Coat of Growing Wheat Costs Rise in Wisconsin
The USDA presents a summary from 25 000 West and Northwest farmers and 4 000 department experts on wheat growing costs. The average cost per acre regionwide is 11.69 dollars, Wisconsin 12.93. Ground rent is the largest item at about 3 dollars per acre. Costs have stayed near normal for four to five years, with labor rising in the prosperous 1890s, while wheat prices then fell by about half, forcing production to shrink or operate at a loss.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Northwest
Department
Wisconsin
Mary OConnor Testimony Aide to a Judge
A courtroom anecdote shows Mr Justice O'Brien during his Attorney General days addressing a countrywoman. The witness retorts with a sharp Gaelic inflection asking to please call her Mrs OConnor. The exchange highlights familiar speech and temper in a historical legal setting.
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Justice O'Brien
Mary O'Connor
Not Practicable Postage Stamps Trace Crime And Cure Advertisements
A compilation of varied advertisements and claims includes numbering postage stamps to deter theft, cures for catarrh, and multiple patent remedies. It lists Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup, Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root, Hall's Catarrh Cure, and other tonics with prices and claims presented as medical solutions.
Man from Theta Tennessee Relates a Miraculous Recovery
John W. Thomas Jr outlines a dramatic health decline starting 1884 with digestion and heart issues, collapsing in 1893 and then claiming a cure after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. He cites weight loss, paralysis-like symptoms, and tremors, then recovery and renewed strength after taking the pills. The piece notes the medicine’s origin as a prescription and its current manufacture in Schenectady New York with two price packages.
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John W. Thomas
Theta
Tennessee
Nashville, Tenn
Banner
John W. Thomas, Jr
Theta, Tenn
Maury County
Mr. Thomas
New Mexico
California
Joe Foster
Carters’ Creek
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams' Medicine Company
Schenectady
N. Y
de Williams, Medicine Company
Understand Your Agreements in Business
The piece warns that buyer seller disputes stem from unclear contract terms. It urges clear statements on bill heads, written memorandums, and concise agreements to avoid lengthy disputes and aid evidence in future transactions.
The Serpent's Trick and Its Strangeness
The article discusses a serpent's motion with its head lifted and moving forward for long periods. It notes the creature's muscular feat, its fascination and mimicry of inanimate objects, and how the sight unsettles human minds with fixed unwinking eyes.
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Fortnight Review
Arizona Raisins Lead Nation in Early Shipments
From Arizona for three years past has come the earliest car load of American raisins shipped East. The season there is ahead of that of Southern California and the atmosphere is peculiarly suited to the curing of raisins.
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Arizona
California
The Second Signature at Seaside Hotel
Morley Lapham plans to propose to Eunice Hardy while Colonel Bur gowne suspects Bradsleigh's hold. A stray note to Eunice reveals a hidden love, prompting Lapham to choose secrecy and departure to Europe to protect her and his plan as Eunice returns with tension unresolved.
Guardian for Life? Harpy Names Morley in Note
In a New York Press excerpt, Hexton Harpy designates Morley Lapham as guardian for life while romantic tensions unfold among Eunice, Colonel, Mrs. Mordaunt, and others. Lapham asserts his love and directs a shifted romantic future as the scene centers on a note and social entanglements at a piazza gathering.
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Eanice
Lapham
Tapham
Bob
Eunice
EowAno Baavsneiau
Morley
George
Trapham
Bradleigh
London
Mr. Bradsleigh
California
Eunicee
Bradsleigh
American Teeth Factories Exposed in Transatlantic Report
A translated American report detail s the rise of U S artificial teeth production in New York factories selling at most thirty five cents each. It notes annual output around eight million teeth and claims about fifty enamel tones to match natural teeth, including artificial defects to enhance realism.
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United States
Luxembour
Department of State
America
New York
Frigid Basin Near Neihart Shrouded in Ice
Neihart mineral man J C E Barker recalls a basin on the northern slope of Big Baldy near the Benton mines where Dutro Creek runs. In a square acre the sun never shines for three months and the ground never thaws even in summer. He reports discovering solid ice seams fifty feet into a tunnel shadowing ancient ice.
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J.C. E. Barker
Neihart
Park Hotel
Benton Group of
Big Baldy
Dutro Creek
Snow Creek
Baker
Great Falls
Wis
What He Wanted And Other Short Pieces
A collection of light anecdotes and jokes from a 19th or early 20th century newspaper page. A hospital delirium tremens patient seeks home, a flower girl offers roses, and a dour joke about Adam and his mother in law appears alongside a circus patron’s familiar refrain about a joke he never misses.
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Life
Flower Mission
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England
Karl
Isaac Thom
California Pig Syrup Co
Hall
Nature
J. Carney & Co
Toledo
Hood
Ina Hoop
Thorndike St
Lowell
Mass
PNL
Scott
T& Howse
N.Y
Nye
Walter Baker & CO
Walter Baker
Dorchester
Frank L. Stanton
Jene
Morley Lapham
Miss Hardy
Robert Burgowne
Alice Mordaunt
Eunles Hardy
Noah
Hapham
Morrey
Broadway
Young
Tom
Hanice
Winulow
Atlas Company
Laphar
Ivan
Jumon
Selzer
Che
Mia
Mordannot
Eunica
Banice
Eunies
Europe
Mil
Leavening Powe
Reval
South Africa
Adam
Pierce
Golden
Golden Medical Discovery
WortLp
Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo
Cvn
Corneran
The
van Wen E KA CO
la Salle Street
Chicago
Woolson Spic
International Dictionary
Supreme Court
D. J. Brewer
U. By
G. & C. Mer M CO
Speinadeld
U.S.A
Douglas
Brockton
W. L. Douglas
Corbis
Pita
York
Patrick O'Faricell
Washinutos
D.C
Piso
Beecham’s
B. F. Allen Company
Canal Street
Eastman College
Roughkeepsie
N.Y. On-The-Tudaj
Hiness Adirees Clement UC
Gaines
Washington
Sapolio
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