Newspaper subscription rates listed for future year
A historical snippet shows subscription pricing in advance: one year for $1.00, six months for 50 cents, and three months for 25 cents. The figures indicate periodical pricing structures of the era.
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Denver
Loyalty and principles amid press credit woes and public morals
A reader laments unpaid newspaper debts while a boy cries at a newspaper office. The piece urges defend principles, support friends, and maintain individual integrity in church society politics and home. It calls for stricter anti spitting enforcement on sidewalks and likens tobacco juice nuisances to broader civic regulation.
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Indianapolis
Rochester Sentinel
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A farmer must grow and move with bustle in transportation and manufacturing. Agricultural institutes experiment stations and papers plant ideas the farmer cannot shake, challenging old practices and stubborn habits. One enemy is the man who should change methods yet clings to hobbies and opinions.
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Columbia City Commercial
Institute
Experiment Station
What is an angel asks curious child
A girl asks her mother to define an angel. The mother describes an angel as a beautiful girl with heavenly light and youth, who flies. The child questions the flying part, and the mother jokes that the papa’s blonde typewriter will fly once she reaches his office.
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Heaven
Cultivating Promptness Through Positive Nurture
Elizabeth Harrison recalls a mother seeking to curb her son Willie’s delays. By praising quick responses and setting counting rewards, Willie begins returning promptly. The lesson: cultivate the virtue, not scold the fault, and build up the positive side of a child’s nature.
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Elizabeth Harrison
Nehemiah Ofold
A Cure for Wounds Through Woolen Tags
A reader recounts an odd home remedy claiming wool tags cure dangerous wounds. A woman pricked her finger with a broken machine needle and, after multiple attempts to remove the three pieces, pain spread to the shoulder before extraction.
Cures by Woolen Rags Smoke Stop Pain After Wounds
The Boston Transcript notes cautions about using woolen rags heated over coals to treat wounds to prevent lockjaw. It cites cases where smoke relieved pain quickly and aided healing, including a wrist to elbow injury from a cat bite, advocating keeping woolen rags ready despite house odor.
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Boston Transcript
He Keeps His Leg After Electric Bitters Remedy
Hartford man J W Sullivan recounts a rust wound turning to blood poisoning. He credits one bottle of Electric Bitters and Bucklen's Arnica Salve for saving his leg after two years of pain. The ad touts cures for eruptions and blood disorders and offers a 50 cent guarantee.
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J. W. Sullivan
Hartford
Conn
Earth
W. L. Piper
Antitoxin for Swine Diseases from DeVaux Co
States in the Corn Belt report 1899 losses nearing two hundred million dollars. Dr. F H DeVaux developed a swine disease germ serum antitoxin manufactured by DeVaux Chemical Co Chicago. Over 400000 hogs treated. the product promises death prevention and 85 percent cure in sick swine. Prices: one ounce vial $1.00, antitoxin syringe $3.50. order by hogs to be treated.
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Board of Agriculture
Corn Belt
F. H. DeVaux
DeVaux Chemical Co
Chicago
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