Dean's Kidney Pills Promoted for Gravel Cure
An old advertisement warns of neglecting kidney trouble and claims Dean's Kidney Pills swiftly relieve disorders. A Wooster, Ohio user recounts gravel stones passing after twelve days of use, urging readers to remember the name. Then notes a railway travel anecdote, a Coca Cola Baseball Record Book offer, and a Coca-Cola novelty promotion with 5c price at fountains and bottles.
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Dean
A. Dashem
N. Grant
Wooster
Dean’s
Foeter-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Casey
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Co
Atlanta
Motive Power Quip Draws Sharp Editor Contrast
A western editor argues no one is hurt while a joy ride on plow handles, but the Birmingham Age-Herald counters with blunt humor about mule kicks and absurdity. The piece frames a frontier witticism about risk and mischief, ending with a quip on a lettuce leaf mishap.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Diet Plan For Cooler Comfort Promotes Easy Digestion
A diet shifting away from meat for breakfast toward fruit four heaping teaspoons of Grape-Nuts with cream, toast and butter, and Postum can make the body feel ten to twenty degrees cooler than neighbors. The food is said to be partially pre digested and quickly assimilated, preserving energy and easing digestion, with a suggestion to read The Road to Wellville for more.
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Wellville
Poultry House Design and Construction Details
A detailed ground plan for a poultry house 12 by 30 feet divides into winter roosting and laying space center scratching shed and summer shelter. Describes drop curtains, netting, nest rows, roosting poles, dust boxes, drinking fountain, sand and gravel floor, straw litter, and construction notes.
Causes of Incubator Chicks Trouble Revealed
The article argues chick viability rests on hatchery air, ventilation, and feeding practices rather than eggs or breeding stock. It says five key days require warm air, proper brooder temperature, adequate exercise, and balanced feeding to ensure strong chicks.
Self feeder for chickens promotes efficient laying ration
The Kansas experiment station endorses a layered feeding plan for Leghorns and Plymouth Rocks. A mixed grain ration uses ten pounds wheat ten pounds corn five pounds oats plus a dry mash of six pounds shorts three pounds bran six pounds corn meal five pounds beef scrap one pound alfalfa meal, yielding a one to four nutritive ratio. For confined fowls a practical setup uses 25 pounds grain and 25 pounds mash, fed from two vessels to deplete evenly. An illustrated self feeder keeps mash dry and reduces waste with a protected cover and optional edge reinforcement. with free range, mash can be reduced as fowls find substitutes.
Knights Templar Conclave Fills Chicago Hotels
Chicago hosts the triennial Knights Templar encampment with about one hundred thousand Sir Knights and families. Divine service opened the conclave in Orchestra Hall with Rev. George C. Rafter officiating and Rev. George H. MacAdam delivering the sermon. Special services were held in many churches, a Grant Park band concert followed by the lighting of the official badge display on the lakefront and Templar Way on State street. William Bromwell Melish arrived as acting grand master after Henry Rugg's death, while Mr and Mrs John Cleveland hosted receptions for Illinois grand commandery officials.
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Chicago
Knights Templar
Cheyenne
Wyo
George H. MacAdam
Madison
Wis
Evanston
Lake Front
State Street
William Bromwell Melish
Cincinnati
Henry Warren Rugg
Providence
R. 1
John Durham Cleveland
Illinois
Cleveland
Poultry Notes From a Practical Farm Directive
Practical advice on managing surplus poultry, ducks, chicks, and feed. Tips include selling surplus cockerels, rotating duck housing with rye or barley, avoiding wood ashes in chicken houses, stocking barrels for winter, preventing duck swimming to aid growth, separating old hens from young, and creating simple drinking fountains for chicks. Emphasis on cleanliness, dry feet, and proper feeding to avoid disease and indigestion. Illinois spends about 300000 dollars yearly to maintain the state game farm and distribute game birds statewide.
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Ilinois
Bowel Diseases in Fowls Described as Cholera
The article distinguishes bowel diseases in fowls from cholera, noting a sad look blue comb violent diarrhea yellow droppings thirst and unsteady gait as signs. It states cholera has no cure, while ordinary troubles are halted by withholding food briefly then feeding dry parched grains.
Scrub fowls offer lower profits than thoroughbreds
The breeder of scrub fowls faces similar or greater troubles than fancy fowl breeders, and profits are rarely good. Thoroughbred birds and eggs from reputable breeds are in strong demand and typically profitable.
Water for Ducks Care on Land
Ducks kept entirely on land must have deep drinking vessels so they can get their heads under water. Shallow vessels or troughs cause gum up near the eyes, make them listless, and they may sit about lose appetite and die.
Poultry Special Branch Proposed for Farm Streams
It will pay every farmer to make his poultry a special branch of his farming and give it the same dairy care and attention that he would his dairy cattle horses or swine. The advisory note promotes integrated animal management and emphasizes consistent husbandry practices for poultry.
Poultry as Scavengers
Poultry kept merely as scavengers cannot make profits without proper food and treatment. The text argues poultry must be fed and cared for to realize financial returns.
Publisher Drowns Saving Daughter at Qoquaga Lake
N Y W R Michaelis publisher of the Chicago Staats Zeitung drowned at Qoquaga lake while saving his eight year old daughter who lost her hat and fell overboard. He held her above water for hours until fatigue overwhelmed him. others in boats rescued the girl.
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Deposit
N. Y
W. R. Michaelis
Chicago Staats Zeitung
Qoquaga Lake
New Rochelle Woman Injured in Hobble Skirt Fall
Miss Lilian Shuttleworth, twenty three, of New Rochelle, wearing her first hobble skirt, attempted to run down a steep Glen Island incline Saturday. She tripped and fell, sustaining a fracture to her left leg.
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New York
Lilian Shuttleworth
New Rochelle
Glen Island
Dog Gives Alarm as Mistress Dies in Orchard
Mrs. W. N. Shaw wife of a pioneer Methodist minister collapsed and died in her Rockford Illinois orchard Saturday. A watchdog’s whining alerted neighbors to the incident.
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Rockford
Ill
W. N. Shaw
U S and Portugal Reach Most Favored Nation Tariff Pact
Lisbon reports a complete tariff agreement with the United States. Each country grants the other the most favored nation status, marking a mutual concession in trade terms.
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U. S
Portugal
Lisbon
United States
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Foodard
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Castoria
Chicago Staats-Zeitung
Resinol Chemical Company
Baltimore
Idaho
Northern Realty Cq., Ltd
Standpoint
Ida
Northwestern Conservatory
O. A. Evers
Minneapolis
Minn
Aftkin Co
J. Emerson Greenfield
Board of Trade
Superior
Sentra
Oregon
Montana
Wash
Rees
Orbest
Seattle
Texas
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Wales
E.vrooman
Lauyer
Draper
Lyma
South Dakota
Draper Land Co
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Des Moines
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