Cure for skin and scalp humors with Cuticura trio
S. S. Phillips of Rock Island Arsenal relays personal recovery after suffering skin scalp and blood humors for a year. After four months of varied treatments he tried Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent, noting system cleansing and digestion aid. Two complete sets achieved permanent cure and high praise for the remedies.
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U.S. Ordinance Corps
SS. D. Phillips
Ordinance Corps
Rock Is
Arsenal
Ill
Sleep For Babies With Cuticura Skin Cure
A warm bath with Cuticura Soap and a single anointing with Cuticura Oint ment provides instant relief and soothing sleep for skin ailments in infants. The complete treatment includes Soap 25c, Ointment 50c, Regolvant 60c or pills 25c per vial, sold by Potter Drug & Chem Corp Boston. Free Cuticura Book on Skin Diseases.
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Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Sole Props
Boston
Mass
Cuticura
His Broken Promise tale of circus and family reunion
A boy named Toby longs to witness a circus parade despite his mother’s rule. A kind circus performer recognizes Toby’s talent, leads him toward the show, and later reveals Toby’s true father is among the troupe. Toby breaks his promise to stay home, but finds a new family and a path forward with his father.
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Toby
Cromnon
Freddy Plastrick
Nettle Fless
Cannelsville
Cummon
Freddy
Ile
Tompkins
Trello
Metcalf
Winail
Ted
Witches' Brooms Do Not Injure Trees
In the Lemoyne area readers are informed that witches brooms on tree branches are compact twigs grouped by early bud disruption. The phenomenon, likely caused by insects or mites, does not infect the tree or cause decay, and simply consumes some sap without lasting harm.
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Museum Gazette
Bold rat attack on Credlton street shocks passersby
A large rat sprang from the road and attacked Gino in Credlton street. He brushed it away, but the rat returned and continued its assault until several bystanders helped to kill it. The London Standard notes the unusual outdoor attack as likely due to the rat being lost from its usual haunt.
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Credlton
Gino
Rmin
London Standard
The God of Love in Ancient Myth and Irony
The article surveys Eros as a timeless love figure, tracing his origins from chaos to life, and cites myths with night, Ares, and Aphrodite as parents. It notes winged beauty and poetic depictions across eras, then touches on irony with a dialogue about cake and a Philadelphia Record snippet.
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Earth
Eros
Teslod
Aristophanes
Night
Ares
Aphrodite
Haman
Psyche
Pearson's Weekly
George
Philadelphia Record
A Cheap Bargain and a Vote Bargain
A long dialogue shows a couple debating voting for suffrage and managing household duties. The husband offers to vote for his wife, but she rejects that and plans to vote herself. A humorous misdirection unfolds as both seek a silk dress while discussing ballots and prices. The piece satirizes divided duties and political expectations in a domestic setting.
The Growing of Apples in the Ozarks
The Ozarks have developed a growing apple industry in recent years with some large orchards, including several spanning from 40 to 100 acres and some reaching up to thousand acres in places. The article lists principal commercial varieties and notes the region's emergence as a major fruit area.
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Ozarks
Late cabbage varieties for cool July to August planting
The article notes strong stocky plants may be set in late July or early August around Philadelphia. Perfection Drumhead Savoy adapts best to our climate while European savoys need cool weather. Flat Dutch or Drumhead dominates America, with Drumhead Savoy strains offering higher quality. Red Dutch is the popular dark red choice, while small red cabbage suits pickling and sauerkraut in some regions. Danish Ballhead stores well but is deemed inferior in quality.
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Philadelphia
America
Garden Magazine
Large Flocks of Fowls Cause New Care and Risks
A Town Homestead writer notes that many poultry keepers prosper with few birds but fail with larger flocks. The piece highlights feeding difficulties, the need for proportionate accommodations, and increased attention to disease and general care as flocks grow beyond manageable sizes.
