Spray for Production of Good Fruit
An orchardist guide details selecting spray materials for pests and diseases, explains Bordeaux mixture and arsenate use, proper mixing, and dormant spraying for San Jose scale. It covers kerosene emulsion recipes, lime sulphur washes, and precautions to avoid foliage burning and precipitate formation.
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Paris
San Jose
Stanchion Closure Device Instructions
The text describes making a closing device using blocks one inch thick and four inches long with a half inch hole edgewise. Nail a block to each stanchion and to each post on the opposite side. Thread a three eighths inch rope through holes, knot, pull through to the next stanchion, and repeat to the end. The stanchions should all be secured accordingly.
Knot Tying for Quick Close and Open Stanchions
Instructions describe assembling and using latches with rings and twine to control multiple stanchions. Fasten a ring in each latch and another above and midway between rings. Attach twine from end No 2, thread through each latch ring and the next ring above, so a single pull opens or closes all.
Rearing Ducks and Natural Lines of Growth
The article argues ducks can be reared without water but yield better profits if allowed to follow natural lines. It emphasizes that duck farming thrives when practices align with innate behaviors and ecological needs.
Selecting Hatching Eggs
Great care should be exercised that breeding stock young chicks or eggs for hatching be secured from flocks free from white diarrhoea infection.
Billion Bacteria In A Week In Legume Soils
An article explains how tiny soil bacteria attach to legume roots, form nodules, and multiply rapidly. These bacteria fix atmospheric nitrogen into soluble nitrates, fertilizing the soil and potentially delivering about $20 per acre in nitrogen value annually under favorable conditions.
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Henry Exall
Texas Industrial Congress
Soil Manure Practices for Next Season Crops
Heavily manured soils for cabbage lettuce celery and similar crops require little manure the next year when planted with tomatoes peppers and root crops if a fair amount of commercial fertilizer is used.
Senator loses locks in barber shop caper
Sampson’s strength fades as 60 Senator Thomas of Colorado visits a capitol barber. A beardless intruder faces a stern doorkeeper before a colleague confirms his identity. The shorn senator is guided to the galleries while the barber hides.
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Sampson
Thomas
Colorado
Capitol
Senate
Thomas Long
Washington
Senator Thomas
Special scalp treatment with Cuticura products
The notice promotes a nightly scalp treatment using Cuticura ointment and soap to relieve itching dandruff and hair loss. It instructs parting the hair and rubbing the ointment into the scalp, then shampooing with Cuticura Soap the next morning. Free samples offered with a 32 page Skin Book from Cuticura, Boston.
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Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Superstition and Juries Opinion on Damages
An observant man argues juries are biased by superstition in damages awards. He cites a fifth story bricks scenario and a ladder as examples, claiming jurors' prejudices influence compensation levels based on perceived bad luck.
Tetterine Cures Itching Piles Quickly
One application of Tetterine cured me of a five year itching piles case says Bayard Benton of Walterboro. Tetterine treats eczema tetter ground itch ringworm infants sore head pimples and many skin ailments. Tetterine 50c soap 2c available at druggists or from The Shuptrine Co Savannah Ga with a free Liver Pills offer on mail orders.
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Savannah
Tetterine
Shuptrine
Remains of Old Civilization in Caroline Islands
Scattered ruins across Ponapee and Lele include massive walls canals earthworks and stone roads. Ancient platforms and lagoon fish weirs survive, offering archaeologists a rich field for study.
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Caroline Islands
Ponapee
Lele
Venice
Castoria Reminder Warns Mothers on Bottle Labels
Cautionary notice urges mothers to inspect Castoria bottles for the CADE signature. Claims Castoria has been in use for over 30 years as a safe remedy for infants and children, noting that children cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
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Cade
Fletcher
Foolish Self-Condemnation and Avoidable Troubles
The quotation urges living with no wasted remorse and to escape needless self blame. It contrasts vain self condemnation with actionable focus on avoiding real troubles and seizing remaining opportunities for good.
Two Personalities Split by Hypnotism In London Case
The London Mail reports Doctor William Brown's lecture at King's College describing a 22 year old woman with two alternating identities A and B. Hypnosis enabled merging the two personalities into a single healthy personality, following earlier Boston work by Dr Morton Prince on Miss Beauchamp.
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Miss Beauchamp
Boston
William Brown
King’s College
A. A
Prince
London Mail
Rub My Tism Seeks Patrons With Pain Cure Claim
An old advertisement touts RUB-MY-TISM as a cure for rheumatism and various pains including neuralgia cramps colic sprains bruises cuts and burns. It also names antiseptic anodyne and lists a price of 25 cents.
The Lesser of Two Evils in a Mississippi Bear Hunt
A Northern gentleman observes a bear hunt in Mississippi. When dogs fail to flush the bear, a planter sends Sam the enslaved man to retrieve it. Sam enters the cane thicket, wrestles the bear and dogs outside, and explains he faced the danger by knowing and trusting his old boss.
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Mississippi
Sam
Capucine Promised Best Remedy For Summer Headaches
Hicks advertises Capucine as the best remedy for summer headaches caused by heat drafts or feverish conditions. Available in 10c 2c and 60c bottles at medicine stores.
Climate Change Sparks Debate On Carbon Dioxide Impact
A scientist argues secular temperature shifts stem more from atmospheric carbonic acid variations than solar heat. Reducing CO2 by over half could drop global temps eight degrees, potentially triggering a new ice age, while doubling or tripling CO2 might raise temps by about 15 degrees, reviving Eocene warmth.
Elusive White Hair Sparks Frustration
A woman laments the challenge of catching a single white hair among brown ones. She describes the process as wasting minutes or hours to grasp the stubborn strand and then discovering she has pulled out a brown hair while the white one remains shining.
Office Shakeup Rumors Surface Among Staff
Internal chatter points to a restless office with calls for a shakeup amid leadership concerns. Employees debate morale, productivity, and possible changes as tensions rise.
Where He Might Have Been Encounter with a Suffragette
A Vaughan anecdote recounts a suffragette challenge to Father Bernard Vaughan during his U S tour. She asked where he would be without a woman, and he answered that on a sultry evening he would eat ice cream under an apple-tree in the Garden of Eden.
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Bernard Vaughan
States
Garden of Eden
Allen's Foot-Ease Ad Mockup for Foot Powder
An old advertisement promotes ASK FOR ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE antiseptic powder to shake into shoes. It claims relief for corns bunions ingrowing nails swollen feet blisters and callous spots. Sold everywhere 25c sample free address Allen 8 Olmsted LeRoy N Adv.
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Allen
Allen 8
Olmsted
LeRoy
Bragging About A Boy Sparks Small Town Dispute
A conversation reveals a man boasted about having the town’s finest boy while another man has a boy of his own. A light exchange centers on vanity and parental pride.
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