Garden planting tips from US Department of Agriculture
The article advises staggered sowings from 10 to 18 inches apart, suggesting weekly plantings to ensure continuous harvest of vegetables. Radishes should be planted early. beets lose flavor when large. grow small amounts for home use with multiple plantings and varied varieties. Watercress can be grown from seeds indoors or stems from market. use as a quick, indoor source of greens.
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United States
Department ‘of Agriculture
Bec
Cresa
Nicotine Sulphate Dust Shows Strong Pest Control
The U S Department of Agriculture Bureau of Entomology reports nicotine sulphate dust mixed with kaolin at 40 percent strength effectively controls melon cabbage and pea aphids onion thrips and western cucumber beetles. The dust reaches undersides of leaves where sprays fail and settles on plant surfaces, yielding notable results in pest management.
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Bureau of Entomology
United States Department For Agriculture
Pest control methods and chemical use in disease treatment
The text notes areas can be treated faster with spraying and references preparation and application. It mentions arsenate of lead or sulfur compounds used against troublesome diseases and pests, indicating early agricultural or public health spraying techniques.
Faithful Unto Death in Rock-Blasting Fatality
Mike McGonigal and Jerry McGuffin, rock blasting buddies, suffer a fatal mishap when a premature explosion injures McGuffin. McGonigal then ships McGuffin’s remains to an undertaker per orders, while asking what to do with the body.
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Mike’ McGonigal
Jerry McGuffin
Jerry
Mike
McGuffin
A Memory of Youth and a Personal Tale of Cost
An intimate friend recalls Mr. Wadleigh’s party remarks and his uneasy pride in spending about 310000 while noting the first joy of spending a whole dollar on a girl. The piece closes with a maxim about speaking on unfamiliar topics and audience comprehension.
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Mr. Wadleigh
Birmingham Age Herald
Pleasant Neighbors and Poker Ego Clash in Scrapleighs Tales
In a lively vignette, the Scrapleighs quarrel over a poker night as Three-Finger Sam is barred for egotism while Cactus defends the action. A second strip, After Hours, sees stock theft accusations amid a confession of hard night work.
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Sam
Cactus
Sympathy or Sarcasm in a Wry Exchange
A humor filled remark contrasts trust and vision as a wife jokes about reliance on a man’s eyesight. The quip hints at marital dynamics and perception with a playful, slightly defensive edge.
Unclear historical notice fragment
Fragmentary text mentions medicine, health improvement, and a Toledo Ohio reference. Reading is incomplete with garbled phrases and missing context. No clear event, date, or identifiable entities beyond Ghuney Co. Toledo Ohio.
Young Woman in Decollete Dress Sparks Gossip at Table
A passerby notes a young woman in a revealing gown at a social event and remarks she appears underage. The conversation hints at possible impropriety and public scrutiny.
Why Druggists Recommend Swamp Root
For years druggists note Dr Kilmer Swamp Root's record as a kidney liver and bladder remedy. It is a physician's prescription strengthening medicine that helps organs perform as nature intends. Sold by all druggists on its merit with many friends. Send ten cents for a sample bottle to Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY and mention this paper.
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Kilmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. C
Ady
To Be Touched
Burroughs must make a tot to dress so well. He does about three new acquaintances a week.
Bayer Aspirin Promise and Plain Talk for Health
An advertisement touts Bayer Aspirin with the Bayer Cross and the claim of safe, physician worked dosage over 21 years. It lists uses for colds headaches neuralgia rheumatism earache toothache lumbago and pain and notes small tin boxes cost a few cents with larger packages from druggists. It also mentions Rapkin as Bayer’s trade mark and ends with a social remark about widows and homely men.
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Bayer
Rose Quartz Crystallized Form Noted as Rare
The historical note highlights the extreme rarity of crystallized rose quartz with only two specimens known. It poses a philosophical aside on whether a person named “tine” would wait for a man if she were a woman.
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Ghuney * Co
Toledo
Ohio
Stearns
Vada
U. S
Beecham
Danaroff
Gold Studio
Waukegan, Ill
Kremola Roses
Eas
Ey, N. Y
Fort Wayne
Atchison Globe
Jonson
Westeoagles Company
Oble
al Scherrer
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