Dry Farming and Western Settlement
Carl S. Scofield argues that dry farming in the arid west requires slow progress and careful use of proven facts. He warns that rapid colonization by humid-region farmers without proper adaptation will likely lead to disastrous failure.
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Carl S. Scofield
The Corn Leaf Aphis Description and Behavior
The corn leaf aphis is bluish green and appears across the middle west in early July as root aphids decline. It swarms on leaves husks and tassels, gives birth to its young, and vanishes as ears ripen and dry, with some individuals remaining in husks until freezing weather.
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Middle West
Kansas Experiment Station Forage Crop Conclusion
A. M. Ten Myck states that in Kansas the season is needed to mature seed crops and pencillaria hay could be eaten twice, but the experiments show it is not as good as sorghum for forage.
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Kansas Experiment Station
Kansas
Gradfield
Atlanta
Forcing His Hand Circus Visit Sparks Father Son Dispute
A boy Robert seeks his father’s consent to attend a circus in town the next day. The father asks if he has asked his mother and learns she refused. The boy quips that he is testing who is boss on the ranch continuing a family dynamics exchange. A separate quip about Spurtleigh mocks a wind-affected bad record during college races.
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Robert
Edible coffins and the rise of pastry in English cookery
A summary of how pastry evolved from simple flour, oil and honey to the use of butter eggs and salt, with the cloak of meat inclosures and later creams and fruits. Coffins or coffynes described for various tart shapes and sizes, linking to early yol au vent. London Saturday Review notes Petruchio calling a custard coffin.
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Europe
Mesche
London Saturday Review
Lost Sovereign Joke Hits London Cab Ride
A London Tit-Bits anecdote recalls a summer prank in Piccadilly. A man hires a cab to Bayswater and pretends he dropped a sovereign, asking the cabby to stop near a pub so he can fetch a match and sing. The cabby departs, leaving the passenger to recover the coin from the cushion, a ruse believed successful but later revealed as a joke.
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London
Ife
Piccadilly Circus
Bayswater
Colin
The dual action of poisons on blood and nerves
The article explains poison effects as a twofold action on blood vessels and nerves. It describes venom destroying vein walls, causing internal hemorrhage, while another portion acts on the nervous system, detailing early destructive impacts.
Vaso motor system linked to respiration failure
An exchange describes the vaso motor nerve center governing breathing and notes that paralysis of the respiratory muscles leads to death from suffocation. The text emphasizes the system's role and the vulnerability of nerves to its ravages.
A Pleasant Sort of Sea Power Over Cushioned Shores
The London Standard notes the surf’s power in the Chesapeake area, where Chinco Teague Island lies about a mile and a half from Assateague. On the eastern side the waves’ force is so strong they sweep entirely over both islands at certain points.
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Chincoteague
Assateague Island
London Standard
A Talented House Agent
A London Tit-Bits joke where Mrs. Homeseeker questions a house built to keep peace in the family. The agent explains the wall hides collar buttons to reassure her, claiming it’s the greatest invention of the age.
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Homeseeker
London
Imitation and vanity meet at a small fault
A conceited man admits a fault, calling it small while Knox compares it to a springhole that renders a plugged nickel useless, as quoted by the Philadelphia Press.
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Knox
Philadelphia Press
Ought to Survive Anxious Mother and Doctor Exchange
A Toledo Blade vignette quotes a mother praying for Robbie's recovery and a doctor assuring success after prescribing medicines for every possible malady. The dialogue highlights hope and medical reassurance.
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Robbie
Toledo Blade
The Origin of Marianne The Revolutionary Noun
Old French memoirs note how the term Marianne arose to nickname the French republic during the white terror era. A street cleaner named La Mere Marianne helped after executions and became a symbol adopted by revolutionaries and secret societies including Italian carbonari.
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Marianne
la Mere
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Revolutionary Party
Fire aboard derelict ship Adatredala towed to port
The ship Adatredala, abandoned afire at sea in October 1870, drifted 2420 miles as a derelict and was finally picked up and towed to port still burning.
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Adatredala
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