Between Two fires and the President’s Duel
In a moonless harbor town, Jack and Signorina Christina flee the plaza revelry as a Pres ident forces move to seize power. A night of stealth, capture, and a tipped revolver culminates with a dramatic confrontation and the President admitting he killed the Colonel in cold blood during the failed revolt.
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Min
Atrect
Itenlé
Liberty Street
Mem‘bers
Johnny Carr
Jevelry
Signorina
Legin
Jack
Evens
Walt Ud
Christina
Saya
Bignorina
Sol
Abe
President
Martin
McGregor
Ike
Trains Offer Confidence Game Ends With $50 Loss
A traveler on a Kansas City train was duped when a card seller claimed to have a full deck for sale. After a playful bet with $100, the salesman counted a complete deck as the card fell to the floor, and the victim and companion left the train with the money. The observer wonders why the deal seemed odd in retrospect.
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Auion Station
Kansas City
Chile
Oklahoma
Fort Scott
Gentionen
All Wight
Haad
Prisoner Defies Police Move, Receives Ninety Day Sentence
A seedy prisoner argues police persecution in court. The magistrate states he will send the defendant up for ninety days, dismissing the protest as groundless. The exchange reflects tension between defendant and law enforcement during a Philadelphia Ledger report.
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Philadelphia Ledger
The Hen With The Loudest Cackle
A farmer and hired man debate which hen cackles the loudest and lays unusually large eggs, with the speckled bird identified as the culprit in this light rural anecdote from Detvoit Free Praag.
Parlor Light Rules Remain After Chaperon Debate
Eva recalls a chaperon insisting on a dark parlor each night while mistake led to bias. Jael confirms the parlor must stay dark, Edna comments on the rigid rule. The Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes a draughty exchange about a visitor asking for five dollars and a rope stool smoker needing removal and window access.
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Eva
Jael
Edna
New York Plans Forty Story Skyscraper Questioned
Cleveland Plain Dealer reports puzzled questions over NYC development plans. An interlocutor jokes about a forty story tower, noting earlier counts of thirty nine and a supposed fortieth story, prompting remark that the full reasoning is a separate tale.
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New York
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Lessons From a Practical Wisconsin Farmer on Education and Stock Feeding
A practical farmer themed piece urges value in agricultural education citing a four year course. It stresses feeding stock, balanced work for youth, soil quality over sheer acreage, and prudent farming practices including humane care and egg hatchability.
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Prat. Henry
Wisconsin Experiment Station
The
Agricultural College
How a Kansan Cures Alfalfa
A Kansan, Hon. J W Berry of Jewell, uses a drying method for alfalfa storing cut hay in elevated open-bottom cribs. He builds layers from eleven acres, allowing moisture only in green stems, producing greener, higher quality hay selling above market by about $2 per ton. The piece notes moisture control, multiple cuttings, and trial grounds.
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J. W. Berry
Jewell
Kan
Ten Buck
Kansas Agricultural College
Berry
FODDING CORN FODDER ON THE FARM PRACTICES
Farmers may use corn fodder and straw to sustain stock over winter with proper management. Feeding such bulky roughage saves hay, improves manure quality, and helps cattle gain flesh while digesting the forage with other grain feed to maintain nutrition.
Pure-Bred Cattle in the United States
The New York Farmer notes that less than two percent of U S cattle are from registered sires and dams, estimating about 265000 purebred cows in milk in the country from around 17 million cows. It urges dairy farmers to boost attention to pure breeds for better milk at lower cost as breeders work and farmers increasingly lead the trend.
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New York
How to Breed Potatoes and Dust Bath for Poultry
Instructions outline potato breeding by selecting smooth firm seed pieces cut end to end, sun dry, plant with cut surface up or down, and repeat yearly for better crops. Also discusses best dry dust bath material for hens, recommending fine sifted ash or dirt, avoiding wet wood ash to protect skin.
PRESERVING EGGS WITH WATER GLASS METHOD
B J Atkinson of West Nashville Tennessee describes preserving eggs using silicate of soda water glass. He notes the solution ratio ten pounds per gallon water makes ten gallons of solution for use, enough to preserve about fifty dozen eggs. Fresh eggs are layered in clean stone jars with the liquid, cooling cellar storage, adding solution as jars fill.
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Nashville
B. J. Atkinson
Weat
Tenn
Peruna Promoted for Hay Fever Relief in Late Summer
A vintage notice extols Peruna as a remedy for catarrh and hay fever. It notes AY FEVER as a summer risk from airborne irritants and pollen and claims Peruna stimulates the nervous system to resist toxins, helping many endure hay fever without an attack.
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Mound Street
Volumbwt
Orin
Erterrh
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Thompson
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