Cure for a stye and home garden tips in 1900s column
A home section advises curing a stye with a camel hair brush dipped in ammonia, discusses shelf height, buckwheat cake mixtures with graham flour, and storage tips. It covers sealing cracks, enameled cloth pantry shelving, and the impact of food on fowl quality. It also notes best egg packing material, cold storage temps, and garden planning for horse cultivation and efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto Globe
National Butter and Egg Association
Tracy
Tile drainage could boost farm yields and health
S T E Prime argues in an Illinois address that thorough drainage solves excess surface and soil water, improves warmth and germination, and raises crop prospects. While underground tile drainage is costly, open ditches offer a cheaper alternative, drying wet lowlands and enabling earlier plowing and better health in Missouri and nearby regions.
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S. T. E. Prime
Ilinois
England
Belgium
Illinois
Missouri
St. Louis Republican
Paris Fashions Trim Dresses and Update Footwear Trends
Paris styles show shorter dresses and practical footwear. Shoes feature lower heels and squarer toes while stockings and accessories gain renewed attention. Old diamond buckles are coming back as a favored embellishment.
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Paris
Pease and Beans for Stock Feed in Farm Practice
The Leavenworth Times article argues for growing peas and beans as versatile legume crops on light soils and in place of clover when costly. It notes their value for feeding, hay production when cut before blooming, and as economical ground cover that can substitute hay, with guidance on frost tolerance, cropping timing, and harvest methods to boost stock nutrition and farm efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leavenworth
Fishing in a Corn Field in Colorado
A Territorial Enterprise account describes a ten acre field in Colorado with a subterranean lake beneath a corn crop. Water lies under about eighteen inches of soil, yielding perch like fish four to five inches long when holes are dug. The crust supports corn yet cannot bear horses. People and rails reveal the instability of the crust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Shorts in grain milling and cow feed value
Shorts, the coarser product between middlings and flour, include most of the grain's inner coating and gluten. They are not produced in the new grinding process, are found in No. 3 and No. 2 flour, and alone are poor cow feed unless mixed with corn meal. A four to six quart daily mix keeps a cow in full milk.
A Picture Worth Beholding in a New York Office
A chrome on display in Adams Express Co. at 59 Broadway shows a lakeside scene with a temple, a figure offering a package, and a pilgrim with a bottle of St Jacobs Oil. The image is credited with persuading Edward J. Douglass to use the remedy, leading to recovery from rheumatic pain and renewed work ability, and it is cited as guiding others to St Jacobs Oil.
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Adams Express Company
Broadway
New York
W. H. Hall
St. Jacobs Oil
Hall
Edward J. Douglass
St. Jacobs
N. Y
DiPHtHERIA King Pre Ventive Sold By Druggists
Morrison, Plummer & Co., Chicago Gen l Agents offer Dr L FE Towney's DiPHtHERIA King as a preventive medicine sold through all druggists.
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Haverhill
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Standard
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Mui
R. V. Pregce
Buffalo, N. Y
Waterman
Baltimore
Onone
Philadelphia Chronicle
Worp
New Orleans Picayune
Esconapius
M. D
Cincinnati
L. FE
Ransom Butter Col
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Chicago
East Liberty
Philadelphias
W. C. Perkins
Smart, Hatton
Cherubini
Glover
Patience
Lusanta
Mascot
Billee Taylor
the Holiday Music Books
Lyon & Healy
Oliver Ditson & CO
Boston
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Aiga Brs
Colden
Eor
C, Wakefield & Co
Bloomington
Bea
Ebiable
Ana
Aten
Shumway
Rockford
DeMorrist
MontaLy
Staal Vantt
Vorwauis
James A. Gurfield
S& x
W. Jennings Demorest
Eastith Street
Florida!antic and Gulf Coast Canal and Okeechobee Land Co
Disston
Chied & Chestnut Sts
Philada
Hi AO
Parsons
I Johnson & Co
Bangor
P.O
DR. A. Slocum
Pearl St
Hubbal
Ted To
Guiteau Annes
BROS
Chicago, IL
KR. B
Ireland
M. F. Sullivan
Thomas Power O'Conner
Atl
P. Able
Land League
Parnell
Davitt
Dillon
Brennan
McCurdy &Co
Cago, Til
LTS
Oks
D Ricamont
Samaritan Nervins
Journal of Health
A. Richmond & CO
ST. Joseph
van Stan’s Stratena
Railroad Gazette
A Journal OF Transportation, Engineering and Railroad News
ST. Louis
Midland Farmer
St. Louis, Mo
N& WW
Pr. W. Zkeigler
BROOK
United States
Adame St
WM. Hansche
Centreville
Ind
Charles E. Hires
Delaware Ay
Phila
Roch Amonthacents
Jay Brencon
Detret
Mick
Portland
Moses
Apostica
Dr. Dodge
Leghorn
Kan
Addr's True &Co
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Chase
Maul
Chase Pub’g Co
Toledo
Dodge
Gov
Yeeus
Dickson
H. Hallett&Co
Opiuwi
Ledvanon
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