Clardy
Young Daniel Webster as a boy and his family life
Historian John Buel McMaster portrays Daniel Webster as the youngest of ten in a frugal family. The lad endured weak health yet carried a preference for reading over farm chores, often accompanying books into the sawmill and fields while family life framed his early character.
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Weblater
Daniel Webster
John Buel McMaster
Statesman
The Cerndle Slip Sailor Father Lullaby
A fragmentary poem-like verse depicts a mother singing to her sailor boy as a ship nears a dreamlike port of Sleep. The chorus repeats soft calls like high low and rosy dreams, with a lookout watching over the wee one as the ship drifts toward a golden shore.
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Sheep
Ilehind
Fighting Cabbage Worms Promising Control Methods
The article outlines methods to combat green striped cabbage worms. It recommends Kero sence emulsion with a sprayer, Persian insect powder, tobacco powder, or hot water with a fine sprinkler nozzle. It notes gasoline torches as the most effective, widely used by market gardeners for contacting leaf undersides.
Ginseng Cultivation Costs and Returns Revealed
An old gardener outlines ginseng culture noting seeds cost 7.50 per ounce and year roots 0.10 each. Planting one acre with standard spacing runs about 2000, or forty ounces of seed about 300. Eight years of labor may yield 500 pounds of roots worth 550 per pound if successful, with optimistic figures and cautions on costs and care.
Treatment of seed oats with formalin shows promise
Trials report successful seed oat treatment to prevent anut by formalin at varying strengths. Large English tests compare seed sizes and crops, noting wheat yields from large seed outperform small, with broad beans and other crops showing gains. Also mentions animal health and vermin control implications for livestock care and feed.
Nellie and Mike in a London garret dream of sea
A starving London child Nellie with a dying cough forms a close bond with Mike, a rough street rescuer. He saves money to take her to the sea for healing, loving her as his own, while Nellie clings to hopeful visions of a cure and a peaceful life beyond the streets.
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Glender
Jimbo
Nellie
Tier
Mike
NeHic
Gold
Tim
Margate
Joe
Neillie
Syhieh
Nell
Sofia
Ste
New Heart Treatment Offered By Dr Miles
A historic advertisement claims great advances in heart disease care over the past years. Dr Franklin Miles offers a $2.50 trial course with money-back exposure if unsatisfied and a $2 refund if cured, touting personalized treatments for various heart conditions and urging immediate request for a free book and treatment.
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Franklin Miles
W. Bell
Dayton
Foreign Missions
State Sunday School Union
Miles
H. A. Grace
Mountain St
Elgin
Sophia Snowberg
21St Ave
S. Minneapolis
Min
A. P . Colburn
Blessing
Grand Dispensary
State Street
Chicago
Ill
Miners Expect A Decision In Their Favor
Washington reports a secret conference between miners and operators yields strong signs the anthracite coal commission will rule in favor of miners on higher wages and weighing methods. The decision on payment by weight or measure was shaped after full talks with unions and companies, with chief officials and district presidents present, and awaits formal awards to be sent to the president.
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Washington
Anthracite Coal Commission
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
Francis T. Gowan
Lehigh Valley Rathron
James H. Torrey
Delaware and Hudson Railroad
Everett Warren
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railway
Temple Iron Company
Uilb Side Coal and Tren Company
Pennsylvania Coal Company
AFL McClintock Lehigh Pal Witkesharra Coal Company
Jain TT Kerr Scranton Cow Company
Semeel Dickson
Ira FW Burris
Om WC Raynalds Couneil Tor Ints
Sdeyt
Erstars
Fragmentary geographic fact about Bat One Fi H population
A garbled text snippet states that Bat One Fi H population equals one eleventh of Turkey area in Farone Read The ASE. It appears as an OCR error with unclear meaning, lacking verifiable entities or date.
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Turkey
Farone
Ben Hur comes to Great Bourbon theater Columbus for two weeks
Klaw Erlanger presents Ben Hur touring the south for five weeks. Columbus hosts a two week engagement starting March 16 with matinees. The production uses the same cast and elaborate effects seen in Chicago and St Louis. Special accommodation and reduced rail rates offered.
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Greece
Egypt
Hindustan
Ben Hur
Messala
Ben
Boda
Southern
Appointment of Administratrix Estate of Jacob Groh
Notice of appointment and qualification of Victoria Groh as administratrix of the estate of Jacob Groh, deceased, late of Coshocton Ohio. The text includes scattered nonrelated lines about schoolchildren, a nurse, and various unrelated inserts.
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Jacob Groh
Coshocton
Ohio
Victoria Groh
High School Notes on Class Skits and School News
In Prof Knoll American history class a student joke about arresting congressmen causes laughter. Macbeth scenes and a mock trial at Algonehall highlight school activity. Notes praise performances by Miss Burns, Mr Wells, Miss Carnes, Miss Coe, and others. updates on ill students and a literary society debate on secret societies. Mrs Austin pancake ad blurs with astronomy remark about Milky Way stars.
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Prof. Knoll
Algonehall
Miss Burns
Mr. Wells
Bessie Browning
Grange Street
Excelsior Literary Society
Bryant
Miss Gosser
Miss Graham
Mr. Ransom
Arthur Piper
Mr. Johnson
Piper
Miss Thompson
Mr. Deeds
Miss Swalley
Mr Darling
Mr. Stewart
Miss Norris
Miss Court- Tight
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Pirkish
Persia
the Age
G. F. Finnell
Geidel
Sen Hur
Otage Realion
Kays
Chirons
New York
United States
Duluth, Minn
Soo
Agricultural Department
acquaniGay
Carter
Moath
Carter Medicine CO
Fagle
Eagle Paint and Varnish Company
M. B. Cochran
Eittsburg
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