Newberry Chief of Police Praises Dean's Kidney Pills
Newberry's C W Harris, police chief, describes years of kidney trouble with back pain and nocturnal urination. He credits two boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills for relief, claiming kidney secretions cleared and sleep improved. A free trial offer from Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo N Y is promoted.
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Newberry
W. H. Harris
Dean
Hartis
United States
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Notable Humors and Honors Across Worlds
A collage notes stamp hobbyist Alfred Austin and poet laureate. Gen Kodama receives a horse from the Mikado before heading to the front. Ernet Possart aids shipwreck societies abroad. The Earl of Halsbury marks nine years as lord chancellor and nears eighty. Prince Albert of Thurs and Taxis wears costly daily outfits perfumed at £19 4s per ounce, totaling about 1,000 cravats yearly. Victor Hugo’s eightieth birthday ends with paralysis yet he persists as a leading illustrator.
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Alfred Austin
Kodama
Tokio
Mikado
Ernet Possart
Emile Robin
French Society For the Saving of
Earl of Halsbury
Albert
Thurs and Taxis
Daniel Vierge
Paris
Victor Hugo
Postum Replaces Coffee In Kansan’s Health Recovery
A Kansan recounts long coffee use causing headaches stomach upset and rheumatic and heart trouble. After switching to Postum the family reports improved health with reduced nervousness and stronger vitality, crediting Postum for relief from coffee related ills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sret
Popular Northwest Haystacker Described as Simple Derrick
A Farm and Home article explains haystackers used in the northwest are variations of a pole and derrick with pulley and hay fork. Several hundred pounds can be lifted onto the stack, often homemade with a heavy ground frame.
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Northwest
Russ M. Winton
Soft Corn for Livestock Worth Question in 1904
Iowa State tests show soft corn with 35 percent moisture matches mature 1900 corn in fodder value for fattening cattle. When priced at 30 cents per bushel it could cut fattening costs by about 3.03 cents per pound versus 60-cent mature corn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tow& Experiment Station
C. F. Curtiss
Ames
Chicago
Four Plate of Pork Chops Breeding and Hog Care Advice
A farm note argues sows can bear two litters annually with skilled breeding. Experienced swinekeepers warn lice exposure raises disease risk, advising postweaning confinement and limited grain. Remove poor breeders, keep good mothers, and dip hogs to control parasites.
Farm Hand Treatment Parody Supplies Harsh Advice
A Breeders' Gazette spoof urges farmers to mistreat hired hands to keep them from leaving, detailing harsh schedules, strict meals, exhausting work, and constant scolding as a cynical critique of abusive labor practices. The piece uses satire to expose inhumane farm labor norms and their economic rationale.
Handy structure for housewife's runts hog shelter plan
A reader presents a compact hog housing idea from Breeder's Gazette. A sled style 6 by 12 foot unit with a floor and a 5 foot high house for three piglets is proposed. The design aims to be movable for wife convenience and flexible use for feeding and weaning pigs.
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J. H. Tarplee
End of the World Promises Through the Ages
The article surveys repeated doomsday predictions from 395 A D to modern times. It cites Hippo, Steiffel, Adventists, and various cranks, noting how forecasts failed and believers persisted amid shifting dates and methods.
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Hippo
New York
Christendom
Mediterranean
Jerusalem
Europe
Steiffel
Luther
Herr Steiffel
Henry A. Chittenden
Old Beliefs About Honey in Ancient Times
The article reviews outdated and quaint myths about honey and bees. It notes celestial origins, a giant hive queen misperception, hive placement fears regarding echoes, and various folk remedies praising honey as a hair restorer and eye enhancer.
Good and Bad Feeding in Swine Breeding
A Farmers' Review excerpt warns that even top quality breeders fail when they provide poor feed performance. It argues that purebred hogs turned into low grazing and corn-heavy feedlots produce scrub progeny, making pedigrees useless without proper feeding of immediate ancestors.
Trolley Spreads Insect Pests Across Regions
Inquiries by F B Sanborn of Concord Massachusetts find browntail moths carried into New Hampshire by electric cars lodging in Portsmouth and gypsy moths reaching the White Mountains via automobiles. Scientists at the state agricultural college note the spread.
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F. B. Sanborn
Concord
Mass
Lodgmat
Portsmouth
Automo
White Mountain
Re Agricultural College
Horrible Hoax at the Croon Haunts Friends
A London Tit-Bita snippet recalls a hoax at the Croon where a friend was offered a bottle meant for a bed companion, but only hot water was found inside.
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Sandy
London
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