St Valentines Day Reflections on Love and Mardi Valentine
A light hearted column examines the modern and old fashioned views of St Valentine s Day. It contrasts grown up cynicism with youthful romance and recalls Valentine customs, comic cards, and family memories across generations.
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Cupid
Santa Claus
St. Valentine
Eusapia Palladino
Styx
England
Ladies’ Ham Journal
Anthony
William
Miss St. Valentine
Alfred
Tom
Will
Jane
Valentine
St. Valentine’s Eye
Grandma
Grandpa
Squires
Gradual Transition To Laying Houses For Pullets
An expert urges slow move from range to laying houses for pullets to protect egg production. Maintain fresh green pasture early, then shift to restricted range, ending with a curtain front house for winter. Diet combines grains, dry mash, shell, bone, grit, charcoal, water, and daily clover hay with green sprouted oats as a key digestive aid.
Better care of farm flocks boosts profitability
Advocates urge farmers to treat the farm flock as a profit center with well kept hens and quality products. The message frames flock management as a financial opportunity, not a mere convenience.
Profit Drops as Poorer Flocks Increase
A study notes that larger numbers of low quality layers and extra male birds reduce overall profits. Higher feed costs and lower egg output per bird contribute to diminished margins for poultry producers.
PATHS CURES COLDS AND EYE BALSAM AD ADS
A collage of ad blurbs extols PATHS CURES COLDS with claims of a guaranteed remedy and a single dose cure. Also promotes Roman Eye Balsam for eye irritation and Laxative Brom Quin ine with the signature of E W Grove. Includes quips about bromides and a joke about seeing Paris and didoes.
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E.w.grove
Mothers use Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children
Dealing with sickly children, the ad claims the remedy cleanses the stomach and acts on the liver, easing feverish and cross moods. It touts years of use by mothers, worms treatment, and free samples, with distribution through local druggists and A. B. Olmsted in Le Roy, N.Y.
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Manny
Cross
Gray
Olmsted
le Roy
France weighs birth rate based voting plan
A reader reports that France studies a proposed voting method tying a family's voting weight to its children. The plan would grant each male head of household votes equal to two plus one per child who does not vote. The informant cites the British Medical Journal as finding it logical.
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France
Be Interested In Something and Youthful Minds
Be interested to keep the mind alert and youthfulness. The text warns against passive living and encourages active engagement in arts and charity, noting dull minds age quickly. It also mentions Philadelphia establishing a new city bureau to care for transportation matters and projects.
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Philadelphia
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Papa
Nat
Sister Lu
Mamma
Little Jane
Mother Earth
Celestial
Pshaw
Peanut Caruse
Old Dago
Green Food Growers
Putnam
Adv
Ady
Wright
Pearl St
New York
Paris
Paris Proper
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