Peanut Use and Value in the United States
The peanut crop totals about 4 million bushels yearly, grown mainly in Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Peanut oil, cake, and meal support feeds, soap, lubricants, and culinary uses, with vast world trade and growing byproducts. Yields vary greatly by soil and rotation. better tillage could cut costs and raise per acre output.
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United States Department of Agriculture
R. B. Handy
Office of Experiment Stations
Virginia
Georgia
Tennessee
North Carolina
United States
Africa
India
Marseilles
Europe
Boston Herald
Poker Gambler Jake Wins Big in Cripple Creek Tale
Elmira Telegram recounts a Cripple Creek poker scam tale from a Chicago gambler about Eatem Up Jake who cheats and wins large using a knothole and betting tricks. The narrative notes a dealer’s misdirection and the dramatic losses of a rival, ending with Jake's downfall in the next game.
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Seattle
Bettam High
Chicago
Cripple Creek
Eatem
Jake
Tinhorn
Jack
Elmira Telegram
One Eye Tends To Be Stronger In Sight Tests
A Pittsburgh Dispatch report notes that only one in fifteen people have both eyes in good condition and in seven of ten cases one eye, usually the right, is stronger. The German tests show two of twenty with left sight. The right eye’s strength is linked to habitual use of the right side, aided by long telescope use and reinforced by aurists.
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Pittsburg
Poets and Plumbers Clash Over Range Repair
In a New York Sun style vignette a rural customer questions a downtown plumber about a range that won’t draw or bake after the young man’s tinkering. The exchange pokes at poets vs vocations with folksy wit and a pointed punchline about needing a plumber when a range fails.
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New York Sun
Toole Refuses Recitation in Edinburgh Dinner Tale
Veteran comedian J. L. Toole declined a request to recite after a Edinburgh dinner. A baillie, attempting encouragement, patted him and urged him to perform, saying they were easy to please and not ill to entertain.
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J. L. Toole
Edinburgh
What Other Kind quote sparks powder smell
Johnny comments on a strong odor and his sister Miss Maud reacts with embarrassment as she corrects him, returning to her fashion magazine in a Chicago Tribune excerpt.
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Johnny
Maud
Chicago Tribune
Notable Women Journalists of Chicago and Lakeside City
A retrospective profile highlights Mary H. Krout, Margaret F. Sullivan, Eve H. Brodrique, Isabella O Keefe, Teresa Dean, Julia Holmes Smith, Maude Corbett Smith, Pauline Fitzgerald, Margaret Mann, and Isabel McDougal. It praises their careers, diverse specializations, and contributions to The Inter Ocean and Chicago press.
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Mary H. Krout
Chicago
Indianapolis
Harrison
Inter Ocean
Miss Krout
Margaret F. Sullivan
Bryce
Sullivan
Eve H. Brodrique
Teresa Dean
White City
W. Lewis Tallman
Julia Holmes Smith
Maude Corbett Smith
Evening Post
Pauline Fitzgerald
Margaret Mann
Isabel McDougal
Paris
Chicago Worker
Notable Women Journalists of Chicago Press Scene
The piece profiles Chicago reporters and editors, praising Miss Brodrique of the Chicago Evening Post and Mrs H Effa Webster, Rockford raised editor of The Evening Mail's women’s department. Grace Duffie Roe Boylan and Antoinette V Wakeman are highlighted for literary quality and diverse gifts. Amber Jorgensen, Amy Leslie, Lucie Van Nevar, and others are noted for their influence and style.
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Rockford, Ill
Wilbur Storey
the Times
Evening Mail
Woman’s Department
Webster
Grace Duffie Roe-Boylan
Chicago Evening Journal
Robert J. Boylan
Antoinette V. Wakeman
Wakeman
Lucie van Nevar
Inter Ocean
Miss McDougal
Mary Fihott
Times-Herald
Amy Leslie
Chicago
Evening News
Kate N. Reed
Banner of Gold
Helen Follett
Amber
Sicily
Adriatic
Martha J. Holden
West
Carlotta Perry
Diseases of Men and Related Ailments Treatment Advised
A list of sexual and urinary disorders is given including syphilis gonorrhoea gleet stricture varicocele hydrocele loss of manhood and other maladies from self abuse kidney bladder Brights disease diabetes and nocturnal emissions. Readily treated from 8 A M to 6 P M.
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Bright
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THE
Press OF Chicago
Lakeside
Cassie Jorgensen
Mrs. Sullivan
Smith
Mrs. van Nevar
Miss Bradlique
Mrs. O'Keefe
Mrs. Webster
Standard Medical and Surgical Institute
N. R. Wenger
Calhoun Street
Fort Wayne
Ind
Kaiser
Telephone
Centlivre
South Side Wall Paper Store
S. Calhoun ST
Heston Bert
Dortmunder
Doppel and
Salvator
Clifton House
Monroe Street
Wabash Ave
Palmer
GEO. Cummings Hotel CO
Geo. Cummings
Ifki
Mackintosh Ulsters
W.A. Meyer
Cor. Broadway and
Jefferson Sts
A. Hattersley & Sons
E. Main ST
J. Haverly
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