Garden and Farm Tips From Historic Newspapers
A collection of home, farm and garden notes offering advice on crop timing, fertilizer from laundry soapsuds, fruit ripening, and beekeeping prospects in Los Angeles and San Bernardino. Fruit tree exposure, fried cucumbers with meals, twining plant directions, dandelion market production near Boston, horse feeding timing, and cooling ginger snaps to preserve crispness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
San Bernardino
California
Baron Liebig
N. Y. Tribune
Boston
Chicago Journal
Purge Princes at Grand Hotel A Lesson in Wealth and Pride
London correspondent recounts the Grand Hotel catering lavishly to American financier William Vanderbilt and family, with brash attendants and costly suites. A London hotel manager, overwhelmed by ostentation, learns a retired merchant John Lord can stop the excess by insisting on simple treatment and fair pricing.
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Grand Hotel
William H.vanderbilt
Solomon
London
Vanderbilt
Midas
Ben Franklin
J. Lord
Venice
Lord
John Lord
Lattimore Sun
Grooming Horses Improves Feeds and Labor Output
An American agriculturist outlines grooming methods to save feed by improving a horse’s performance. Techniques include using a stub broom, a steel wire mane brush, and proper handling to prevent leg injuries and minimize discomfort.
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Cor
Dr. Guysett’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla Featured
An advertisement extols Dr. Guysett’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla as a health tonic for three linked organs, claiming toning benefits for the body and citing a Liberty Indiana testimonial of rheumatism and related ailments cured. It also mentions cheese-makers and a quip about keeping powder dry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guysett
Lawrence J. Avery
Liberty
Ind
Grateful Testimonials Boost Patent Medicines in Ad Pages
Letters praise Dr Prerer's Golden Medical Discovery and Purative Pellets curing scrofula sores and restoring health, while Favorite Prescription aids a bedridden wife. Other notes tout Kidney-Wort for liver and kidney issues and Benson Skin Cure for dermatitis and hair problems, all sold by druggists.
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WonLo
Tchchtophagous Lab of New York Plans Annual Banquet
New York hosts a club called the Tchchtophagous lab that meets yearly for a fish banquet. The Fisi group has a reputation for brainy talk and may rename the club after many banquets to a title pronounceable by members upon seeing a codfish that bites like a bladder.
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New
York
Fisi
Women Benefited By Hop Bitters And Lydia Pinkham Ads
An advertisement style excerpt praising Hop Bitters as a remedy for women across many ailments and touting Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It includes a comment on a mustache remedy for a maiden and a humorous line about onions for avoidance, reflecting period marketing prose.
Diamond Dyes promise economy for women and trial belts
An advertisement catalog promotes Dr Dye's Electro-Voltaic Belts for nervous debility and vitality with a 30 day trial for men. other items tout curio sity, household salves, leg remedies, and various patent medicines and household goods from Hartford to Marshall.
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Voltaic Belt Co
Marshall, Mich
Dr. Dye
N. B
Also Mentioned on This Page
N. Y. Post
N. ¥. Examiner
Lowell Courier
Boston Transcript
Supreme Court
America
Philadelphia Chronicle
Wetl
Toledo American
Detroit Free Press
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Hartford Times
Ariend
Redding
Russia
Wisg
Wakefield
National Yeast
New York
Chicago
Seaee
East Liberty
Philadelphias
Baltimore
Ridge
Woolrichs & Cqo
Buffalo,n.y
Cornc
Dr. J. Offman
P.O. Box
John Bull
Smithstone
Bull
John J. Smith
Louisville
Abel
Tohn Bull
Smith
Main St
Louisville, KY
Samaritan
Richmond
Fraser's
W. Ingraham
Mass
Exon & Co
Light
Sir R. M. McIntosh
Banner OF Victory
ENTS
Abbey R & Munger
Tenney A Wiopfmay
Emerson
Lyon & Healy
Oliver Bitson & CO
Rice St
Madison M
Madison, Wis
Chicago Pitts
Chicaszo Pitts
Black Hawk
H. A. Pitts’ Sons Mfc. CO
S. Jefferson St
Ill
Lestis E. Keevey
M.D
Sugeon
A. RK. R
Dwient, Lun
U.S.A
Helms & Diehl
Merch's
Ater
Statios I. Hnson & Co
Bangor
Queen City Suspender Company
Cinecanna
Queen City Suspender Co
Cincinnati
Ohio
Ave
Phila
Encines
Aultman & TA
Flor Co
Mansfield, O
J. Surpuens
Beh Banon
Arpenters
Roth & Bro
New Oxford, Pa
Bronson
Detroit
Mis
Zieguer & CO
Til
True & Coo
Augusta
D. Rogers
Plankinton
Oak
Hallett & Co
Portland, Me
Valentine Bros
Janesville, Wis
Osada
Insin & Co
Portland
An, Ks
Wien
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