Burning the Mortgage at Edwards Farm in Maine
A Maine household destroys an old mortgage by burning an effigy on New Year’s morning. Catherine Edwards returns home with seven hundred dollars to repair the house and support her family, as the farm battles debt and ruinous ownership.
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C. A. Stephens
Edwards Place
Maine
Edwards Homstead
Edwards
Chester
Thomas
Catherine
Eunice
Jonas Edwards
Savings Bank
Chester Edwards
Horace
Klondike
Catherine Edwards
New England
Horace Flint
Baldwin
Woman Converts Apple Crop to Profitable Evaporated Produce
Catherine buys four evaporators and employs two elderly women from a town farm to slice apples. She dries and sells the crop at eleven cents a pound, earning fifteen hundred sixty dollars while keeping expenses under two hundred seventy. She expands with new trees and plans canning, creating a thriving homestead venture and a welcoming home for the old women.
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Catherine
Aunt Netty
de Frost
Eunice
Uncle Horace
Horace
Private Schools Rise With Stronger Role in American Education
The New York Tribune notes private schools expand from kindergartens to college preparatories, serving as feeders to colleges. Private boards offer enhanced study, self reliance, and individualized instruction, while public and private schools increasingly cooperate to prepare students for business and higher education.
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New York Tribune
Electric current protects wooden piles from teredo damage
A San Francisco wharf builder rebuilding an old wharf found one pile sound after teredo borers, discovering that live electricity prevented further boring. He tested piles with electricity and confirmed the teredo would not bore into a pile with a small current maintained.
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San Francisco
Sad Plight Cites Cure From Cuticura Resolvent
A reader recalls severe inflammatory rheumatism four years earlier with skin peeling high fever hair loss and bed sores. After using Cuticura products the complexion cleared bed sores healed and hair regained gloss. Testimony from Mrs Lavina J Henderson Stamford Conn March 1907.
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Lavina J. Henderson
Broad St
Stamford
Sail Handling for Small Boats From Country Life
Instructions on adjusting sails and hoists for small sailboats. Trim the hoops to fit the mast, lower throat before peak to start descent, and keep the sail shaking when lowering. Underway, ease the helm, keep off the wind, and use quick steering changes to dock or moor. Also describes freeing from stays and safe towing practices at night with a strong painter.
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America
Power Glue For Leather To Metals Mixture Formula
A flexible glue for attaching leather to metals may be made by mixing one part Venetian turpentine with four parts glue. Heat the mass in a glue pot until sticky and stop bubbling. Use fresh for best results.
Koreans Developing Sugar Beet Industry
The Korean Government is developing the sugar beet industry as part of its agricultural program. Government officials announce plans to boost production and expand processing capacity, aiming to improve domestic sugar supply and farm income.
One Day Cold Cure and Laxative Grove Patent
An advertisement promotes Bromo Quinine as a single cold cure with E W Grove signature and the claim World over to Cure a Cold in One Day. It lists 25c price and references other patent medicine claims and goods.
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E. W Grove
Ireland's Trade Shows Ireland as Creditor Nation
The Baltimore Sun notes Ireland's 1901 imports totaled 268,378,738 dollars and exports 226,810,195 dollars. It highlights a net income from investments abroad and remittances by emigrants, with butter exports of 15,000,000 dollars and livestock, meat, and fish exports at 114,000,000 dollars. Manufactures exports were 48,344,000 dollars while imports of manufactures reached 83,000,000 dollars.
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Ireland
Baltimore Sun
Never-failing Rheumatism Remedy Promised
A dated advertisement promotes a rheumatism cure using half a pint of whiskey one ounce Torfs Compound one ounce syrup of sarsaparilla compound to be taken in tablespoonful doses before meals and at night. Ingredients available at drug stores for home preparation.
England Lacks Flies Sparks Import of South American Dried Insects
Scarcity of flies in England fuels regular import of dried specimens from South America to feed poultry captive birds and fish, creating a niche trade for survival and farming needs.
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England
South America
Piles Cured in Six to Fourteen Days Promise
Paro Ointment claims to cure any pile condition within six to fourteen days or money returned. The ad states a 50 cent price and promises cash refunds if not cured. It also oddly mentions New York City needing to provide 26 750 each day for that purpose.
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New York City
Leonard Street
N. Y
City
Nick Longworth Departs Washington Amid Crowded Home Welcome
As Nicholas Longworth leaves Washington for Cincinnati, Joe Cannon remarks that citizens may turn out in force to greet him. Longworth replies he fears such a reception, trembling at the idea. New York Times despatch references 51.
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Nicholas Longworth
Washington
Cincinnati
Joe Cannon
Nick
N.Y
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Relief For Women,” CO
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Chi
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Howell
New York
Ws.douglas
Aps
Theamily
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L. Douglas
Spark St
Brockton
Mass
Tillman Ford
Salem
Ore
Pepeiees
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
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Longworth
Gainey
Elf
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