Great Transformation Scene at Sault Ste Marie
A vivid portrait of Sault Ste Marie's rapid industrial rise, from a 2,500 person village to a bustling center with mills, canals, bridges, and a 9,000 strong workforce. It mentions a London company organizing a $10,000,000 venture to mine Dunderland Sweden ore using Edison electrical processes, plus assorted ads and quotes from Hall’s Catarrh Cure and other products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sault Ste. Marie
Lake Superior
Lake Huron
London
Dunderland
Sweden
Edison
Farm Topics Care of Colts and Poultry Practices
Young colts are prone to injury and require safe pastures free of deep ditches and barbed wire. They should receive ground oats twice daily and be treated as pets. Poultry neglect reduces egg production. hens should have proper nesting sites and not lay in horse troughs. Ducks need night confinement and shelter to protect them from enemies. A leather leg band illustration from Massachusetts shows its construction.
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Mark Poultry
Massachusetts
England
Ireland
Denmark
J. H. Hale
Springfield
Farmers' Notes on Poultry Feeds and Fences
A compilation of practical tips on poultry fattening from The Cultivator and Ontario Agricultural College results, plus a DIY cheap fence design by W H Rowland. It also covers dairying start-up advice, road quality impacts, and the idea of cooperative creameries for winter dairying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Ontario Agricultural College
Salt Lake City Bets on Germ Free School Books
Salt Lake City adopts an ordinance to curb scarlet fever and diphtheria by restricting school book coverings to paper, requiring disinfection of shared books, preventing redistribution of pencils and sponges, and imposing a $25 fine for violations. The rule targets germs carried by pupils in books and other items.
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Salt Lake
Salt Lake City
Board of Health
Wise Words From Many Lands Proverb Collection
A collection of proverbs from Italian Spanish Dutch German French and other origins. The sayings cover themes of virtue wealth knowledge boldness opportunity honesty and prudence with cautions about pride and language on human behavior. Notable lines include it is better to fall from the window than the roof and poverty does not destroy virtue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleton
How Muskrata Are Secured in Winter Hunts
The article describes muskrat hunting methods inside empty houses using long spears to puncture walls and trap nests. After each breach, holes are filled. musk rats scramble through the ice if two inches thick. Hunters set traps inside near nests and use long poles to secure skittering prey. Shooting occurs on sunny days or moonlit nights, though this method harms fur markets.
Schimpfworter Lexikon insults German handbook described
The Chicago Chronicle notes the Handy Books of Insults by Herr Schuch titled Schimpfworter Lexikon. It catalogs 2500 insulting expressions in five broad heads and subdivides into 80 categories for precise epithets. The work would aid pilots and teamsters seeking exact epithets.
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Herr Schuch
Herr Schuech
Chicago Chronicle
Schimpfworter
Psychic Bond Of Twins Across Distances
Psychics note many twin cases where a strong spiritual bond persists after separation. A twin may sense danger or death in the other, with a flash of knowledge bridging miles during moments of peril or loss. Good Housekeeping observes a soul to soul link during approaching death.
Cultivating Fruit Trees and Related Orchard Practices
A collection of agricultural notes on orchard spacing and fertilization by A F Severance and J H Hale, seed growing potential, melon and cucumber hill construction, trellis systems from pipe and boiler tubing, and related farming tips. Emphasizes close planting risks, seed crop profitability, and practical cultivation methods for melons, cucumbers, and vines.
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A. F. Severance
New England
C. P Byington
New England Homestead
Peruna Endorsed In Catarrh Cure Letter
A letter from Mrs M K Bousch describes her twelve year old daughter’s recovery from catarrh after Peruna. The ad touts Peruna as the era’s catarrh remedy and cites Dr Hartman’s book Health and Beauty. Readers are urged to write for free advice and a physician’s contact is given in Columbus Ohio.
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M. K. Bousch
Miss Pearl Bousch
Hartman
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Peruna
Artman
Hartman Sanitarium
Washing Across Asia and a Mandarin Duck
The piece notes Japanese washing methods using outdoor tubs and sun drying for wrinkle removal, with garments ironed on flat boards. Korean washerwomen endure heavy workloads washing about a dozen dresses for husbands in cold or running water, pounded until clothes shine. It also mentions the Mandarin duck as a striking aquatic bird.
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Orient
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Industry
Allen
Samyle
Olmsted
LeRoy
N.Y
H.P. Carson
Scotland Oak
Hall
Kline
R.H. Kein, Ltd
Aroust
Phila
J. W. O'Brien
Third Avenue
Minneapolis
Minn
Ayer
F. A. Soule
Billings, Mont
Buckingham
Hall & Co
Nashu
Orange Judd Farmer
W. H. Rowland
Homestead
Glikerson
Northern
Illinois
Elgin
Co-Operative Creamery Association
Germless
Sapaticultures
E. E. Miller
Chicago News
SAES
Richmond
Pearl
Richmond, Va
Birth Depot
Rue
Boe
Box R
Suburn
Ut. Guin
Atlantis
Thompson
Tower CO
Boston
Mass
University OF Notre Dame Notre Damn
Indiana
Eepnaamin
Ourace
Kooma
Specul Pania
Edwards Hall
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