Flea Control Methods and Dangers in Poultry and Domestic Areas
Bulletin No 248 from the U S Department of Agriculture outlines comprehensive flea control. It stresses destroying breeding sites, treating hosts with creolin baths for dogs and cats, and using kerosene lard mixtures, moth balls, insect powders, and pyrethrum. It also notes fumigation risks and the need to protect poultry runs with wetting practices and salt or mineral treatments.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Walt
Fieas
Texas
Gulf
Shoreditch Bell Tower Restores Famous 12,000-Change Peal
After 20 years of silence the Shoreditch bells are being refitted with a steel frame and recast for a rededication service led by the Bishop of Stepney. Rev G F Coleridge, noted as a bell ringer, will conduct a short service. The article recalls the Cumberland Youths’ 1784 peal of 12,000 changes and the historic London bell-ringing tradition.
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Shoreditch
Old London
Old Bailey
London
Theishop of
Stepney
G. F. Coleridge
Crowthorne
Bucks
Coleridge
Society of Cumberland
London Chronicle
Lake of Wine Burns Blue Near Fresno
A lake of 1,000,000 gallons of wine formed a blue fire moat near a Fresno winery, burning for over an hour. The blaze illuminated the night as orange tongues licked the flames and the scene stretched about a block. Losses may reach half a million dollars, in the largest Fresno grape district warehouses and fermenting rooms. Cause remains a mystery.
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Fresno
Cal
Panama Canal Tolls Reach July Record Totals
The July tolls for using the Panama Canal topped all previous months, totaling $573,365. This compares with the prior record of $660,718 in March. The year ending June shows a surplus of $293,832.
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Panama Canal
Yellowstone Help Train Sparks Park Visitor Rush
A June shipment of hotel and camp staff to Yellowstone fueled a lively pre season through a special train that stopped along the route. The Salt Lake City News records the crew as a merry crowd aboard fifteen Pullmans known for entertaining themselves and their own nicknames. The article notes playful terms used to describe the workers and the lively scene at the station.
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Yellowstone
Park
Salt Lake ‘City
Mulligan
Toast and Fish Dishes From Old Time Cookery
The text shows old fashioned toasts and spreads for cheese sauce on toast with butter and mustard, a cream toast with white sauce over toast, salmon toast with smoked fish on toast, and buttered bread as accompaniment or garnish. It finishes with a reflective poem about sun and rain and the value of joy.
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Alice
Uread
Prune Muffins and Virginia Muffins Recipe Fragments
A collection of muffin recipe fragments describes prune muffins mixing butter sugar egg flour baking powder milk and prunes, plus a Virginia muffins variant with flour baking powder salt melted butter and egg. The text preserves casual kitchen instructions and measurement notes peppered with OCR quirks.
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Virginia
Owner Della Torre to export violins to Europe
The Philadelphia Record notes Frank Della Torre of 1629 North Calvert in Baltimore expects his violin collection business to expand. After years of building skill and a life of collecting violins, his instruments command high prices and may place him among America's finest makers.
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Baltimore Dispatch
Philadelph Record
Frank Della Torre
North
Calvert
Soya, Ong
Europe
America
Ireland Lost Sons and a Mother's Weeps at Dock
In a diluted reminiscence at city hall the aging Lieut Roban recounted youth stories from Ireland. He recalled leaving with seven brothers for America vowing to return, but never did as his mother stayed behind, keeping house in a town with limited prospects.
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Iriah
Andy
Roban
Ireland
Tor Bie
Mat White
Manny
Roy
Mither
Amarikky
Annybody
Chicago Herald
Public Library Banter Over a Book Request
A London public library scene shows a small boy asking to renew a book past closing. The librarian questions the request and suggests returning on Saturday night. the boy admits he cannot complete the task due to needing a bath at home.
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London
Lbrary
Kloné
Fragmentary dialogue fragment from a historical page
A garbled OCR snippet shows disjointed phrases about mendacity and diet. It includes quoted speech and stray words like dostor poor mope don t eat rich food boy matachieg bent straight bad.
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Mendad
Dostor
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