A Shining Example in the Street
A prohibitionist points to a man in rags as a warning to drinkers. He recalls two college friends, one who drank and declined while the other stayed true, finishing first. The tale ends with the speaker noting the other man is jailed for fraud.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Unprejudiced Remarks on Self and Luck
A Detroit Free Press excerpt offers aphorisms on humility, change, laughter, self-righteousness, sorrow, and personal fault. It warns against dwelling on others sins before addressing one own flaws, noting vanity and reliance on popularity lead to ruin.
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Detroit Free Press
Key to the Farm Treasure Box
A Southern Farm Magazine article urges yearly farm practice improvements to raise profits. It emphasizes soil health through rotation, clovering, and manuring to boost yields, warning that declining fertility traps farmers in a downward path.
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Southern Farm Magazine
A Toe For a Finger From Dresden Operation Reported
In Dresden Dr Hamel treated an eight year old girl who lost her right forefinger. He amputated the second toe from her right foot and attached it to the finger stump. The toe was secured and after three weeks remained firmly attached as a viable substitute for the missing digit.
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Dresden
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Fifty Years of Change in Southern Farming Practices
The Modern Farmer notes that half a century ago commercial fertilizers were rare in the South and crop rotation and soil renovation were almost unknown. Land was abundant and worn-out Parker land abandoned. now virgin soils are exhausted, demanding larger manure piles, better meadows, and fine stock. Tillage yields to grazing and skilled stock management.
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A Millionaire's Fifteen Cent Lunch Story
A Springfield Mass. Republican item notes John G. Johnson, Philadelphia lawyer and art collector, walks daily ten blocks to a small restaurant for a 15 cent lunch. He eats in 15 minutes, avoids cameras, and once dodged by a photographer. His wife mended a flag captured in battle, restoring it to pride for the commander in chief.
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Why He Didn't Marry
English artist Phil May once worked on the Sydney Bulletin and later drew police court sketches. A noted piece shows a prisoner quizzed by a sympathetic judge about marriage, the man replying he and his fiancée Ann have never been out of jail together to marry.
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Fall fashions hoped to rise above spring disaster
The Cobb County Courier laments spring and summer fashion as dreadful with scarecrow-like bats and camel-bunch dresses. It expects fall styles to improve and restore wearers to their natural and comely shape.
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Cobb County Courier
Dr Miles Restorative Nervine Cured My Nervous Illness
Mrs Frances CoFiman of Dayton Virginia credits Dr Miles Restorative Nervine with her recovery from severe nervous strain and throat neuralgia after nursing her husband. She reports quick improvement within a week of starting the remedies and notes others aided by Miles products.
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Elkhart
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