Frustrated talk on old vegetables and Hubbard squash
In a Chicago Dilly News item, a discontented club member laments modern produce. He names Burbank hybrids and potatoes lacking flavor, recalls Hubbard squash, and rhapsodizes about traditional baked squash with butter. A junior member agrees, noting camp meals and a wish for twenty years prior appetites.
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Burbank
M Hubbard
Mac
South Water Street
Washington
Hubbard
Noman
Madge Sid
Birchlake
Notable Odds and Ends From Global News and Figures
A montage of snippets covers travel costs in Spain, state rail commissions, prohibition funding by J B Martin, aging Gen Shaver practicing law, rising plasterer wages in New York, global union trends, Amalgamated Copper payrolls, Major Horthbeck's vast pecan grove, Turkey's girls' education, a Wells Cathedral carving, Swiss loom statistics and exports, Andrew Carnegie tale, Florida railroad claim law, Duke Adolfo Pinnesant’s death, and titanic dowries paid to American brides by European nobles.
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J. B. Martin
Ohio
Alaska
R. G. Shaver
Mena
Ark
New York
France
William Pinckney Whyte
United States
Maryland
Water and Healing: Hot Water Remedies Across Ailments
Hot water treatment is hailed as a universal remedy with swift relief for croup toothache neuralgia and sprains. It advocates warm compresses on the neck seat of pain and baths to ease constipation and dyspepsia with diet adjustments for long term improvement.
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Sten
National
The Real Test of Wedding Night Worries Detroit Free Press
A fragment quotes a lively back and forth about a wedding night with witty banter. The pawnbroker joke implies a memory for faces from handling many watches and evokes a bustling Detroit setting.
Prisoners on a chimney rescue on Staten Island
Two chimney builders on a 160 foot concrete shaft became trapped after removing internal scaffolding. With a rope improvised from shirts they dangled and shouted for hours until firemen secured a rescue line from outside. Both men reached ground safely but were badly burned.
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John
Staten Island
New York Sun
The
Met
Gwen
Relics of oldest France reveal carbonic gas from ancient volcano
Reports from the Auvergne plateau describe a Wolson well where carbonic acid gas killed animals that wandered nearby. A university professor notes the gas is purer than chemical gas and a factory plans to liquefy it. Finds include box bones, horse remains, Gallo Ronium yases, a mammoth and a long tusked animal.
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France
New York West
Auvergne
Puy de Dome
Wolson
The Gan Wooings Poem About a Gnu Under Yew
A playful verse from Harper's Magazine describes a lovely gnu beneath a spreading yew enjoying cool shade and tender tendrils for chewing. She sighs for another gnu to share her tiny troubles and seeks a newer companion.
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Gnu
Harper's Magazine
A Diaculty Oratory and Its Plight
An oratory notes that eloquence can betray when used for wrong as well as right. The verse laments the difficulty of persuasion and hints at the paradox of effective speech.
The Artful Squirrel and London Death Rates Across Time
A Field and Stream excerpt describes squirrel camouflage and evasive tricks such as flattening against trunks or perched on branches while signaling tails alert danger. The piece contrasts wildlife observation with historical London mortality, noting deaths per thousand: 51 in 1760, 29 in 1820, and about 18 currently.
Man Felt Duty to Tell Experience With Dean's Kidney Pills
Joseph Wirgus of Montpelier Ohio says exposure and driving caused kidney trouble with irregular passages and painful, discolored urine. He credits Pyan's Kidney Pills with relief from the first dose and renewed vitality. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Monpelier
Joseph Wirgus
Montpelier
Dean
Pyan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
How to Teach Children Suggestions for Better Singing Tone
A Dundee Advertiser summary advises educators to use simple concrete phrases instead of technical terms. It suggests guiding children with cheerful, melodic instruction like sit up tall and sing with a smile to foster natural tone production. The piece warns against growling or scolding tones and cautions against overdescriptive phrases.
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Dundee
Food as cure for nervous troubles through Grape-Nuts
A testimonial describes improvement from indigestion and nerviness after switching from heavy breakfasts to Grape-Nuts. The speaker reports weight gain, restored appetite, and vanished nervous symptoms within six weeks, praising the product from Pontum Co. and referencing The Road to Wellville.
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Pontum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Dr Williams Pink Pills Said To Cure Debility
An advertisement claims Dr Williams Pink Pills cure general debility by building new red blood. It cites Miss Lula M Metzger of Watertown New York recounting recovery after overstudy. Pills sold by druggists or via mail from Dr Willistas Medicine Co Schenectady New York.
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Lula M. Metzger
Mill Street
Watertown
N.Y
Dr. Williams
M Mother
Dr. Willistas Medicine Co
Schenectady
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