Pin Money for Boys Seeds for Planting Guide
Katherine Atherton Grin advises boys on seed sorting and planting. It covers selecting only good seeds, depth testing with a homemade box and glass, use of an apron bag, and planting in orderly rows rather than raised beds. It notes timing varies by latitude and season and onion sets can go in earlier than other crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine Atherton
Indiana
Iinois
Standard Oil Company
Indiana Corporation
W. L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
Tips for the Country Boy on Farm Tools and Startups
Practical advice for boys in rural settings covering tool maintenance and cider caution. Encourages bargains with father for crop shares, upgrading sap equipment, sharpening axes, and thawing frost to protect tools. Suggests partnering with mother for poultry, buying a pure bred rooster, and starting with pure bred eggs to begin earning in two years.
Rear Seat On Motorcycle Shock Absorber Innovation
A Colorado man introduces an improved motorcycle rear seat with a padded bottom and back. The key feature is a spring mechanism. rods under the seat feed into tubes with a short coil spring at the bottom, acting as shock absorbers. The invention aims to provide safer, more comfortable transport for a passenger, whether a wife child or companion.
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Colorado
For Sale Listings Across States and Provinces
A list of multiple farm properties for sale across Iowa South Dakota Manitoba North Dakota Montana Saskatchewan Texas Florida and Minnesota. Details include acreage cultivated land outbuildings houses barns machinery and stock with seller contacts in Lamont Wasta Starbuck St Walburg Java Dafoe Seymour Manatee Blackduck and other towns.
Seed and planting duty as life’s latent seed
In a compact religious stratagem, a timeless message urges that human cultivation mirrors divine work. The text extols planting and caring for latent life within seeds, framing agriculture as continuation of God’s creation. It closes with goodwill to Farm World readers beyond the author’s garden.
RIDDLES For a newspaper card style round of jokes
A set of light riddles and puns on everyday topics. The washerwoman joke notes linen work, wind and cannons appear, a cat has kittens, a sponge holds water, water division, and a musical pun on B natural as a keyboard key.
Swede inter preter recalls Western Canada settlement boom
A 20 year old Swiss? Swedish boy who acted as interpreter joined a party to Wetaskiwin Alberta. He later returned to Fitchburg Massachusetts and writes of Calgary Edmonton growth. He notes rail networks expanding, land prices rising from $3 to $15 35 per acre and future railway plans. The piece, an advertisement styled, urges Canadian settlement.
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Western Canada
Wetaskiwin
Alberta
Fitchburg
Mass
Department of the Interior
Canada
Calgary
Edmonton
Prairies
Moseson
Soda beds of English East Africa cited as world’s richest
Harper’s Weekly notes English East Africa holds the richest soda bed. Engineers estimate 200,000,000 tons beneath a lakeed surface of over fifty square kilometers. In the short rainy season a shallow water cover forms and a block removal prompts rapid reformation, allowing long-term extraction from the same site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East
Africa
Harper’s Weekly
Pimples Cure Story From 1912 Chicago Ad
A Chicago woman recounts severe facial pimples lasting over two months. After trying soaps without relief, she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment, which eased burning and itching and led to complete cure after about three weeks.
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Dayton St
Chicago
Clara Mueller
Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Suffer Little Children and a Birthday Ad Byte
Public notice style snippets critique wealthy leaders and labor, with satirical quips about orator pay and political motions. An advertisement mix includes Dr. Pierce laxatives and Mrs. Austins Bag Pancake. Names aunts, grocers, and general sentiments about fishing.
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Dean
Michigan
Josiah Hoover
Catherine St
Bay City
Mich
Loften
Doan
Ace
Aor
Eibney Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo
New York
PISO
Piso Company
Box E. Warren, PA
Alameda
Douglas Co
Wash
A. Peterson
Alameda, Wash
A. Midland CO
Tex
T. Parr
Midland
Texas
Texhoma, Sherman Co
A. Cult
J. W. Lancaster
Texhoma
Okla
Granton
Ont
Dinsmore
Wilkie
Sask
A. T
Wilkie, Sask
Medora
Man
Can
A. E. Richards
Luseland
J. Lenz
Broadview
O. H. Finger
Cantour
M. KE. Marshall
Fayetteville
Washington Co
Ark
T. We. Moran
Arkansas
A. Rio Blanco CO
Colo
E. Gilley, Buford
Pensacola
Fla
O. Sorge
Pensacola, Fla
A. Ringgold CO
Iowa
R. Houge
O. M. Farmer
Lamont
A. Pennington CO
F. H. Jewett, Wasta
S. Dak
White Rock
Roberts Co
W. Nims
Argonia
Sumner Co
Kan
Wheeler
Argonta
Alachua CO
H Strickland
Gainesville
Fila
Arawana
Mach. J. Snyder, Jr
Starbuck
O. L. Rhynard
Carpio
Renville Co
N. D
T. Mark, St. Walbure, Sask
T. H. Grennell
Okeene
Mondak
DAW Gon Co
Mont
E. Olson
Java
Dafoe
F. D. Murney
Seymour
Baltor Co
W. R. Natl
Manatee CO
Grove
Maar Town
M. Fr. Edwards
Manatee
Wadena
Minn
Addivas
M. Miller
Beltrami
Fos Sale
Jacks- Born
Campuelita
Tenn
Jacksboro
Brireare
Lates Plains
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Geo. W. Aird
Jeanne Gel Mdross
Tetetiee
Ottawa
God
C. M. Shults
Massachusetts
Soda Lake
Pierce
Ady
ETO Reas
Ames Sree
Eeveessc
Rogers
Johnson
B. J. Johnson Soap Co
Milwaukee
Wis
Standard Oil, Company
Chicago, Illinois
Wens
Wees Yantess
Aes Jauterion
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
The
Paxton Toilet Co
Pecaus
ORD
Sfree
BOX
Indianapolia
Putnam
Daus Odavany, Quincy
Raisall RemeDy Co
Blackwell,Okla
Fougera CO
Beekman ST
Lyman Bros
A. Ritterhoff
N. 9Th St
Newark
N.d
Elmer
Wright
Safie
Eden
Pecoa Valley
N. Mex
Frank P. Bedford
Dexter
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