Empire Grain Fertilizer Drill Gains Front Line
Empire Grain and Fertilizer touts its drill as unequaled and unexcelled with claims of record performance. It calls itself the only force feed fertilizer distributor worldwide and boasts automatic action, light draft, accuracy, simplicity, and durability. The machine has been used in the county for two years and challenges rivals to match its record.
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America
Empire
Bret
E. Madison Towers
P.raughley
Empire Force Feed Drill praised by farmers in circular letter
A circular letter from Emerson & Evitts promotes the Empire Force Feed Grain and Fertilizer Drill. It asks owners who used it last season to report on seed accuracy, wheat yields, and the machine’s draft versus competitors. The letter urges prompt, brief responses on the back of the sheet.
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Deax Sin
Empire
Emerson & Evitts
Empire Force
Ridgely
Raughley
G. W. Raughley
Jas
G. L. Potter
Beneft
Tarmera
W.T. Hignuts
W. A. Jarrell
Sylvester Smith
Empire Drill praised by farmers across GFP region
A series of testimonials extoll Empire Drill by EMERSON & EVITTS agents Messrs. Emerton & Evitts and others. Farmers like ISAAC J. SIGLER THOS. S. BLAUGITER E. W. GORDY ALEX. BLAKE CHARLES BTEVENS WM. RIDGELY JOEL CLANK ERNEST GLEN WINKLE RR. EDGELL MO. B. CADE TH. R. EMERSON NATHANIEL HORSEY G. L. POTTER and WM. F. PAYNE report improved wheat and fertilizer distribution with lighter draught and higher yields.
George Colton's Humor and Ex-Collector's Welcome in Baltimore
A banquet honored Ex-Collector John T. L. Thomas on his Baltimore return from the West. George Colton lampooned travels and Arabi Pacha while praising Thomas, recounting Moses' grave and Colton's East journeys with playful, affectionate wit. A poem extols Thomas as a Westward traveler, with satire aimed at Washington and reform.
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John TL. Thomas
Baltimore
George Colton
Ife
Old World
Sea of Galilee
Jordan
Maryland Fish Commission
Morb
Jerusalem
Maryland Democratic “Ring
Moses
Mark Twain
Kedron
Judea
Nebo
Washington Star
Cairo
Ramich
Maryland
G. C. Theo
Fama
Burns
Baltimore City
Congress
Wedding tale in the Heralds eye on West Side society
A playful dialogue with the Chicago Herald political editor recounts the wedding of Augustus Culpepper Ferguson and Miss Kate Juniper at the East Parlor of a Peoria Street mansion. Highlights include the bride’s Worth gown, the bridegroom’s black suit, generous presents, and plans for an extra edition detailing the event.
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Chicago
The
Herald
Society For the Herald
Minerva
Indy
George R. Davis
Augustus Culpepper Ferguson
Kate Juniper
Weat Side
Peoria Street
Juniper
Board of Trade
Johnny Tfoote
Conservatoire
Worth
Kokomo
Total de Flynn
Cherokee Rose Legend From Seminole Land
A legend tells of a Seminole chief captured by Cherokees who fell ill and was tended by the Cherokee warrior's daughter. She fled with him but returned to fetch a keepsake, planting a white rag the way home. The flower birthed becomes the Cherokee rose known from Florida to the Southern States.
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Capes
Florida
Biggest Things on Earth Summary
The Himalayas rise as the Earth's highest range in Agia with mean elevations around 16 000 to 18 000 feet. London is cited as the largest city by population, with about 3 020 000, followed by New York around 1 250 000. Australia is described as the largest island, 2 500 miles long and 1 950 miles wide.
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India
Kistah
Bezorah
Sacanagram
Lake Superior
Himalayas
Agia
London
New York
Australia
Fashions in Fall Flowers Bold Yet Simple
A note on flower trends favors single dahlias in yellow red or purple with the paragon dahlia gaining favor for buttonholes. Coreopsis and arbitulus crown bouquets while tiger flower from Brazil appears as a new corsage choice. The tiger bloom features three leaves in a muggy yellow triangle with a mottled center, valued for its vividness and light texture.
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Brazil
Floating Field in Colorado Produces Corn and Hidden Fish
A ten acre subterranean lake in Colorado is covered by soil eighteen inches deep and yields thirty bushels of corn per acre. Digging reveals water filled holes where hand-harvested fish five to six inches long, lacking scales and eyes and resembling perch. The soil is black marl, likely once a water body rich with vegetation, now supporting crops but requiring hand cultivation. Harvests produce strings of fish as workers dig.
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Colorado
Questions of wants and desires in a seasonal vignette
The passage contrasts desires of various people, from a student asking for books health and quiet to a pauper seeking bread and a drinker craving strong liquor. It notes a Christian’s reply that true wants center on being in and like Christ, then shifts to autumnal hints of social life and seasonal temptations.
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Chinst
Ife
Christ
Ye pigge and fowl riddle from old song
The verse mocks attempts to achieve the impossible by comparing a pig and a fowl with a tale and ear. It notes that even after a thousand years one cannot make a silk purse from an ear or swap a tail, as in the well known proverb.
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Ilysham
Lykewise
Reform talk over supper sparks domestic debate
Mr. Topnoody dodges apology for lateness while his wife lambasts city reform talk and mocks reforms aimed at men. She lists household duties men neglect and declares she would make things hum if she were involved, then she leaves to the kitchen as he sighs and smiles.
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Tony
Thistles and Golden Red for Winter Decor and Fashion
Instructions describe gathering thistles in bloom for decor and crafting white pully balls. Techniques include trimming green points, removing pink tops, drying stems in sun, and stringing for vase accents. Large golden red thistles fashion street decor worn at belt or over the heart with bold, prickly appeal.
A Speculator's Gifts
A Georgian man was urged to support a church project with a promise of divine prosperity. He subscribed £500, then doubled to £300 more for seals and carpets after six weeks. The clergyman boasted the Lord had prospered him, claiming success in cashing in stock and buying most of a railroad, saving only £5,000 held by a widow.
Odd Tales From The Early 20th Century Paper
A Philadelphia man invents a sand paper backed shirt while stories mock the right side to milk a cow and rail fence cures. The Prince of Wales owes $2,000,000 as humor turns to social satire. Ingersoll laughs at a Southern man struck by lightning while reading the Bible. A trunkmaker with ten sons longs for railroad brakemen.
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Tsonora
Philadelphia
Prince of Wales
Ingersoll
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Denton
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Joel
Ernest Glen Winkle
Edgell
Wil. B. Stephens
WM. G. Lum
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Denton Sunday School
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Paul
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Fred, Ringold
Hillsboro
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Heredy
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the Mutual Life Insurance CO
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Watertown
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Rochester German Fire Insurance CO
Peoples' Mutual Live Stock Insurance CO
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J. C. Smith & Bro
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J.C. Smith & Bro
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Pearl, St. Baltimore, Md
European Hotel
Corner Railroad Ave
Washington St
G. W. W. Haddaway
I. Albertson
N. W. Gov
St. Paul and Fayette
Greensboro
W. H. Cohee
Willis
R. R
Carrollton Hotel
F. W Coleman
Clarendon
COR. Hanover’ and Prattsts
Baltimore, MD
JF. Darrow
SLATE
TIE Ee Hotel
New York City
Lik
Thomas
J.L. T
John Creswell
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Salt Lake City
Frisco
Milwaukee
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Monumental City
Creswell, Webster
White House
Mordecai
Arthur
Washington
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Illinois
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